Hello all:
I am currently taking a brief break from posting items about my Kip/Kipp and Link ancestors. As soon as get back to doing some research, I will post again. My web site: www.kipp-blake-families.ca/ . Any questions or comments: ekipp@rogers.com.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
What I Read in 2011
- Pendulum. Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science, by Amir D. Aczel. 2003.
- Clothing The Colonists. Fashions in New Netherlands, by Friends of Crailo State Historic Site. 1995.
- Our Young Soldier. Lieutenant Francis Simcoe 6 June 1791 - 6 April 1812, by Mary Beacock Fryer. 1996.
- New York, by Edward Rutherfurd, 2009.
- The Immigrant Experience: The German Americans, by Anne Galicich & Sandra Stotsky, General Editor. Chelsea House Publishers, New York. 2001.
- Edison: The Man Who Made The Future. by Ronal W. Clark. G P Putnam's Sons, New York. 1977.
- Oxford, by Michael Hall. The Pevensey Press. Cambridge, England. 1988.
- The Seafarers. The Atlantic Crossing, by Melvin Maddocks. Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1981.
- The Seafarers. The Venetians, by Colin Thubron. Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Virginia. 1980.
- A Traveller’s Companion to Florence, ed. by Edward Chaney. Robinson, London, England. 2002.
- The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by his son Ferdinand. Translated and annotated by Benjamin Keen. The Folio Society, London, England. 1960.
- The Life and Times of Columbus. Editor Dr. Enzo Orlandi. The Curtis Publishing Co., Philadelphia. 1967.
- Reluctant Genius. The Passionate Life and Inventive Mind of Alexander Graham Bell, by Charlotte Gray. HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., Toronto, ON. 2006.
- Humboldt’s Cosmos, by Gerard Helferich. Gotham Books. New York. 2004.
- Almost Everyone’s Guide to Science, by John Gribbin. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, England. 1998.
- Benjamin Franklin, by Edwin S Gaustad. Lives and Legacies. Oxford University Press. 2006.
- Buckskin Baronet, by Margaret Widdemer. Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York, 1960.
- Electric Universe. How Electricity Switched on the Modern World, by David Bodanis. Three Rivers Press, New York. 2005.
- The Alchemy of Air, by Thomas Hager. Three Rivers Press, New York. 2008.
- Entanglement, by Amir D Aczel. A Plume Book. 2003.
- Charles Darwin, by Cyril Aydon. Robinson, London, England. 2003.
- Battles for The Crown 1066, by Hope Muntz. Chatto & Windus, London, England. 1966.
- Hudson River School Paintings. Wadsworth Atheneum. A Book of Postcards. Pomegranate, San Francisco. 1996.
- Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. Heritage Site Guidebook. 2010.
- Uncle Tungsten, Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, by Oliver Sacks. Alfred A Knopf, New York. 2001.
- Naming Nature. The Clash Between Instinct and Science. Carol Kaesuk Yoon. W.W. Norton & Co., New York. 2009.
- Wilbur and Orville. A Biography of the Wright Brothers. Fred Howard. Ballantine Books, New York. 1988.
- Marco Polo. From Venice to Xanadu, by Laurence Bergreen. Vintage Books, Random House, Inc., New York. 2008.
- Governor Simcoe and his Lady, by Marcus Van Steen. Hodder and Stoughton, Toronto and London. 1968.
- The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown, 2009.
- The Broker, by John Grisham. Bantam Dell, New York. Dec. 2005.
- The Testament, by John Grisham. Bantam Dell, New York.
- The Partner, by John Grisham. Bantam Dell, New York. 1997.
- The Firm, by John Grisham.
- The King of Torts, by John Grisham.
- The Run Away Jury, by John Grisham.
- A Painted House, by John Grisham.
- A Time to Kill, by John Grisham.
- Going to America, by Terry Coleman. Anchor Books, Garden City, NY. 1973.
- Springtime in Britain, by Edwin Way Teale. Dodd, Mead and Co., New York. 1970.
- Tories. Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War, by Thomas B Allen. Harper Collins. 2010.
- Dutch New York, The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture, edited by Roger Panetta. Hudson River Museum and Fordham University Press. 2009.
- The Illustrious Dead: The Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon’s Greatest Army, by Stephen Talty. Crown Publishers. NY. 2009.
- To Keep The British Isles Afloat, by Thomas Parrish. Smithsonian Book. Collins. 2009.
- The Chamber, by John Grisham.
- Lavoisier in The Year One. The Birth of a New Science in the Age of Revolution, by Madison Smartt Bell. Atlas Books. W.W. Norton & Co. New York, London.2005.
- Freemasonry. Its History and Myths Revealed, by Giles Morgan. 2008. 2011 edition Indigo Books & Music.
- The Story of Physics, by Anne Rooney. Arcturus Publishing Ltd. London, England. 2011.
- The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett. A Signet Book.
- World Without End, by Ken Follett. New American Library.
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