Murphy, Jim Books
GUESS AGAIN: Short Stories
By Murphy, Murphy, Jim, Jim Murphy
91 p. : 27 cm Describes forty-five unusual, but actual, inventions, some of which worked, some of which failed, after inviting the reader to guess their purposes from pictures. Sequel to "Weird and...
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Inside The Alamo
By Murphy, Jim, Jim Murphy, Jim Murphy, 1947-
Texas won its independence from Mexico with the battle cry Remember the Alamo! But just what exactly was the Alamo, and what happened there to change the history of the United States? This is a com...
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Into The Deep Forest With Henry David Thoreau
By Murphy, Jim, Jim Murphy, Kate Kiesler
Between 1846 and 1852 Henry David Thoreau, along with a friend and a guide, set off on four separate canoe and hiking trips into the deep forest of Maine. His goal was to reach the peak of Mount Kt...
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A Young Patriot: The American Revolution As Experienced By One Boy
in The Summer Of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin Was A Fifteen-year-old Connecticut Farm Boy Who Considered Himself As Warm A Patriot As The Best Of Them. He Enlisted That July And Stayed In The Revoluti...
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Across America On An Emigrant Train
By Murphy, Jim, Jim Murphy, Illustrated With Photographs And Prints
Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a descriptio...
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Gone A-Whaling: The Lure Of The Sea And The Hunt For The Great Whale
In the early days of whaling, whales were plentiful and it seemed that they would always fill the sea. When people realized how much money could be made from whales in the nineteenth and twentieth...
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An American Plague: The True And Terrifying Story Of The Yellow Fever Epidemic Of 1793
National Book Award Finalist: An account of the disease that ravaged eighteenth-century Philadelphia, written and illustrated for young readers. 1793, Philadelphia: The nation's capital and the lar...
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The Real Benedict Arnold
Packed with military adventure and political intrigue, this tautly written account shows the human side of an American villain and seeks the man behind the rumors and legends: the real Benedict Arn...
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Two Hundred Years Of Bicycles
Bibliography: p. 58 Includes index Traces the history of bicycles from the French "celerifere" of 1791, through the nineteenth-century velocipede, hobby horse, boneshaker, and high-wheeler, to the...
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Two Hundred Years Of Bicycles
Bibliography: p. 58 Includes index Traces the history of bicycles from the French "celerifere" of 1791, through the nineteenth-century velocipede, hobby horse, boneshaker, and high-wheeler, to the...
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