Tag: Tragic

Blood Memory The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo [Audiobook]


Free Download Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DBM9NYLF | 2024 | 6 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American Buffalo. The American buffalo-our nation’s official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals.

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The short and tragic life of Robert Peace a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League


Free Download The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League By Hobbs, Jeff; Peace, Robert
2014 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 147673190X | EPUB | 5 MB
Peace was a talented young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University, only to succumb to the dangers of the streets — and of one’s own nature — when he returned home. When Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with Peace, his college roommate for four years. Peace’s life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, and he carried with him the difficult dual nature of his existence, "fronting" in Yale and at home. Through an honest rendering of Peace’s relationships, Hobbs examines the collision of two fiercely insular worlds.

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Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire


Free Download by Paul Hammond, "Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire "
English | ISBN: 9004467017 | 2021 | 388 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The book discusses plays from classical Greece to neo-classical France.

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Tammy Wynette Tragic Country Queen


Free Download Jimmy McDonough, "Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen"
English | 2011 | pages: 464 | ISBN: 0143118889, 0670021539 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
From the New York Times bestselling biographer-the first book-length portrait of music legend Tammy Wynette.

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Crosses of Iron The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters [Audiobook]


Free Download Nick Pappas, Richard Melzer – foreword, Paul Brion (Narrator), "Crosses of Iron: The Tragic Story of Dawson, New Mexico, and Its Twin Mining Disasters"
English | ASIN: B0CM43VMPT | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~07:26:00 | 223 MB
In October 1913, 261 miners and two rescuers died when a massive explosion ripped through a mine operated by Phelps, Dodge & Company in Dawson, New Mexico. Ten years later, a second blast claimed the lives of another 120 miners. Today, Dawson is a deserted ghost town. All that remains is a sea of white iron crosses memorializing the nearly four hundred miners killed in the two explosions-a death toll unmatched by mine disasters in any other town in America.
Now, to mark the centennial of the second disaster, veteran journalist Nick Pappas tells the tragic story of what was once New Mexico’s largest and most modern company town and of how the strong, determined residents of the community coped with two heartbreaking catastrophes.

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Tasmanian Tiger The tragic story of the thylacine, 2nd Edition


Free Download Tasmanian Tiger: The tragic story of the thylacine, 2nd Edition by David Owen, David Pemberton
English | November 28th, 2023 | ISBN: 1761470396 | 316 pages | True EPUB | 5.67 MB
The tragic story of how ignorance, fear and lack of care led to the disappearance of the famous Tasmanian tiger. This updated edition includes the latest research on whether it could ever be cloned and returned to the wild.

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On the Farm Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women


Free Download Stevie Cameron, "On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women"
English | 2010 | pages: 768 | ISBN: 0676975852 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.

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On the Farm Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women


Free Download On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver’s Missing Women by Stevie Cameron, Erin Moon, Vintage Canada
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09WGVG8L9 | Format: M4B | 25 hours and 58 minutes | 1.38 Gb
Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd newspaper piece appeared chronicling the disappearances of drug-addicted sex trade workers from Vancouver’s notorious Downtown Eastside. It was not until February 2002 that pig farmer Robert William Pickton would be arrested, and 2008 before he was found guilty, on six counts of second-degree murder. These counts were appealed and in 2010, the Supreme Court of Canada rendered its conclusion. The guilty verdict was upheld, and finally this unprecedented tale of true crime could be told.
Covering the case of one of North America’s most prolific serial killers gave Stevie Cameron access not only to the story as it unfolded over many years in two British Columbia courthouses, but also to information unknown to the police-and not in the transcripts of their interviews with Pickton-such as from Pickton’s long-time best friend, Lisa Yelds, and from several women who survived terrifying encounters with him. Cameron uncovers what was behind law enforcement’s refusal to believe that a serial killer was at work.

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