This revised edition of Rand McNally's Chicago (1980), with about one-third of the 150 color photographs new, adds more humanity to the city, encompassing the people as well as the renowned vistas. The text is by Chicago journalist, author and TV personality Robert Cromie. 10x13". Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Chicago: A Celebration

History

Cromie, Robert

Americas

Rand-McNally

A Plunge into Space was first printed in 1890 and continuously reprinted until 1910, earning the enthusiastic plaudits of Jules Verne. On the return trip they discover a stowaway --a Martian girl. The life-support systems of the ship cannot accommodate and extra passenger, and each crew member has some essential skill for bringing the ship safely to earth. The drama builds with enormous tension to a fateful climax as the girl becomes the key to life -- or death -- for the space voyagers.   This edition features a foreword by Jules Verne, the only foreword that Verne ever wrote.   In the book, Henry Barnett discovered how to control the ethereal force after 20 years of experimenting, "which permeates all material things, all immaterial space" and that combines electricity and gravity: "...I have discovered the original and essence of that law which, before me, never man did ought but name, or, at best, did but chronicle its known effects -- the law which makes that universe of worlds a grand well-ordered army instead of helpless mob of mutually destroying forces; when I tell you that within this ragged room, there stands a man who -- grant him but ten years of human life -- could sway a star in its course, could hurl a planet from its path?  Man, I have discovered the mightiest secret of creation. ...I have discovered the origin-of-force!"   Barnett succeeds in his experiments and a large, black and globular spaceship called the "Steel Globe" is secretly built in an inaccessible region in Alaska.  "A spiral staircase wound round the interior circumference of the globe.  This staircase, or rather sloping path, had one very curious feature.  The handrail was duplicated, so that if by any superhuman means the enormous bulk could be turned upside down one could walk on the underside of the spiral... Across the center of the Steel Globe a commodious platform swung like a ship's lamp.  On this a very large telescope was fixed... the platform was literally packed with astronomical instruments.  Strange registers, the graduated lines on which were so fine as to be almost invisible without the aid of a magnifying glass, were set into the woodwork of a solid table in the middle of the swinging deck.  Strongly made iron tanks filled a considerable portion of the interior space. ...These tanks contained compressed air. ...Innumerable windows pierced the whole circumference of the globe."   With the Steel Globe, Barnett and his friends travel to Mars where they find utopia.  The Martians travel around in luxurious airships, but also have other means of negating gravity at their disposal: The Martians "were instructed....in the strange exercise of what may be called -- in default of a better name -- animal elecricism.  This discovery enabled the Martians to regulate at will the attraction of gravity upon them so that they could move at any distance they wished from the ground."

A Plunge into Space (Classics of Science Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Classics

Hyperion Pr

A detailed account of the story of John Dillinger--his origins, early career and rapid rise to notoriety as public enemy number one.

Dillinger: A Short and Violent Life

Pinkston, Joseph

Biographies & Memoirs

Kenan Heise

A Short History of Chicago

Don't Call It Frisco Pr

A New Messiah

BiblioLife

Publisher: London: Digby, Long Publication date: 1903 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

A Plunge Into Space.

Literary

British Library, Historical Print Editions

Illinois Trivia is the who, what, when, where, and how book of the great state of Illinois. Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful, historic state, Illinois Trivia will provide hours of entertainment and education. designed for use in a wide variety of settings?home, office, school, parties?it focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the fascinating state of Illinois. Illinois Trivia is readily adaptable for use with trivia format games.

Illinois Trivia

Reference

Rutledge Hill Pr

Now in paperback, The Great Chicago Fire presents a complete narrative history of the 1871 fire that destroyed 73,000 miles of streets and 17,500 buildings, and which left 100,000 people homeless. More than 150 photographs and illustrations help tell the inspiring story of a heroic American city.

The Great Chicago Fire

Regional U.S.

One of the best narrative histories ever written about the devastating fire has been reprinted in this oversized, illustrated edition. Over 150 photos and illustrations.

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Chicago: A Celebration

A Plunge into Space (Classics of Science Fiction)

Dillinger: A Short and Violent Life

A Short History of Chicago

A New Messiah

A New Messiah

A Plunge Into Space.

Illinois Trivia

The Great Chicago Fire

The Great Chicago Fire