Frommer's uncovers the best places to play in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, from bikes paths to fly-fishing streams, from the beaches of Cape Cod and Block Island to the hiking trails of the Berkshires. This guide shows readers of all skill levels how to enjoy sailing, kayaking, whale watching, river rafting, mountain biking, camping, hiking, cross-country skiing, and more.

Frommer's Great Outdoor Guide To Southern New England

Travel

Oliver, Peter

United States

Frommer's

Introducing a unique series of international sport/travel guides: your favorite sports, Outside's top picks of the greatest places on earth to pursue them. Each guide is an invitation to take your first steps toward an active vacation of exploration. Twenty of the world's most thrilling Alpine destinations, from classic resorts to off-piste powder stashes to heli-skiing and beyond. Skiers and snowboarders, prepare to realize your wildest travel dreams as we take you to twenty of the best mountains on the planet. They include: Alta and Snowbird's incomparable Utah powder; glitzy Aspen's motherload of overlooked backcountry; Whistler, B.C., and the secret of its fame and fortune; boundless adventures on the glaciers and couloirs of Chamonix, Verbier, Val d'Isere, and St. Anton in the European Alps; the lesser-known treasures at Fernie, B.C., Big Mountain, Montana, and La Grave, France; and finally some way-off-the-charts lines to be experienced in Alaska, Greenland, and Antarctica. Full-color photographs and illustrations throughout.

Skiing and Boarding

Sports & Outdoors

Winter Sports

W.W.Norton&Company

G. Howard Ferguson: Ontario tory (Ontario historical studies series)

Biographies & Memoirs

University of Toronto Press for the Ontario Historical Studies Series

This is the history of the foundations of modern carceral institutions in Ontario. Drawing on a wide range of previously unexplored primary material – including the papers of prison inspectors and officials and the correspondence of those who wrote to the authorities – Peter Oliver provides a narrative and interpretative account of the penal system in nineteenth-century Ontario.
 In a century of massive social change, the penal system remained rural, local, decentralized, and resistant to transformations that were affecting other areas of society. Despite the efforts of reformers, neither the political elites nor Ontarians in general paid much attention to the inadequacies of a system plagued by neglect, penny-pinching, and the vagaries of local control. In the 1830s, the Kingston penitentiary and punishment by incarceration became the cornerstones of the system, and these elements, however flawed, dominated the Ontario correctional system until the late twentieth century.
 'Terror to Evil-Doers' focuses on the purposes and internal management of particular institutions. By synthesizing a wealth of new material into a comprehensive framework, Oliver's seminal study lays the groundwork for future students and scholars of Canadian history, criminology, and sociology.

'Terror to Evil-Doers': Prisons and Punishments in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)

History

Americas

University of Toronto Press

One difficulty in writing a balanced history of the American Revolution arises in part from its success as a creator of our nation and our nationalistic sentiment. Unlike the Civil War, unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced no lingering social trauma in the United States--it is a historic event widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the chief losers of the War of Independence--the American Loyalists--have fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked. Oliver's manuscript, entitled "The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion," written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and violence. His descriptions of the leaders of the patriot party, of their program and motives, are unforgiving, bitter, and inevitably partisan. But it records the impressions of one who had experienced these events, knew most of the combatants intimately, and saw the collapse of the society he had lived in. His history is a very important contemporary account of the origins of the revolution in Massachusetts, and is now presented here in it entirety for the first time.

Peter Oliver’s “Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion”: A Tory View

Stanford University Press

Unlikely Tory: The life and politics of Allan Grossman

L. & O. Dennys

Written by a local author, this guide includes details about hotels, restaurants, annual events, attractions, nightlife, parks and recreation, real estate, and much more.

The Insider's Guide to the Best Skiing in New England, 2nd

Menasha Ridge Pr

Written by a local author, this guide includes details about hotels, restaurants, annual events, attractions, nightlife, parks and recreation, real estate, and much more.

The Insider's Guide to the Best Skiing in New England

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Western Eye Pr

Since the 1950's, Stowe has been called the "Ski Capital of the East." Peter Oliver's stunning coffee-table book is the story of Stowe's past and present, the mountain, the village, and the people who helped it grow and made it famous.

Stowe: Classic New England

Mountain Sports Pr

The Scripture Lexicon: Or A Dictionary Of About Four Thousand Proper Names Of Persons And Places (1787)

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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