Leslie Compton

Dearest Minnie, a sailor's story

Travel with Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet 1907-1909

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dearest Minnie is a strong narrative-driven creative history which brings to light a typical sailor's life on the "USS Virginia" during Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet cruise of sixteen battleships around the world in 1907-1909. This story chronicles not only the cruise itself, but the social and political climate of that time in each port where the ships re-coaled. The story is told through picture postcards vividly portraying this world event sent from a sailor to his sweetheart that lead to a proposal of marriage. Extensive research, the colored postcards and the actual words written by the sailor creates a fresh approach to history. This book is a book that will appeal to those who have an interest in American history, military history, postcard collecting, geopolitical interest, and romance. Their journey is over, but now, a more important one begins. I hope you will join me in launching their story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: First Steps Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 203mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9781937333393
• ISBN-10: 1937333396
• Artikelnr.: 49130143

Autorenporträt

Leslie Compton has spent her life as an educator: through her music, as an elementary teacher, a childbirth instructor and a teacher of memoir writing. She gains great pleasure in presenting her books as a way to enlighten others to new information and ideas. Compton lives in Southern Oregon and is currently working on a fourth book, "Windows of Destruction." Follow Leslie through Instagram, her website LeslieCompton.com or her email address, [e-mail]