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Richard Patrick Dooling (born 1954) is an American novelist and screenwriter.He is best known for his novel White Man's Grave, a finalist for the 1994 National Book Award for Fiction, and for co-producing and co-writing the 2004 ABC miniseries Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital.
"The White Man's Burden" was first published in The New York Sun on February 1, 1899 and in The Times (London) on February 4, 1899. [7] On 7 February 1899, during senatorial debate to decide if the US should retain control of the Philippine Islands and the ten million Filipinos conquered from the Spanish Empire, Senator Benjamin Tillman read aloud the first, the fourth, and the fifth stanzas ...
Loose Among Devils: a voyage from Devil's Island to those jungles of West Africa labelled "the white man's grave". 1935. Doubleday, Doran & Gundy. Khyber Caravan: through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India 1936. Simon & Schuster of Canada. ISBN 0-671-80178-3; Bright Paths to Adventure. 1945. McClelland & Stewart.
The presumably earliest reference to the society in Western literature can be found in George Banbury's Sierra Leone, Or the White Man's Grave (1888). [3] In Western culture, depictions of the society have been widely used to portray Africans as barbaric and uncivilized. [1]
His short story "Spanish Man's Grave" is considered by some to be one of the finest American Western stories ever written. His last script was A Thunder of Drums. Bellah's depiction of the Apache is protested by some and lauded as realistic by others. In the early stages of his career, Elmore Leonard modelled his style closely after Bellah's ...
The coast was also called "the White man's grave" [17] [18] because of the mass amount of death from illnesses such as yellow fever, malaria, heat exhaustion, and many gastro-entero sicknesses. In 1841, 80% of British sailors serving in military expeditions on the Niger River were infected with fevers. [19]
These first two books are "pre" Betty´s book. White discusses the philosophy of the future books, without revealing the source (the channeling through his wife Betty). The Betty Book (1937) Across the Unknown (1939), with Harwood White; The Unobstructed Universe (1940) (Considered the most important of the collection) The Road I Know (1942)
Herman Lehmann was born near Mason, Texas, on June 5, 1859, to German immigrants Ernst Moritz Lehmann and Augusta Johanna Adams Lehmann.He was a third child, following a brother Gustave Adolph, born in 1855, and a sister Wilhelmina, born in 1857.