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  • Around the World Not Counting Days
    John L. Kessell
    Having graduated without distinction in 1958 from Fresno State College, 22-year-old John Kessell had no job interviews lined up, no letters of acceptance from grad schools, so the natural course seemed what’s called these days a 'gap year.' Why shouldn’t he travel to Australia, his father’s native land, and get to know his Aussie kin?When these generous Australians refused to l...
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  • Northern New Spain (Softcover)
    John L. Kessell
    Readers of this volume of the collected articles of John L. Kessell in the New Mexico Historical Review who are familiar with his work will be reminded of a truly unique voice among historians of the American Southwest. Those who are new to John’s writing will be informed and enriched by the encounter. By looking at the twenty articles in chronological order, one can see a good...
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    27,05 €

  • Miera Y Pacheco
    John L. Kessell
    'In Miera y Pacheco, master narrative historian John L. Kessell reveals the multiple careers of don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco, cartographer, artist, and keen observer of eighteenth-century New Mexico. This is a long-overdue biography, and it is essential reading for understanding an extraordinarily gifted man who led a remarkable life in the late Spanish colonial period.'-Ric...
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    31,23 €

  • The Missions of New Mexico Since 1776
    John L. Kessell
    The Bicentennial of the United States in 1976 gave rise to myriad projects. In New Mexico-still a borderlands possession of Spain in 1776-an unusually keen Franciscan observer, Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, painted an extraordinarily detailed and often unflattering word picture of the colony. 'The Missions of New Mexico, 1776,' impeccably translated and edited by distingui...
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    26,75 €

  • East Orange by Christmas (Softcover)
    John L. Kessell
    Both mature professionals, they fell in love with childlike glee. John and Dorothy had met briefly in New Jersey. A medical doctor from Australia, he was en route to the British Isles to further his education. Friends of Dorothy, also a doctor, had fixed them up on a blind date neither looked forward to. Yet they had fun. When she decided on a summer vacation in England, her be...
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