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![]() ![]() Constructed by the Studebaker Company in 1885 to showcase their horse-drawn carriages, the colorful Romanesque building was remodeled a few years later to gather “the artistic, social, and literary concerns of the city into a single building.”īy 1901, it was home to artist studios, theater companies, literary clubs, and more than ten thousand music students. At the time, the Fine Arts Building was the center of Chicago arts and culture. ![]() The lone dealer was Francis Fisher Browne, the editor of Chicago’s literary magazine du jour, The Dial, whose offices were located on the same floor. ![]() In 1908, a visiting Publishers Weekly reporter may have hit upon why: “Thus far, only one dealer in all classes of books has had the courage to locate his store up ‘in the air.’ ” In her autobiography, Margaret Anderson, the founder and editor of The Little Review, called it “the most beautiful bookshop in the world.” But Browne’s Bookstore survived for only five years. ![]() In October 1907-a few months after Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle horrified Chicago-a new bookstore opened on the seventh floor of the Fine Arts Building downtown. ![]() ![]() And when Nix refuses to help, her father threatens to maroon Kashmir, her only friend (and perhaps, only love) in a time where Nix will never be able to find him. But then a map falls into her father’s lap that changes everything. Nix has grown used to her father’s obsession, but only because she’s convinced it can’t work. ![]() ![]() Something that puts Nix’s existence rather dangerously in question… A time before Nix was born, and her mother was alive. And Nix’s father is only interested in one time, and one place: Honolulu 1868. Old maps allow Nix and her father to navigate not just to distant lands, but distant times – although a map will only take you somewhere once. ![]() She, her father and their crew of time refugees travel the world aboard The Temptation, a glorious pirate ship stuffed with treasures both typical and mythical. Sixteen-year-old Nix Song is a time-traveller. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:mythologytimeles00hami_1:lcpdf:b3c8b908-c9bb-4864-9acc-89d1bdf013c4 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mythologytimeles00hami_1 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t85h8ng0w Isbn 9780316341141ĩ8067177 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL7537575M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:24:59 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA178401 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Boston, MA DonorĪrchbishopmittyhs Edition 1st. 12, 1867, Dresden, Saxony now in Germanydied May 31, 1963, Washington, D.C., U.S. ![]() |