wyszukanych pozycji: 32
Soused at the Manor
ISBN: 9781639882243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,34 zł |
Ten Stories Straight Up
ISBN: 9781460934524 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ten short stories on very different subjects, including E Pluribus Unum - A multi-generational starship finally approaches its destination at Tau Ceti. The people have adapted well to their shipboard environment on the long voyage - perhaps too well. The Case of the Red Herring - The Sherlock Holmes case Conan Doyle forgot to write - the mysterious case of the politician, the lighthouse, and the trained cormorant. The House - A man brings his family back to see the house he grew up in, and finds much changed - but not all. The Luck of the Irish - Three Irishmen, escaped convicts from Port...
Ten short stories on very different subjects, including E Pluribus Unum - A multi-generational starship finally approaches its destination at Tau Ceti...
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63,75 zł |
The Wreck of the Steamship Pacific: The Worst Maritime Disaster of the West Coast
ISBN: 9781533023858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On the evening of Thursday, November 4, 1875, the steamship Pacific collided with the clipper ship Orpheus off Cape Flattery in Washington. The Orpheus resumed her journey but the Pacific - old, unsafe, and dangerously overcrowded - broke up in minutes and went down, scattering hundreds of men, women, and children into the sea. Exactly how many died will never be known, but the names we know are enough to make this still the worst maritime disaster in the history of the West Coast. Only two men survived, and their first-hand accounts are here. The passengers included many wealthy and famous...
On the evening of Thursday, November 4, 1875, the steamship Pacific collided with the clipper ship Orpheus off Cape Flattery in Washington. The Orpheu...
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34,15 zł |
Memphis Legend
ISBN: 9781541353022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. L.T. McCain resigned early from Naval Intelligence because he was tired of the game. He wanted a normal life. He is a big fan of normal. Ten years later, all his hard work has finally paid off. He loves his job as an emergency room doctor, and he is dating the prettiest girl in Memphis. But the last couple of weeks has been anything but normal. The hospital is not happy with how he handled a dangerous situation. Now he's being drawn into investigating the disappearance of someone he hardly knew. To make matters worse, he's a Yankee. The chief of police in the small Tennessee town won't help....
L.T. McCain resigned early from Naval Intelligence because he was tired of the game. He wanted a normal life. He is a big fan of normal. Ten years lat...
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77,36 zł |
Warana: The Voyage of the Australian Nuclear Protest Yacht
ISBN: 9781460960905 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1973, Brian Crawford was a 25-year-old hippie out to see the world and have adventures. After nearly two years on a schooner in North Atlantic gales, he was looking for warmer water. He went to the Kingdom of Tonga, where his brother was training Peace Corps volunteers. Although he loved the people and country of Tonga, his tourist visa expired and he had to leave. With no money, his options were few. Then he found a yacht that would take him on as navigator - Warana, the Australian nuclear protest vessel, bound for Mururoa atoll in French Polynesia, to try to prevent the French from...
In 1973, Brian Crawford was a 25-year-old hippie out to see the world and have adventures. After nearly two years on a schooner in North Atlantic gale...
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50,09 zł |
No Turning Back
ISBN: 9781717314079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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84,24 zł |
Tight Shorts: Diverse Short Stories
ISBN: 9781460946992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nine very diverse, tightly-constructed short stories to stimulate and intrigue the intelligent reader, including The Swing - A girl, a swing, and a lot of time provide an overview of a life Colby - An explorer pushes the limits of what can be learned of life and death - and the space between The Visitor - A look at travel in the coming age of energy shortages A Connecticut Yankee in King Neptune's Court - How did a Union dog tag come to be found in a Confederate submarine? Sibyl - What of us will survive after we are gone? Only our houses - and their thoughts? The McKinley Cut - What might...
Nine very diverse, tightly-constructed short stories to stimulate and intrigue the intelligent reader, including The Swing - A girl, a swing, and a lo...
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34,15 zł |
Peyote: A True Account of the Search for the Magic Cactus
ISBN: 9781460939758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Brian Crawford was a twenty-year-old hippie, hitch-hiking around the country from the East Village to Haight-Ashbury and various hippie communes and centers in between, sampling every psychedelic experience he could find. One day in Boulder, Colorado, he met a mysterious stranger with something new - peyote, the magic cactus. With his girlfriend Elissa, the bizarre and paranoid Mike just returned from Vietnam, Sara the seductress, and fellow travelers Sean and Chris, he set off in a red 1947 Cadillac ambulance in an odyssey through the southwest in search of the places where peyote was...
Brian Crawford was a twenty-year-old hippie, hitch-hiking around the country from the East Village to Haight-Ashbury and various hippie communes and c...
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40,98 zł |
Pirates: My Twenty Months in a Para-naval Group
ISBN: 9781460961018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Caribbean Sailing Adventure. Treasure-diving cooperative seeks volunteers to crew a sailing ship to the Caribbean to search for sunken treasure. No experience necessary." Brian Crawford, a 23-year-old hippie in San Diego, couldn't resist answering this mysterious ad, and found himself in another world. He became a member of the Summerland Pirates, a strange crew of unforgettable characters and misfits, living outside the law and conventions, with a dream of sailing an antique sailing ship to the Caribbean to search for Spanish treasure. With diving and cinema equipment, military vehicles,...
"Caribbean Sailing Adventure. Treasure-diving cooperative seeks volunteers to crew a sailing ship to the Caribbean to search for sunken treasure. No e...
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45,54 zł |
Desert Moon and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781460923177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fourteen very unusual and diverse stories by Marin County author Brian K. Crawford. From the desert to the South Pacific, from the creation of life to a space-traveling future, from an intimate conversation with a dead wife to the "loopy" nature of time, these stories will inspire thought and wonder and remain in your head long after you put the book down. This collection includes these tales: Desert Moon A solo backpacker gets his final lesson in ecology Marama A maritime mystery in the 19th century South Pacific The Bloody Pumps What is it like to be on a ship that loses its fight? Flotsam...
Fourteen very unusual and diverse stories by Marin County author Brian K. Crawford. From the desert to the South Pacific, from the creation of life to...
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54,64 zł |
Microplastic Pollutants
ISBN: 9780128094068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Microplastic Pollutants introduces the reader to the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the aquatic environment and is the first ever book dedicated exclusively to the subject of microplastics. Importantly, this timely full-colour illustrated multidisciplinary book highlights the very recent realization that microplastics may transport toxic chemicals into food chains around the world. Microplastic pollutants is currently an important topic in both industry and academia, as well as among legislative bodies, and research in this area is gaining considerable attention from... Microplastic Pollutants introduces the reader to the growing problem of microplastic pollution in the aquatic environment and is the first ever boo... |
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409,72 zł |
Marin Tales: Stories of early Marin County
ISBN: 9781304537294 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,85 zł |
The Siren of the South: A Romantic Melodrama of the Confederacy
ISBN: 9781490394008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A pastiche of a swashbuckling adventure tale in honor of my sailing skipper Marty. A romantic adventure yarn of the Confederacy. Meet the daring novice nun turned smuggler Captain Marta Griffin, her lusty Nordic mate Lorraine, her aria-singing second mate, Signora Julia, and the swashbuckling blockade runner Jean-Louis Bretagnant. They encounter amazing real-life characters, including the dashing General PGT Beauregard, the handsome Confederate spy John Wilkes Booth, the Union spy Kate Warne, Jefferson and Varina Davis, and the unauthorized privateer Thomas Hogg.
A pastiche of a swashbuckling adventure tale in honor of my sailing skipper Marty. A romantic adventure yarn of the Confederacy. Meet the daring novic...
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54,64 zł |
Toki
ISBN: 9780557034345 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The true story of William Mariner, a 15-year-old English boy who was captured by the Tongans in 1806 and lived there for four years. Extensively researched and annotated. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and appendices. Hardbound edition.
The true story of William Mariner, a 15-year-old English boy who was captured by the Tongans in 1806 and lived there for four years. Extensively resea...
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258,03 zł |
Fantaserial: A Serial Erotic Fantasy
ISBN: 9781460942345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An erotic fantasy in serial format, with each page ending in an excruciatingly suspenseful "clit-hanger." Meant to be read one page a day, preferably in bed, and aloud - or in a hoarse, throaty whisper.
An erotic fantasy in serial format, with each page ending in an excruciatingly suspenseful "clit-hanger." Meant to be read one page a day, preferably ...
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34,15 zł |
Toki: The True Adventures of William Mariner
ISBN: 9781456593643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When the British privateer Port au Prince put into the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga in December 1806, her crew was seeking help. But the Tongan king Finau attacked the ship, killing half the crew and enslaving the rest. The voyage ended in disaster and death. But for one young Englishman, fifteen-year-old William Mariner, a whole new adventure had just begun. Finau adopted Mariner, giving him the name of his beloved dead son, Toki. Alone and terrified, Mariner quickly learned to adapt to his new life. He learned the language fluently and soon rose from slave to a member of the noble class....
When the British privateer Port au Prince put into the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga in December 1806, her crew was seeking help. But the Tongan king...
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91,07 zł |
The Short-Meriner Family: The History of a Pioneer Marin County Family
ISBN: 9781500968373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A fictionalized account of the arrival in Marin County of the Short-Meriner family in 1846. The family became prominent Marin pioneers and once owned much of San Rafael and San Anselmo. Jane Meriner, a 37-year-old widow, her sons by her first marriage, J. O. B. and Jacob Short, and her daughters by her second husband, Elizabeth and Catherine Meriner, drove their covered wagon along the California Trail from Missouri to the Sacramento Valley. Since there are many accounts of the California Trail, this account describes only the final part of their journey, from the end of the Trail at...
A fictionalized account of the arrival in Marin County of the Short-Meriner family in 1846. The family became prominent Marin pioneers and once owned ...
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36,42 zł |
Shipwrecks of Marin
ISBN: 9781790783557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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113,83 zł |
Hotter: More Intelligent Erotica
ISBN: 9781460950135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Seven more erotic tales for the intelligent connoisseur by award-winning writer Brian K. Crawford
Seven more erotic tales for the intelligent connoisseur by award-winning writer Brian K. Crawford
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36,42 zł |
The Bolinas-Fairfax Road: The History of One of Marin's Most Scenic Roads
ISBN: 9781548360757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Bolinas-Fairfax Road is unquestionably one of the most scenic roads anywhere. Its hundreds of serpentine turns wind from Fairfax in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, through redwood forests and grassy meadows along sparkling Alpine Lake, climbing a steep mountain ridge to sweeping views of the ocean, before plunging down to Bolinas on the Pacific coast. Beloved by photographers and those who make car commercials, it has been a popular drive for stagecoaches, cars, motorcycles, and bicycles for almost 140 years. It also provides access to scores of popular hiking trails and the...
The Bolinas-Fairfax Road is unquestionably one of the most scenic roads anywhere. Its hundreds of serpentine turns wind from Fairfax in Marin County, ...
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91,07 zł |