wyszukanych pozycji: 1101
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Down To The Sea In Ships: Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men
ISBN: 9780099526292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Magnificent." (Robert Macfarlane). Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every sea, through every night, every day, and every imaginable weather, tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat. These ordinary men live extraordinary lives, subject to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine, from hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous, if not hellish, environments. Horatio Clare joins two container ships on their epic voyages across the globe and experiences unforgettable...
"Magnificent." (Robert Macfarlane). Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us. In every lonely corner of every se...
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The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal
ISBN: 9781783964628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The acclaimed winter diary that reveals the healing power of the natural world
The acclaimed winter diary that reveals the healing power of the natural world
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Sam's Chance, and How He Improved It
ISBN: 9781986064804 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Jack's Ward
ISBN: 9781421815541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "Look here, boy, can you hold my horse a few minutes?" asked a gentleman, as he jumped from his carriage in one of the lower streets in New York. The boy addressed was apparently about twelve, with a bright face and laughing eyes, but dressed in clothes of coarse material. This was Jack Harding, who is to be our hero. "Yes, sir," said Jack, with alacrity, hastening to the horse's head; "I'll hold him as long as you like."
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLi...
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The Telegraph Boy
ISBN: 9781542708944 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. 1909. Alger is the original rags-to-riches guy, often credited with inventing the strive-and-succeed spirit that inspired boys to work hard and advance themselves in order to achieve the American Dream. This theme resonates throughout his numerous writings. When his father dies suddenly, Frank Kavanaugh is forced to live with his uncle and aunt. Unwilling to support Frank, his uncle urges him to move out. Frank decides to move to New York City where he works in a variety of positions, eventually becoming a Telegraph Boy. On one of his assignments he is asked to work as an errand boy for an...
1909. Alger is the original rags-to-riches guy, often credited with inventing the strive-and-succeed spirit that inspired boys to work hard and advanc...
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Cast Upon the Breakers
ISBN: 9781596056046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward: Annotated
ISBN: 9781611045932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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42,91 |
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Paul Prescott\'s Charge
ISBN: 9781648289132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Store Boy
ISBN: 9781421809540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Ben Barclay checked the horse he was driving and looked attentively at the speaker. He was a stout-built, dark-complexioned man, with a beard of a week's growth, wearing an old and dirty suit, which would have reduced any tailor to despair if taken to him for cleaning and repairs. A loose hat, with a torn crown, surmounted a singularly ill-favored visage. "A tramp, and a hard looking one!" said Ben to himself. He hesitated about...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLi...
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Joe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck
ISBN: 9781514653913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Timothy Crump's Ward
ISBN: 9781421814513 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was a cold day. There was no snow on the ground, but it was frozen into stiff ridges, making it uncom-fortable to walk upon. The sun had been out all day, but there was little heat or comfort in its bright, but frosty beams. The winter is a hard season for the poor. It multiplies their necessities, while, in general, it limits their means and opportunities of earning. The winter of 1836-37 was far from being an exception to this...
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Julius, The Street Boy
ISBN: 9781542435413 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "I'm goin' on to a farm, or into a store, and grow up respectable," declares Julius, the street boy and boot black from the slums of Manhattan. Our hero in this story has mostly shifted for himself since the age of 5, having only as an occasion guardian Jack Morgan, a thief and burglar, who spends most of his time in Sing Sing prison. When Jack isn't in prison, he con scates Julius' income for himself, and attempts to initiate him into the art of house burglary. This is Julius' past. But as the story begins, Julius is eagerly anticipating the future, and has seized the opportunity offered by...
"I'm goin' on to a farm, or into a store, and grow up respectable," declares Julius, the street boy and boot black from the slums of Manhattan. Our he...
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Ben's Nugget; Or, A Boy's Search For Fortune
ISBN: 9781514394809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "What's the news, Ben? You didn't happen to bring an evenin' paper, did you?" The speaker was a tall, loose-jointed man, dressed as a miner in a garb that appeared to have seen considerable service. His beard was long and untrimmed, and on his head he wore a Mexican sombrero.
"What's the news, Ben? You didn't happen to bring an evenin' paper, did you?" The speaker was a tall, loose-jointed man, dressed as a miner in a garb ...
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Bernard Brooks' Adventures
ISBN: 9789403860701 / Angielski / Miękka / 379 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Bernard Brooks is a fifteen year old orphan who is sent to Ezekiel Snowdon's rural boarding school by his New York guardian, Cornelius McCracken, who secretly appropriated money from the young man. Bernard runs away from the school to escape beatings meeting characters during his efforts to reclaim what is rightly his. Horatio Alger, Jr. authored about seventy books. He was the son of a clergyman, graduated from Harvard. His stories are pure, inspiring and as endearing today as they were when first published.
Bernard Brooks is a fifteen year old orphan who is sent to Ezekiel Snowdon's rural boarding school by his New York guardian, Cornelius McCracken, who ...
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The Successful Treatment Of Influenza, Sore Throat, Bronchitis, Asthma, Pneumonia, Etc. (1861)
ISBN: 9781437340082 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Adrift in New York
ISBN: 9781978043640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Facing the World
ISBN: 9781421800424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here's a letter for you, Harry, said George Howard. "I was passing the hotel on my way home from school when Abner Potts called out to me from the piazza, and asked me to bring it." The speaker was a bright, round-faced boy of ten. The boy whom he addressed was five or six years older. Only a week previous he had lost his father, and as the family consisted only of these two, he was left, so far as near relatives were concerned, alone in the world.
Here's a letter for you, Harry, said George Howard. "I was passing the hotel on my way home from school when Abner Potts called out to me from the pia...
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Brave and Bold. (1874) by: Horatio Alger
ISBN: 9781540851888 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Horatio Alger Jr. January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth": a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard...
Horatio Alger Jr. January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young adult novels about impo...
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Try and Trust
ISBN: 9781589635753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,57 |