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The Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss
ISBN: 9781849023788 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully illustrated, exciting book chronicles the travels of Canadian sailor Captain John (-Jack-) Voss as he sailed around the world in a modified dugout canoe, between the years 1901 and 1904.
This fully illustrated, exciting book chronicles the travels of Canadian sailor Captain John (-Jack-) Voss as he sailed around the world in a modified...
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97,87 |
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Sea Trials: Around the World with Duct Tape and Bailing Wire
ISBN: 9780984835034 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A shipwreck might end a dream of circumnavigating the globe. Not for the Wilcox family. In 1973, the Wilcox family sets off to sail around the world aboard the 40-foot sailboat, Vela. Thirteen months later, they are shipwrecked on a coral reef, with surf tearing a huge hole into the side of their boat. With years invested in saving money, preparing the boat, and learning to navigate by the stars, parents Chuck and Dawn refuse to give up. Fourteen-year-old Garth is determined to continue, while eleven-year-old Linda never wanted to go in the first place. Can they... A shipwreck might end a dream of circumnavigating the globe. Not for the Wilcox family. In 1973, the Wilcox family sets off to sail around th... |
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84,93 |
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When Lemmings Fly: Helicopters in the Wilds of Alaska
ISBN: 9780615835228 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,87 |
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Hotel Tales: a little adventure and some unexpected tales
ISBN: 9789675945014 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every hotelier has stories to tell. A motley collection of tales that amuse, inspire, startle and move their listeners. These anecdotes were once known only to those who worked within a hotel's shiny walls, but now they will be shared with the rest of the world through Hotel Tales, a compilation of short stories that offer an intriguing behind-the-scenes peek at life in the hotel industry. The stories have been handpicked from the personal collections of CEOs, managers, public relations officers, and the front desk, security, F&B and housekeeping staff of various hotels in Asia. With each...
Every hotelier has stories to tell. A motley collection of tales that amuse, inspire, startle and move their listeners. These anecdotes were once know...
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47,49 |
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View From The Summit
ISBN: 9780552151047 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume. But there is more to Edmund Hillary than this. He is also the man who repaid his debt of fame to the Himalayas by inaugurating a programme of building schools, clinics, airstrips and bridges in Nepal. With his still active support, these have gone from strength to strength in the 50 years since he himself mastered the Hillary Step...
The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the...
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65,37 |
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The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America
ISBN: 9781558764309 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,22 |
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Jean Baptiste Charbonneau: Man of Two Worlds
ISBN: 9781594578687 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 19th century American West was a place to dream about and migrate to, but speculation ended soon after visitors crossed the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. What lay before them was a vast landscape of brawny rivers, arid plains, jagged mountains and other extreme natural conditions. This formidable environment forced people to quickly adapt, or fail. One man who made extraordinary adjustments to these challenges was Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, the son of frontier couple Sacagawea (Shoshone) and Toussaint Charbonneau (Metis). He also became the adopted son of William Clark, co-leader of...
The 19th century American West was a place to dream about and migrate to, but speculation ended soon after visitors crossed the Missouri and Mississip...
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63,82 |
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The Krohnicles: Life of a Beatnik Boy
ISBN: 9781468184624 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a story of a boy growing into manhood with an artist, craftsman, wooden sailboat-building father and a poet/writer mother making and procreating the beat scenes from New York to New Orleans, to Mexico City to the Mayan Indians in Yucatan, to Florida, to San Francisco (when Herb Caen called them and their friends "Beatniks"), to Puerto Vallarta before Richard and Liz, and 1960 Laguna Beach, Venice Beach, and other places. Their life was improvisational, like a Charlie Parker solo, with Thoreau-like simplicity, yet seldom secluded. They never had a telephone, a television, or a car....
This is a story of a boy growing into manhood with an artist, craftsman, wooden sailboat-building father and a poet/writer mother making and procreati...
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55,67 |
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Gone Through Many Doors in My Life
ISBN: 9781432796341 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,23 |
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A Puzzled Existence: A 60 Year Autobiographical Portrait By The Artist
ISBN: 9780615567938 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "a.PUZZLED EXISTENCE" is my autobiography covering 60 years of my life, from 1950 until 2010 when it first appeared in print. This book is a factual account of everything that had an impact on my being to make me the person that I am today. I opened my first art studio in 1970 and sold a piece of metal sculpture, that was the beginning of " Alchemy Studio, Inc " and 43 years later it is still active as an art & design studio, and a publisher of Fine Literary Works. If you would care to see more information, including artwork and credentials, please visit our web site at: http:...
"a.PUZZLED EXISTENCE" is my autobiography covering 60 years of my life, from 1950 until 2010 when it first appeared in print. This book is a factual a...
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79,62 |
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From Rags to Riches
ISBN: 9781470028503 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Story of a Migrant from Austria who's dream is to find the The illusive Opal which he called Rainbow Rock, In his quest it took him and his family to Andamooka, a South Australian Opal Mining town where he spent just on three years and in this time he experienced a lot of hardship, toil and tribulation from Disasters to Murder and Suicide, none of these stopped him to follow his dream. Due to his stamina and powerful desire to find Opal, he turned his life From Rags to Riches. It is an excellent book full of adveture and action. If you are an Opalholic or adventure person you most...
The Story of a Migrant from Austria who's dream is to find the The illusive Opal which he called Rainbow Rock, In his quest it took him and his family...
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119,53 |
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Everyone Said I Should Write A Book
ISBN: 9781468032840 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. TRUE TALES OF A MODERN ADVENTURER Pirates, parrots, hurricanes and Himalayas. Stalked by jaguars in the jungle of Guatemala Will they survive pirates off Costa Rica? How does he escape war in Kashmir? "Jon's stories are wonderful. I would liken them to Jack Kerouac's, in that his stories want me to seek adventure, damn the danger " wrote one reviewer. Hanging out with Jim Morrison, surviving a huge tornado at sea, saving the life of a lone fisherman helpless in a storm... Whether you are a landlubber or sailor, an armchair adventurer or world traveler, you'll understand why everyone said he...
TRUE TALES OF A MODERN ADVENTURER Pirates, parrots, hurricanes and Himalayas. Stalked by jaguars in the jungle of Guatemala Will they survive pirates...
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51,68 |
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Destination: Roadblock
ISBN: 9781619967878 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,79 |
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Destination: Roadblock
ISBN: 9781619967885 / Angielski / Twarda / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,10 |
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Gumboot Cowboy
ISBN: 9781469909820 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author hopes the reader is peering over his shoulder as he writes. He narrates the trials, tribulations, thrills and joys of growing up during the great depression on the plains of the Texas Panhandle. He touches on his time in Oregon. His adventures take him up the primitive AlCan Highway in 1948. While working for the Alaska Railroad he gathers information on his search for a site for the cattle ranch of his dreams. The journey includes dealings with the colorful characters of the Alaska frontier. He eventually settles in the Fox River country of Kachemak Bay near Homer, Alaska. The...
The author hopes the reader is peering over his shoulder as he writes. He narrates the trials, tribulations, thrills and joys of growing up during the...
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59,66 |
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Innocence and War: Mark Twain's Holy Land Revisited
ISBN: 9780486490403 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1867, a California newspaper commissioned Mark Twain to accompany a group of travelers to the Holy Land and report on his experiences. The trip provided the humorist with an abundance of material for his satiric classic The Innocents Abroad. A century and a half later, author Ian Strathcarron scrupulously retraces Twain's footsteps, recounting the history of his predecessor's journeys and his own impressions of the region and its people.
A travel book as well as a unique literary history, Innocence and War is the first complete book devoted to this particular episode in... In 1867, a California newspaper commissioned Mark Twain to accompany a group of travelers to the Holy Land and report on his experiences. The trip pro...
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56,83 |
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Men in Eden: William Drummond Stewart and Same-Sex Desire in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade
ISBN: 9780803237780 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe not least also those who admired and desired other men. Among these sojourners was William Drummond Stewart, a flamboyant Scottish nobleman who found in American culture of the 1830s and 1840s a cultural milieu of openness in which men could pursue same-sex relationships.This book traces Stewart s travels from his arrival in America in 1832 to his return to Murthly Castle in Perthshire, Scotland, with his French Canadian Cree Indian companion, Antoine Clement, one of the most skilled...
The American West of the nineteenth century was a world of freedom and adventure for men of every stripe not least also those who admired and desired ...
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113,84 |
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There Must Have Been an Angel: The Cross-country Odyssey from Badwater, Death Valley, to the Summit of Mount Whitney
ISBN: 9781463765118 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ...an epic 125 mile cross-country trek-280 degree direct route compass heading-that took two men from Badwater, Death Valley (282 feet below sea level) to the summit of Mt. Whitney (14,495 feet). It was October, 1989, with temperatures ranging from 110 degrees to 50 degrees below (windchill); across some of the most hostile, treacherous and desolate terrain in the land....
...an epic 125 mile cross-country trek-280 degree direct route compass heading-that took two men from Badwater, Death Valley (282 feet below sea level...
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Voyages with a Merchant Prince: Secrets of the Ripley Diary
ISBN: 9781475238426 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'If it should be a pirate, we had a fine ship, well armed and plenty of men to use the arms, what had we to fear? Accordingly, all hands were set to make preparations for defence against an enemy. The bosun got ready the great guns, the arms chest was unlocked - muskets, swords, handspikes, pistols, all in demand ...' The Ripley Diary, 12th July 1830. A sailing ship on a voyage that would make a fortune. On board - an ambitious shipowner, his flirtatious young wife, and a crew on the verge of mutiny. Smuggling, piracy and shipwreck are all encountered on this amazing journey. For the first...
'If it should be a pirate, we had a fine ship, well armed and plenty of men to use the arms, what had we to fear? Accordingly, all hands were set to m...
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43,86 |
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The hummus maker
ISBN: 9781475220896 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Come and journey with me to old Palestine to a little village called Burin, and hold hands with the two boys who lived there, and see the world through their eyes as they saw it. I promise you're going to laugh so hard, until your sides hurt
Come and journey with me to old Palestine to a little village called Burin, and hold hands with the two boys who lived there, and see the world throug...
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