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The Black Swan and the Rape of an Airline
ISBN: 9781475070989 / Angielski / Miękka / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1929, Pan Am Airways was the only United States airline operating overseas, except that the ambitious and malicious Trippe, with his far-reaching and expansive ideas, did not control the airmail route between New York, Miami, Florida, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile, but mainly along the east coast of South America via Cuba and the West Indies. This coveted route had been pioneered, established, operated, and successfully managed by O'Neill as the NYRBA Line.
In 1929, Pan Am Airways was the only United States airline operating overseas, except that the ambitious and malicious Trippe, with his far-reaching a...
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Memoirs of a Dinosaur Mountaineer
ISBN: 9781479321902 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Memoirs of a Dinosaur Mountaineer* brings to the reader the life and times of mountaineer, geologist, and artist, Dee Molenaar. We read about Molenaar's childhood, growing up in the hills and on the beaches of southern California in the early 1900s. Later we travel with Molenaar across six continents - to the summits of Mount Saint Elias, Mount Kennedy, and the Matterhorn; to 25,000 ' on K2; to Antarctica; to Australia, to Peru; and to the base of Everest. Dee Molenaar has lived a most interesting and extraordinary life, and this book allows us all the opportunity of sharing it with him. -...
*Memoirs of a Dinosaur Mountaineer* brings to the reader the life and times of mountaineer, geologist, and artist, Dee Molenaar. We read about Molenaa...
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59,83 |
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Beyond the Vertical
ISBN: 9780762781393 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All rock climbing enthusiasts will want to get their hands on the 2013 edition of Layton Kor's Beyond the Vertical. Now considered a collectors item among rock climbers, it is a chronicle of one of the most famous rock climbers in the world. Breathtaking
All rock climbing enthusiasts will want to get their hands on the 2013 edition of Layton Kor's Beyond the Vertical. Now considered a collectors item a...
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127,84 |
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Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska
ISBN: 9780762786862 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Map of My Dead Pilots is about flying, pilots, and Alaska, the beautiful and deadly Last Frontier. Author Colleen Mondor spent four years running dispatch operations for a Fairbanks-based commuter and charter airline, and she knows all too well the gap between the romance and reality of small plane piloting in the wildest territory of the United States. From overloaded aircraft to wings covered in ice, from flying sled dogs and dead bodies, piloting in Alaska is about living hard and working even harder. What Mondor witnessed day to day would make anyone's hair stand on end. Ultimately,...
The Map of My Dead Pilots is about flying, pilots, and Alaska, the beautiful and deadly Last Frontier. Author Colleen Mondor spent four years running ...
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56,83 |
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The Three-Legged Milking Stool: Old Country Wisdom from a City Girl
ISBN: 9781432797362 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If a "preferred" memoir format exists, The Three-Legged Milking Stool probably doesn't conform to that prototype. This is a fast moving, insightful and often irreverent tale of a woman whose journey and escapades transported her from Chicago to San Diego to a resting place in Colorado. The author traces her heritage from a comfortable if not affluent childhood to an adolescence coupling challenges with limited family, no cash resources and the various hazards of big cities. She manages to overcome the frustrations that she faced, establishing herself in business and publishing worlds while...
If a "preferred" memoir format exists, The Three-Legged Milking Stool probably doesn't conform to that prototype. This is a fast moving, insightful an...
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75,83 |
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Birth Mother
ISBN: 9781463729370 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BIRTH MOTHER is a day-by-day account of the author's four-month trip to Mexico and Central America in the mid-1970s. What started out as a short trip over Christmas vacation became a much longer odyssey. The author lurched from one adventure to another, struggling to come to grips with troublesome parts of her past. As Joanna disappears into the social chaos of Guatemala City after a 7.3 earthquake, she plays a temporary role as La Maestra with a street gang, embracing a dark, dangerous and all-absorbing way of life. We may have forgotten the dark side of the hippie era, when unwed mothers...
BIRTH MOTHER is a day-by-day account of the author's four-month trip to Mexico and Central America in the mid-1970s. What started out as a short trip ...
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49,69 |
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To Hell and High Water: Walking in the Footsteps of Henry Lawson
ISBN: 9781480084230 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To Hell and High Water tells the story of the quest of two brothers to conquer the extreme conditions of outback Australia, recreating the Bourke to Hungerford 'tramp' that influenced some of Australian literary legend Henry Lawson's greatest works. The book is part autobiography and part biography. It is an autobiography of the author's experiences with his brother overcoming significant obstacles to achieve his dream of walking in Lawson's footsteps. It paints a vivid picture of some of Australia's most remote country, the challenges and dangers, the heat, the distance, mosquitoes, blisters...
To Hell and High Water tells the story of the quest of two brothers to conquer the extreme conditions of outback Australia, recreating the Bourke to H...
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79,78 |
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My Fight at O.K. Corral
ISBN: 9781480111431 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place at October 26, 1881 in the famous Tombstone. It was fought between Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton, Billy Claiborne, Tom McLaury and Frank McLaury at one side and the lawmen Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp and the dentist Doc Holliday at the other side. Wyatt Earp was accused of murder twice and the courts released him twice. Wyatt Earp narrates in this authentic report the gunfight from his own point of view.
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral took place at October 26, 1881 in the famous Tombstone. It was fought between Ike Clanton, Billy Clanton, Billy Claibo...
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31,89 |
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DAZED & CONFUSED IN BAJA - DOS - & OTHER PLACES - Bring me Lucho's Head!: Bring Me Lucho's Head
ISBN: 9781478311065 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second edition of Lucho's incredible journal and stories while in Baja and in the deserts of the Southwest, is a continuation of the first rip-roaring compendium of great personal stories. The author is an avid racer and promoter, especially in the sport of off-road, and has spent most of his life, racing and writing about it. This second edition continues the tall-tales and fascinating experiences by one man, and although now in his seventies, he still has the zest for life, adventure and experiences just like a young man, still blazing new trails. This book also gives you a hint of the...
This second edition of Lucho's incredible journal and stories while in Baja and in the deserts of the Southwest, is a continuation of the first rip-ro...
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57,67 |
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Throw Me a Bone: What Happens When You Marry an Archaeologist
ISBN: 9781480221062 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "If you marry a man it is presumably because you like the man and not, necessarily, his profession. Marrying a mortician or a dentist, for instance, does not presuppose a passionate interest in and a knowledge of embalming or filling teeth. Yet an archaeologist's bride is expected to emerge from the marriage ceremony with a fullblown understanding of history, sociology, linguistics and philosophy, to say nothing of the less frivolous aspects of anatomy." Eleanor Lothrop picked up a lot along the way of her adventures with famed Harvard archaeologist Samuel Lothrop, but most of all was able to...
"If you marry a man it is presumably because you like the man and not, necessarily, his profession. Marrying a mortician or a dentist, for instance, d...
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88,76 |
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Homeless in Hawaii
ISBN: 9781468157727 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Running away from her past, Elisa finds herself homeless in Hawaii. The streets aren't what they seem, though, and cops make her stay in homeless park. She's only seventeen and with a man she hardly knows. They must work together if they're going to survive as street musicians. They might be in paradise, but even there, her past will hunt her down and make her face an uncertain future.
Running away from her past, Elisa finds herself homeless in Hawaii. The streets aren't what they seem, though, and cops make her stay in homeless park...
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59,83 |
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Sanctuary
ISBN: 9781478297727 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was a day he would never forget - a question that would resonate, become an obsession and rule Bill Kinney's life for almost twenty years, "Why don't we buy a boat and sail around the world?" With little more than an abundant desire to succeed, he took a fantasy and made it into a reality. Six years after that fateful day, he stepped aboard SANCTUARY - a sailboat built by Bill's own hands and commenced a ten year journey at sea - cruising half way around the world. It's a fascinating and inspirational story about a man that broke the rules. He fashioned his life, from a meager beginning,...
It was a day he would never forget - a question that would resonate, become an obsession and rule Bill Kinney's life for almost twenty years, "Why don...
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79,62 |
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The Old Man in the Bag: and other true stories of good intentions
ISBN: 9781481118101 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of true short stories (tied together with 80 old photographs and 12 original letters) is set in a very remote almost inaccessible part of Ethiopia back in the 1960s when Haile Selasie was still alive and in power. Partly for the adventure, but also just to escape being drafted into the Vietnam War, a young American couple volunteer to spend two years in a tiny village of grass huts helping several dozen very poor farmers establish a new town in the lowland jungle of the Rift Valley, on land recently given to them by the sometimes loved, sometimes loathed Emperor. The stories...
This collection of true short stories (tied together with 80 old photographs and 12 original letters) is set in a very remote almost inaccessible part...
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51,68 |
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Eagles in the flesh: A wild hang gliding adventure.
ISBN: 9780615674155 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wild adventure book divulging the mysteries of hang gliding. It is based on a true story about men who become birds at will, who soar like Eagles over Mountains and Jungles, dancing among the up drafts and getting sucked into thunder storms, who watch life flash before their eyes riding emergency parachutes.. Travel beside them and meet the Dinosaurs, Russians, Brazilians, Bikers and the Black Canyon. Back on the ground engage in car wrecks, bar fights, knife fights, gun play, drug abuse, laughter, sex and death. This books story line crashing into the shelves somewhere below "Fear and...
A wild adventure book divulging the mysteries of hang gliding. It is based on a true story about men who become birds at will, who soar like Eagles ov...
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59,66 |
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Living 2 Die or Dying 2 Live
ISBN: 9781432789800 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Come journey with me through life's obstacles - I am proud to declare that I am still standing...a whole man who is not bitter - mad at the world - did not make excuses for not believing or lost faith in love and being loved- GOD has held my hand since birth and has never let it go - BKH
Come journey with me through life's obstacles - I am proud to declare that I am still standing...a whole man who is not bitter - mad at the world - di...
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93,44 |
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Kate Rice : Prospector
ISBN: 9780889241343 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kathleen Rice was an inspiring woman who lived ahead of her time. Born in St. Marys, Ontario, she graduated as a gold medallist in Mathematics at the University of Toronto in 1906. After a conventional beginning teaching school in Ontario and Saskatchewan, Kate broke free of the mold, searching for new frontiers as a prospector in Manitoba during the gold rush. She formed a partnership with Dick Woosey and began a life in the remote areas around Herb Lake, prospecting and trapping. After Woosey's death, Kate faced her final and most difficult challenge - living alone in the wildness of the...
Kathleen Rice was an inspiring woman who lived ahead of her time. Born in St. Marys, Ontario, she graduated as a gold medallist in Mathematics at the ...
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81,72 |
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A French Girl On The Prairie: Montana 1910. At only 12 years old, Marie Delos leaves Paris for Montana.
ISBN: 9781481253109 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1910, at only 12 years old Marie Delos leaves Paris for Montana with her mother, having arranged to meet up with a cousin. She tells the story of her incredibly hard life, in the middle of a spectacular and dangerous land. An unusual and fascinating narrative set within French and American history. Includes original pictures taken in 1911.
In 1910, at only 12 years old Marie Delos leaves Paris for Montana with her mother, having arranged to meet up with a cousin. She tells the story of h...
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51,48 |
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Living Dangerously: Assassinations, Coups, CIA, Murder and Escapes
ISBN: 9781492310365 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thrilling and shocking non-fiction accounts of international political assassinations, coups, murders, hostage taking, and CIA role, based on the firsthand accounts of the author. This volume of three short stories is the first in the Living Dangerously series.
Thrilling and shocking non-fiction accounts of international political assassinations, coups, murders, hostage taking, and CIA role, based on the firs...
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23,91 |
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The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen
ISBN: 9780306822667 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries--the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole--remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes. Renowned for his determination and technical skills, both feared and beloved by his men, Amundsen is a legend of the heroic age of exploration, which shortly thereafter would be tamed by technology, commerce, and publicity....
The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1...
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83,58 |
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Journey to the Heart of Pachamama
ISBN: 9780615669007 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you loved following the solo female adventures in Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert or Wild by Cheryl Strayed- this is most definitely the book for you. The author of Journey to the Heart of Pachamama was a professional athlete and adventurer, who pushed beyond all sense of limitation and convention. Hers was a life fueled by addiction and the drive to be number one. However, the number one position proved to be not only lonely, but impossible to maintain against her most ruthless competitor-herself. From a hilarious pursuit to find true love, to getting sober and realizing that love is...
If you loved following the solo female adventures in Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert or Wild by Cheryl Strayed- this is most definitely the book ...
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