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Three Seasons: Inspired By a True Story
ISBN: 9781468112153 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired by a true story. A young single mother and career woman, deals with the diagnosis of cancer in a controversial and highly unpredictable way. She selfishly explores an uncharted desire for adventure in a most dangerous and hostile place. While finding the support and camaraderie she never had, old demons find her as well. Hunted and haunted by her past, she must face her darkest fears and flaws. The brutal death of someone she loves finally sinks her and the weight threatens to pull her under for good. Three Seasons is a moving story of an unconventional, yet courageous woman whose...
Inspired by a true story. A young single mother and career woman, deals with the diagnosis of cancer in a controversial and highly unpredictable way. ...
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63,78 |
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Casting Off
ISBN: 9781481247665 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chris de Grabowski, first saw the sea when he was seven. From that moment, the sea was his passion. In 1959, at thirty-eight, he fulfilled his lifelong dream by sailing solo from Gibraltar to New York on his twenty-five foot sloop, "Tethys." Chris' account of his solitary eighty-four day journey details the grueling shakedown sail and the challenges and joys of a solo passage. His insight into the spiritual and emotional struggle to prepare for the voyage, as well as the extreme nature of the trip are inspiring and uplifting. Chris was lost in the Bermuda Triangle on January 13, 1964 pursuing...
Chris de Grabowski, first saw the sea when he was seven. From that moment, the sea was his passion. In 1959, at thirty-eight, he fulfilled his lifelon...
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51,68 |
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The Sasquatch: Journey Through The Veil
ISBN: 9781530762705 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,66 |
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To the Brink (the Expedition Trilogy, Book 3)
ISBN: 9780984915521 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We re-join The Expedition for its third and final instalment with Jason, now seasoned explorer, and April, American schoolteacher at sea for the first time, battling to keep their pedal-powered boat Moksha from being dashed against Australias Great Barrier Reef.
Crossing the infamous Coral Sea, theyve endured gale force winds, rogue waves, and powerful currents pushing them off course for days at a time. On her thirtieth consecutive day of seasickness and now haemorrhaging blood, April is in urgent need of medical treatment. But in the uncharted waters north of Cape Flattery, far from... We re-join The Expedition for its third and final instalment with Jason, now seasoned explorer, and April, American schoolteacher at sea for the first...
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112,57 |
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet: Exploration, Encounter, and the French New World
ISBN: 9781138814585 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers - Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper - reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic journey through the center of the American continent, Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived from recent historical scholarship. The story provides perspective on the different methods and goals of colonization and the role of Native Americans as active participants in this complex... In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers - Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and... |
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189,41 |
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet: Exploration, Encounter, and the French New World
ISBN: 9781138814561 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers - Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper - reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic journey through the center of the American continent, Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived from recent historical scholarship. The story provides perspective on the different methods and goals of colonization and the role of Native Americans as active participants in this complex... In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers - Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and... |
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752,97 |
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Limey Smokejumper: Fighting wildfire in the Rockies
ISBN: 9781480129252 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Smokejumpers have over the years been the subject of much media attention, from National Geographic to Playboy to some ridiculous movies. The results in each only portray one side; fire. There is a lot more to becoming a smokejumper, however, and a lot more to staying one. Not only physically, financially, from getting laid-off every year, but from withstanding the constant barrage of a burdensome bureaucracy. This is not a sensationalized account. This is real, warts and all. Because of that, you may very well not like it. The primary star in this world, though, is not the jumper or the...
Smokejumpers have over the years been the subject of much media attention, from National Geographic to Playboy to some ridiculous movies. The results ...
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51,84 |
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Colombina: Searching for Happiness (English First Edition)
ISBN: 9781480284746 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colombina Searching for Happiness... is the real life of a young girl filled with incest, rape, loss, murderers, unfaithful marriages, abandonment, torture, and life-changing incidents, all woven amongst the political background of Colombia during unstable times. Most powerfully endured were her incredible persistence and strength, love and forgiveness. Nohemi empowers us with her wisdom and fortitude which carried her through many challenging periods of her life. She teaches us to capture our own strength... to forge ahead in life in order to create a positive atmosphere for our body, mind,...
Colombina Searching for Happiness... is the real life of a young girl filled with incest, rape, loss, murderers, unfaithful marriages, abandonment, to...
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67,65 |
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My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: 9783842436718 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,61 |
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Voyages of Samuel de Champlain - Volume 01
ISBN: 9783842463844 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,61 |
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Voyages of Samuel de Champlain - Volume 03
ISBN: 9783842464759 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,05 |
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Four Boys, Two Canoes, and the Guadalupe River
ISBN: 9781934645222 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the town of Comfort in the Central Hill Country of Texas to the Gulf Coast of Texas, in 1971, four boys, ages 17 and 15, set out in two canoes to travel via the Guadalupe River 500 miles to the Gulf. Parents had given their consent and met them every Sunday. Two boys, kept daily journals and one took 80 pictures. Their adventure took them over huge Canyon Lake -- showing whitecaps -- an encounter with an attacking granddaddy cottonmouth moccasin -- a six-inch rainfall -- and logjams. The book concludes with brief biographies of the three remaining adventurers, (now successful...
From the town of Comfort in the Central Hill Country of Texas to the Gulf Coast of Texas, in 1971, four boys, ages 17 and 15, set out in two canoes to...
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72,03 |
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Taking Up the Sword: A Story of a Special Agent in the Diplomatic Security Service
ISBN: 9781478712046 / Angielski / Miękka / 550 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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118,99 |
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Letters to the Granddaughter - The Story of Dillon Wallace of the Labrador Wild: Retracing the trips in the North and the remarkable life of the autho
ISBN: 9781482388442 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The North seduces you. It can kill you too. Philip Schubert discovered the joys and dangers of travel in trackless wilderness starting in 1999 after reading Dillon Wallace's "The Lure of the Labrador Wild." He spent a decade retracing the routes in Labrador and northern Quebec described in "The Lure," in Wallace's follow-on book, "The Long Labrador Trail," and in Mina Hubbard's "A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador." Nothing in Dillon's early life as an impoverished youth on a farm suggested that he would still fascinate people nearly 150 years later. Dillon was blessed in fact with "Grit...
The North seduces you. It can kill you too. Philip Schubert discovered the joys and dangers of travel in trackless wilderness starting in 1999 after r...
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179,60 |
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Badges Bears and Eagles
ISBN: 9781603811583 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,03 |
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Diary of an Unworthy Servant: a view from inside China
ISBN: 9781475079159 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a second edition of a biographical project. It is expanded to give a view of life from inside China. It takes the reader inside safe houses across China, where victims of human rights abuse live and work.
This is a second edition of a biographical project. It is expanded to give a view of life from inside China. It takes the reader inside safe houses ac...
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27,74 |
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An Affair with Korea: Memories of South Korea in the 1960s
ISBN: 9780295993416 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social anthropological research. At that time, the only way to reach Sokp'o, other than by boat, was a two hour walk along foot paths. This memoir of his experiences in a village with no electricity, running water, or telephone shows Brandt's attempts to adapt to a traditional, preindustrial existence in a small, almost completely self-sufficient community. This vivid account of his growing admiration for an ancient way of life that was doomed, and that... In 1966 Vincent S. R. Brant lived in Sokp'o, a poor and isolated South Korean fishing village on the coast of the Yellow Sea, carrying out social a... |
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174,88 |
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New Altitude: Beyond Tough Times to the Top of the World
ISBN: 9780988770300 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Altitude chronicles one woman's remarkable passage beyond tough times to the top of the world. After a devastating MS diagnosis, Wendy Booker fell haphazardly into running the Boston Marathon for charity. From that one simple act, an extraordinary series of circumstances unfolds that is nothing short of kismet. Overcoming illness and divorce, and tackling one of the toughest mountains in the world twice, Wendy finds herself atop Denali (Mt. McKinley, Alaska) in 2004 at the age of 50. That accomplishment propels her next aspiration: to climb the Seven Summits (the highest peak on each of...
New Altitude chronicles one woman's remarkable passage beyond tough times to the top of the world. After a devastating MS diagnosis, Wendy Booker fell...
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79,62 |
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An Out Of Buddy Experience: Tonight Show Writer Eludes Monk Assassins
ISBN: 9780615788203 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BUDDY WINSTON, a professional comedy writer and comedian, travels to Thailand to see the Rolling Stones. During his visit he accidentally prevents a rebel bombing that would have executed a parade of young children. When Buddy is informed that he is now the target of a contingent of rebel monk assassins, he embarks on a wacky journey that finds him climbing Mt.Everest and fighting for his life while precariously submerged in a raging river in the Laos jungle. Throughout this international voyage Winston shares tales of his rags-to-riches-to-rags show business career. Follow along his free...
BUDDY WINSTON, a professional comedy writer and comedian, travels to Thailand to see the Rolling Stones. During his visit he accidentally prevents a r...
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A Bittersweet Life in the Sudan & Beyond
ISBN: 9780989193221 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the blistering heat of the Saharan desert, to the perilous jungles of Southern Sudan, experience four decades of a man's life through the eyes of the one who lived it. Joseph Canaan takes you on a journey spanning four continents and the full range of human emotions. His story is one of hardship and intrigue, yet it is also one of joy, faith, and inspiration. Joseph's life story begins in Sudan, Africa. As a Catholic boy of Lebanese heritage, Joseph grew up in a largely Islamic country learning to live in true harmony with his Muslim brothers and sisters. In the process, he gained a deep...
From the blistering heat of the Saharan desert, to the perilous jungles of Southern Sudan, experience four decades of a man's life through the eyes of...
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87,80 |
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