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An Anthology of Tales from Booger Branch: Hard To Believe Outdoor Stories That Really Happened
ISBN: 9781484037355 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tales from Booger Branch is a book for anyone who loves being in the outdoors, hunting, fishing, and camping. It is an enjoyable, hilarious accumulation of life experiences that will make you laugh and long for a simpler time that once was the norm. Those not accustomed to life in the wilderness will certainly appreciate the fact that author James Burnham and friends are still alive and well. One can only wonder how so many things can go wrong on so many excursions for Burnham due to weather, carelessness, the absence of knowledge, or just pure bad luck, yet he still experiences the times of...
Tales from Booger Branch is a book for anyone who loves being in the outdoors, hunting, fishing, and camping. It is an enjoyable, hilarious accumulati...
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Keeping On, Alaskan Style: Stories of An Alaskan Life
ISBN: 9781494288693 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As far as describing our book, this excerpt from the editor of the book to us says it all. "After reading your tales, it is no wonder you were urged to write them down. In a very personal manner, you have painted wonderful pictures of what it was like to both homestead and then live for decades in the biggest state. The stories are humorous, heartfelt, and simply delightful. I've commented at a couple of places in the manuscript where I actually laughed out loud while reading. And there are many other instances of successful humor in the book, one of the hardest things to pull off in print....
As far as describing our book, this excerpt from the editor of the book to us says it all. "After reading your tales, it is no wonder you were urged t...
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Treasure Hunter: A Memoir of Caches, Curses, and Confrontations, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781589799929 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W.C. Jameson was an active treasure hunter for more than fifty years. He has fallen from cliffs, had ropes break during climbs, been caught in mine shaft cave-ins, contended with flash floods, been shot at, watched men die, and had to deal with rattlesnakes, water moccasins, scorpions, and poisonous centipedes. He has fled for his life from park rangers, policemen, landowners, competitors, corporate mercenaries, and drug runners. He has also discovered enough treasure to pay for his own house and finance his and his children's education. With his enigmatic treasure-hunter partners, Slade,...
W.C. Jameson was an active treasure hunter for more than fifty years. He has fallen from cliffs, had ropes break during climbs, been caught in mine sh...
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64,43 |
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New Guinea Days: A Tale of Love and Adventure
ISBN: 9781921509186 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the years before Papua New Guinea became independent, Michael O'Connor was for nine years a district administrator - a kiap - in remote parts of one of the planet's most forbidding environments. His is a story not only of the extension of law and order and the development of representative government but also of the experience of his young family in a fascinating world. It is a story of life that lacked any kind of modern facilities in isolated areas where travel was mostly on foot through mosquito-ridden swamps to freezing mountain ridges. Above all, it is a story of a people whose...
In the years before Papua New Guinea became independent, Michael O'Connor was for nine years a district administrator - a kiap - in remote parts of on...
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127,51 |
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Quest and Crew: A True Sailing Adventure
ISBN: 9780692223352 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever had an overpowering urge to leave it all behind and sail off to a tropical island? The desire of the ordinary landlubber to go to sea is as old as mankind itself. Here is the true story of how my wife and I became captured by the powerful allure of the sea. This is book one of a four book series. 'Quest and Crew' begins hours before a hurricane of unimaginable destructive force obliterates the south shore of Grenada. Luckily, Quest survives without a scratch. It's a story about how life's many twists and turns, fortune and disaster, can change your path but make you stronger. In...
Have you ever had an overpowering urge to leave it all behind and sail off to a tropical island? The desire of the ordinary landlubber to go to sea is...
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49,25 |
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Two for the Road
ISBN: 9780646918518 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roads are for journeys, not destinations. IN 2003 Melbourne couple Shirley Hardy-Rix and her husband Brian Rix fulfilled a lifelong ambition of motorcycling across the world. In an incredible 350-day journey, they would do everything they'd ever dreamed of as well as getting much more than they'd bargained for. Crossing 27 countries and covering 56,671 kilometres, they raced around the Isle of Man motorcycle circuit on Mad Sunday, survived Iran's traffic and travelled through Taliban strongholds under armed guard. Shirley and Brian's story is an epic account of the ups and downs of seeing the...
Roads are for journeys, not destinations. IN 2003 Melbourne couple Shirley Hardy-Rix and her husband Brian Rix fulfilled a lifelong ambition of motorc...
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An Apartment In Madrid
ISBN: 9781468924152 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not a guide to living in Madrid. Follow Maggie through "Living Ex-Pat: An Apartment In Madrid." Who knew the life of a teacher would be so full of intrigue? Maggie certainly didn't. Thirteen months later a decision had to be made for the survival of her sanity.
Not a guide to living in Madrid. Follow Maggie through "Living Ex-Pat: An Apartment In Madrid." Who knew the life of a teacher would be so full of int...
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I Never Met a Boat I Didn't Love: Forty Years of Commercial Fishing. A Journey through Life.
ISBN: 9781497398252 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We've all heard of the old proverb "Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life." This book is the true story of the development, challenges, and equipment of the commercial shrimp industry, and many of the adventures that came along with it. It tells of growing up on Great South Bay, Long Island, New York through sixty years into retirement. From the author's first sixty five year old wood boat at the age of fifteen through his working career on a vast number of commercial vessels, and living aboard and cruising over thirty thousand miles on a 30-year-old restored...
We've all heard of the old proverb "Find a job you love and you will never have to work a day of your life." This book is the true story of the develo...
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51,68 |
![Crash Landing into a Field of Outhouses: The [Slightly Embellished] Stories of Kenneth A. Bauer Bauer, Kenneth a. 9781497453753 Createspace](/9781497453753_crash_landing_into_a_field_of_outhouses_the_slightly_embellished_stories_of_kenneth_a_bauer.jpg "Crash Landing into a Field of Outhouses: The [Slightly Embellished] Stories of Kenneth A. Bauer") |
Crash Landing into a Field of Outhouses: The [Slightly Embellished] Stories of Kenneth A. Bauer
ISBN: 9781497453753 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to the world of Kenneth A. Bauer and his many "crash landings" throughout life. Ken grew up in a time when a neighborhood was a mysterious playground waiting to be explored. A time when spending Saturday afternoons at the local movie theater with his friends inspired many adventures. One week Ken was Robin Hood hunting the neighbor's chickens in a corn patch, while another time he was digging tunnels under another neighbor's garden. Surviving his busy, early child-hood developed Ken's lifetime motto, "How tough could it be?" While in high school, Ken bought an airplane for $5 down and...
Welcome to the world of Kenneth A. Bauer and his many "crash landings" throughout life. Ken grew up in a time when a neighborhood was a mysterious pla...
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer
ISBN: 9780806144979 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Texas. By July 1536, eight years later, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490 1559) and three other survivors had walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time and a touchstone of New World literature. But his career did not begin and end with his North American ordeal."" Robin Varnum... In November 1528, almost a century before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, the remnants of a Spanish expedition reached the Gulf Coast of Tex... |
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140,83 |
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Choices: Right or Wrong Good or Bad
ISBN: 9781493190461 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,82 |
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In Search of the Afterlife: A Paranormal Journey
ISBN: 9781493772230 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel along on one man's Paranormal Journey with his family and team, as they encounter many of the trials and tribulations found throughout the field of Paranormal Investigations. This is not a How to Book, but more of an insider's view of the field, filled with helpful information and suggestions to use on your own personal journey in search of the afterlife.
Travel along on one man's Paranormal Journey with his family and team, as they encounter many of the trials and tribulations found throughout the fiel...
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59,66 |
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Big-game hunting and trading in Central Africa 1894 to 1904
ISBN: 9781495475191 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Big game hunting and trading in Central Africa from 1894 to 1904. The Robert Wright memoirs are an interesting and sometimes humorous window into the life of the European pioneers of Northern Rhodesia and the British East African Protectorate from 1894 to 1904. Robert and his brother David were initially employed as coffee farmers in the Blantyre district. Their sense of adventure soon led them to start a business hunting trophy animals and trading for ivory and rubber from Lake Tanganyika to the Katanga province of the Congo. Robert was a keen photographer and fortunately many of his...
Big game hunting and trading in Central Africa from 1894 to 1904. The Robert Wright memoirs are an interesting and sometimes humorous window into the ...
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67,65 |
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Eden of the North
ISBN: 9780982915561 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These first hand accounts of Greenlanders have rarely been recorded. Written in 1887, with exquisite poetic detail, the dynamics driving ritual, domestic affairs and women's place in society are described as never before.
These first hand accounts of Greenlanders have rarely been recorded. Written in 1887, with exquisite poetic detail, the dynamics driving ritual, domes...
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In the Shadow of a Shrimp
ISBN: 9781478724483 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the initiatives that I took in life to get by was to hitchhike when I needed to travel. When I would hitchhike I would tell my host driver stories for entertainment out of gratitude for giving me a ride. I tried to tell stories that were about my experiences and that were entertaining and educational. These included brushes with fame including Bill Gates, who I made the richest person in the world, and my struggles with growing up with a disability. You be the judge. I decided to compile my stories in a book for you. Imagine me with my thumb out on the side of the road. Pick me up for...
One of the initiatives that I took in life to get by was to hitchhike when I needed to travel. When I would hitchhike I would tell my host driver stor...
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Walking with Dolphins
ISBN: 9781629526911 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,59 |
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The Story of a N.C. Farm Boy...Then and Now
ISBN: 9781495433740 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about a North Carolina Farm boy that came about during the depression years and all the hardships. It is about his life on the farm and describes how they worked. It describes how they raised all the different crops and harvested them in those days. Later years of growing up, his life in the service and later working in a Paper Mill. It describes his ups and downs during these years and tells of his adventures to all fifty states with his family. The book is written in the language and type of southern expressions as a poor farm boy.
This book is about a North Carolina Farm boy that came about during the depression years and all the hardships. It is about his life on the farm and d...
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Lava Tubes
ISBN: 9781499014273 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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103,99 |
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Lava Tubes
ISBN: 9781499014297 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,32 |
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The Exotic Booze Club
ISBN: 9781497438705 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,83 |
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