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A to Z of Near-Death Adventures: Second Edition
ISBN: 9780979905674 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An alphabetical romp through a lifetime of hair-breadth escape, dire danger, and even bizarre and unusual misadventure. The author is an ambassador of the Kingdom of God and this has painted a target on his back for the forces of darkness from early childhood. You will thrill to the tales of terror, laugh uproariously at hilarious circumstances and lightheartedly humorous storytelling style, and find your own faith in God's care and protection growing with every chapter. Twenty-seven stories about the faithfulness of the Father that will cause your trust and faith to soar. An alphabetical romp through a lifetime of hair-breadth escape, dire danger, and even bizarre and unusual misadventure. The author is an ambassador... |
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Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of the Early Naturalist Georg Steller and the Russian Exploration of Alaska
ISBN: 9780882406213 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with explorer Vitus Bering. Steller was one of Europe's foremost naturalists and the first to document the unique wildlife of the Alaskan coast. In the course of the voyage, Steller made his valuable discoveries and suffered, along with Bering and the cred of the ill-fated brig St. Peter, some of the most grueling experiences in the history of Arctic exploration. First published in 1966, Where the Sea Breaks Its Back was hailed as "among this country's...
Author Corey Ford writes the classic and moving story of naturalist Georg Whlhelm Steller, who served on the 1741-42 Russian Alaska expedition with ex...
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110,19 |
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Ramblings of a Curious Man
ISBN: 9780987782618 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join Mac on a romp through the Amazon jungle, a Kenya safari, a secluded visit to the home of vanishing condors in Patagonia (The Land of Big Feet), on a journey to the Land of Ice and Fire, and the Canadian Arctic. Tipple from his well of intoxicating prose, and among the witticisms of this ex-editorial cartoonist's life-happenings you will hopefully discover a few pearls of wisdom to enhance your own life.
Join Mac on a romp through the Amazon jungle, a Kenya safari, a secluded visit to the home of vanishing condors in Patagonia (The Land of Big Feet), o...
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59,66 |
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The Apostle to the Opelousas
ISBN: 9781512326062 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Joseph Willis's life is a story of triumph over tragedy and victory over adversity. . He was born into slavery. His mother was Cherokee and his father a wealthy English plantation owner. . His family took him to court to deprive him of his inheritance (which would have made him the wealthiest plantation owner in all of Bladen County, North Carolina in 1776). . He fought as a Patriot in the Revolutionary War under the most colorful of all the American generals, Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox. . His first wife died in childbirth, and his second wife died only six years later, leaving him with...
Joseph Willis's life is a story of triumph over tragedy and victory over adversity. . He was born into slavery. His mother was Cherokee and his father...
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99,78 |
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The Shit Guru: (An Expat's Story)
ISBN: 9781512388459 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story of an American expat and his search for enlightenment as he travels from the Midwest to Prague, Belgrade, China, Italy, Egypt, the Netherlands and more. There are tales of divorce, prison, meditation, drugs, treachery, and lots and lots of sex.
A story of an American expat and his search for enlightenment as he travels from the Midwest to Prague, Belgrade, China, Italy, Egypt, the Netherlands...
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47,89 |
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Jungle Pilot
ISBN: 9781489592989 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amazing and shocking true stories of a Military man who became a Jungle Pilot. You will be astonished at each obstacle he and his wife encountered in the jungle, and how they stayed alive through all situations. A must read book
Amazing and shocking true stories of a Military man who became a Jungle Pilot. You will be astonished at each obstacle he and his wife encountered in ...
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63,66 |
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The Kiwi in Emuland Fair Dinkum
ISBN: 9781508602255 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kiwi and Emu are both flightless birds but Kathy describes herself as "The kiwi bird who does fly.' She is a grandmother who when back in her home country of New Zealand took up flying Cessna's at thirty-eight. She later moved to Western Australia and got her aerobatic endorsement and at forty-eight became Western Australia's first female licenced to fly a microlight. A microlight is also referred to as a trike. The wing is like a hang gliding wing and Kathy describes the aircraft as being like a motorbike in the sky With her husband, Gary she towed it around Australia over a two year...
The Kiwi and Emu are both flightless birds but Kathy describes herself as "The kiwi bird who does fly.' She is a grandmother who when back in her home...
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59,87 |
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Becoming Frozen: Memoir of a First Year in Alaska
ISBN: 9780692496329 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jill Homer was just another naive young woman who followed a man to the Last Frontier - but it was Alaska that won her heart. This memoir is a love story about the wonderful, humorous, and sometimes harrowing experiences that await when a woman throws her heart to the wind just to see where it lands. After taking a job at a weekly newspaper in Homer, Alaska, Jill and her partner forge a new life in a town where artists and sport fishermen drive the local economy, grizzly bears roam through back yards, social outings feature death-defying ski trips or kayaking rough seas in freezing rain, and...
Jill Homer was just another naive young woman who followed a man to the Last Frontier - but it was Alaska that won her heart. This memoir is a love st...
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63,66 |
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Think South: How We Got Six Men and Forty Dogs Across Antarctica
ISBN: 9780873519885 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of the coldest miles on earth? Cathy de Moll, the executive director of the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica Expedition, introduces the wild cast of characters who made it happen, on the ice and off: leaders Will Steger and Jean-Louis Etienne, who first met accidentally, on the way to the North Pole; Valery Skatchkov, the Soviet bureaucrat who supplied a "hot" Russian airplane; Yasue Okimoto, who couldn't bear to leave headquarters in Minnesota...
What does it take to move forty dogs, three sleds, twenty tons of food and gear, and six men from all over the world across nearly four thousand of th...
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94,84 |
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Wagons to the Willamette: Captain Levi Scott and the Southern Route to Oregon, 1844 1847
ISBN: 9780874223330 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After an arduous overland journey, Levi Scott and his son John arrived in Oregon City in November 1844. Scott joined the Jesse Applegate's 1846 expedition seeking a better, safer way through the Cascades to the Willamette Valley. Their new southern route wound through the Umpqua Valley, three mountain ranges, and the Black Rock Desert before meeting the established California Trail.
Applegate recruited emigrants and while others went ahead to prepare the road, Scott led the initial wagon train west. He details a harrowing trip. Retracing the trail in 1847 and 1849, he again faced narrow...
After an arduous overland journey, Levi Scott and his son John arrived in Oregon City in November 1844. Scott joined the Jesse Applegate's 1846 expedi...
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116,54 |
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Roughing It: Illustrated
ISBN: 9781514344842 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roughing It is a semi-autobiographical travel book an It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years of 1861-1867. What had been planned as a trip of three months became an amazing trip of about 3 years traveling around 3,000 km. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in the "Innocents Abroad."
Roughing It is a semi-autobiographical travel book an It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years of 1861-1867. ...
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87,76 |
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Kit Carson
ISBN: 9781514380864 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kit Carson is a succinct biography of the famous American frontiersman.
Kit Carson is a succinct biography of the famous American frontiersman.
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27,90 |
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Little Tree
ISBN: 9780996501606 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hike up to the mountains and camp out with Grandma Camping.
Watch the sun set. Watch the sun rise. Meet Little Tree. Illustrator Lilly Lobban brings Little Tree to life. Grandma Camping (aka Ellen Pendleton) shares this true story from her first Sierra Wilderness backpacking trip. Other Grandma Camping books: Arbolito / Little Tree illustrated by Lilly Lobban Grace, Gophers, & Garlic illustrated by Alayna My First Camping Trip written and illustrated by Race Scheer Best Mom Ever written and illustrated by Race... Hike up to the mountains and camp out with Grandma Camping.
Watch the sun set. Watch the sun rise. Meet Little Tree. Illustrator Lill... |
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27,94 |
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Days of Deja vu
ISBN: 9781514690291 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Days of Deja Vu is a true story of a young man who has a dream to build and sail a yacht around the world. He is faced with great challenges but ends up setting off to sea, and a world full of love, laughter and adventure, often times single handing against rough seas and prevailing trade winds, storms and mind numbing calms.. These are the Days of Deja Vu, complete with route map and photographs.
Days of Deja Vu is a true story of a young man who has a dream to build and sail a yacht around the world. He is faced with great challenges but ends ...
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79,82 |
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Captain John Smith
ISBN: 9781515069348 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The extant biographies of Captain John Smith, and the portions of the history of Virginia that relate to him, all follow his own narrative, and accept his estimate of himself, and are little more than paraphrases of his story as told by himself. But within the last twenty years some new contemporary evidence has come to light, and special scholars have expended much critical research upon different portions of his career.
The extant biographies of Captain John Smith, and the portions of the history of Virginia that relate to him, all follow his own narrative, and accept...
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35,32 |
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California Country Boy: Book 1: Born Young
ISBN: 9781935530435 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dear Polly, Have you read Harold's Country Boy book? It's a humdinger Sure brings back the memories-the farm, the boys, Helen and Roy and those kids. Talk about mischief, swiping the carrots and then taking the tie-down rope for a swing. Never saw Oscar so mad as when the load came off. Course he couldn't wallop 'im with Helen right there. Then that thing with the dog, blood all over, near scared us to death. And that old sow gonna eat him. Never been so frightened as when the burglar took off with him. I thought he'd do something terrible to the boy. I tell you, Polly, the little scamp kept...
Dear Polly, Have you read Harold's Country Boy book? It's a humdinger Sure brings back the memories-the farm, the boys, Helen and Roy and those kids....
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59,66 |
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Memoirs of a Swine
ISBN: 9781514627570 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Normally, guys will take girls out on the same paint-by-numbers date. Pick her up, take her to a restaurant, chat for a while, take her home, have that awkward moment, and maybe kiss, and maybe be invited inside. The whole time, she is in control of what'll happen later. There is nothing special about a date like that, so I change it up a bit. What I do is ask her to come pick me up, and when she comes over, I answer the door nude except for a towel. "Oh, hey, sorry, I'm not ready yet," I say. "But come in." Then I stop and make a face, the kind of face girls tend to make when they ask if you...
Normally, guys will take girls out on the same paint-by-numbers date. Pick her up, take her to a restaurant, chat for a while, take her home, have tha...
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51,88 |
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The Amazing Adventures of Mark & Carol
ISBN: 9781508766964 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Abridged Journal of Mark & Carol Barratt
Abridged Journal of Mark & Carol Barratt
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79,82 |
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Sanctuary in the Extreme
ISBN: 9781514757024 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of a man growing up in the city who found sanctuary in poverty, violence and drugs. He leaves this life behind to find a new sanctuary; far away from the cities. Wild mountain landscapes of Britain, Europe and America hold the connection to a new life; The life of a climber, simple in need, rich in experience. This book contains bloody and brutal violence, illicit mind bending drug tales and alpine climbing.
The story of a man growing up in the city who found sanctuary in poverty, violence and drugs. He leaves this life behind to find a new sanctuary; far ...
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135,69 |
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Charter Pilot: Rare Adventures In Aviation
ISBN: 9781634905879 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone interested in general aviation, its history, and the funny and sometimes-scary adventures of a professional pilot will enjoy Mark Burgess' stories. With wry humor, he takes us on his journey from an airplane-happy small-town youth, to certified 17-year-old pilot, to instructor and inspector of other pilots. He has flown donated organs, fire patrol, and the rich and famous, and today is a successful entrepreneur with a rapidly growing company employing nine pilots.
Anyone interested in general aviation, its history, and the funny and sometimes-scary adventures of a professional pilot will enjoy Mark Burgess' stor...
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110,47 |
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