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Carl Maxey: A Fighting Life
ISBN: 9780295997346 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other "colored" orphan. Yet Maxey managed to make a national name for himself, first as an NCAA championship boxer at Gonzaga University, and then as eastern Washington's first prominent black lawyer and a renowned civil rights attorney who always fought for the underdog. During the tumultuous civil rights and Vietnam War eras, Carl Maxey fought to break down color... Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane ... |
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398,34 |
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I'm Always Going Somewhere: Mapping in Latin America for the Inter American Geodetic Survey
ISBN: 9781478725176 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,64 |
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More Desired Than GOLD: The life and times of Nome Pioneer Frank H. Waskey
ISBN: 9781514263471 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adventurous Frank Waskey was 22 when he sailed to Alaska in 1898 in search of gold and struck it rich several times in the Nome area, while enduring many hardships, disappointments and risks. I met Frank on my first trip to Alaska when we and our wives flew from Seattle with a bush pilot. I would learn some then and much more later about his adventures and events during those interesting times. Congress passed an act in 1906 authorizing election of a Delegate from the District of Alaska. Frank was a very active person to person campaigner, and became known as the Prince of Mushers who, with a...
Adventurous Frank Waskey was 22 when he sailed to Alaska in 1898 in search of gold and struck it rich several times in the Nome area, while enduring m...
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33,68 |
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Off the Beaten Path
ISBN: 9781514889466 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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63,66 |
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Tramp Alone: What if you were a tramp?
ISBN: 9781515204312 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contained within these pages is the story of a man who deliberately removed himself from society to live alone like a tramp. Living in a tent, travelling around the British Isles, foraging and fishing; that man was me. One day I found a hidden cave which I made my home. Now I feel it's time to share the highlights of my life alone. 'Frank Pearce' (not his real name) is now on Facebook. Add him for more background information, he has allowed us to publish one photo of him which you can see on his Facebook page. This book was written with the help of an anonymous professional writer (my...
Contained within these pages is the story of a man who deliberately removed himself from society to live alone like a tramp. Living in a tent, travell...
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39,43 |
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E. G. Barnhill: Florida Photographer, Adventurer, Entrepreneur
ISBN: 9780813062778 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provides a wonderful insight into the world of Florida s tourism industry through the eyes of E.G. Barnhill as an unsung character of hand-colored photography. R. Lynn Whitelaw, founding director and curator, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
A visual feast. Like the Highwaymen, Barnhill created his own version of the landscape, based on the real environment yet in a fantastic otherworldly palette. Rick Kilby, author of Finding the Fountain of Youth: Ponce de Leon and Florida's Magical Waters These dramatic hand-painted photographs capture old Florida with color and light. Lu... Provides a wonderful insight into the world of Florida s tourism industry through the eyes of E.G. Barnhill as an unsung character of hand-colored pho...
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132,85 |
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Disaster Pastor: The Power of a Small Light
ISBN: 9781511792684 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read stories from the journal entries of Toby Nelson who heard the voice of God say "you do not have a great light." Feeling ill-suited and disappointed, the Voice spoke again, "I am sending you to dark places where your special light will shine brighter." He took his light and entered the darkest places all over the world. "My purpose and prayer is to 'comfort the suffering, heal the broken, give hope to the broken-hearted, to shine light into the dark places of despair and to bring the ministry of heaven to hell.'" "I have seen what humans were not wired to look at. I have witnessed what...
Read stories from the journal entries of Toby Nelson who heard the voice of God say "you do not have a great light." Feeling ill-suited and disappoint...
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45,10 |
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Trails That Lead Somewhere
ISBN: 9781478725886 / Angielski / Miękka / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 80 years ago a young lad was introduced by his father to what was to become a major thoroughfare destined to be forever his pathway through life. Siblings and friends added their expertise in due time topped off by teachers, professors and supervisors. Sandy Truett, and guided by a young husband, expressed it this way, "Born a child in a land of roads, I learned to walk trails, To love them, to trust them as my own, To discover, share, and to lose, but never to possess." Consequently, an axiom I assumed was "Trails That Lead Somewhere," whether it be of personal gratification,...
Over 80 years ago a young lad was introduced by his father to what was to become a major thoroughfare destined to be forever his pathway through life....
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136,02 |
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Trails That Lead Somewhere
ISBN: 9781478725893 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 80 years ago a young lad was introduced by his father to what was to become a major thoroughfare destined to be forever his pathway through life. Siblings and friends added their expertise in due time topped off by teachers, professors and supervisors. Sandy Truett, and guided by a young husband, expressed it this way, "Born a child in a land of roads, I learned to walk trails, To love them, to trust them as my own, To discover, share, and to lose, but never to possess." Consequently, an axiom I assumed was "Trails That Lead Somewhere," whether it be of personal gratification,...
Over 80 years ago a young lad was introduced by his father to what was to become a major thoroughfare destined to be forever his pathway through life....
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246,70 |
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Where's the Pilot?
ISBN: 9781511696302 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,83 |
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Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
ISBN: 9781614278573 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2015 Reprint of 1895 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Eggleston states in his preface that "the primary aim of this book is to furnish the little learner reading matter that will excite his attention and give him pleasure" and "to make the mind of the pupil familiar with some of the leading figures in the history of our country by means of personal anecdote." Students will be introduced to Washington, Franklin, Audubon, Clarke, Boone, Washington Irving, Horace Greely, Kit Karson, Longfellow, Dorothy Dix and others. Profusely...
2015 Reprint of 1895 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Eggleston states in his prefac...
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30,08 |
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Sailing A Dream: To An Incredible Life
ISBN: 9780692417591 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,62 |
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Blind Vision: One Family's Story of Treasure, and the Greed of Outside Forces
ISBN: 9781478755968 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Matt Messina begins in March, 1924 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a blue collar city home to a tightknit community of Italian immigrants. At age nine, Matt's life is forever changed when he is diagnosed with glaucoma and loses his sight shortly thereafter. However, his life proves to be as vivid and colorful as his world is dark. Later in life, Matt epitomizes the spirit of the early American entrepreneur. Through sheer tenacity and grit, Matt builds an insurance empire and amasses vast wealth in the process. But his story goes well beyond the confines and dreariness of his...
The story of Matt Messina begins in March, 1924 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a blue collar city home to a tightknit community of Italian immigrants. ...
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97,70 |
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Blind Vision: One Family's Story of Treasure, and the Greed of Outside Forces
ISBN: 9781478756163 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of Matt Messina begins in March, 1924 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a blue collar city home to a tightknit community of Italian immigrants. At age nine, Matt's life is forever changed when he is diagnosed with glaucoma and loses his sight shortly thereafter. However, his life proves to be as vivid and colorful as his world is dark. Later in life, Matt epitomizes the spirit of the early American entrepreneur. Through sheer tenacity and grit, Matt builds an insurance empire and amasses vast wealth in the process. But his story goes well beyond the confines and dreariness of his...
The story of Matt Messina begins in March, 1924 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, a blue collar city home to a tightknit community of Italian immigrants. ...
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131,75 |
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The Kiwi in Emuland - Fair Dinkum !
ISBN: 9781514185391 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edition has colour photos throughout the book which makes the cost higher than the version with black and white photos. The story is identical. The kindle version is also identical. There has been a minor update at the end to the original version. The book is an account of a two year journey around Australia with her microlight aircraft in tow. Kathy born in New Zealand was West Australia's first female microlight licenced pilot. She achieved this at aged forty-eight . Read about her many challenges she had on this journey. The journey was in 2001 and 2002 and began in Collie in Western...
This edition has colour photos throughout the book which makes the cost higher than the version with black and white photos. The story is identical. T...
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199,55 |
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Shackled: Joseph Lingard's true story of his time in a prison hulk, transportation and travels in Australia.
ISBN: 9781515213482 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shackled is a true story based on the 1846 memoir of Joseph Lingard who, eleven years before was falsely charged, tried and sentenced to be transported to New South Wales. His dreadful experiences and graphic descriptions, first as a convict confined on a prison hulk for nearly two years and then a five month long voyage on a prison ship leaves a lasting impression on the reader. His life and adventures in Australia, completing his sentence, and as a free man travelling around the country for two years before working his passage back to England, makes for fascinating reading.
Shackled is a true story based on the 1846 memoir of Joseph Lingard who, eleven years before was falsely charged, tried and sentenced to be transporte...
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43,26 |
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Adventures of a Trail Stooge
ISBN: 9781515279631 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adventures of a Trail Stooge follows The Esteemed Stooge, Sir Charles Guilons on his thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Starting atop Springer Mountain in Georgia, Sir Stooge makes his way over more than 2,100 miles of earth to summit the beautifully lonesome Mount Katahdin in Maine. Along the way, he meets some great friends: from Tangy and Munchies in Georgia to the silent John in the Wilderness, and all the rest between. Through the beauty of the Earth, the laughs, celebrations, struggles, and pain, he learns some things about himself, and the thing we collectively call life. Using...
Adventures of a Trail Stooge follows The Esteemed Stooge, Sir Charles Guilons on his thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Starting atop Springer Mounta...
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39,87 |
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Our Bridge to Persia
ISBN: 9781517029562 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our family of 5 lived in Iran in the ancient city of Esfahan for the three years leading up to the revolution of 1978-79. A once in a lifetime adventure, rewarding in so many ways, exciting beyond belief, with 43 pictures.
Our family of 5 lived in Iran in the ancient city of Esfahan for the three years leading up to the revolution of 1978-79. A once in a lifetime adventu...
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39,87 |
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Sir Francis Drake
ISBN: 9783734004797 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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318,89 |
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An Affair with Korea: Memories of South Korea in the 1960s
ISBN: 9780295806617 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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442,06 |
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