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Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska: True Stories of Adventure in the Alaskan Wilderness
ISBN: 9781987985320 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska is the story of one woman's adventures in the remote wilderness of the north. From canoe camping next to unnamed lakes, to kayaking in Alaska's pristine waters, she describes her many encounters with the bears, moose and other animals that make this wilderness their home. With her partner David she helped to build a cabin on a remote piece of property, off the grid and accessible only by boat. Illustrated with the photos she took along the way, her story is sometimes comic, and sometimes tragic, but throughout its pages she speaks with the voice of one who... Twenty-Seven Years in Alaska is the story of one woman's adventures in the remote wilderness of the north. From canoe camping next to unnamed lakes... |
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How I Came to Love: One man's journey to find love
ISBN: 9781941564073 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How I Came to Love is the story of one man's journey to find love.
How I Came to Love is the story of one man's journey to find love.
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From Finland to Niagara Falls: Pehr Kalm in North America 1748-1751
ISBN: 9781942483137 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,83 |
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From Finland to Niagara Falls: Pehr Kalm in North America 1748-1751: Pehr Kalm in North America 1748-1751
ISBN: 9781942483144 / Angielski / Twarda / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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113,84 |
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Far Corner: A personal view of the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9781941890042 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Far Corner is the saga of a latter-day pioneer who invaded the Pacific Northwest wearing the only derby hat those parts had ever seen. Author Stewart H. Holbrook bought the hat in Boston just before he boarded the steam-cars to seek fame and fortune amidst the booms and busts of the roaring '20s. On his journey, he discovered there were still people who liked fried elk for breakfast and noticed that not all cowboys were six feet tall and lithe. He was delighted with a hamlet named Pluvius because one year it rained for 362 days and the other three days, according to the sole... Far Corner is the saga of a latter-day pioneer who invaded the Pacific Northwest wearing the only derby hat those parts had ever seen. Autho... |
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72,03 |
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Escape From Xanadu: A Memoir of Survival, Adventure, and Coming of Age
ISBN: 9781517104481 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,66 |
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A Less Than Golden Life: Finding Meaning in the Average Life Story
ISBN: 9781513604053 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I have always said I didn't care about being average, but that was before I found out I could be more. Life is the greatest journey any of us will ever take, and it is up to us to determine where that journey will lead."- Jason Golden In A Less Than Golden Life, author Jason Golden invites you along a journey through his 'average' life. With honest humor and hilarious self-revelation, he shows that both beauty and meaning can be found in even the most average life stories. And the need for this beauty to be shared with the world. "I learned that beauty can be found... "I have always said I didn't care about being average, but that was before I found out I could be more. Life is the greatest journey any of us wil... |
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41,77 |
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The Mystery of John Colter: The Man Who Discovered Yellowstone
ISBN: 9781442262829 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,39 |
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Grace, Gophers, & Garlic
ISBN: 9780981542850 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrate and share the JOY living on Planet Earth. Grace finds JOY in the garden. But she also discovers a gopher. What shall she do? Join Grace and Grandma Camping in the garden. AWESOME ALAYNA (age 11) brings Grace, Gophers, & Garlic alive with her illustrations. 100% royalties go to Alayna for all books sold online through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CreateSpace. (CreateSpace offers the highest royalty percentage) http: //www.GrandmaCamping.com more Gma Camping books:
Little Tree Arbolito / Little Tree My First Camping Trip Best Mom Ever... Celebrate and share the JOY living on Planet Earth. Grace finds JOY in the garden. But she also discovers a gopher. What shall she do? Join Grace...
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39,91 |
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Roughing It
ISBN: 9780996634168 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Roughing It Is the story of the Mark Twain's trip to Nevada to join his brother, who had been named secretary of the territory. Twain writes: "My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of 'Mr. Secretary, ' gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother." Although this story...
Roughing It Is the story of the Mark Twain's trip to Nevada to join his brother, who had been named secretary of the territory. Twain writes: "My brot...
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71,80 |
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Road of Flowers
ISBN: 9780692537213 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "According to Road of Flowers, Mr. Kawashima's life has been a tremendous one." -Hakubu Shimomura, Minister of Education "I hope as many people as possible read his book to gain a better understanding of courage and to dream of a better future." -Tadao Chiba, Denmark-Japan Social Living Institute "Describing his life full of vicissitude, Camino de Flor is, so to speak, an autographic story and persuades us that nothing is impossible for a person who has a strong will." -Dr. Gregory of Tokyo University Life is a drama. Each person has their own drama and lives according to scenarios bestowed...
"According to Road of Flowers, Mr. Kawashima's life has been a tremendous one." -Hakubu Shimomura, Minister of Education "I hope as many people as pos...
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47,85 |
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The Guilded Pen: 2015 Anthology
ISBN: 9781517104092 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The anthology showcases the work of our members: poets and playwrights, novelists and storytellers, journalists, biographers, memoirists, historians and writers of fables. Have you ever been lost in the mountains of Mexico, seeking shelter from torrential rains-hoping to avoid banditos around the next bend? What's it like to dance with one of Che Guevara's soldiers? Did you ever marry a murderer, experience "Deja vu"-only not in this Century? What does happen to the mates of those orphan socks from the last wash cycle? Where do they go? The answers to these and life's other mysteries await...
The anthology showcases the work of our members: poets and playwrights, novelists and storytellers, journalists, biographers, memoirists, historians a...
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Running into Africa: A Memoir
ISBN: 9781517596279 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's a roller coaster ride of a travelogue. There is an inverse relationship between angst and diversion-seeking behavior which takes the reader through packs of cigarettes and bottles of good South African cheap wine, across crocodile infested waters, on 33 mile runs with, boulders and baboons, and into very precarious emotional and social situations from which Hodge manages to extricate herself and remain unscathed. At 26, Hodge is weary, wondering, homesick and puzzled about love. And she really want to find out how to get into the Okavango delta for good The raw stream of thoughts,...
It's a roller coaster ride of a travelogue. There is an inverse relationship between angst and diversion-seeking behavior which takes the reader throu...
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The Truth About The Sahara Desert, Gadaffi, Algeria and The Arabs That the World Must Know
ISBN: 9781517759131 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My Black Man Journey Through The Sahara Desert By Road.
My Black Man Journey Through The Sahara Desert By Road.
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A Summer In The Wilderness Embracing A Canoe Voyage Up The Mississippi And Around Lake Superior
ISBN: 9781518603723 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SAINT LOUIS, June, 1846. The River Queen, as Saint Louis is sometimes called, is looked upon as the threshold leading to the wild and romantic region of the Upper Mississippi. It was founded in the year seventeen hundred and sixty-four, by two Frenchmen, named Laclade and Chouteau, who were accompanied by about thirty Creoles. The first steamer which landed here came from New Orleans in the year eighteen hundred and nineteen; but the number now belonging here is rated at three hundred, many of which are unsurpassed in speed and splendor of accommodations. The population of this city amounts...
SAINT LOUIS, June, 1846. The River Queen, as Saint Louis is sometimes called, is looked upon as the threshold leading to the wild and romantic region ...
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Chevalier de la Salle and His Companions
ISBN: 9781518682148 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chevalier de la Salle and His Companions is a history of the great explorer and his adventures.
Chevalier de la Salle and His Companions is a history of the great explorer and his adventures.
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31,49 |
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Halfway Home: The Story of a Father and Son Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail
ISBN: 9781942845270 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's just a trail. 2660 miles of dirt, sand, gravel, granite, lava and pine needles. It cares not who treads on its ever changing surface. Its very existence depends on the footsteps of those who navigate its pathway. Reaching the end of this 2 foot wide track a person finds themselves at the end of something that goes on in every aspect of their life. A deep inner emotion grips at your soul, one that can only be understood by those who have also walked along this seemingly never ending trail. On Sunday afternoon of April 7th Quentin (Family Man) along with his dad,... It's just a trail. 2660 miles of dirt, sand, gravel, granite, lava and pine needles. It cares not who treads on its ever changing surface. Its very... |
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Sailing the Wind
ISBN: 9780976990338 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chasing the Wind transports you to the world of yacht captains, delivering boats from A to B and sometimes C, safely and without loss of life. Have no misconceptions, life at sea, aboard a boat, no matter how large or small, is a life changing experience. There is nothing like being the only person awake at the wheel with a billion stars for your roof and an ocean swell to remind you that you and your shipmates sleeping below are but a chip of wood on the limitless ocean. Chasing the Wind recounts some of the life changing experiences that occur when you are far from the land, far from...
Chasing the Wind transports you to the world of yacht captains, delivering boats from A to B and sometimes C, safely and without loss of life. Have no...
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My Life - My Way: Amazing Life, Incredible Experiences; 1921 -
ISBN: 9780988777873 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. BORN in the ghettos of Buffalo, New York to Italian Parents he could very well have chosen a life of crime, even become a Mafia Soldier (as some of his relatives and school gang chose to be). Due to the encouragement and inspiration of his Dad and Mom, he became a self-taught piano player, composer and music arranger for "Big Bands." He served his country in WWII, worked his way through college, Medical and Dental Schools. He became a renowned Maxillofacial Surgeon and founded his own Dental Hospital in Buffalo. As a boy, inspired by watching his Dad, he had developed an unquenchable thirst...
BORN in the ghettos of Buffalo, New York to Italian Parents he could very well have chosen a life of crime, even become a Mafia Soldier (as some of hi...
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Secrets of the Father
ISBN: 9781498453301 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He was adopted. At almost five, Paul Aubin couldn't believe what his "parents" were telling him; he was an adopted child they loved very much, though weren't related to in blood. However, it wasn't until he was an adult that Paul began the search for his birth parents, one that would reveal scandal and heartache as well as redemption and purpose. In his autobiography, Secrets of the Father, Paul was a normal middle-class child raised on Long Island who happened to be adopted. After being ostracized by school peers for his size and adoptive status, he went on to be successful in...
He was adopted. At almost five, Paul Aubin couldn't believe what his "parents" were telling him; he was an adopted child they loved very much, though ...
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