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Getting Out Alive: The Autumn Veatch Story
ISBN: 9781523399918 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A true story... A harrowing plane crash took the lives of two people and plunged sixteen-year-old Autumn Veatch into the middle of the rugged Cascade Mountains. Injured, alone, and lost, she defies all odds to make it out alive. This short story is a true account of a brave young woman's survival. Not only was Autumn the sole survivor of the crash, but she then hiked for nearly three days through some of the most unforgiving terrain in the country. Find out what it takes to be a survivor.
A true story... A harrowing plane crash took the lives of two people and plunged sixteen-year-old Autumn Veatch into the middle of the rugged Cascade ...
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Views from the Conning Tower: The Adventures of a Deep-Sea Explorer
ISBN: 9780984910526 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Treasure hunts, world records, environmental mishaps, scientific studies and deep-sea exploration are just some of the thrilling topics that diver, scientist and author Dr. Richard Slater discusses in his autobiographical book "Views from the Conning Tower." By sharing his truly amazing stories, the author gives people a sense of the dangers and joys that come from diving. His extensive diving career was filled with adventures that will astound and amaze both divers and those who have never looked below the surface of our vast oceans. Slater logged over 5,000 scuba and submersible dives...
Treasure hunts, world records, environmental mishaps, scientific studies and deep-sea exploration are just some of the thrilling topics that diver, sc...
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Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia
ISBN: 9780957585188 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in love with someone else, and it got a lot worse. Trapped in a small bedsit in London, with strange foreign curses coming through the door, he jumped at the chance to write a travel book on South East Asia. There followed the craziest year of his life: he got married in a Balinese village, attacked by giant spiders in Australia, and bombed on the Cambodian border. Not to mention starting a new business in India, nearly killing the King of Thailand and receiving the...
In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in love with someone el...
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Dos Hermanas Gemelas: Twin Sisters
ISBN: 9780990844402 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twin Sisters is a bilingual story based on real characters, Milagros and Cristina Duran Alfaro. This is a story full of adventure and motivation for those children and youth who have talents in different areas of the arts. This story tells how Grandpa Felix discovered the talents of his twin granddaughters and taught them to love painting and drawing. He taught in their primary years to feel the breath of nature and be part of it. He taught them, how to observe the morning dew on the leaves, the sprouting of flowers along the green meadow, the stillness of the lake and the sound of the...
Twin Sisters is a bilingual story based on real characters, Milagros and Cristina Duran Alfaro. This is a story full of adventure and motivation for t...
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39,71 |
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Highs and Lows on the John Muir Trail
ISBN: 9780997061802 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An honest account of a woman's trek on the John Muir Trail is captured in this lively trail journal. Celebrate her joy as the beauty of the High Sierra in California is slowly revealed, feel the comradery of trail friends she meets along the way and sympathize with her when all she wants is for the trail to end. Along the way hikers of all ages, but especially mature hikers, will see how she and her husband met challenges head-on, lightened their load, planned meals and managed daily logistics for more than three weeks on the trail. Written for those planning to hike the John Muir Trail,... An honest account of a woman's trek on the John Muir Trail is captured in this lively trail journal. Celebrate her joy as the beauty of the High Si... |
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American Female: a true tale of adventure
ISBN: 9780997142204 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Middle-class, mid-career, and Midwestern, twenty-something Emily Carpenter walks into a new job that isn't middle anything. In only slightly more time than it takes to get a passport, this brave adventuress finds herself thrust into a world of lavish luxury, corporate hijinks, and personal scandal. Jet-setting around the globe with her sociopathic boss, she discovers the line between right and wrong is generally negotiable, and almost always in a language other than English. Forced to her breaking point, Emily has to decide what is more important: her old self-respect or her new career. But...
Middle-class, mid-career, and Midwestern, twenty-something Emily Carpenter walks into a new job that isn't middle anything. In only slightly more time...
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63,66 |
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The Man Who Owned a Wonder of the World: The Gringo History of Mexico's Chichen Itza
ISBN: 9781939607027 / Angielski / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When a worldwide Internet vote declared the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, the honor came with a shocking revelation--Mexico's greatest archaeological treasure was private property How could anyone come to own one of the archaeological crown jewels of Mexico? The answer was more incredible--the seller had been an American. Edward H. Thompson, an archaeologist, had spent decades exploring Chichen Itza at his leisure and made one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in North America. All it cost him was his reputation, his...
When a worldwide Internet vote declared the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza in Yucatan, Mexico one of the new Seven Wonders of the World, the honor ...
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Observations of a Drifter Vol I: Insights and stories from a drifter. Guide to inner peace and happiness.
ISBN: 9781514153703 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Insights and stories from a drifter. A guide to inner peace and happiness.
Insights and stories from a drifter. A guide to inner peace and happiness.
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In The Old Days: In The Old Days
ISBN: 9781482785289 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born to Immigrants from the old country, Ferdinand grew up when life was more simple, people tended to help each other and life was good. Speaking only the German dialect until starting to school, they lived off the land, hunting, farming, trapping all without electric lights, running water, indoor plumbing, good medical care and the automobile. The Author makes it all sound like an adventure, which it was. The reader can learn how to hunt game, do some trapping in the high mountains, put up hay, harvest spuds and wheat, round up the cattle and fight fire. Ferdinand learned the best way to...
Born to Immigrants from the old country, Ferdinand grew up when life was more simple, people tended to help each other and life was good. Speaking onl...
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438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
ISBN: 9781501116308 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Declared "the best survival book in a decade" by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore. As gale force winds and ten-foot waves pummeled their small, open boat from all sides and nearly capsized them, captain Salvador Alvarenga and his crewmate cut away a two-mile-long...
Declared "the best survival book in a decade" by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months i...
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Sacred Ibis: The Ornithology of Canon Henry Baker Tristram, DD, FRS
ISBN: 9781910519134 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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359,19 |
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She Ate Her Spinach: A Love Story
ISBN: 9781530629848 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Whispers, Epiphanies and Intimations
ISBN: 9781519608383 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a quintessential wilderness classic coming from the author's quarter century of living in the heart of the Tongass National Forest, our planet's biggest temperate rainforest.
This gargantuan rainforest is unique in that it is composed primarily of islands, the thousand-and-one islands of the Alexander Archipelago. Who then is better qualified to explore and appreciate the forest's stunning fjords and channels that a sailor? The author spent his entire youth sailing in this region and as a jack-tar on the schooner Vigilant engaged in the North Pacific China trade. The... This book is a quintessential wilderness classic coming from the author's quarter century of living in the heart of the Tongass National Forest, our p...
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Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex
ISBN: 9781523935086 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is the story of a whale ship that was attached by a sperm whale, and the inspiration for 'Moby Dick'.
Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex is the story of a whale ship that was attached by a sperm whale,...
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Captain Richard Ingle
ISBN: 9781523984770 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Captain Richard Ingle is a fascinating biography of the Maryland ''Pirate and Rebel, '' 1642-165
Captain Richard Ingle is a fascinating biography of the Maryland ''Pirate and Rebel, '' 1642-165
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Harvard Years and Adventures
ISBN: 9781530354559 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Dear Mr. Gillespie: I'll Take My Psyche Back If Are Finished With It
ISBN: 9781530295074 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,83 |
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There's A LION Under My Bed: A Life of Adventure and Intrigue
ISBN: 9781530236664 / Angielski / Miękka / 642 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Taking Flight: My Story by Vicki Van Meter
ISBN: 9780692481998 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On September 27, 1992, ten-year-old Vicki Van Meter took her first flying lesson in a Cessna 150. In the next year and a half she would: complete flight training school; pilot a single-engine aircraft across both the United States and the Atlantic Ocean; be seen on television, newspapers and magazines around the world; visit the White House; even receive an ESPN Arete Award for Courage in Sports. Hear her story and be inspired once again by this firsthand account of her life and journeys along with pictures and personal letters. A great read for children and adults alike.
On September 27, 1992, ten-year-old Vicki Van Meter took her first flying lesson in a Cessna 150. In the next year and a half she would: complete flig...
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In the Paths of Dangerous Fame: The Life and Travels of the Explorer W.G.Browne
ISBN: 9781502748980 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William George Browne (1768-1813) was one of those remarkable explorers who managed to journey deep into the African interior. At the Egyptian oasis of Siwa, he discovered an ancient temple related to Alexander the Great's visit to consult the fabled Oracle of Amun. Fearlessly, he then searched for further ruins in the inner desert but very nearly perished in the process. After studying Arabic in Cairo, he embarked on an 1,100-mile camel journey along the Forty Days Road. Browne was the first European to reach the Sultanate of Darfur. Here he faced constant intrigue and an almost unbearable...
William George Browne (1768-1813) was one of those remarkable explorers who managed to journey deep into the African interior. At the Egyptian oasis o...
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