Moose Crossing: Portland to Portland on the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway
ISBN: 9780761835103 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In February 1919, in memoriam of the recent passing of President Theodore Roosevelt, a group of civic leaders began the planning of a monumental road--the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway. Spanning more than 4,000 miles, the highway connected Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon through the most northern states and Ontario Canada. Boasting seascapes and lake views, mountain vistas, and a breathtaking drive through the awesome Columbia River Gorge, the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway was the northernmost of the few transcontinental roads available in the 1920s and 30s and soon...
In February 1919, in memoriam of the recent passing of President Theodore Roosevelt, a group of civic leaders began the planning of a monumental road-...
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
ISBN: 9780767913737 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.
The River of Doubt it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights... At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevel...
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Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook's Voyages Changed the World
ISBN: 9780774811903 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No one had travelled like Captain Cook, and no one can again. Before his three voyages, the world was uncertain and dangerous; after them, it was clear and safe. Written as a conceptual field guide to the voyages, Longitude and Empire offers a significant rereading of both the voyages and of modern political philosophy. While the voyages are not explicitly works of political philosophy, they are political philosophy by other means, offering new ways of thinking about the world and about the place of human beings have in that world. More than any other work, they mark the shift... No one had travelled like Captain Cook, and no one can again. Before his three voyages, the world was uncertain and dangerous; after them, it was c... |
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Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration
ISBN: 9780802142726 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty-five gripping accounts of some of the most amazing feats in the historyof exploration are divided between three "ages of exploration," each of whichis prefaced by a lively essay introducing key aspects of the age in question.560 pp.
Forty-five gripping accounts of some of the most amazing feats in the historyof exploration are divided between three "ages of exploration," each of w...
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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition
ISBN: 9780803282896 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden's historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, and Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin. The expedition's findings quickly led Congress to establish Yellowstone as the world's first national park. In addition to its scientific discoveries, the expedition is famous for producing the earliest on-site images of Yellowstone, by its photographer, William Henry Jackson, and its guest artist, Thomas Moran. Marlene Deahl Merrill has woven together a compelling daily narrative from the field...
Here, for the first time in paperback, is a fascinating daily record of Ferdinand Hayden's historic 1871 scientific expedition through Utah, Idaho, an...
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One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity
ISBN: 9780804756426 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time-including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.
One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishi...
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Brutal Journey: Cabeza de Vaca and the Epic First Crossing of North America
ISBN: 9780805083200 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Schneider's thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget." A gripping survival epic, Brutal Journey tells the story of an army of would-be conquerors, bound for glory, who landed in Florida in 1528. But only four of the four hundred would survive: eight years and some five thousand miles later, three Spaniards and a black Moroccan wandered out of the wilderness to the north of the Rio Grande and into Cortes's gold-drenched Mexico. The... "Schneider's thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget." ... |
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Prologue to Lewis and Clark, Volume 79: The MacKay and Evans Expedition
ISBN: 9780806136899 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mackay and Evans expedition (1795-1797) was more than an exploratory mission. It was the last effort by Spain to gain control over the Missouri River basin in the decade before the United States purchased the Louisiana territory. In that respect, it failed. But the expedition was successful as a journey of exploration, and had it not occurred, Lewis and Clark would have been denied valuable documents that significantly aided their exploration. In Prologue to Lewis and Clark, W. Raymond Wood narrates the history of this long-forgotten but important expedition up the Missouri River....
The Mackay and Evans expedition (1795-1797) was more than an exploratory mission. It was the last effort by Spain to gain control over the Missouri Ri...
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118,78 zł |
Across the Continent: Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and the Making of America
ISBN: 9780813923130 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An obscure undertaking in its own time, the Lewis and Clark expedition has grown in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. Arriving as the country commemorates the expedition's bicentennial, Across the Continent is not an exercise in demythologizing; rather, it is an examination of the explorers' world and the complicated ways in which it relates to our own. The essays collected here look at the global geopolitics that provided the context for the expedition--and at the interest in science, shared by Jefferson, that not only grew from the expedition but, to an... An obscure undertaking in its own time, the Lewis and Clark expedition has grown in the American imagination, acquiring an almost mythic stature. A... |
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Encyclopedia of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
ISBN: 9780816047826 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete reference to the Lewis & Clark expedition, covering all major elements from the preparatory work initiated by President Thomas Jefferson in 1801 to the corps's return from the Pacific Ocean in 1806.
A complete reference to the Lewis & Clark expedition, covering all major elements from the preparatory work initiated by President Thomas Jefferson in...
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117,09 zł |
Explorers of the Mississippi
ISBN: 9780816639526 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Longest Voyage: Circumnavigators in the Age of Discovery
ISBN: 9780821411926 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Silverberg s "The Longest Voyage" captures the drama and danger and personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. In only a century, circumnavigators in small ships charted the coast of the New World and explored the Pacific. Characterized by fierce nationalism, competitiveness, and bloodshed, it was a century much like our own.
These accounts begin with Magellan's unprecedented 1519-1522 circumnavigation, providing an immediate, exciting, and intimate glimpse into that historic venture. The story includes frequent threats of mutiny; the nearly... Robert Silverberg s "The Longest Voyage" captures the drama and danger and personalities in the colorful story of the first voyages around the world. ...
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Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe: The Last Lost Tribe In America (P245/Mrc)
ISBN: 9780865548619 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British Protestant colonists who fought the Indians tamed the wilderness, and brought democracy--or at least a representative republic--to North America. To the contrary, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman's research indicates the earliest settlers were of Mediterranean extraction, and of a Jewish or Muslim religious persuasion. Sometimes called Melungeons, these early settlers were among the earliest nonnative Americans to live in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. For fear of discrimination-since Muslims, Jews,...
Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British Protestant colonists who fought the Indians tamed the wilderness, and brought democra...
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The Franklin Conspiracy: An Astonishing Solution to the Lost Arctic Expedition
ISBN: 9780888822345 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ships, the Erebus and the Terror, commanded by Sir John Franklin, entered the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. Neither ship returned. A fifteen-year search uncovered evidence of unparalleled disaster, but to this day no one knows exactly how the 129 men of the Franklin Expedition met their deaths. Although the expedition did not run out of food, there is clear evidence of cannibalism. The ships carried two hundred message... The Franklin Conspiracy is an absorbing account of the single most enigmatic event in Canadian history. In 1845, two British Royal Navy ship... |
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98,73 zł |
James's Account (Volume 1): (volume 1)
ISBN: 9781429000840 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. Vol. 1 of 4
The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. Vol. 1 of 4
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225,24 zł |
James's Account: Of S. H. Long's Expedition (Volume 2)
ISBN: 9781429000857 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. vol. 2 of 4
The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. vol. 2 of 4
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225,24 zł |
James's Account: Of S. H. Long's Expedition (Volume 3)
ISBN: 9781429000864 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. vol. 3 of 4
The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. vol. 3 of 4
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James's Account: Of S. H. Long's Expedition (Volume 4)
ISBN: 9781429000871 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. vol. 4 of 4
The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. vol. 4 of 4
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225,24 zł |
James's Account, Volume 1: (Volume 1)
ISBN: 9781429000888 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. Vol. 1 of 4
The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. Vol. 1 of 4
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112,51 zł |
James's Account: Of S. H. Long's Expedition (Volume 2)
ISBN: 9781429000895 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. vol. 2 of 4
The plan was to explore the country between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. vol. 2 of 4
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112,51 zł |