A Passage North

A story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality from a prize-winning Sri Lankan Tamil author.Pu...

Reducere. Spies, military secrets, and a personal crusade for freedom...Rome, 1942.Cordelia Olivieri is a young, determined hotel owner desperate to escape M...

Plans included: Ormos Skiathou (Nisos Skiathos) (1: 50 000)Stenon Alonnisou (1: 50 000)Linaria (Nisos Skiros) (1: 75 000)Continuation of Maliakos K...

A passage chart designed for planning and navigating across the North Atlantic between Gibraltar, the Azores and the Canary Islands.Publisher: Imra...

Reducere. "This book is as autobiographical as it is biographical . . . a book that juxtaposes two adventurers, one with her own challenges still unfolding a...

Reducere. Join Kami the Kayak and her paddler Suz, along with a host of outdoor friends on a wondrous seafaring adventure to Alaska. Based on a true story!I...

Reducere. Bannack is a story of adventure and self-discovery set in the time of the Civil War and vigilante violence. Sixteen-year-old Billy Mayfair, kicked ...

Reducere. This fine edition brings together two of Parley P. Pratt's finest works: A Voice of Warning and Key to the Science of Theology.Key to the Science o...

Reducere. North Jersey Shore towns such as Long Branch, Ocean Grove, Red Bank and Atlantic Highlands began as quiet retreats for pious New Yorkers wishing to...

Reducere. Captivating stories of how a young doctor's first year of medical practice in the Smoky Mountains shaped his practice of life and faith The little ...

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Reducere. Selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of MichiganIn 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime...

Reducere. A contemplation of nature and the animals of the woodlands, The Lay of the Land encapsulates and effuses the poetic beauty of the forests, woods an...

Reducere. "If we walk far enough, " said Dorothy, "I am sure we shall sometime come to some place."A storm tears through rural Kansas and a young farm girl n...

Reducere. A Parade of Dreams: Poetry Illustrated with Photographs is a collection of poetry divided by form into ten parts. The work is a lifelong dream made...

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

Reducere. Young readers will thrill to this breathless story of courage and determination set in the Alaska wilderness. Abandoned by their mother in Seattle,...

Reducere. Jordan, Jon, Joe, Donnie, and Danny. They set the bar for every boy band that followed and changed the course of pop music forever. In the 1980s, f...

Reducere. For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing t...

Reducere. This rare book on the "Hollow Earth" theory was originally published in 1908 by Willis George Emerson, who relates the adventures of one Olaf Janse...

Reducere. DescriptionThis rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and Am...

Reducere. Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream....

Reducere. The riveting, unforgettable story of a girl whose indomitable spirit is tested by homelessness, poverty, and racism in an unequal America--from Pul...

Following the passage of the fifteenth and twentieth anniversaries of the entry of many former communist states into both NATO and the EU in 2019, ...

A Brief Illustrated History of Exploration charts the history of exploration all the way from the first explorers, through to contact with the East...

From a prize winning Sri Lankan author, a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality.Publish...

DescriptionGood Night Niagara Falls features Niagara Falls State Park, Cave of the Winds, Bridal Falls, Skylon Tower Observation Deck, boat tours, ...

Reducere. DescriptionGood Night Nashville features the Cumberland River, Nashville Zoo, Belle Meade Plantation, Centennial Park, Country Music Hall of Fame, ...

Reducere. First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux ...

Reducere. Intimate relationship has long been viewed and lived as a lesser alternative to spiritual life. More recently, the need to integrate our spiritual ...

Reducere. In this remarkable collection--the first of its kind--poets from around the world give eloquent voice to the trials, hopes, rewards, and losses of ...

Description From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year's provisions...

Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled like to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by cano...

DescriptionIn the 1840s, engineers blasted through 175 feet of earth and bedrock at Allatoona Pass, Georgia, to allow passage of the Western & Atla...

Reducere. DescriptionTwo months prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a young man from the rural farming community of Henley, Missouri received his d...

DescriptionGood Night Redwoods features Redwood National and State Parks, coast redwoods, redwood facts, banana slugs, Roosevelt elk, redwood roots...

Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andres ResendezThe extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth centuryIn 1527, ...

Reducere. In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of...

Reducere. Lambda Literary Awards***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-Fiction While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality,...

The second and final instalment in a stunning high-concept post-apocalyptic series in the vein of The Passage by Justin Cronin and Wool by Hugh Howey.

Reducere. DescriptionThe heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author's great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who...

Reducere. Description From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year's provisions...

DescriptionGet ready to explore America's most thrilling gravel, road and trail bike routes. This definitive companion for cycling enthusiasts show...

DescriptionLet the Right OneIn meets The Passage, in this creepy new Scandi horror, from the author of The Shapeshifters, which was hailed as "fant...

Vowing at an early age "to be a poet or nothing at all, " Hermann Hesse rebelled against formal education, focusing on a rigorous program of indepe...

Reducere. The Inside Passage is something of a holy grail for contemporary sea kayakers. It is without question the most scenic and challenging paddling trip...

Reducere. Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there...

Description"Masterful." --Outside Magazine Disappointment River is a historical narrative and travel memoir that at once transports readers back to...

DescriptionGood Night Phoenix features Desert Botanical Gardens, Musical Instrument Museum, Heard Museum, Camelback Mountain, Children's Museum of ...

Good Night Outer Banks highlights the Duck Town Boardwalk, North Carolina Aquariums, Jennette's Pier, Jockey's Ridge State Park, Cape Hatteras Nati...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Gemmell passed away in 2006, leaving behind a legacy of memorable characters, epic settings, and thrilling tales. In the Legends a...

DescriptionThe tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic...

Reducere. Awards🏆Winner (2003) - Books for a Better Life - (First Book)Contributor(s): Author: Francis BokWith: Edward TivnanWinner of the Books for a Better...

Reducere. Good Night South Carolina explores Hilton Head, Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Greenville, Pawley's Island, lighthouses, shrimp boats, fishing...

Reducere. Good Night Los Angeles features Hollywood the Santa Monica Pier, Venice Beach, Sunset Boulevard, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Rose Parade, La Brea Ta...

Reducere. When a woman named Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover ...

Reducere. The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900,...

Reducere. From the sharp, comic voice of Haunted Inside Passage, Never Cry Halibut is a collection of humorous and thoughtful short essays about hunting and ...

Reducere. Though its fame as an icon of twentieth-century literature rests primarily on the brilliance of its narrative technique and the impressionistic bea...

Reducere. Good Night Utah highlights the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Antelope Island, Field House Natural History Museum, Utah State Fair, Salt Flats, Bryce Can...

Reducere. John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even appr...

Reducere. Today, eight lighthouses and two light towers dot the coast of North Carolina from north to south. Though most are no longer in use, each is a symb...

Reducere. Birders in Central America have long known that Nicaragua is one of the best birding locations in the world, and with tourism to the country on the...

Reducere. Good Night America explores the Everglades, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, redwood forests, Statue of Liberty, Washington DC, Mississippi River, ...

Reducere. "You are on your own, Molly Brewster, and you had better get used to it."It is May of 1868 and Molly is on a riverboat headed for St. Louis. Alone,...

Reducere. Buenas noches California features redwood trees, the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Big Sur, Mount Whitney, vineyards, farms, sea lions, whales, b...

Reducere. Local Lives in a Global Pandemic: Stories from North Central Florida covers the COVID-19 pandemic at its peak in 2020. It is a snapshot designed to...

At a scale of 1: 7, 620, 000 this chart covers the North Atlantic from Brazil to Newfoundland and Gibraltar to the Caribbean. It has been construct...

Reducere. A beautifully produced exploration of America's plains states--their histories, traditions and people--from Peter KayafasThe latest book from New Y...