Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700 1750, Paperback - Rediker Marcus

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Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White's sleepy, seaside town... until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violet's...

Reducere. In the early 1970s, César Alvarez enlists in the navy to escape a life of crime; while the decision saves him from the streets, it also lands him a...

The true story of a retired British army officer's private Somali-hostage rescue mission.Publisher: Icon BooksAuthor(s): Colin FreemanIllustration(...

The first book to tell the terrifying story of what it feels like to get the bends, from the perspective of a veteran cave diver who overcame the u...

For fans of Rebecca Stead and Ali Benjamin comes a poignant yet hopeful novel about grief from Ashley Herring Blake, the award-winning author of Iv...

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Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations re...

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Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Marcus RedikerNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 155 x 228 x 26Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

The Rainbow Fish series has sold millions of copies world wide, and here he returns. When Rainbow Fish loses his last sparkling silver scale into t...

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

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What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

A Buzzfeed Best Book of June! Sparks fly when a runaway heiress bargains with a devilish rogue to escape a marriage of convenience. No one would gu...

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Reducere. Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Q...

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Addressing the rapidly shifting politics of the minimum wage in six English-speaking countries, Shaun Wilson analyses minimum wage policies within ...

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Locates the immediate origins of the Anglo-American 'special relationship' in the diplomacy of Roosevelt's administration.Publisher: Edinburgh Univ...

When the rains came they found the girl's face. Just her face. At least that was how it appeared... From the Richard & Judy Book Club-selected auth...

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This facsimile (originally published in 1894) contains a range of recipes, from gruel and beef tea, to devilled bones and fruit jelly, as well as a...

Publisher: University Press of FloridaAuthor(s): Rodney CarlisleIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2011Dimensions:...

The extraordinary story of one of the first British men to oppose slavery

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The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and...

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