In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Reducere. On the morning of November 20, 1820, in the Pacific Ocean, an enraged sperm whale rammed the Nantucket whaler Essex. As the boat began to sink, her...

First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America's finest and boldest writers of fictio...

Reducere. In iarna anului 1820, ambarcatiunea Essex este atacata si distrusa de o balena uriasa cu o vointa distrugatoare parca planificata. "In Inima Marii"...

Discover the astonishing facts about the Titanic and how it came to a catastrophic end in this illustrated, accessible and riveting account of one ...

The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial AfricaPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): J. P...

Reducere. Explore all the ins and outs of Appalachian Hoodoo with our new title, The Art of the Boogity. In it you will not only find more than 50 spells for...

Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a ...

„Cu aparatul foto in mana, ca o alta Alice in cautarea inocentei pierdute, autoarea dezvaluie un univers de mari nostalgii, de extaze si de infrico...

This uncommon book is a journey of discovery in the truest sense of those words, a journey to unseen inner worlds. Mario Mantese's thorough investi...

The mystery man threw off his disguise and started to run. Soon the world would know him as 'the ghost runner'. As a hapless teenage boxer in the 1...

The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination - Tim Rood

A historical novel about one garden across 1, 000 years and the women who found solace within its walls.

Fascinating, brilliant and angry: the tale of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the tragic fate of its Native American participants, from the winne...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 250 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 249 x 282 x 22Cover type: Hard...

Reducere. The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.``A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and ...

A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is a work of irresistable power. J.M. Coetzee's latest ...

Reducere. IT WAS A CONSPIRACY TO HIDE A SECRET EXPERIMENT RAAF captures flying saucer on ranch in Roswell region. Ever since this provocative headline appear...

From artificial glaciers in the Himalayas to painted mountains in Peru, electrified reefs in the Maldives to garbage islands in the Caribbean, the ...

Reducere. After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical mu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jacques PauwThe ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be res...

Reducere. DescriptionWill anyone ever know what happened to the Aloha, a sport fishing boat that vanished with all onboard in the Pacific off San Francisco's...

The Shocking Secrets of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ArtworkThe recent cleaning of the Sistine Chapel frescoes removed layer after layer of centur...

Reducere. Form is emptiness; emptiness is form. This is the bold and intriguing assertion of the Heart Sutra, a text of seminal importance to the Buddhist tr...

Nestled in the fertile hills of the Cotswolds, the village of Duntisbourne Abbots is a well-kept secret: beautiful, timeless and quintessentially E...

Reducere. Determined to improve his struggling family's financial situation, sixteen-year-old Tom Wade leaves England in 1860 and sets out for the untamed wi...

This book offers a unique look at streets as locations that can evolve to support the economic, social, cultural and natural aspects of cities. It ...

Reducere. William Shakespeare 978-606-8780-08-5

Reducere. We don't live the way we could, but we have the capacity to activate and enter into a more evolved way of being human. In this wide-ranging survey ...

DescriptionPreaching today all too often tragically misses the point. We've all heard sermons that sound more like a lecture, filling the head but ...

Anna Discovers the Heart of the Shepherd is a story that is written for children to teach the Beatitudes in a way that they may remember. The Beati...

Reducere. Representing Michigan for thirty-six years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogge...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...