Men Without Country. The True Story of Exploration and Rebellion in the South Seas, Hardback - Harrison Christian

Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas - told by a direct desce...

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system an...

Reducere. This vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the islan...

Reducere. In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado's Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemin...

Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended i...

Reducere. This is the rich history of the most important navigational device of all time, the magnetic compass, born of the need for a reliable means of nego...

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A Few Bad Men is the incredible true story of an elite team of U.S. Marines set up to take the fall for Afghanistan war crimes they did not commit-...

Reducere. In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable cargo of furs and set ablaze? N...

Pippi Longstocking's quirky tales have been entertaining readers for 75 years. In this story Pippi, Tommy and Annika are of on a great adventure-a ...

Reducere. She was considered the greatest warship of its day. The Stonewell's problem was finding a war to go to or even a navy that wanted her. This story i...

Reducere. In 1679, the French ship Le Griffon mysteriously vanished. Was it lost in a violent storm or robbed of its valuable cargo of furs and set ablaze? N...

Reducere. About the AuthorDavid A. Corbin served as a Senate staffer for twenty-six years--six years on the leadership staff of Senate majority leader Byrd a...

Publisher: Frog LtdAuthor(s): Don BeckettIllustration(s): 95 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS 17 B&W ILLUSTRATIONSNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2009Dime...

Reducere. 'Spud Ely tells it like it was, from first-hand experience. No glory, just guts. You can almost smell the dirt and the blood' - The SunSpud Ely's S...

Melville's continuing adventures in the South SeasFollowing the commercial and critical success of Typee, Herman Melville continued his series of S...

Reducere. In California, a team of talented young men begin pursuing the most elusive dream in sports, the Olympic Games. The pressure steadily increases as ...

Reducere. A national bestseller—over 7 million copies sold. "[A] social document of rare importance."—The New Republic. Prosecuting attorney in the Manson tr...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Max GluckmanNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 138 x 217 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. It was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world. In January 1998, in t...

Reducere. Now in paperback--a "thrilling narrative of bravery, bravado, and loss" (Kirkus Reviews) that tells the "gripping story of a handful of marines who...

Reducere. He was a hard-working small business owner, an Army veteran, an attentive lover, and a doting father. But he was also something more, something sin...

Reducere. He was a hard-working small business owner, an Army veteran, an attentive lover, and a doting father. But he was also something more, something sin...

Reducere. DescriptionAs gardening columnist for the New York Times, Anne Raver is one of our foremost authorities on making things grow. Even non-gardeners w...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1787, the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Soon after l...

Taking South Africa as an important case study of the challenges of structural transformation, the book offers a new micro-meso level framework and...

Suzanne is kidnapped and put into slavery because her Huguenot family believe the Bible. Is this the end or does Suzanne's life have a new beginning?

A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UK. A teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem St...

When a sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, three weary sailors struggle to survive aboard a life raft in violent wave...

Reducere. When a sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream during a disastrous storm, three weary sailors struggle to survive aboard a life raft in violent wave...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Falklands War Heroes is the latest book in the best-selling "Heroes" series by Michael Ashcroft [Lord Ashcroft]. It is the author's seventh book on...

Reducere. Amazon Best Book of the Month, July 2014Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Roman e-Conti, Burgund...

Reducere. "The world is to know the Messiah is here, " wrote Keith Haigler, a member of the Foundation of Ubiquity, a tiny cult based in Jasper, Arkansas. On...

Reducere. Fred and Helen Martini longed for a baby, and they ended up with dozens of lion and tiger cubs Snuggle up to this purr-fect read aloud about the Br...

Reducere. The companion to Allister Sparks's award-winning The Mind of South Africa, this book is an extraordinary account from South Africa's premier journa...

Reducere. This biography of native American chief Sore-Belly, war-lord of the Crows, is a thorough and unique account of the life and times of the greatest C...

"A bittersweetmodern love storythat] reads as easily as a novel." --VogueHemingway'screative influences for novels like The Sun Also Rises, A Farew...

The true story of Helen Roseveare and the hotwater bottle. In the Jungle an orphan baby need a hot water bottle, urgently, but no one would ever se...

Reducere. In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pu...

This beautiful picture book follows the journey of a young gray wolf who garnered nationwide attention when he became the first wild wolf in Califo...

Reducere. A historical novel based on a true story about an amazing early twentieth-century woman. She stood out in a crowd of friends and relatives from Cas...

Description"A beautiful and inspiring book...fascinatingly told." -- Donna Shirley, former head of the U.S. Mars program, NASAThe exhilarating stor...