Shackleton's Heroes. The Epic Story of the Men Who Kept the Endurance Expedition Alive, Paperback - Wilson McOrist

The true story of the men who made Shackleton's most famous expedition possible and paid the highest price for it.

Reducere. Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic, Paperback

This book focuses for the first time on the lives and loves of those English courtiers responsible for guarding the most dangerous woman in the kin...

Reducere. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for th...

DescriptionHailed as "a rousing read" by The New York Times, this breathtaking chronicle of Antarctic exploration was written by expedition leader ...

Reducere. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE, was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first exp...

The Greatest Expedition Rescue in HistoryExperience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of S...

Reducere. The Greatest Expedition Rescue in HistoryExperience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of S...

Reducere. The Greatest Expedition Rescue in HistoryExperience one of the most unexpected survival stories in modern history. Read the first-hand account of S...

Ernest Shackleton's remarkable story is a terrifying adventure with the happiest of endings - another brilliant narrative non-fiction Antarctic adv...

Reducere. First appearing in 1919, "South: The Endurance Expedition" is the gripping account of those who traveled with Sir Ernest Shackleton on his third ex...

The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the "American Century." Panama Fever draw...

The untold story of the remarkable young men who played a central role in the history of British horticulture and helped to shape the way we garden...

The behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film's original release.Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Scott CaneThe epic story of Australia's Aboriginal people, as told through astonishing archaeological discoveries, ancient ...

The first new and comprehensive narrative history of the American railroads in a generation. 'Shrewd, articulate and incredibly well-informed' - Mi...

Celebrates the centenary of one of the most exciting expeditions of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. This title presents photographs, paint...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas's journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A sweeping, groundbreaking epic that combines military with social history, to illuminate the ways in which Great Britain and its people were perma...

Reducere. Award NameChristopher AwardsAward categoryBooks for AdultsIt was December 3, 1984. In the ancient city of Bhopal, a cloud of toxic gas escaped from...

Power. Glory. Death. Courage. How well do we know the story of the Second World War?

Reducere. A saga about one of the oldest and most romantic enterprises in the land--America's railroads--The Men Who Loved Trains introduces some of the most...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): John HarrisNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

Reducere. DescriptionComing from decades of faithful witnessing as a pastor, a U.S. Navy officer, and a door-to-door evangelist, Taking Men Alive: Evangelism...

Reducere. "Gripping . . . Chang has accomplished the seemingly impossible . . . He has written a remarkably rich, human, and compelling story of the railroad...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Deb CalettiNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 218 x 39Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

DescriptionThe dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revol...

Reducere. The first ever written Zulu history book covering 800 years of authentic history, written from the traditional Zulu perspective. This riveting and ...

Reducere. A Captivating Account of the Golden Age of Piracy, the Search for Sunken Treasure, and the Business of Underwater ExplorationBored by his successfu...

Meanwhile a smaller group - the Ross Sea party, led by the impetuous one-eyed captain Aeneas Mackintosh and the hard-headed Ernest Joyce - went bef...

Stephen R. Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom tells the dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping Rebellion: the bloodiest civil war in hist...

The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States, by the award-winning author of ...

The dramatic and compelling account of the first attempt to climb Mount Everest, published to coincide with the centenary of the expedition in 2022...

Reducere. "George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you'll never think o...

Following on from Derek Niven's genealogical histories of the Lisbon Lions and the great Scottish football managers, he turns his attention to the ...

Reducere. On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found thems...

Reducere. This book is an account of a zoo-geographic reconnaissance through the Brazilian hinterland. In 1914 Theodore Roosevelt with his son, Kermit and Co...

Reducere. In what The Washington Post has called "fascinating, " Frank McLynn has penned a year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer and sett...

In 100 Miles to Freedom, U.S. Marine Bob Holland tells the story of the release of 3, 700 American civilian prisoners of the Japanese at Santo Toma...