Taken by the Wind: Memoir of a Sailor's Voyage in a Bygone Era, Hardcover - Mike Jacker

Reducere. Would you have sailed a 30-foot sailboat to the South Pacific before GPS navigation and accessible ocean weather forecasts existed? In 1976, after ...

Reducere. Would you have sailed a 30-foot sailboat to the South Pacific before GPS navigation and accessible ocean weather forecasts existed? In 1976, after ...

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A memoir of self-discovery though music in middle age, as heard on Radio 4

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Reducere. Common lore is that you cannot sail the northwest coast - the winds are too fickle so you must motor along the Inside Passage. The author knows tha...

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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...

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This is the story of my Great Grandfather's voyage on a whaling ship from New Bedford to the North Pacific and back from 1842 to 1845. The official...

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Reducere. About the AuthorKathleen Snow is the current president of the Montana Writers Guild. Her journalism has been published in Harper's Magazine, Women ...

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DescriptionThis title is an exploration of a life at sea in the time of Captain Cook and Admiral Nelson, covering topics as wide-ranging as science...

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Trader and adventurer Peter Dillon (1788-1847) spent much of his life in the Pacific. When he discovered artefacts from a lost French expedition, h...

Mike and his wife, Barbara, moved to Lincoln, Illinois, in 1972. The town of 17, 000 was charming, friendly, and safe. As employees of Lincoln Coll...

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The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

Reducere. Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteen...

In this military memoir and adventure story, the author recounts his seven years in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s, mostly aboard nuclear submarines. D...

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A surgeon turned soldier. A courageous research mission. Will he survive his own wartime trauma?Texas, 1970. Vascular specialist Brian Levin has st...

La Perouse (1741-88), the French explorer, led an expedition which was lost in the Pacific in 1788. These volumes, first published in English in 17...

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Glamorous fashion editor Mary Russell's personal photographs capture the effervescence of the 1960s and 1970s from within the international fashion...

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From National Book Award Finalist and Sibert Honor Author Albert Marrin, a timely examination of Red Scares in the United States, including the Ros...

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Publisher: Mark DavisonAuthor(s): Nigel DavisonIllustration(s): 400Number of pages: 396Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 211 x 295 x 30Cover type: ...

An electrifying memoir that braids together the urgent issues of Indigenous rights and environmental policy, from a nationally and internationally ...

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