The Discovery of Tahiti, Paperback - Joan Druett

Reducere. Romance and the islands have gone hand-in-hand since the bare-breasted young women of Tahiti gave a rousing welcome to the 18th-century European ad...

Reducere. Tupaia sailed with Captain Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour about the South Pacific, and was the ship's translator. Lauded by Europeans as a...

Reducere. Long before women had the right to vote, earn money, or have lives of their own, "she captains" -- bold women distinguished for courageous enterpri...

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...

Description"Riveting." --The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted ...

Reducere. Starting in the 15th century, a fear of witchcraft and alternative practices grew into a hysteria. Because witches were suspected to be devil worsh...

The fourth book in a series about scientific wonder. Dreaming, daring, thinking, and doing. For little researchers ages 6 years and up. The early n...

Reducere. A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate The Discovery of Chocolate is a fabulous tale, as rich a...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Discovery of Witches: Delivered to the Judges of Assize for the County of NORFOLK And now published By MATTHEW HOPKINS, Witch-finder...

Reducere. This extraordinary tool for self-discovery draws on the strength and beauty of Native American spiritual tradition. Developed by Native American me...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Trojan War was the greatest catastrophe of the ancient world. We are told that it devastated Europe and Asia and plunged the known w...

This special centenary edition of The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.Pub...

Reducere. DescriptionThe author, Constantine Tischendorf, was one of the world's leading biblical scholars of his time. He spent much of his life searching f...

Reducere. When insulin was discovered in the early 1920s, even jaded professionals marveled at how it brought starved, sometimes comatose diabetics back to l...

This book is the only account of what honeybees actually see. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colors, but there is no sign that ...

The large-scale structure of the Universe is dominated by vast voids with galaxies clustered in knots, sheets, and filaments, forming a great 'cosm...

Reducere. British history records that there were tow major migrations form the near east into Britain in antiquity. One was the fleet migration form Syria l...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is the third adventure in our series on cool inventions created in Asia. The cute red panda Dao makes history come alive by transpo...

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. The Polynesian navigator Kupe is credited with the discovery of the land his expedition named Aotearoa, land of the long white cloud. How did he an...

Reducere. The bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun brings poetry out of the classroom and into the homes of everyday readers. Before she fell in love w...

Reducere. This book is about an event in history that changed the world for all times. It is a sad story that did not have to be. What Africans and the indig...

The discovery of King ArthurPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Geoffrey AsheNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 154 x 199...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Richard JobsonNumber of pages: 368Collection: Hakluyt Society, Third SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. New proof of a nuclear catastrophe on MarsIn an epic story of discovery, strong evidence is presented for a dead civilization on Mars and the shock...

Reading paragraphs In 1991, two tourists hiking in the Alps saw something very odd sticking out of the snow. At first it looked like a doll's head....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Henri de LubacThe Discovery of God contains the guiding thread of all of Henri de Lubac's work: the idea of God and the lif...

Reducere. Book II in The Story of the World series, by M. B. Synge, "The Discovery of New Worlds" relates the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the middle a...

Queen Victoria fell in love with the Riviera when she discovered it on her first visit to Menton in 1882 and her enchantment with this 'paradise of...

Reducere. William and The Discovery of The Circulation of The Blood

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): David BondIllustration(s): 13 b-w photographsNumber of pages: 262Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

A Paperback Original Bestselling author Gill Paul returns with a brilliant novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert, the woman who took the very first step ...

Discover the tool that millions of people worldwide are using for guidance, inspiration, and help in finding answers to life's questions. now, revi...

Reducere. In this mind-bending exploration of traditional Christianity, firebrand Peter Rollins turns the tables on conventional wisdom, offering a fresh per...

Publisher: Legend Press LtdAuthor(s): Shantha PereraNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 28Cover type: Paperback / sof...

The extraordinary tale of the humble peppered moth is at the very foundation of our acceptance of Darwinian evolution. When scientists in the early...

The story of intrepid palaeontologists, the discoverers of prehistoric life, and the revelations found through their research.Illustrations: 200 cl...

This astonishing bestseller raises questions that have challenged some of Western civilisation's most cherished beliefs: Were scrolls bearing the s...

Reducere. Resurrecting a pivotal moment in American history, Across the Great Divide tells the triumphant never-before-told story of the young Scottish fur t...