The Last Voyage of the Karluk: A Survivor's Memoir of Arctic Disaster, Paperback - William Laird McKinlay

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Publisher: Dune PublicationsAuthor(s): Peter PurchaseNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 215 x 136 x 25Cover type: Paperback / so...

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New edition of this tale of war-time intrigue and absorbing romance from the }Sunday Times{ bestselling author, repackaged in a successful new look...

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'I'll see the world, ' Jim McLoughlin told his parents as he set off to join the Royal Navy in 1939. 'It'll be fun.' Months later, this Liverpool l...

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Contributor(s): Author: Doris MartinWith: Ralph S. MartinThe German army swept into Poland on September 1, 1939, and four days later into Dora Szpr...

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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Reducere. The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic, Paperback

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Reducere. On September 11th, 2001, Port Authority Police Officer, William Jimeno, left his home unsuspecting of what the day was about to hold. Just a few ho...

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Poe wants revenge on the river raiders who two years ago killed the boy she loved, making her way down treacherous waters and considering the perso...

Where does fiction begin and truth end? How does the telling of a white lie (adding or subtracting a year from one's age) mutate into a darker comp...

The Last Voyage - Martyn Hobbs

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Presents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as ...

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an Ame...

Reducere. As a twenty-three-year-old veterinarian, William W. Putney joined the Marine Corps at the height of World War II. He commanded the Third Dog Platoo...

A pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, mental health and the life events that have shaped his identity.Publisher: Quercus Pub...

Reducere. In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously un...

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