The Log from the Sea of Cortez

In 1940 Steinbeck sailed in a sardine boat with his great friend the marine biologist, Ed Ricketts, to collect marine invertebrates from the beache...

DescriptionIn a book that has been called "a love song to nature, " the author documents the latest decade of his explorations of the Baja peninsul...

Reducere. In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost e...

The Adventures of Olive the Sea Turtle: From the Nest to the Sea is a story about one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet, a creature tha...

DescriptionThe ABCs of AOC is an inspiring, educational, and giftable book about the representative taking Congress--and the media--by storm. This ...

Reducere. The Stranger From the Sea is the eighth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, and continues the story after the fifth TV series,...

An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region's colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos e...

Reducere. From the star of Bravo's hit reality show Below Deck comes Running Against the Tide, the "Stud of the Sea's" first-ever memoir recounting his journ...

Reducere. DescriptionWe've Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement is the first book-leng...

Reducere. This historical fiction novel is inspired by real people and events that were shaped by the land, animals, and plants of the Central Plains and by ...

Reducere. For centuries, dating back to the time of the Native Americans, the fertile soils and the bountiful bays and salt marshes of the Delmarva Peninsula...

An anthology of dark, powerful and moving short stories from master storyteller David Almond, inspired by his childhood in the north-east of England.

Reducere. Filmul nu are subtitrare in limba romana. / This movie does not have Romanian subtitles.FROM THE SEA TO THE LAND BEYONDA film by Penny WoolcockThis...

Reducere. Called by the Los Angeles Reader, the finest example of graphic story telling they've seen, Cortez and the Fall of the Aztecs is a fascinating look...

This collection explores the variety of ways in which people have long made themselves at home at sea, bringing together both ethnographic and arch...

The sequel to Mary Renault's classic The King Must Die, which continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete.

Reducere. 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 ...

Presents a thorough chronology and atlas of naval warfare from the Age of Galleys to The Nuclear Age.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ken JohnsonAutobiographies from the Dead Sea Scrolls The Talmud teaches that the ancient patriarchs were all prophets, and ...

A poetic ghost story with stunning images from two of Australia's finest children's book creators.

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 ...

Reducere. If you like your fables with a dash of bloodshed, then The Girl Sudan Painted Like a Gold Ring is the anthology you have been waiting for. Author T...

Reducere. In this inimitable, beloved classic--graceful, lucid and lyrical--Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her meditations on youth and age; love and marriage;...

Reducere. 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 ...

Reducere. A boy builds a life-changing bond with his dog in this adventure story from the author of Star in the Storm. It s 1929, and thirteen-year-old Tom C...

The Sea! The Sea! The Shout of the Ten Thousand in the Modern Imagination - Tim Rood

The Open Universe is the centrepiece of the argument of the Postscript. Popper argues in simple language for the freedom, creativity and rationalit...

Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight. When Anna's finger vanis...

Nominated for the 2018 Richard Wall Memorial Award, honoring books on film and broadcasting, from the Theatre Library AssociationWith his dark good...

This guidebook allows you to cycle from the Scottish border to the Isle of Wight, all via continuous traffic-calmed routes. The book also features ...

Reducere. Vikings, pirates, heroes, rogues, and explorers . . . all have heard the siren call of the sea, and master storyteller Harold Lamb chronicled some ...

Reducere. From Homer's 'Odyssey' to 'Pirates of the Caribbean', mermaids have fascinated popular culture for centuries. This is an enchanting collection of c...

Reducere. Fourteen-year old Frank Hollahan moves to Florida in 1943, at the height of World War II, to join his father, a navy seaman. When Frank and his mot...

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 ...

Reducere. So much more than a cookbook; it is a love song to a special place and its cuisine Marianna Leivaditaki is a natural storyteller. She grew up in Ch...

Reducere. A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callous...

A series of chronological entries documenting Lawrence Durrell's life (1912-1990) and writing career, preceded by "Antecedents" (1851-1910), and fo...

"A History of the Human Brain is a unique, enlightening, and provocative account of the most significant question we can ask about ourselves." --Ri...

Reducere. Most scholars understand that the Day of Atonement ritual of Leviticus 16 provides the main template for understanding Jesus's death and exaltation...

Tells the history of this pivotal region, the doorway between Europe and Asia.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): John D GraingerIllustratio...

A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leader...

Reducere. A captivating first-hand account of the Pacific Theater of WWII from the perspective of a young US Navy officer. This highly personal chronicle has...

Reducere. The seventh novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines the fairy tale East of the Sun, West of the Moon in a richly-det...

Reducere. A boy builds a life-changing bond with his dog in this adventure story from the author of Star in the Storm. It's 1929, and thirteen-year-old Tom C...

The story of Adel Dajani's family who embark on an epic intergenerational voyage spanning the Middle East, North Africa, and the United Kingdom.Ill...

Fourteen-year old Frank Hollahan moves to Florida in 1943, at the height of World War II, to join his father, a navy seaman. When Frank and his mot...

Reducere. Description"Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroundings, association, acquaintances are changed? I conclude that it is not the person who ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ugo CorteIllustration(s): 10 halftonesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...