The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier - Ian Urbina

'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a rive...

Contemporary lawlessness and criminality on the high seas are explored in this casting of light on to piracy, smuggling, wreck theft, oil-dumping, ...

Reducere. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mys...

Reducere. One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020. Longlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize. [Mark] Gevisser is clear-eyed and wise enough to have a s...

"Feasting Wild is indeed a feast--a memorable, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure, love and loss."--Elizabeth Kolbert, New Y...

Discover the epic journeys of the sea swallow and the humpback whale as they share the challenge of one of the longest and most dangerous migration...

'Coffin roads' are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This ...

Reducere. In August 1970, David Biale, a 21-year-old American Jewish student, arrived at Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in Israel's Bet She'an Valley as a volunteer. Th...

'David Reynolds is the perfect man for the road'. The ObserverBill Bryson's The Lost Continent meets Steinbeck's Travels with Charley. A candid, hu...

A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection"An intense and illuminating travelogue... offer[ing] a corrective to the patriarchal white ga...

In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of America's new oil country on jus...

Reducere. In 1931 Grey Owl published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier, a work that is part memoir, part history of the vanishing wilderness in Ca...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mark LevineIllustration(s): 31 b-w photosNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

From Ocean City, Maryland to San Francisco, Reynolds traverses the back roads and small towns of the USA, taking the pulse of Trump's America as he...

Though separated by language, age, and an ocean, a child and grandparent find common ground in this warm, witty picture book Grandpa lives on the o...

DescriptionFor Cyrus Massoudi, a young Britishborn Iranian, the country his parents were forced to flee thirty years ago was a place wholly unknown...

Reducere. In 1971, a skyjacker with a briefcase bomb demanded a $200, 000 ransom and a parachute. Then he vanished out the jet's back door and became an inst...

Not every crayon can be the brightest, most colourful crayon in the packet. It takes a very special young squirrel to see the true potential of a c...

This book takes you back to exciting times, back when travelling meant discovering the world in a stylish and sometimes adventurous fashion. Ride t...

In this follow-on to Space Atlas (QED, 2018), readers will be taken on a journey across the waves and into the darkest deeps of the ocean. Covering...

Reducere. A comprehensive exploration of our oceans, covering geography, ecosystems, and animals through a mix of illustrations, photographs, maps, and diagr...

The authors take readers to the heart of the struggles of the outlaw women ofthe rural West, considering how poverty and gendered violence overlap ...

A journey into the experiences of incarcerated women in rural areas, revealing how location can reinforce gendered violenceIncarceration is all too...

How deep is the ocean? Little White Fish is curious. But his friends Little Goldfish, Little Turtle and Octopus warn him: the ocean is very deep an...

Reducere. Sharks, whales, huge waves, and months and months at sea - these are just a few of the things that James Adair and his friend Ben had to battle aga...

The book provides a non-specialist introduction to the reasons why we can make sense of the world around and within us, facing the oceans of comple...

Publisher: Countdown BooksAuthor(s): Ian SnowballNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 227 x 230 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softba...

This epic finale to the thrilling Mirror Chronicles trilogy sees our heroes undertake the perilous journey to Old Kemet, the place that first broke...

Reducere. The Terlingua Chili Cookbook features the sparse desert community of Terlingua, known for their infamous annual chili cook-off. Complete with recip...

Reducere. This charming concertina book follows the journey of a little ship on a voyage across the sea. Folding out to nearly 8 feet, children can look at a...

Reducere. Take a journey to the last frontier to explore the lives of Molly and Millie Moose in their community. Follow Molly and Millie through their habita...

This concertina book follows the journey of a little ship on a voyage across the sea. Folding out to nearly 2.5 metres, children can look at all th...

Part of The World in a Life series, this brief, inexpensive text provides insight into the life of slave soldier Malik Ambar. Malik Ambar: Power an...

Reducere. It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn't do...

Can Sonic outrun a disease that turns everyone into robotic zombies? The world has fallen to the Metal Virus, a manufactured plague that transforms...

A fascinating biography of the poetry of Clive James

If you want to discover the captivating life of Jesse James, then keep reading...In the minds of many Americans, the name of Jesse James and the Wi...

If you want to discover the captivating life of Jesse James, then keep reading...In the minds of many Americans, the name of Jesse James and the Wi...

Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co IncIllustration(s): Approx. 100 illustrations (75 in full color); Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pag...

Reducere. Join author Robert Goldstein and his wife, Melinda Denson, on a seemingly idyllic trip to celebrate his retirement by traversing Canada on the remn...

Three-time Spur Award winner Max McCoy combines fast-paced action, frontier history, and powerful family drama in this epic saga of life, love, and...

Five Photons explains what we know about the Universe through five different journeys of light across space and time.

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. It i...

New B-format paperback - The first book to show that during the era of Wild West, the most dangerous place to be was in the Wilder East, far from t...

Description**The National Bestseller** From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu, a fascinating, wild, and wonder-filled...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Graham DominyNumber of pages: 320Collection: History of Military OccupationPublication date: 2016...

Reducere. Tularosa--sun-scorched, sandblasted, merciless--the parched desert where everything, from cactus to cowman, carries a weapon of some sort, and the ...

Reducere. There's many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let publi...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It has often been said t...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating history of a contested frontier, where struggles over landownership brought Native Americans and English colonists togethe...