The Vanished Texas Coast: Lost Port Towns, Mysterious Shipwrecks and Other True Tales, Paperback - Mark Lardas

Reducere. People may associate Texas with cattle drives and oil derricks, but the sea has shaped the state's history as dramatically as it has delineated its...

Reducere. More than 20 million people live in Florida, that unique land that juts off into the Atlantic. They are ranchers and golfers, sunbathers and retire...

Reducere. Although it is sometimes called a town without a history, Houston actually possesses the kind of sprawling past that includes a frontier port, a mo...

An extraordinary and highly amusing menagerie of bizarre facts and tales of the ocean from an award-winning BBC wildlife film-maker.

Reducere. The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histo...

Reducere. The USS Texas was built when dreadnought battleships were kings of the seas. It was the world s most powerful battleship when first commissioned in...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryRegional BookThe long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering ...

The Nudist on the Late Shift. And Other True Tales of Silicon Valley - Po Bronson

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Wil ElrickAlabama is a weird and wonderful place with a colorful history steeped in folk tales passed from generation to ge...

Reducere. With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners. Scores of vessels and countless lives have been lost o...

Reducere. One of the most prominent geographical features of North America, the Great Lakes played a pivotal role in the economic and industrial development ...

Reducere. DescriptionAlabama is a weird and wonderful place with a colorful history steeped in folk tales passed from generation to generation. Mysterious 19...

Reducere. Under the hot summer sun, vacationers stroll the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, chewing saltwater taffy and listening to the gulls raucous cackle. Few r...

The actress, comedian, media darling, and New York Times bestselling author picks up where she left off in Ali in Wonderland, dissecting modern lif...

An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suski...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Introduction by: Paul AusterEditor: Paul AusterThe true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American ...

In a uniquely entertaining book by a rising star, here are uncanny true tales of haunted highways, weird encounters, and legends of the road.It may...

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Roy Stokes explores the history of famous shipwrecks off the Irish Coast.

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, an...

Reducere. DescriptionNow a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-c...

DescriptionTHIS IS A SERIES OF TALES, MOSTLY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, ABOUT THE SHORT RHODESIAN COLONIAL PERIOD UP TO 1980, AFTER WHICH TIME THE COU...

DescriptionA young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the...

In September 1864, the Confederate army abandoned Atlanta and were on the verge of being driven out of the critical state of Tennessee. In an attem...

Reducere. Donald Colletti and Jimmy Pitre are forced to flee their flooded houses as Hurricane Katrina devastates their beloved city of New Orleans. But rath...

DescriptionA highly illustrated account of the first and largest fleet action between the navies of Great Britain and France during the French Revo...

MYSTERIOUS TRUE STORIES: Tales of the Unexpected - Amelia Earhart, Bermuda Triangle and Area 51 - 3 Books in 1 Featuring

Reducere. Armed with the personal notebooks of the mysterious World War II spy Theodore Morde, an adventurer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, journ...

Welcome to London, capital of the British Empire, home of the Forever Queen, Her Imperial Majesty Alexandrina Victoria, Empress of India, the Good ...

Now a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck, The Old Man and the Gun is joined by two other riveting true-crime tales ...

Reducere. The twenty-four tales in this book are of the most famous lost treasures in America, from a two-foot statue reportedly made entirely of silver (the...

Reducere. This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues, and violent adventures at the stormy mee...

A picture book of Taoist wisdom tales inspired by the ancient philosopher Chang Tzu, for children ages 5-10, beautifully illustrated with original ...