The Wreckers. A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships, Paperback - Bella Bathurst

From the bestselling author of 'The Lighthouse Stevensons', a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the 18th-century - and the...

Reducere. In this third book in a series on the history of the Florida Keys, John Viele tells the true story of the Florida Keys wreckers, the daring seamen ...

Reducere. "Bathurst is a restless, curious writer... After reading this book, I found myself listening in a richer and more interested way." -- Guardian A pr...

A heartfelt memoir about an astonishing personal journey from hearing to deafness and back again. Drawing on information from sign language experts...

An exciting new edition of Bella Bathurst's epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson's ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses a...

Reducere. From hermitages on wind-blasted holms to dour nineteenth-century preaching barns; from a splendid cathedral founded by a Norse earl to a Nissen hut...

You may have heard of ships. You may have also heard of the sea and the night. But did you realize there's nothing more beautiful than a ship and i...

Reducere. Snow-covered trees, twinkling lights and sleighs - these remind us of Christmas. But what about sunlit hills, an ancient lighthouse or a wooden shi...

DescriptionNapoleon has won the Battle of Waterloo and England is under French occupation. A half-drowned girl washes up on a Cornish beach, escapi...

What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): Bella BathurstNumber of pages: 240Publica...

Publisher: Belle Media LtdIllustration(s): 80 photographsNumber of pages: 80Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 217 x 286 x 13Cover type: HardbackRed...

Reducere. It was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world. In January 1998, in t...

Reducere. The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the...

Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the compan...

What does it take to make a living from the land in modern Britain?

Reducere. A Fresh Look at 4, 000 Years of Jewish History--Authoritative, Complete...Funny Through witty, illustrated narrative, celebrated artist Stan Mack w...

This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England.

Publisher: Poetry Wales PressAuthor(s): Stephen GlascoeNumber of pages: 260Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 134 x 208 x 29Cover type: Paperback / ...

The sea has played an important part in shaping Britain's identity, and the country has long needed to look outwards, not inwards, for its trade an...

For 6, 557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a continent.Publisher: Fa...

Oceans feed us and affect our climate. With climate change, pollution, and overfishing, our oceans are at risk as never before. Yet we are only jus...

The author offers a bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges the existi...

"Every good giving and every perfect gift is from on high, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turn...

Discover the "fascinating and outrageously readable" account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended i...

David Wilson uncovers the truth behind Peter Farquhar's murder, and the psychopath who almost got away with it.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupA...

Reducere. Lights for Teresa: Based on a Real Story of Abduction and RecoveryBy: John CobaltThis book is based on the true story of a father who against all o...

Life was hard, but her talent and dedication shone through and an astonishing journey ensued, which saw Gillian dancing a triumphant debut in Swan ...

Reducere. In the early 1800s John Bell moved his family from North Carolina to the rich bottom lands along the Red River in Robertson County, Tennessee. Bell...

Reducere. Crime writer Harrison Weaver doesn't believe in coincidences-only messages that may not be decipherable at first. That's his feeling when, as he pr...

Reducere. From a small Christian school in Oklahoma to the White House Situation Room to becoming the most feared polygraph operator in the country, Doug Wil...

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. Can Christmas lights really talk? Do they have personalities and feelings In this fun, easy to read book, The Story of the Christmas Lights, meet S...

Reducere. Young Alphonsus Cohenburg enters his mother's bedroom and finds her covered in blood. She tells him his uncle has murdered his father, and orders h...

Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas - told by a direct desce...

Based on exclusive, fresh reporting, the thrilling, definitive inside story of the pursuit, capture, and killing of legendary South Boston mob boss...

Reducere. Sudden Widow, A True Story of Love, Grief, Recovery, and How Badly It Can Suck is a book for widows/widowers and everyone in their lives, to help t...

The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text--for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere Fantastic Creatures of the Moun...

Reducere. One of our country's premier cultural and social critics, bell hooks has always maintained that eradicating racism and eradicating sexism must go h...

Reducere. DescriptionBeginning in 1968 and continuing into the 1970s, a predator stalked California and New York, torturing, raping and murdering young girls...