To Sea & Back: The Heroic Life of the Atlantic Salmon, Paperback - Richard Shelton

DescriptionCombining exquisite natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, a portrait of a fish whosestory is closely...

Reducere. Audie Murphy, the son of an itinerant Texas farmhand, was born in 1925. The teenager enlisted in the US Army in 1942. At that time, he stood 5' 6" ...

Reducere. I'm Staying with My Boys is a firsthand look inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Basilone held off ...

Four young men in a tiny lifeboat brave a dreadful storm to save dozens of lives in this illustrated chapter book adaptation (for readers 6-9) of t...

About the AuthorBradford Burns, a longtime fisheries activist, has served as a national board and executive committee member of the Coastal Conserv...

Reducere. September 11, 2001 was a black day in U.S. history. Amid the chaos, sea captains and crews raced by boat to the tragic Manhattan scene. Nearly 500,...

Reducere. This adaptation for young readers of The Finest Hours: The True Story of the US Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue by Michael J. Tougias and Case...

Reducere. On the night of February 18, 1952, during one of the worst winter storms that New England has ever seen, two oil tankers just off the shore of Cape...

Reducere. The basis of the film starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood, The Outpost is the heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of America's deadliest...

Reducere. It is traditional to think we should praise Abraham for his willingness to sacrifice his son as proof of his love for God. But have we misread the ...

Reducere. Two years into her new life in Cornwall, and while Alice Griffiths' own romantic hopes have been dashed, it appears that whichever way she looks, h...

Reducere. In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working clas...

Publisher: Penguin Random House AustraliaAuthor(s): Richard FlanaganNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 24Cover type:...

In this book, the authors seek not only to explain how this document came into being -bits of it being scrawled out on scraps of paper over dinner ...

Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, Paperback

A compelling and beautifully written exploration of the topic which breaks all taboos: assisted deathPublisher: Atlantic BooksAuthor(s): Katie Enge...

Retraces author's life and her transformation from a post-office clerk who left school at fourteen to a sophisticated professional writer. Revealin...

Reducere. Billy Frank Jr. was an early participant in the fight for tribal fishing rights during the 1960s. Roughed up, belittled, and handcuffed on the rive...

The name "Aleister Crowley" instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences--and while the sardonic Crowley would perha...

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

Reducere. Written by two of the Southeast's foremost authorities on sea turtle conservation, this is an accessible, fully illustrated guide to the species th...

This is the first biographical account in book form of the Rev. Edwin Heron Dodgson (1846-1918), brother of Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson). Sources ...

Reducere. Written by West Point graduate and former military intelligence officer Fr. Michael J. Cerrone, this historical biography details the exploits of J...

Reducere. The California condor has been described as a bird "with one wing in the grave."Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds t...

Reducere. The inspiring story of New York Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal JudgeHis death certificate bears the number one. As chaplain to the Fire Dep...

Reducere. The backcountry of west central Idaho and eastern Oregon has some of the better winter and spring flying opportunities found anywhere in the Northw...

An easy-to-use and highly effective practical guide to using the Alexander Technique to alleviate back and neck pain by the foremost expert in the ...

Reducere. From Mark Slouka, San Francisco Chronicle: Ken Lamberton would like you to believe his book, Wilderness and Razor Wire, '' is about the smell of cr...

Reducere. This beautifully illustrated guide covers an unprecedented range of species that may be sighted along the coastline or offshore by the whale watche...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Reducere. What starts as loving, compassionate care becomes an isolating, stressful, never-ending race to get everything done. Inevitably, anger and resentme...

Reducere. "Age-old wisdom presented in a practical, easy to understand manner that can be utilized by everyone."--Bernie Siegel, M. D., author of Love, Medic...