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Wicked Terre Haute by Tim Crumrin
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Tim Crumrin

A HAUTEAN ROGUES’ GALLERY Ralston “Blackie” Linton was born in Mississippi and became a pretty good bank robber after moving to Terre Haute. On November 6, 1923, he and a ...
( Category: United States March 19,2020 )
The lion and the elephant by University of California Libraries
epub |eng | 2018-07-08 | Author:University of California Libraries

which, as coming from the pen of one who probably saw more than most men, of the animals therein spoken of, will not improbably interest both the naturalist and sportsman. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 19,2020 )
Wings Around the World by Polly Vacher
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:Polly Vacher

The MSR stove doubled as an engine heater which I regularly practised using so that I could quickly set it up in Antarctica. The fuel problem which had been niggling ...
( Category: Women in History March 19,2020 )
Ponce de Leon by Frederic Ober
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Frederic Ober [Ober, Frederic]

The Governor Builds a Castle 1511 The governor was not constantly in the field during the conquest of Boriquen, but only occasionally, when his presence was necessary to inspirit the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 19,2020 )
How I Found Livingstone by Henry M. Stanley
epub |eng | | Author:Henry M. Stanley [Stanley, Henry M.]

CHAPTER XI THROUGH UKAWENDI, UVINZA, AND UHHA, TO UJIJI Happy auspices,--Ant-hills.--The water-shed of the Tanganika Lion. --The king of Kasera.--The home of the lion and the leopard.-- A donkey frightens ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 19,2020 )
The Lure of the Labrador Wild by Dillon Wallace
epub |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Dillon Wallace

XII. THE BEGINNING OF THE RETREAT Upon reaching the mainland we stopped to assort and dry our baggage. All of us felt we had entered upon a race against starvation, ...
( Category: General Canada Travel Books March 19,2020 )
Legends of the Middle Ages by H. A. Guerber
epub |eng | 2012-06-15 | Author:H. A. Guerber

CHAPTER XI. TITUREL AND THE HOLY GRAIL. [Sidenote: Origin of the legend.] The most mystical and spiritual of all the romances of chivalry is doubtless the legend of the Holy ...
( Category: Medieval March 19,2020 )
Ernest's Way by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes
epub |eng | | Author:Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

Land’s End Marina (formerly Thompson’s Docks) and Turtle Kraals Key West Bight, 201 William Street. The Thompson family owned a fleet of fishing boats docked at their marina, and it ...
( Category: Authors March 19,2020 )
O Joy for Me by Davidson Keir;
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Davidson, Keir;

A wonderful passage that captures the mystery, fleeting and otherworldly effects of light and Coleridge’s fascination with what he has witnessed. At this moment the fog ‘closed over the Lake’, ...
( Category: Running & Jogging March 19,2020 )
Antarctica's Lost Aviator by Jeff Maynard
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Jeff Maynard

So you are preparing to have a baby. Ah hah. So that’s it. Well I have with me four books about the habits and complaints of women—thought I had better ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 18,2020 )
The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks by Sir Joseph Banks
epub |eng | 2012-06-13 | Author:Sir Joseph Banks

January 1770 1770 January 1. The new year began with more moderate weather than the old one ended with, but wind as foul as ever. We venturd to go a ...
( Category: Historical Geography March 18,2020 )
Sky Island Being the Further Exciting Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill After Their Visit to the Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum
epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:L. Frank Baum [Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)]

What a wicked thing to do!" wailed the parrot; and they all agreed with him. Coralie belonged to the Sunset Tribe, as she lived west of the queen's palace, which ...
( Category: Classics March 18,2020 )
African Brew Ha Ha by Alan Whelan
epub |eng | 2011-07-29 | Author:Alan Whelan

‘Well, no, it won’t fly but...’ I am loath to correct him. ‘Will you go down this road?’ He asks with a mature, troubled expression. ‘That’s the idea.’ ‘But there ...
( Category: Friendship March 18,2020 )
Walk in Their Shoes by Jim Ziolkowski
epub |eng | | Author:Jim Ziolkowski

CHAPTER 8 Rayia’s Smile With the birth of Jack and my father’s long illness, I could no longer work sixty to seventy hours a week or travel across the globe ...
( Category: Philanthropy & Charity March 17,2020 )
Book 2 by Unknown
epub |eng | 2016-09-26 | Author:Unknown

ACT TWO Scene One Mitford’s office, divisional HQ. GENERAL MITFORD is reading very long casualty lists. MITFORD Renwick B… Reynolds F… Reynolds P… Richards J… Richards M… Richards T… Richardson ...
( Category: Family Life March 17,2020 )

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