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Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-02-12 | Author:Mike Dash

In the meantime, the commandeur continued his interrogation of the prisoners. Pelsaert was legally bound, under Dutch law, to administer justice as quickly as possible, and to that end he ...
( Category: World March 25,2014 )
Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-01-27 | Author:Barbara Demick

CHAPTER 11 WANDERING SWALLOWS Boys at a North Korean market. IN HER FREQUENT VISITS TO THE CHONGJIN TRAIN STATION, Mrs. Song probably crossed paths with a boy wearing an indigo ...
( Category: Asian American Studies March 25,2014 )
Wreck of the Carl D. by Michael Schumacher
mobi |eng | 2009-11-16 | Author:Michael Schumacher

Marlys Mays is prepared neither for the news that her husband is one of the two survivors or for the rush of reporters turning up at her front doorstep. Before ...
( Category: Midwest March 25,2014 )
The great American steamboat race: the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee and the climax of an era by Benton Rain Patterson
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-05-13 | Author:Benton Rain Patterson

Stairway leading up from a typical steamboat’s boiler deck, the deck above its main deck, to the hurricane deck, or promenade deck. At right in this photograph is the purser’s, ...
( Category: Transportation March 25,2014 )
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

The Whisper of Necessity BEFORE THEY LEFT Henderson Island, Chase loaded a flat stone and an armful of firewood into each boat. That first evening back on the water, as ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season by Peter Nichols
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Peter Nichols

Eleven The Ships and the Men William Fish Williams’s childhood homes, the ships Florida, Hibernia, and Monticello, were more alike than any three houses in a small suburban neighborhood. The ...
( Category: Engineering March 25,2014 )
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure by Julian Smith
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Julian Smith

Ewart Grogan Gertrude Watt, the inspiration for Grogan’s legendary transcontinental trek Grogan’s sketch of Arthur “Harry” Sharp, his companion for part of the journey Grogan fumbling for his 4-bore rifle ...
( Category: African-American & Black March 25,2014 )
Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea by Steven Callahan
mobi, epub |eng | 1986-01-02 | Author:Steven Callahan

The Tupperware box is twice as effective as a rain collector when I rig it up on top of the raft. The bridle that secures it to Ducky's stern can ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
The Airplane by Jay Spenser
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jay Spenser

9 FLIGHT DECK COCKPITS FOR AERIAL SHIPS Deep into the darkness peering; long I stood there wondering, fearing… —“THE RAVEN” BY EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809–1849) As human beings built their ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )
The Box by Marc Levinson
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Marc Levinson

Chapter 10 Ports in a Storm The Coastwise Steamship Company had been created to serve the paper industry. Since the 1930s, its ships had picked up rolls of newsprint from ...
( Category: Industrial Design March 25,2014 )
FDR by Jean Edward Smith
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2007-05-15 | Author:Jean Edward Smith

NINETEEN ON THE BRINK What America does or fails to do in the next few years has a far greater bearing and influence on the history of the whole human ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Candice Millard

PART FOUR TORTURED FOR THE REPUBLIC • CHAPTER 16 • NEITHER DEATH NOR LIFE I love to believe that no heroic sacrifice is ever lost, that the characters of men ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
The First American by H.W. Brands
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-05-27 | Author:H.W. Brands

The riots gave bite to demands by the opponents of the Stamp Act for a coordinated rejection of the stamps. As few souls dared incur the wrath of the mobs, ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes

10. The Diamond Time keeper The cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night. ...
( Category: Geography March 25,2014 )
Cruising Attitude by Heather Poole
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-29 | Author:Heather Poole

Chapter 10 Flying Freak Show DREAMS REALLY DO come true, I thought to myself after a male flight attendant walked on board and announced that the agent had told him ...
( Category: Commercial March 25,2014 )

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