epub |eng | 2008-02-17 | Author:Kevin Rushby

9 Marooned O my America, my new found land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned, My mine of precious stones, my empery, How blessed am I in this ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1996-03-01 | Author:Alec MacLellan

The Legend of Agharti – as presented by Ray Palmer in Amazing Stories, May, 1946. Disclosing the existence of this tunnel in her matter-of-fact way, Madame Blavatsky almost conceals from ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Fridtjof Nansen

CHAPTER XI. WE MAKE A START. “TUESDAY, February 26th. At last the day has arrived, the great day, when the journey is to commence. The week has passed in untiring ...

azw3, pdf |eng | 2019-04-01 | Author:Steven Strogatz [Strogatz, Steven]

The Holy Grail of Integral Calculus As I’ve tried to make clear, the fundamental theorem doesn’t fully solve the area problem. It provides information about the rate at which the ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Matthew Flinders

Sailors do get time off. Matt thought this important. He organised dancing to the fife and drum on the forecastle on fine evenings and, as he puts it, ‘did not ...

epub |eng | 1987-01-15 | Author:Martin Amis [Amis, Martin]

* * * Postscript In agreeing to the interview Mr Vidal had armed himself with the stipulation that he would be able to see and check the piece before it ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Fergus Fleming

CHARTING THE ANTARCTIC James Clark Ross (1839–43) Since Antarctica had been circumnavigated, first by James Cook in 1773 and then by Thaddeus Bellingshausen in 1820, naval and scientific circles had ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-06-23 | Author:Brien Foerster

Finely shaped vase that clearly was made on a lathe As we see in the photo above and next page, there is a very even crease near the lip of ...

epub |eng | 2003-11-15 | Author:Herman Melville [Melville, Herman]

CHAPTER 71 The Jeroboam’s Story Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock. By and ...

epub |eng | 1492-01-01 | Author:Christopher Columbus [Columbus, Christopher]

CHAPTER 55 The Admiral discovers the island of Jamaica ON Saturday, 3 May, the Admiral decided to go from Cuba to Jamaica, not wanting to pass this island without discovering ...

epub, mobi, pdf, pdf |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Marco Polo

SIX From China to India Now since we have told you about so many regions of the mainland as you have heard, we will leave all that behind and make ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Tuckey, Harriet [Tuckey, Harriet]

So please send me assurance (a) that you will see that my position and work for the expedition are properly recognised, and (b) that I am referred to not as ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-19 | Author:Geoff Tibballs [Tibballs, Geoff]

When the ship first struck, none of us dreamed of the danger we faced. All who had been asleep after the first rush to the decks returned to their cabins ...

epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Slocum

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Candice Millard [Millard, Candice]

CHAPTER 19 The Wide Belts BY ROUGHLY TWO MILLION years ago, humans had spread out of Africa and into Europe and Asia. Hundreds of thousands of years later, they migrated ...