Expeditions & Discoveries
epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Synge, M. B. [Synge, M. B.]
CHAPTER XXXVII Hudson Finds His Bay HENRY HUDSON was another victim to perish in the hopeless search for a passage to China by the north. John Davis had been dead ...
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Exploration & Discovery
December 29,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Fredrik Sjoberg [Sjoberg, Fredrik]
Klyuchevskaya rages upward towards the sky. It’s as if she knows herself to be the world’s greatest volcano and therefore longs to reach still higher; as if she were furious ...
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Insects & Spiders
December 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Julie Summers [Summers, Julie]
A selection of bills from Sandy’s collection showing equipment he purchased for the expedition When I read the reference to camp equipment I really began to get a feeling for ...
( Category:
History of Sports
December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Henry I. Shaw [Shaw, Henry I.]
More than 200 Japanese soldiers alone were killed in a frenzied attack in the sandspit where the Tenaru River flows into Ironbottom Sound (Sealark Channel). On the 9th, Whaling’s force, ...
( Category:
World War II
October 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:Cliff, Nigel [Cliff, Nigel]
Having delivered his public history lesson, Cabral was to convey another message in private. He was to request the Zamorin to banish every last Muslim from his harbors; the Portuguese ...
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Expeditions & Discoveries
August 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Robert Kurson [Kurson, Robert]
CHAPTER TEN THE ORACLES Mattera flew back to Santo Domingo after his journey to the archive in Seville, but he didn’t go on to Samaná to rejoin his team. Instead, ...
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Expeditions & Discoveries
August 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-16 | Author:Mark Adams [Adams, Mark]
CHAPTER TWENTY Triangulating Pythagoras Plato’s Academy, Athens (ca. 360 BC) If Christos Doumas was correct, the Atlantis tale was solely a literary invention, like the Cave of the Ideas, created ...
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Expeditions & Discoveries
July 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Brian Fagan
Lenten Fish Pie Pastry for a 10-inch/25-cm deep-dish double-crust pie 2 lb/1 kg flaked cooked white fish fillet. (We used tuna, poached with the skin on in roasted vegetable stock, ...
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Expeditions & Discoveries
June 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-30 | Author:Alexis S. Troubetzkoy
[T]he eyes gave them indeed no little trouble; but this they also performed with the assistance of their knife; for having ground it to a very sharp point, and heated ...
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Expeditions & Discoveries
June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-11-02 | Author:Farley Mowat
Late in the summer of 1982 Claire and I were guests aboard a Canadian ice breaker bringing an official party to Greenland to help commemorate the one thousandth anniversary of ...
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Expeditions & Discoveries
June 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1960-01-01 | Author:John Steinbeck [Steinbeck, John]
“My mule was a complainer. For a while I thought he simply didn’t like me, but I believe now that he had a sour eye for the world. With every ...
( Category:
Marine Biology
May 30,2015 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-05 | Author:Martin Dugard
• CHAPTER 20 • Gondokoro May 26, 1871 Gondokoro, the Upper Nile 730 Miles to Livingstone As he stood on the edge of the Nile, with rows and rows of ...
( Category:
Great Britain
May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-16 | Author:Felipe Fernández-Armesto [Fernández-Armesto, Felipe]
Juan Vespucci’s Planisphere, 1526, detail. The map exemplifies, and perhaps fortified, belief in a narrow New World and a passage through it from the northwest Atlantic Verrazano discovered, by his ...
( Category:
Travel
May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-02 | Author:Christopher Ward [Ward, Christopher]
HUME, ANDREW, born Dumfries 7th May 1864. Violinist, bassoonist, banjo player and composer. Pupil of M Sainton. Established in his native city as professor of the above instruments and teacher ...
( Category:
Great Britain
April 23,2015 )
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Matthew Goodman
DECEMBER 18–23, 1889 South China Sea ON BOARD THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP THAMES BOUND for Singapore, Elizabeth Bisland slept “the languorous, voluptuous sleep of the tropics.” Her stateroom had ...
( Category:
Women
April 4,2015 )
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