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1493 by Charles C. Mann
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Charles C. Mann

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 7,2015 )
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh by Colley Linda
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Colley, Linda. [Colley, Linda]

‘A View of the Town of Rio Janeiro’. Pencil drawing by Alexander Buchan, 1768. Because of the bad weather it had suffered, and of not being able to refit and ...
( Category: England March 4,2015 )
The Ark Before Noah by Irving Finkel
epub |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:Irving Finkel [Finkel, Irving]

Urra Tablet XIV lists all the other animals, big and small. The structure is consistent: a head section word, on the basis of Sumerian, acts like a dictionary hyperlink. Sumerian ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 4,2015 )
Who Discovered America? : The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas (9780062236777) by Menzies Gavin; Hudson Ian
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Menzies, Gavin; Hudson, Ian

THE SUBSTANCE OF LIU GANG’S MAP Liu Gang’s map provides remarkable information about Zheng He’s voyages. A full rendering of every place-name and the nomenclature of mountains, rivers, bays, inlets, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 3,2015 )
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
epub, mobi | | 2005-10-13 | Author:David Grann [Grann, David]

Still, Holt was determined to see the expedition through, and went to Rio to collect supplies. Fawcett, meanwhile, was turning over in his mind every aspect of Holt's performance: each ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 3,2015 )
Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Hugh Thomas [Thomas, Hugh]

Book Five BALBOA AND PEDRARIAS How the Germans saw the New World. Woodcut, 1505. (Illustration credit 5.1) 24 “They took possession of all that sea” And in the presence of ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 3,2015 )
Wilfred Thesiger by Alexander Maitland
epub | | | Author:Alexander Maitland

similar, indeed, to the spiritual uplift inspired by height and space in a cathedral. As well as taking close-up portraits, Thesiger photographed Bait Kathir, Rashid and other nomadic Bedu tribes ...
( Category: Travel February 6,2015 )
Morning of Fire by Scott Ridley
epub |eng | 2010-01-28 | Author:Scott Ridley [Ridley, Scott]

AS KENDRICK’S BOAT DREW ALONGSIDE, the Columbia fired another salute, and the men gave three cheers. Here was the captain who had remained on the unknown side of the world ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding January 29,2015 )
The Nephilim Chronicles: Fallen Angels in the Ohio Valley by Zimmerman Fritz
azw3 |eng | 2010-12-24 | Author:Zimmerman, Fritz [Zimmerman, Fritz]

Ge “The Gea/Gaea word is well known, and it is the most common EMSL word if all of the phonetic variations are allowed. We hear the “ge” sound daily in ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries January 29,2015 )
The Dig Tree The Extraordinary
azw3 | | | Author:Sarah Murgatroyd

( Category: General January 6,2015 )
The Lost World of the Kalahari by Laurens Van Der Post
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Laurens Van Der Post [Laurens van der Post]

( Category: South Africa January 6,2015 )
Pirates: A History by Travers Tim
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-10 | Author:Travers, Tim [Travers, Tim]

7 Death to the Pirates In the western world of the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and along the coasts of the Americas, government forces were engaged in a concentrated campaign of ...
( Category: History December 27,2014 )
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century by Fong M.D. Kevin
mobi, pdf, epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Fong M.D., Kevin

November 2011: Me diving in the Red Sea using a vintage scuba rig of the type first seen in the 1950s. (© Michael Pitts) WATER Brace! Brace! Brace!” he shouts, ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries November 19,2014 )
La ciudad perdida de Z by David Grann
mobi |es | 2011-01-21 | Author:David Grann

17. El mundo entero está loco Fawcett había acotado la ubicación. Estaba seguro de que había encontrado pruebas de restos arqueológicos, entre ellos pasos elevados y cerámica, dispersos por el ...
( Category: South America November 11,2014 )
The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Irving Washington
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:Irving, Washington [Irving, Washington]

Appendix: Containing Illustrations and Documents. No. I. Transportation of the Remains of Columbus from St. Domingo to the Havana. At the termination of a war between France and Spain, in ...
( Category: General November 6,2014 )

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