Expeditions & Discoveries
epub |deu | 2013-06-01 | Author:Thor Heyerdahl [Heyerdahl,Thor]

Watzinger und seine Beute. Von allen Fischen, die uns im Stillen Ozean begegnen, schmecken die Bonitos am besten. Manchmal kommen sie sogar freiwillig. „Haugland, halt dich fest!" Achteraus an der ...
( Category: General November 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 1992-10-15 | Author:Loewen, James W. [Loewen, James W.]

Lies My Teacher Told Me 6. John Brown and Abraham Lincoln: The Invisibility of... Perhaps the most telling criticism Frances FitzGerald made in her 1979 survey of American history textbooks, ...
( Category: Arts & Humanities October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-05-20 | Author:Candice Millard

THAT NIGHT, after the men, now numbering only twenty-one, had finished their portage around the last waterfall, they retired to their tents and hammocks. Hunched over his small table, Roosevelt ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents September 29,2014 )
mobi | | | Author:1493

( Category: Colonial Period September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-11 | Author:Edward Dolnick

High in the mountains, mission nearly accomplished, the gold-seekers paused for breath. Langworthy was drunk on scenery and accomplishment. “Bewildered and lost amidst the boundless expanse,” he gazed in awe ...
( Category: State & Local September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-23 | Author:Sarah Murgatroyd

John King grew up during the years of the Great Famine in a thatched whitewashed cottage in the village of Moy, County Tyrone. To ensure he escaped a life of ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries September 10,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2002-03-18 | Author:Sarah Murgatroyd

John King grew up during the years of the Great Famine in a thatched whitewashed cottage in the village of Moy, County Tyrone. To ensure he escaped a life of ...
( Category: General September 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-12 | Author:Tim Flannery

WILLIAM WALL Bad Is the Bush, 1844 William Wall, Irish ‘Collector and Preserver’ at the Australian Museum, lacked the stiff upper lip so often encountered in explorers’ writings. In 1844 ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries September 10,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1998-09-15 | Author:Tim Flannery

WILLIAM WALL Bad Is the Bush, 1844 William Wall, Irish ‘Collector and Preserver’ at the Australian Museum, lacked the stiff upper lip so often encountered in explorers’ writings. In 1844 ...
( Category: Australia & New Zealand September 10,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-08-17 | Author:Gary Kinder

* * * AT ABOUT SIX hundred feet, the deep ocean squeezes out the last particle of natural light, and below that everything moves in blackness. The SeaMARC flew through ...
( Category: History August 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Douglas Preston [Preston, Douglas]

Walter on his horse Pedernal. Photo Douglas Preston. We continued along the dirt road, climbing steeply, winding back and forth, up one mountainside after another. As we climbed our feelings ...
( Category: State & Local July 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Mitchell Zuckoff [Zuckoff, Mitchell]

Chapter 19 “SHOO, SHOO BABY” THEIR STOMACHS EMPTY and growling, Walter and his team awoke early to a breakfast of hot water and hope. His top priority was receiving a ...
( Category: Aviation March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Gavin Menzies [Menzies, Gavin]

After establishing the settlements, the junks would have set sail. How desolate the crew and concubines left ashore must have felt, watching the great red sails unfurl and fill with ...
( Category: Expeditions & Discoveries March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Buddy Levy [Levy, Buddy]

* The mouth of the Madeira, at its confluence with the Amazon, is more than five hundred miles from the Atlantic Ocean. * Historian Antonio de Herrera says that this ...
( Category: Central America March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-01 | Author:Christopher Cokinos

THERE’S ANOTHER REASON FOR the frenzy: A self-described “long-haired rock and roller” with a mailbox shaped like a rocket and a persona as subtle as a fireball. Robert Haag—The Meteorite ...
( Category: Comets, Meteors & Asteroids March 25,2014 )