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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

azw3 | | | Author:Sarah Murgatroyd

epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Laurens Van Der Post [Laurens van der Post]

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...