Sports & Outdoors
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-05-27 | Author:H.W. Brands

The riots gave bite to demands by the opponents of the Stamp Act for a coordinated rejection of the stamps. As few souls dared incur the wrath of the mobs, ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:S. C. Gwynne

Coho Smith captured Cynthia Ann as no one else has. Other people saw her as sullen, brooding, unresponsive, detached. Despondent. Even crazy, or at least so far sunk in savagery ...
( Category: American Civil War March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1998-11-02 | Author:Caroline Alexander

On Elephant Island The James Caird, Dudley Docker, and Stancomb Wills safely ashore at Cape Valentine, Elephant Island. The men pull the Caird to higher ground; two figures, one in ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

As the Chicago winter began to settle in, Ms. Bailey asked me to help her with a clothing drive. Tenants and squatters in her building needed winter coats, she said, ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Howard Bryant

BY PURE HAPPENSTANCE, it was Jackie Robinson who indirectly wound up being responsible for Henry’s half century of loyalty to the Democratic party. For years, Henry had sought to pattern ...
( Category: Baseball March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Shaquille O'Neal; Jackie Macmullan

2002 Los Angeles, California Shaquille O’Neal was in training, but not for a fourth NBA championship. For years he had been enrolled in the Los Angeles Police Academy, a challenging ...
( Category: Basketball March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Christopher McDougall

CHAPTER 23 WE WHEEZED into Creel well after nightfall, the bus shuddering to a stop with a hiss from the brakes like a sigh of relief. Outside the window, I ...
( Category: Native American Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-08-04 | Author:Nicholas Pileggi

* * * LINDA: I first met Henry when Peter Vario started to see my roommate, Veralynn. Henry and I met, and we just hit it off. We both liked ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Bob Friel

ONE OF THE PEOPLE Colt kept in touch with while he was on the lam was Josh, who remained behind the fence at Green Hill. “He started calling here, asking ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2003-09-14 | Author:David Pietrusza

ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN COULD EASILY HAVE walked away from gambling and loan-sharking and entered the world of legitimate business. In 1912 he was offered a $25,000-per year position as a stockbroker. ...
( Category: Crime & Criminals March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Jim Davidson; Kevin Vaughan

KNEELING OVER MIKE, I stare at his rumpled jacket, unsure of what to do. A question rings loudly in my mind: Where are we? I stand tentatively to look around. ...
( Category: Mountain Climbing March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1899-01-02 | Author:Joshua Slocum; Dennis A. Berthold

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 ...
( Category: Classics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Graham Bowley

CHAPTER THIRTEEN 3 a.m. Marco Confortola had waded alone along the sloping snowfield from the top of K2. After more than an hour, he had seen headlamps in a line ...
( Category: Travel March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-11-26 | Author:Ranulph Fiennes

13 Sorry Straits Trying to plan and organise two expeditions at the same time is something I have usually avoided, but whilst I was training for the solo Antarctic crossing ...
( Category: Rich & Famous March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 1997-01-02 | Author:Jon Krakauer

“Who could resist? And Chris knew it. He’d have this look on his face like ‘I’m damn cute! Want to buy some beans?’ By the time he came home, the ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 25,2014 )