epub |eng | | Author:Jane Maufe

We were beginning to head back to Petersburg now, and our next call was forty miles beyond, which brought us round to Cannery Cove in Pybus Bay on the southeast ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marguerite Henry

THE LABRADOR, KING OF RETRIEVERS ON THE FAR-OFF ISLAND OF Newfoundland there was once a big breed of black dogs used as fishermen’s helpers. They swam from ship to shore, ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Chris Santella

* * * REGGIE CRIST’S career goal is to ski as much powder as humanly possible. He was a member of the U.S. Ski Team for ten years and is ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Tim Jarvis

Picture of focus: me during the storm. Emerging on deck to steer in rough seas was like being in the passenger seat of a car, woken from deep sleep by ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Chic Scott

South Trails The south trails meander through sparse forests, allowing for plenty of views of the surrounding mountains. Most of the southern trails are flat and do not provide the ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-10 | Author:John Harrison [John Harrison]

The season was growing late, and they were anxious to push south, leaving Laurie Island at noon to steam south west; by 21:00 they were laid to, in heavy ice. ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-05 | Author:Aaron Linsdau [Linsdau, Aaron]

DAYS 25-34 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012, DAY 25 THE SLEDS HAVE RECEIVED names based on their personalities, Charlie Red and Charlie Blue. The colors were for the sled bags. They ...

azw3 |eng | 2016-02-01 | Author:Moderow, Debbie Clarke [Moderow, Debbie Clarke]

In the end Mark completes Copper Basin, but it isn’t pretty. He stops for ten minutes at Tolsona, twenty miles from the finish, to go inside and fix a failing ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Dodds, Klaus [Dodds, Klaus]

* * * India and the ‘question of Antarctica’ We are not challenging anybody’s rights there [in Antarctica]. But it has become important that the matter be considered by the ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Comeaux, Jennifer [Comeaux, Jennifer]

Chapter Nine THE SKATERS’ LOUNGE BACKSTAGE AT THE arena had been filled with tension all week, but now with the competition over, it had become party central. There were a ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Wendy Trusler & Carol Devine [Trusler, Wendy & Devine, Carol]

JANUARY 25, 1996 Made dinner tonight for base commander Zuniga, Doctor Rolando and Felipe the young heli pilot just in from Punta Arenas. A real home with running hot water, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Kilian, Jornet [Kilian, Jornet]

DAY 3 The alarm rings at 5:50 a.m. What on earth am I doing here? Why didn’t I go for a “normal” run rather than torturing my body like this? ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

WILLIAM EDWARD PARRY was given the task of finding a passage to Asia by the British Admiralty. The Napoleonic wars in Europe had ended, and Trafalgar, having grown bored, asked ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mike Horn

5 The End of the Earth ON A SNOWY SUNDAY MORNING, I entered the empty streets of “Cam” as if I were walking into a ghost town. One building served ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-06 | Author:Kari Herbert

12. Eva Nansen | A Man in a Million Poor him, he will come too late. —EVA NANSEN On October 10, 1893, Fridtjof Nansen came down with a fever. Confined ...