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Daredevils of the Atlantic Ocean" chronicles the exploits of a relatively new breed of adventurers and fortune-seekers who sometimes succeed and sometimes fail at crossing the Atlantic Ocean in all sorts of unlikely vessels and contraptions, including a few who even tried to swim across. Some were powered by motors, some by sails, currents, or just raw human power and athletic stamina. Many were outlandish attempts that only a madman could hav...

Understand the British coast by exploring, in full colour, how the forces of nature created its physical features, discovering the unique plants, animals and other organisms that keep the coast alive, and examining how humans have used the coast for defence, commerce and leisure. The final part allows you to explore these elements wherever you are.

Fascinating...adds many interesting details to what we know of the President's heritage."--David Remnick, TheNewYorker.comOn January 20, 2009, a few hundred men, women, and children gathered under trees in the twilight at K'obama, a village on the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya. Barack Obama's rise to the American presidency had captivated people around the world, but members of this gathering took a special pride in the swearing in ...

Discovering the New World in an entirely new way

He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith¿s life.Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how in 1607 she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith¿s l...

L'8 giugno 1924 gli alpinisti inglesi George Mallory e Andrew Irvine lasciano la loro tenda sulla parete nord dell'Everest e cominciano l'ascensione verso la vetta più alta del mondo, ancora inviolata. Attorno a mezzogiorno vengono avvistati a 240 metri dalla cima, ma poco dopo scompaiono, inghiottiti da una bufera di neve. Che cosa ne è stato di loro? Sono stati costretti a desistere o hanno portato a termine la loro impresa, precedendo di ve...

The astonishing story of Barack Obama's Kenyan roots, "The Obamas" is the product of dozens of interviews with Obama's African relatives, presented by the first person to trace Obama's family history back 400 years and 23 generations. 12 b&w, photos.

Peter Firstbrook spent many months in Kenya researching the history of Barack Obama's family. This book establishes the early ancestry of the Obama family in the Alego region, telling the story of farmers and fishermen, of love and tribal warfare, of families lost and found. It traces the Obama roots from famous tribal warriors in the seventeenth century to the first encounters with the white man in the early 1900s, generation by generation we...