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William Bligh's account of the fatal voyage of the bounty, and his subsequent 3, 600-mile trip to Timor in an open boat. Bligh was not the tyrant of legend--in fact, he may have been one of the most lenient commanders of a Pacific exploration ship of that period.

A 2, 600 mile voyage in 1875 from Pittsburgh to Florida down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in a 12 foot duck hunting boat called a Barnegat Bay Sneak Box."This curious and staunch little craft, though only 12 feet in length, proved a most comfortable and serviceable home while the author rowed it more than 2, 600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, until he reached the mouth of the wild Suwa...

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In this deeply touching tear-jerker, Michelle Cole tells the unforgettable, moving story, of avibrant, courageous young girl, who helps change another young girl's life, forever. Lilla Belle the First Stages, isn't just great fiction, it is an important piece of life!

This narrative gives a rare glimpse inside the mind of the wife of a former Confederate officer and shows with a simple sincerity what life was like for many Southern women during the human tragedy of the Civil War.

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Hassall built himself a trimaran and headed west from California with a new wife and an 11-year-old son.

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Historical documentation and pictures intertwine with John's war experience and nightmares. How it affected John, his parents, wife and children. US info on Blood Drives, recycling, rations, the draft and production of war materials. Cecilienhof Palace and Reichstag historically detailed.

In this deeply touching tear-jerker, Michelle Cole tells the unforgettable, moving story, of avibrant, courageous young girl, who helps change another young girl's life, forever. Lilla Belle the First Stages, isn't just great fiction, it is an important piece of life!

In this deeply touching tear-jerker, Michelle Cole tells the unforgettable, moving story, of avibrant, courageous young girl, who helps change another young girl's life, forever. Lilla Belle the First Stages, isn't just great fiction, it is an important piece of life!

In 1869, Ismail Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, appointed Samuel White as governor general of Sudan. This is White's story of his experiences trying to defeat slave trade and open routes for commerce.

Hudson Stuck was the Episcopalian Archdeacon of the Yukon. With three companions he made the first ascent of Mt. McKinley-the 20, 320 foot tall sount summit of Denali. They statrted in March, arrived at the approaches in April, and by May they were at their base camp, where a late storm kept them in their tents for three weeks readig Shakespeare, history, theology, philisophy, and science. They reached the summit near mid-day on June 7, 1913.

A beautiful narrative by a young anthropologist of the first automobile expedition across the Sahara in 1925.

Author's cruise from October 1912 through June 1913 with his son and cat aboard a catboat from Massachusetts to Florida and back.

Stanley had a remarkable American military career. He started in 1853 by surveying a railroad route along the 35th parallel, and fighting the Cheyenne on Solomon's Fork and the Comanche near Fort Arbuckle. At the start of the Civil War he turned down a Confederate commission and led Federal troops in dozens of battles, including most of the battles in the Atlanta Campaign and the defense of Nashville. After the war he led the Yellowstone exped...

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This is a very personal, literate, often very funny story of the West in the 1930s just as it was changing from an open territory to the settled land it is now. Ms. Price gave up a life as a nurse to a millionaire to travel Death Valley, Nevada, and the Arizona Strip behind a burro. The characters she meets come to life in this book: from the old prospectors, Mormon farmers, thieves, and people who would give their last bite of food to a coupl...

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