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by Adrian Musgrave
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Great War of 1914 - 1918 has taught the world more in geography and history than a century of ordinary education would have imparted. It has destroyed many inherited prejudices and shattered the complacency which was shackling the imagination that built up the British Empire. As peace introduces...
by Dick Cluster, Rafael Hernández
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
"Serious but easily readable. The History of Havana employs conventional documentary, written and visual sources and a variety of testimonials from throughout the world to bring to life the complex portraits and challenges of contemporary Havana." —Harry Belafonte
Since its founding...
Yellowstone National Park Tour Guide eBook
Your personal tour guide for Yellowstone travel adventure in eBook format!
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Discover the incredible highlights, history, geology & nature of Yellowstone National Park with this entertaining, educational, point-by-point Waypoint Tour complete with park insider stories & detailed tour maps. Your personal tour guide for Yellowstone travel adventure! www.waypointtours.com Waypoints...
The Bond
Two epic climbs in Alaska and a lifetime's connection between climbers
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Shortlisted: 2016 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Shortlisted: 2016 Banff Mountain Book Competition
‘It's the classic of post-war mountain writing.’ – Jim Perrin
‘Rarely do I encounter a cannot-put-down book, but Simon McCartney’s aptly titled The Bond...
A Band of Misfits
Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
With a title drought that started in New York and carried on for more than five decades after the move to the west coast, the San Francisco Giants and their fans were growing restless, waiting for a team like the 2010 roster and that one magical postseason run. The anticipation, memories, and celebrated...
A Guide to the Notorious Bars of Alaska
Revised 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
New, revised second edition! Since* A Guide to the Notorious Bars of Alaska *was first published in 2014, eight of the bars that were described in the first edition have closed their doors forever. The revised second edition includes five additional bars that meet the criteria. Also added to the...
by Natalie A. Zacek
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts - that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the...
by Jack Turner
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2009
Award-winning nature writer Jack Turner directs his attention to one of America's greatest natural treasures: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Comprised of two national parks, three national wildlife refuges, parts of six national forests, and eleven wilderness areas, Greater Yellowstone is a vast...
Havana
A Subtropical Delirium
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
A city of tropical heat, sweat, ramshackle beauty, and its very own cadence--a city that always surprises--Havana is brought to pulsing life by New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky.
Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city...
The Structure of Cuban History
Meanings and Purpose of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as...
Hating Empire Properly
The Two Indies and the Limits of Enlightenment Anticolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of
the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis
Diderot actually viewed them. This concern with multiple geographical spaces is revealed...
by Fodor's Travel Guides
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for more than 80 years.
Packed with information on more than 40 ports of call and a dozen ports of embarkation, Caribbean Cruise Ports of Call is a comprehensive guide to everything from sightseeing...
by Fred Stanniford
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Our illustrated travel guide will take you to the U.S. Virgin Islands, an unincorporated organized territory of the United States of America between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Puerto Rico.
The U.S. Virgin Islands was formerly known as the Danish...
by Brian Meeks (Editor)
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Stuart Hall, in whose honour this volume is compiled, has made significant contributions to contemporary social and political discourse. Constantly praised for his scholarly prescience, he was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and nurtured an entire...