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by Douglas Steakley
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
An exciting series that combines wanderlust with the art of photography.
The rugged Big Sur coastline is one of the most photogenic in the world. Th e route along Highway 1 dips down to pristine beaches and climbs precariously high above the Pacific, offering sweeping panoramic views. There...
Cuban Revelations
Behind the Scenes in Havana
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the twenty-first century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A U.S.-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in...
Backpacking Oregon
From Rugged Coastline to Mountain Meadow
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2007
In Oregon, backpackers can hike wild beaches, enjoy colorful desert canyonlands, walk amid stunning granite peaks, relax in wildflower meadows, and circle glacier-clad mountains. Award-winning guidebook author and longtime Oregon resident Douglas Lorain details 30 spectacular backpacking trips in...
by Eleanor L. Pray
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years � from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin�s rule � she wrote more than 2,000 letters chronicling her family life...
Empire of Blue Water
Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody Reign
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
He challenged the greatest empire on earth with a ragtag bunch of renegades—and brought it to its knees. Empire of Blue Water is the real story of the pirates of the Caribbean.Henry Morgan, a twenty-year-old Welshman, crossed the Atlantic in 1655, hell-bent on making his fortune. Over the next three...
The Republic of Pirates
Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Down
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2008
The untold story of a heroic band of Caribbean pirates whose defiance of imperial rule inspired revolt in colonial outposts across the world
In the early eighteenth century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy,...
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom--and Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2008
In this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of the fifteenth century, many Jews had to flee Spain and Portugal. The most adventurous among them took...
Pirate Hunters
Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers
Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But...
by Jowel C. Laguerre, Cecile Accilien
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
The essential terms you need to communicate with the nation’s 8-plus million Haitian Creole speakers
If you are travelling to Haiti to help with the relief effort or to aid in its rebuilding, Haitian Creole Phrasebook is your must-have resource. In addition to featuring content specifically...
Alaska
Saga of a Bold Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold!";...
Where the Water Goes
Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An eye-opening account of where our water comes from and where it all goes.
The Colorado River is an essential resource for a surprisingly large part of the United States, and every gallon that flows down it is owned or claimed by someone. David Owen traces all that water from the Colorado’s...
Death in Yellowstone
Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer...
Super Volcano: The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park
The Ticking Time Bomb Beneath Yellowstone National Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Despite growing evidence of geothermic activity under America's first and foremost national park, it took geologists a long time to realize that there was actually a volcano beneath Yellowstone. And then, why couldn't they find the caldera or crater? Because, as an aerial photograph finally revealed,...
The Dictator Next Door
The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following...