The book explores the history of exploration and cartography of what is now called King George Sound, Oyster Bay, The Kalgan River and the surrounding river systems.
Realizing that the time is right to act on their crazy idea of pulling their two daughters out of school for a year, shut down the house, and embark on a sailing sabbatical, Elli and her husband David, pitch the idea to their daughters.
In my lifetime I have harvested over two hundred deer and many other animals and birds, and that doesnt even count the fish species from coast to coast.
Cabeza de Vaca was looking for adventure when he helped lead a group of Spanish explorers to North America in 1528, and he certainly found it when he washed up on the shores of Texas.
A vivid description of one of the most ambitious scientific projects undertaken in the 19th century, and the men who undertook the measurement of the Himalayas and the mapping of the Indian subcontinent: William Lambton and George Everest.
This is a true story of one mans life-altering odyssey to fulfill the dream of acquiring ownership of an island in the wilderness of Northwest Ontario, Canada, and how the whole adventure was triggered by a major snowstorm that blanketed the Chicago area in 1967.
This work intent to give an introduction to the basic principles andconcepts of geology for all those are interested in the understandingand learn about all the processes and phenomena that formed andshaped the Earth, since its formation, around 4,800 million yearsbefore present (BP).
In Working My Way through Retirement, author Lola Albion finds that retirement has many surprises and totally unexpected opportunities in store for her.
During the time he spent in the Portuguese islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, Cristopher Columbus, a navigator from Genoa, was in charge of a dying sailor, from Castile whose caravel had been carried by the current from the Gulf of Guinea to a remote sea, possibly the Caribean.
This book is about 1987 and is the third book in a continuing series of the life adventures of the last Federal Homesteader in America to have filed on The Federal Homestead Act of 1862.
Moving upstream on the Irrawaddy broad tide, the ocean liner approaches the city of Rangoon, and the gold-leafed pinnacle of the celebrated Shwe Dagon pagoda welcomes it as it rises magnificently in the morning sunlight.
The book is a true narrative of a young Jamaican teenager who, broken and devastated by the tragic death of her father, found herself tossed out too early into the rough seas of life.
Follow Roses life from childhood as a devoted Catholic to a zealous born-again Christian who walks a remarkable life of faith amidst obstacles as an unequally yoked wife and mother.
En estas pginas encontraras que son historias que de alguna manera hemos pasado o vivido en nuestras vidas, no son extraordinarias pero si divertidas, es una invitacin abierta a que recuerdes tu niez y me acompaes en esta breve y simple narracin de situaciones que seguro has vivido a tu manera.
Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, offers a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject - footpaths and the history of land ownership.
No one ever sat down with me to teach me about the history of my country, the culture, the wealth, or how to count, measure, or any basic skills that most children learn in school and when they are growing up as they become adults.
