Geography

On the hot Sunday afternoon of June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer decided to go for broke.

The classic Old West narrative of the chase, trial, capture, and execution of outlaw Henry Plummer and his road agent band.

From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, The CIA World Factbook 2014 offers complete and up-to-date information on the worlds nations.

In 1832, Washington Irving, Americas first literary superstar, returned to the United States after seventeen years abroad and swiftly set out to explore Pawnee countrythe wild uncharted territory deep in the young nations interior.

Did you know that the ancient Romans left sixty days of winter out of their calendar, considering these two months a dead time of lurking terror and therefore better left unnamed?

"e;If Outside magazine had been around during the first turn of the century, Fridtjof Nansen would have been its No.

For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasonsfor battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown, and for escape from the mundane.

In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent.

Although the American cowboy has long been a favorite subject for novelists, filmmakers, and illustrators, too often the picture they paint bears little relation to reality.

While floating down on the ice-floe, in the midst of dirt and darkness, hungry and cold I wondered at myself that I could have learned, in a few short months, to have eaten such things, and submitted to such practices, as but few civilized persons have ever been called to endure.

First published in 1906, Geronimo is the collaborative work between Geronimo, chief of the Chiricahua Apache, and author S.

This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known.

El escenario global de fines del siglo pasado e inicios del siglo XXI se caracteriza por la disputa entre grandes capitales transnacionales y por la apropiación de nuevos espacios como surtidores de recursos naturales, estas disputas se inscriben en el proceso histórico de la expansión de las fronteras de la ecología y el mundo capitalista.

Much popular belief--and public policy--rests on the idea that those born into poverty have it in their power to escape.

Powerful conversations between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading scientists on the most pressing issue of our time.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tough Times, Tough People will encourage, inspire, and support readers through all types of difficult situations.

The schooner Bowdoin was designed and built in 1921 in Maine under the direction of naval officer and explorer Donald MacMillan.

Winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors Award in the memoir/autobiography category!

The 740-mile Northern Forest Canoe Trail is the largest inland water trail in the United States.

This richly illustrated book takes a different angle on Robert E.

Alaska in 1900 was unexplored frontier, a land where risk, danger, and ultimate adventure made teamwork essential.

Great blue herons, yellow birches, damselflies, and beavers are among the talismans by which Bill Roorbach uncovers a natural universe along the stream that runs by his house in Farmington, Maine.

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Captain Dynamite Johnny O'Brien sailed the seven seas for over sixty years, starting in the late 1860s in India and ending in the early 1930s on the U.

Deadly Peaks is a collection of the most notable mountaineering disasters and near-disasters in history.

Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses the fresh- and saltwater systems of Florida, including lakes and ponds; rivers and streams; springs; aquatic caves; estuarine waters and seafloors; submarine meadows, sponge, rock, and reef communities; and the Gulf and Atlantic Ocean.

Seashore Plants of South Florida and the Caribbean is a complete source for information about which plants grow best in nearshore environments.

Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses Florida's wetlands, including interior wetlands, seepage wetlands, marshes, flowing-water swamps, beaches and marine marshes, and mangrove swamps.

Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses the well-drained areas of Florida, including high pine grasslands, flatwoods and prairies, interior scrub, hardwood hammocks, rocklands and caves, and beach dunes.

Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged.

Anyone looking to escape the hustle and bustle of the modern world for a while is invited to sit back and enjoy a leisurely trip down one of the best-known and most beloved rivers in the country.

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The Hillsborough River, which runs through the big population area of Tampa, is a popular site for leisure activities.

A plague is spreading throughout the Florida Everglades.

Geraint Thomas's inside guide to twenty-five of the greatest cycling climbs in the world.

INTRODUCED BY ADAM WEYMOUTH, award-winning author of The Kings of Yukon'A wonderful book -- and a highly original contribution to the literature of travel' PAUL THEROUX'The Mississippi.

Found in Translation: The Unexpected Origins of Place Names unravels the tangled threads of history and etymology to uncover the strange, intriguing and enlightening stories that have shaped the names of countries and places around the world.

'Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?

A jargon-free primer on GIS concepts and the essential tech tools Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is the fascinating technology field that's all about understanding and visualizing our world.

"e;This timely book carefully interrogates the increasingly fraught intersections of the digital, the city, and democracy.

The Theory of the Leisure Class is one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed critique of consumerism.

From the #1New York Timesbestselling World Almanac comes a fullcolor, fulloffun, oversize book packed with thousands of awesome facts about science, nature, and peopleeverything on planet Earth and beyond.

The three main hubs of aquarium trade devastation are Indonesia, the Philippines, and Hawaii.

An exciting collection of dangerous adventures, harrowing travels, and heart-stopping journeys, Incredible Adventure and Exploration Stories compiles tales from around the globe that are sure to amaze.

In 1871, seventeen-year-old Frederick Dellenbaugh began a great adventure when he joined Major John Wesley Powell and a crew of scientists on Powell's second exploration trip down the Colorado River and into the Grand Canyon.

In an age when polar exploration was akin to space exploration today, Sir John Franklin's journeys of discovery captured the popular imagination.

A diverse collection of remarkable stories that represent the universal thrill of the hunting experience.

Scale the worlds highest peaks, plunge to the depths of the ocean, wade through the dense jungles of the Amazon, and cross every terrain in between in Incredible Survival Stories.

Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups.

Ever wonder how everyone made it west?