Author: Dwyer
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0980030137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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Author: LIZ. CLARK
Publisher: Patagonia
ISBN: 9781952338229
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: P. L. Travers
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 9780349005744
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'James and I stayed on at home and everything was quiet and sunny and we got to thinking the war would never come after all . . . Just when we were so sure nothing would happen, the German plane came over. It came over one night at one o'clock in the morning and the sound was quite different from an English plane and we all woke up. You could hear it drumming and drumming like a big bee in a flower, buroom, buroom, buroom, round and round in the air above the house. Then suddenly there were five loud explosions. After that there was a terrible silence and I knew that Father and Mother were looking at each other in the darkness and I felt myself getting small and tight inside. Then Father said quietly, "Meg, they must go!"' Now I am going to write a Diary because we are going to America because of the War. It has just been decided. I will write down everything about it because we shall be so much older when we come back that I will never remember it if I do not. So this is the beginning. Oh, please let us come back soon, please.' This is the fictional diary of Sabrina Lind, an eleven-year-old English girl who, with her little brother James, is sent on the long voyage across the sea to her aunt in America.

Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Castaways
Languages : en
Pages : 1260

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Author: Tony Horwitz
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429937734
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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The bestselling author of Blue Latitudes takes us on a thrilling and eye-opening voyage to pre-Mayflower America On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of American history, from Columbus's sail in 1492 to Jamestown's founding in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between? Determined to find out, he embarks on a journey of rediscovery, following in the footsteps of the many Europeans who preceded the Pilgrims to America. An irresistible blend of history, myth, and misadventure, A Voyage Long and Strange captures the wonder and drama of first contact. Vikings, conquistadors, French voyageurs—these and many others roamed an unknown continent in quest of grapes, gold, converts, even a cure for syphilis. Though most failed, their remarkable exploits left an enduring mark on the land and people encountered by late-arriving English settlers. Tracing this legacy with his own epic trek—from Florida's Fountain of Youth to Plymouth's sacred Rock, from desert pueblos to subarctic sweat lodges—Tony Horwitz explores the revealing gap between what we enshrine and what we forget. Displaying his trademark talent for humor, narrative, and historical insight, A Voyage Long and Strange allows us to rediscover the New World for ourselves.

Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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Author: Christopher Columbus
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Johann David Schöpf
Publisher:
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Category : Bahamas
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781728685496
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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The Long Voyage (+Biography and Bibliography) (Glossy Cover Finish): The story concerns a man alone on New Year's Eve, who loves to "sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel" while he himself has never been "around the world, never has been shipwrecked, ice-environed, tomahawked, or eaten."Some of the books he has read concern Christopher Columbus, James Bruce who searched for the source of the Nile, John Franklin who made an "unhappy overland Journey" and was lost searching for the northwest passage in the Canadian Arctic, "Men-selling despots" and the Atlantic slave trade, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer (1771

Author: Annie baroness Brassey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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