Author: Robert C. Wheeler
Publisher: St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Tim Parks
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559708111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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A riveting white-water ride down a raging river in the Italian Alps, pitting people against Nature, in the novel Tim Parks was born to write.

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Languages : en
Pages : 1350

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Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 1030

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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1018

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Author: Various
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 152879060X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 69

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“Hours From the Night” is a fantastic collection of classic essays by a variety of famous writers all connected through a common theme: night time. Including essays from such prolific writers as Charles Dickens and Andrew Lang, this collection will appeal to night owls and literature lovers with a penchant for the nocturnal. Contents include: “Night Walks, by Charles Dickens”, “Night and Moonlight, by Henry David Thoreau”, “On Lying Awake at Night, by Stewart Edward White”, “A Night in the Garden of the Tuileries, by Charles Dudley Warner”, “Nocturne, by Simeon Strunsky”, “Idle Hours, by Robert Louis Stevenson”, “The Streets — Night, by Charles Dickens”, “On a Shiny Night, by A. G. Gardiner”, “Summer Nights, by Andrew Lang”, “The Mystery of Night, by Hamilton Wright Mabie”, and “Street Haunting - A London Adventure, by Virginia Woolf”. Read & Co. Great Essays is publishing this brand new collection of classic essays now for the enjoyment of a new generation of readers.

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Category : Fishing
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Michael Freze
Publisher: Our Sunday Visitor
ISBN: 9780879734541
Category : Apparitions
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Some experiences go beyond ordinary reason. What does it mean when mystics see visions? And what does the Church teach about supernatural events like these? This is a book that takes these questions seriously.

Author: Candice Millard
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 030757508X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait—the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. “A rich, dramatic tale that ranges from the personal to the literally earth-shaking.” —The New York Times The River of Doubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived. From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut. Look for Candice Millard’s latest book, River of the Gods.

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Languages : en
Pages : 902

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