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ISBN: 9780773527409 Editura:McGill-Queen's University Press
Features an introduction that situates the author's writing in the context of her life and times. In 1903 her husband, Leonidas, starved to death on his expedition to Labrador. Determined to complete her husband's work, she set out in July 1905 with the help of George Elson, a Metis guide from the original trip, and three others.
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ISBN: 9781843545811 Editura:Atlantic Books
In 1629, the ship Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company, was wrecked on the edge of a coral archipelago, some fifty miles from the Australian continent. The tragedy of the Batavia seized the European imagination even more than the sinking of the Titanic would do in the twentieth century.
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ISBN: 9780091928377 Editura:Ebury Press
Simultaneously connected and separated by television, millions of people around the world held their breath as a human being looked back at them from the surface of the Moon. This book tells the true story of an event that captured the imagination of generations.
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The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark (Tiparita)
2009Tudor Parfitt
ISBN: 9780007262687 Editura:Harper Element
Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years -- what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest.
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ISBN: 9781877372148 Editura:Otago University Press
A sea voyage in the nineteenth century was not for the faint-hearted. The hazards were many and accidents commonplace. This book, based on research carried out in Britain, New Zealand and Australia, relates the story of the Cospatrick and the nightmare survival of only three people, and also looks at the larger picture of safety at sea.
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ISBN: 9780006532460 Editura:HarperPerennial
The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty -- the most famous sea story of all time.
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The Book Nobody Read: In Pursuit of the Revolutions of Nicholas Copernicus (Tiparita)
2004Owen Gingerich
ISBN: 9780434013159 Editura:William Heinemann Ltd
Part biography, part bibliographic quest, this is the story of the author's obsession with the book On the Revolutions by Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus altered the composition of the cosmos by placing the sun, and not the earth at the centre of the universe.
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ISBN: 9781877058615 Editura:Rosenberg Publishing
On the evening of 14 August 1829 the government brig Cyprus was sheltering in Recherche Bay on the remote south-east coast of Tasmania when she was captured by eighteen convicts under the leadership of William Swallow, a prisoner for life.
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The Cause of Mosquitoes' Sorrow: Over Two Millennia of Scientific Breakthroughs, Beginnings and Blunders (Tiparita)
2007Surendra Verma
ISBN: 9781840468311 Editura:Icon Books Ltd
Who discovered anaesthesia at a party? How did a sewage farm odour reducer benefit medicine? Why did the Cold War prevent the West understanding heart disease? This book features quirky, and true instances of science going wrong, right and in totally unexpected directions from 600 BC onwards. It also investigates the eureka moments.
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ISBN: 9780888396426 Editura:Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada
Invites readers to climb into the Tundra Cub II and fly off to a land where the northern lights shimmer, the rivers run cold, and cares slowly wither and die. This book offers a tour of the North, of aeronautics, science, mythology and history.
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ISBN: 9781741146851 Editura:Allen & Unwin
An extraordinary true story of overheated love, desire, frenzied madness and flagellation in 16th century Naples, The Devil and Maria D'Avalos tells the story of the mysterious Maria, reputedly one of the most beautiful women of her time, and the violent death she came to at the hands of her third husband.
