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18201) Pioneering in the Pampas: Or, the First Four Years of a Settler's Experience in the la Plata Camps
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Richard Arthur Seymour (1843-1906) as he tells us, sailed from Liverpool in January, 1865, with the intention of making a rapid fortune by cattle and sheep-farming in the Argentine Republic. In his 1869 book "Pioneering in the Pampas" before us he gives an unpretending plain unvarnished narrative of a settler's experience during four years of cattle and sheep farming on the Pampas of South America.
The author and his companion, after having gained...
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The Japanese Sake Bible is the ultimate book about Japan's national drink-from its history and culture to its ingredients and production methods, how to choose the best sake and recommended food pairings.
Author Brian Ashcraft-the author of the popular guide Japanese Whisky-has put together lively commentaries based on dozens of interviews with master brewers and sake experts across Japan. His fascinating stories are accompanied by over 300 full-color...
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Parce que pour connaître les peuples, il faut d'abord les comprendre
Un récit de voyage pour apprendre, de grands entretiens pour comprendre. Comment est-on Espagnol ? Au pays de Don Quichotte, o résonne à chaque victoire sportive un hymne national sans paroles, la question taraude une communauté nationale minée par des identités régionales de plus en plus affirmées. Comment répondre à cette interrogation, nourrie, à des siècles d'intervalle,...
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Town and Crown is an illustrated history of the planning and development of Canada's capital, filling a significant gap in our urban scholarship. It is the story of the transformation of the region from a subarctic wilderness portage to an attractive modern metropolis with a high quality of life. The book examines the period from 1800 to 2011 and is the first major study that covers both sides of the Ottawa River, addressing the settlement history...
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Seeing a tall ship under full sail is an unforgettable experience - it's like a trip back in time! From full-rigged ships that look like the pirate vessels of old to replicas of the sleek Baltimore schooners that helped win the War of 1812, tall ships still ply the waters of the Great Lakes, and each one carries its own incredible tales. More than 25 ships are featured in this amazing full-color book, complete with vessel and crew details, as well...
18206) Insouciance: Témoignage
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Une jeune femme s'aventure en Afrique du Sud sans se douter de ce qu'elle va découvrir, tant sur elle-même que sur les réalités qui entourent les safaris...
C'est avec une parfaite inconnue, moi, que je m'envolais pour l'Afrique du Sud. Le mode aventure était enclenché, les safaris m'attendaient. Le voyage a très vite pris un tout autre tournant. Ma précieuse et très chère insouciance m'a poussée dans les bras d'un homme armé. J'étais...
18207) Emperor's Lion
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A single death could plunge the Empire into chaos.
Silus, member of Emperor Caracalla's elite assassins, the Arcani, is dispatched to Numidia. Rumours of assassination plots against Marcellus, the Emperor's closest aide, are rife. Silus must stop them. But the forces arrayed against the Arcani are now as powerful as they are clandestine.
Inducted into the Emperor's bodyguard, his Lions, Silus soon discovers secrets that should have stayed hidden....
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After surviving a kidnapping and violent sexual assault, academic and entrepreneur, Jenni Reavis packed one suitcase and left everything behind, to embark on a 3-year radical, adventure backpacking through 6 countries, where she, finished her master's degree abroad and found a hidden path that led, to forgiveness, joy, hundreds of talks with strangers under foreign stars, and an erotic, romantic relationship with her own self, living the life of her...
18209) Echo Across Time
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"A fun, teen novel packed full of paranormal powers and a sprinkling of romance. A BRONZE medal winner and highly recommended."-The Wishing Shelf Book Awards, 2016Fall in love with the achingly beautiful story of Echo and Connor, supernaturally gifted teens, as they fight to live out their destiny together.Echo had it all-she lived in a mansion in the wealthiest neighborhood and was a member of the Partychicks, the elite high school clique. But her...
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The ultimate gift for the food lover. In the same way that 1,000 Places to See Before You Die reinvented the travel book, 1,000 Foods to Eat Before You Die is a joyous, informative, dazzling, mouthwatering life list of the world's best food. The long-awaited new book in the phenomenal 1,000 . . . Before You Die series, it's the marriage of an irresistible subject with the perfect writer, Mimi Sheraton-award-winning cookbook author, grande dame of...
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The Australian Cat, is a game we used to play while travelling in America. 2 or more can play (helps to keep
the driver alert, while travelling). We also had quite a good game at a log cabin party with my sister's friends when we went for SWEETS (AFTERS) (PUDDINGS) depending on your nationality what you call the part after the main meal. Anyway, it was a lovely evening with a huge American Pot Belly Stove heating the sumptuous lounge-room of the...
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Enrich your life and write with more intensity than ever on a spirit-renewing adventure in the City of Light. Experience Paris not as a tourist but as a creator, where you dedicate yourself to the bohemian life in picturesque parks, cafés, and bookstores. In this guided tour of a beloved destination that has sparked the imagination of countless writers and artists, leading creativity coach Eric Maisel offers insights on how to use the city to spur...
18213) Time for PsyQ
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The building of the hadron collider was once big news, but now it is just part of the scenery for most of the community, until Airlie and other children start showing unusual gifts. Airlie uses her psi abilities to solve a number of mysteries and crimes at her school and in her neighborhood - and comes to the attention of Inspector Jonathan Humble of Minor Crimes. Towards the end of the school year, Airlie gets two intriguing invitations: an offer...
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Illustrated with photographs from the private family album, this book follows in the footsteps of some of Sir Winston Churchill's famous trips to the four corners of the world, by his granddaughter Celia Sandys. She visits South Africa, Morocco, France, the USA - amongst others - and recounts how Sir Winston's trips not only changed the course of world history, but helped to shape the man who has come to be known as 'our Greatest Briton'.
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Simonton, Duval, Eaton, Whitehead, Southard, Truman-if you discover how these Key West streets, and all the others, came by their names, you will know much of the history of this little island at the nethermost end of the continental United States. You will learn of the rise and fall and rise again of the fortunes of this island town, which has played such a rich role in the history of the country as a whole. The author starts each section with an...
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An astonishing, cautionary tale of how Westerner Mark Kitto built a successful media empire in China, creating and running 3 magazines, only to have the state take his business, and his livelihood, away.
"I had fought off attacks from jealous rivals and been investigated by every bureau with the slightest connection to publishing, and by many who did not: nine in total. I had paid over 1 million Yuan in fines, and who knows how much more in administration...
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Partez à l'aventure en compagnie d'Ewen et de son oncle!
Ewen, adolescent de 14 ans, embarque en tant que passager clandestin à bord de l'Argonote. Le commandant du vaisseau n'est autre que son oncle, celui que chacun à Keris nomme Captain David.
Ils partent à la recherche de l'Élaïne, minerai miraculeux susceptible de sauver les territoires d'Avaland de la pollution engendrée par le charbon. Leurs escales s'avéreront périlleuses car, dans...
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This book describes famous geosites and historical localities in national parks and conservation areas from North America, East Africa, and Europe.
The geosites include iconic landforms associated with active volcanoes, canyons, glaciated landscapes, natural rock monoliths, and rifts.
The potential for geotourism in historical localities such as the famous Greco-Roman antiquities of Greece, Italy, and Turkey, is emphasised.
Some of the geosites...
18219) Earthling
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Book 2 of the Red Genesis Series...
What if the last Earthlings on New Earth was worst than the Monsters who destroyed Old Earth?
USA Today Bestselling and ALA YALSA Award-winning Authors Kira G. and Kailin Gow's Science Fiction Post-Apocalypse Thriller.
If you liked Bird Box and The Quiet Place, you will enjoy RED GENESIS.
Evie discovered she was not the only one left on New Earth, and that the other humans may be worst than the Monsters that...
18220) Echo Into Darkness
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The exciting sequel to the award-winning Echo Across Time.So close to death that he could probably taste it, Connor set his gaze on his hidden audience. At a moment when most prisoners would lash out in panic, he stared down his tormentors. Behind that stormy, warring face was a tenderness that only I knew. A devotion that ran so deep, he had risked everything to search for me beyond the boundaries of time.Now, his life was in my hands.As Echo tries...
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