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  • Deckhand

    Life on Freighters of the Great Lakes

    de Nelson Haydamacker, Alan D. Millar ...
    Long before popular television shows such as Dirty Jobs and The Deadliest Catch, everyday men and women---the unsung heroes of the job world---toiled in important but mostly anonymous jobs. One of those jobs was deckhand on the ore boats.With numerous photographs and engaging stories, Deckhand offers an insider's view of both the mundane and the intriguing duties performed by deckhands on these ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Oak Island Mystery, Solved!

    de Joy A. Steele ...
    For more than two centuries, adventurers, thrill seekers and treasure hunters have tried to unlock the secret of Oak Island, investing millions of dollars, and costing at least six lives. And the obsession continues: a television series in the winter of 2014 and seasonal walking tours of the area that include locations highlighted by the series. Theories and intrigue abound – a clandestine ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks

    de Sir Joseph Banks ...
    The full text of the journals of Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS, during Captain Cook's famous first great voyage aboard the HM Bark Endeavour, 1768-1771. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Heat Wave

    A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

    de Eric Klinenberg ...
    The "compelling" story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society ( Boston Globe).On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Southampton - Maritime City from Ocean Liners to Cruise Ships.

    de Mike Roussel ...
    This book charts the development of the ocean liner from the 19th century to the present day. It explores the golden years of transatlantic shipping and the competition from the jet passenger aircraft. The book looks at the history and development of the early ocean-going steamships, and the competition between shipping companies by the end of the 19th century to build liners that were extreme in ... Leer más

    $12.07 USD

  • Pirate Killers

    The Royal Navy and the African Pirates

    de Graham A. Thomas ...
    One hundred and fifty years ago the Royal Navy fought a daring campaign against ruthless pirates and won, killing The King of the Pirates, Bartholomew Roberts off the coast of Africa and capturing his fleet. Scores of his men were executed by the Admiralty Court. On the Barbary Coast of North Africa pirates preyed on shipping in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic as they had done for centuries and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Speaking American

    A History of English in the United States

    de Richard W. Bailey ...
    When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking American investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • A Decent, Orderly Lynching

    The Montana Vigilantes

    de Frederick Allen ...
    The deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers.Combing through original sources, including eye-witness accounts never before published, Frederick Allen concludes that the vigilantes ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Elders & Fyffes

    A Photographic History

    de Campbell McCutcheon ...
    Ubiquitous in ever supermarket and corner shop, it is hard to imagine a world without bananas. But it was once so! Britain’s love affair with the humble banana is as much the story of Elders & Fyffes, a company set up to import the golden fruit into the United Kingdom. Originally, British imports were of the small Cavendish banana from the Canaries but the British Government was keen to see some ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Making Waves

    Michigan’s Boat-Building Industry, 1865-2000

    de Scott M Peters ...
    Michigan will always be known as the automobile capital of the world, but the Great Lakes State boasts a similarly rich heritage in the development of boat building in America. By the late nineteenth century, Michigan had emerged as the industry’s hub, drawing together the most talented designers, builders, and engine makers to produce some of the fastest and most innovative boats ever created. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Gas and Gas Making: The Manhattan Gas Company 1862, Illustrated

    de J W Watson ...
    A tour through the gas company with explanations of the gas works as typical in the mid 19th Century. ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • Tangible Memories

    Californians and Their Gardens 1800-1950

    de Harry M. Butte, Judith M. Taylor ...
    California may be the golden state but it is also a garden state. Innumerable gardens have been made since the Europeans first came, starting with the Franciscan missionaries.The gold rush was the defining period, leading to immense expenditures by newly rich miners.This book discusses many simple but beautiful gardens created by waves of immigrants. Gardens were necessary for food but also ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD