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  • Barrow's Boys

    A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy

    de Fergus Fleming ...
    From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars.In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic ... Leer más

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  • Ninety Degrees North

    The Quest for the North Pole

    de Fergus Fleming ...
    The author of Barrow's Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century.Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and TimeIn the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? ... Leer más

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  • Off the Map

    Tales of Endurance and Exploration

    de Fergus Fleming ...
    "A fine and lively collection of exploration stories" from the author of Barrow's Boys ( Kirkus Reviews).On John Franklin's 1820 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing a third when he was caught and killed. When Rene La Salle set off for the Mississippi Delta in 1684, he missed the target by five hundred miles, but on landing, ... Leer más

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  • The Sword and the Cross

    de Fergus Fleming ...
    "[A] searing story of France's attempt to colonize the vast Sahara desert and of two unforgettable men who dedicated their lives to the effort." —Rob Mitchell, The Boston HeraldWhether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today's most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the ... Leer más

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  • Killing Dragons

    The Conquest of the Alps

    de Fergus Fleming ...
    A "dramatic and masterful" account of early alpine explorers and the challenges they faced to scale the summits (Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure).In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history's greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps. Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of the men ... Leer más

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  • South

    The Endurance Expedition

    de Ernest Shackleton ...
    As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for ... Leer más

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  • The Traveller's Daybook

    A Tour of the World in 366 Quotations

    de Fergus Fleming ...
    A masterly anthology of extracts from the journals and writings of travelers, explorers, and adventurers throughout history, taking the reader on one unforgettable journey for each day of the yearInviting readers to cross ocean, desert, mountain, and ice-cap in the company of the world's greatest explorers, wanderers, and writers, this day-by-day anthology of travel writing ranges widely across ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Barrow's Boys

    Eine unglaubliche Geschichte von wahrem Heldenmut und bravourösem Scheitern

    de Fergus Fleming ...
    Traducido por Henning Ahrens ...
    Nach dem Triumph bei Trafalgar hat sich in der Royal Navy Langeweile breit gemacht. Die Offiziere warten ungeduldig auf eine Chance zu neuen Heldentaten. John Barrow, in der Admiralität zuständig für die Flotteneinsätze, gibt sie ihnen. In der Morgendämmerung der Industrialisierung lässt er Heizrohre in seinen Schiffen installieren und schickt sie ins ewige Eis. Eine Expedition nach der anderen ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Shaken

    Drinking with James Bond and Ian Fleming, the Official Cocktail Book

    de Ian Fleming ...
    Readers can explore James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s writing on the pleasures of drinking and mix themselves fifty delicious cocktails from recipes inspired by his books and developed by award-winning London bar, Swift.Both Bond and Fleming were partial to a stiff drink. In both fiction and real life, cocktails were an important and well-chosen accompaniment to adventure and daring and often ... Leer más

    Antes $16.99 USD Ahora $9.99 USD

  • I ragazzi di Barrow

    de Fergus Fleming ...
    Nel 1804, quando John Barrow ascende al soglio di secondo segretario dell'Ammiragliato britannico, sulle carte dei di lì a poco sudditi di Vittoria spicca ancora un numero allarmante di zone bianche. Alcune – l’Australia, e anche l’Antartide – per il momento potevano rimanere tali, ma in altre si annidavano enigmi da sciogliere quanto prima, data l'importanza strategica loro attribuita: il vero ... Leer más

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  • Sanna historier om spioner

    de Paul Dowswell, Fergus Fleming ...
    Traducido por Annika Olsson ...
    Dramatiskt och medryckande berättas här sanna historier om spioner. Vi får bland annat läsa om Yevno Azev, agent för den ryska hemliga polisen. Under falsk identitet arbetade han bland revolutionärer i St Petersburg 1904.Vi möter den jugoslaviske aristokraten Dusko Popov, som spelade ett livsfarligt spel när han dubbelbluffade tyska underrättelsetjänsten i Lissabon under andra världskriget och ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Man with the Golden Typewriter

    Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters

    Edición de Fergus Fleming ...
    On August 16, 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold." He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked in glamorous style the arrival of James Bond, agent 007, and the start of a career that saw ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD