Download or read book Coasting written by Elise Downing and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elise had a new job, flat and relationship – and they were all making her utterly miserable. Then the obvious solution hit her: run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain. Over the next 301 days, she saw Britain at its most wild and wonderful, and discovered that running away doesn’t solve your problems – but it's more fun than dealing with them.
Download or read book Coasting written by Jonathan Raban and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Bad Land comes “a lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self” (The New York Times Book Review). Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In this acutely perceived and beautifully written book, the bestselling author of Bad Land turns that voyage–which coincided with the Falklands war of 1982-into an occasion for meditations on his country, his childhood, and the elusive notion of home. Whether he’s chatting with bored tax exiles on the Isle of Man, wrestling down a mainsail during a titanic gale, or crashing a Scottish house party where the kilted guests turn out to be Americans, Raban is alert to the slightest nuance of meaning. One can read Coasting for his precise naturalistic descriptions or his mordant comments on the new England, where the principal industry seems to be the marketing of Englishness. But one always reads it with pleasure.
Download or read book Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Commerce Manufactures Etc of Their Consular Districts written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon 1550 1646 written by Joyce Lorimer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From as early as the middle of the 16th century Englishmen were interested in the possibility of exploring the fabled resources of the great river of the Amazons. During the first half of the 17th century English and Irish projectors made persistent efforts to maintain trading factories and plantation there. From at least 1612 to 1632 they inhabited settlements along the north channel of the estuary from Cabo do Norte to the Equator, making very considerable profits from tobacco, dyes and hardwoods. The profitability of their holdings was such that, when the Portuguese made the river too risky for foreign interlopers after 1630, former English and Irish planters sought to return there under licence of first the Spanish and then the Portuguese crown. The Irish may actually have been permitted to do so in the mid-1640s. Almost half a century has elapsed since J.A. Williamson and Aubrey Gwynne first published studies of these colonies. New material from English, Portuguese and Spanish archives has now made it possible to re-evaluate their significance. The Irish ventures, although begun in partnership with the English, can now be seen to have developed into a quite distinct initiative. They are probably the earliest example of independent Irish colonial projects in the New World. By the early 1620s the Irish were known for their experience of the river and their expertise in Indian languages, proving far more efficient in their approach to exploiting Amazonia than the English. The tenacity with which both groups, the English and the Irish, pursued their goal of settlement also forces us to re-assess assumptions about the seemingly 'inevitable' priority of North America for such activity in this period. The Amazon undertakings were in many ways more hopeful than contemporaneous enterprises in North America. They failed because their interests were sacrificed, at critical junctures, to the foreign policy priorities of the English crown, not because the Amazon was an unsuitable environment for northern Europeans.
Download or read book Commercial Relations of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explorations made in the Valley of the River Madeira from 1749 to 1868 written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book Explorations Made in the Valley of the River Madeira from 1749 to 1868 written by George Earl Church and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Light on Drake A Collection of Documents relating to his Voyage of Circumnavigation 1577 1580 written by Zelia Nuttall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Spanish official documents, depositions by prisoners, documents relating to Nuño da Silva, etc., translated and edited. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1914. Owing to technical constraints the contemporary engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake which appeared in the original edition of the book is not included.
Download or read book Thoreau s Notes on Birds of New England written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his two-year residence at Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau became keenly aware of the natural world that surrounded him. Entries from his journals reflect his soulful, in-depth observations of local wildlife, and his remarks on birds are particularly plentiful and poetic. This book, originally published as Notes on New England Birds in 1910 and edited and arranged by Francis H. Allen, collects Thoreau's thoughts on the various bird species that populated the New England woods, from the great blue heron to the kingbird and the American finch. "Open to any page and you will find, besides apt descriptions of the natural world, a cogent remark or a philosophical observation," noted The Washington Post. Bird lovers and watchers, fans of Thoreau, and naturalists and environmentalists will delight in joining the author as he saunters through the woods and ponders the region's abundant wildlife. A new selection of 16 full-page color illustrations by John James Audubon enhances the text.
Download or read book ON THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF The Complete Ballantyne Action Series written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 13147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you this unique action & adventure collection with sea adventure novels, western classics, historical thrillers, treasure hunt tales, war stories. Table of Contents: The Coral Island Snowflakes and Sunbeams (The Young Fur Traders) Ungava Martin Rattler The Dog Crusoe and his Master The World of Ice The Gorilla Hunters The Golden Dream The Red Eric Away in the Wilderness Fighting the Whales The Wild Man of the West Fast in the Ice Gascoyne The Lifeboat Chasing the Sun Freaks on the Fells The Lighthouse Fighting The Flames Silver Lake Deep Down Shifting Winds Hunting the Lions Over the Rocky Mountains Saved by the Lifeboat Erling the Bold The Battle and the Breeze The Cannibal Islands Lost in the Forest Digging for Gold Sunk at Sea The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands The Iron Horse The Norsemen in the West The Pioneers Black Ivory Life in the Red Brigade Fort Desolation The Pirate City The Story of the Rock Rivers of Ice Under the Waves The Settler and the Savage In the Track of the Troops Jarwin and Cuffy Philosopher Jack Post Haste The Lonely Island The Red Man's Revenge My Doggie and I The Giant of the North The Madman and the Pirate The Battery and the Boiler The Thorogood Family The Young Trawler Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished Twice Bought The Island Queen The Rover of the Andes The Prairie Chief The Lively Poll Red Rooney The Big Otter The Fugitives Blue Lights The Middy and the Moors The Eagle Cliff The Crew of the Water Wagtail Blown to Bits The Garret and the Garden Jeff Benson Charlie to the Rescue The Coxswain's Bride The Buffalo Runners The Hot Swamp Hunted and Harried The Walrus Hunters Wrecked but not Ruined Six Months at the Cape Memoirs: Personal Reminiscences in Book Making
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Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to 1870, the series was published under various names. From 1870 to 1947, the uniform title Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States was used. From 1947 to 1969, the name was changed to Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers. After that date, the current name was adopted.
Download or read book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi written by George Byron Merrick and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life like on the Mississippi in the good old days? What were the challenges? How was navigation done? Which ships were on the river? These questions and many more are answered by the recollecions of a famous steam boat pilot, George Merrick. This book was first published in 1909.
Download or read book Corpus Juris written by William Mack and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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