Download or read book Our Journey in the Pacific written by Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journeys North written by Barney Scout Mann and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.
Download or read book Pacific written by David Doubilet and published by Bulfinch. This book was released on 1992 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pacific dominates our planet - it is an ocean so vast that it makes islands out of continents. Beneath its surface lie a series of kingdoms, populated by diverse creatures. This book is a photographic record of the diversity of the Pacific, from the Hawaiian islands to Suruga Bay.
Download or read book Hell in the Pacific written by Jim McEnery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and horror McErery’s Rifle Company—the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division, made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific—fought in some of the most ferocious battles of the war. In searing detail, the author takes us back to Guadalcanal, where American forces first turned the tide against the Japanese; Cape Gloucester, where 1,300 Marines were killed or wounded; and bloody Peleliu, where McEnery assumed command of the company and helped hasten the final defeat of the Japanese garrison after weeks of torturous cave-to-cave fighting. McEnery’s story is a no-holds-barred, grunt’s-eye view of the sacrifices, suffering, and raw courage of the men in the foxholes, locked in mortal combat with an implacable enemy sworn to fight to the death. From bayonet charges and hand-to-hand combat to midnight banzai attacks and the loss of close buddies, the rifle squad leader spares no details, chronicling his odyssey from boot camp through twenty-eight months of hellish combat until his eventual return home. He has given us an unforgettable portrait of men at war.
Download or read book Journey to the Far Pacific written by Thomas E. Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Journey of My Life written by Eugene McCann and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of my daily life. I was inspired by St. Benedict teachings that you really look at yourself you will see yourself and others this is where you get woke up and you begin to change your life and this is where Benedictine spirituality comes in.
Download or read book Journey to the Pacific Rim written by Elaine Raynolds and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committed to seeing the world, Elaine Raynolds and her husband, Arthur, embarked on yet another world tour, a Pacific cruise, visiting Japan, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Western Samoa, and Hawaii. Beginning their journey with a train ride from North Carolina to Seattle, Elaine and Arthur carefully filled their suitcases and boxes with all they would need for their eighty-day trip. Packed with photos, Journey to the Pacific Rim offers a delightful portrait of one couple's cruise across the date line into varied locales. From the nightly entertainment aboard the ship to encounters with koalas and kangaroos, Elaine Raynolds saw it all. Discover the world of the Journey to the Pacific Rim through the journals of a world traveler.
Download or read book 30 Days in the South Pacific written by Sean O'Reilly and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few can resist the lure of pristine beaches, endless coral reefs, and blazing tropical suns. The South Pacific is still largely unspoiled for travelers willing to stray a little off the beaten path. This reference gives readers a bird's-eye view of the many island groups that make up the area.
Download or read book Sailing the Pacific written by Miles Hordern and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, and into the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and swells of monumental proportions. The trip would take him through the fjords of Patagonia, one of the last uncharted areas in the world, then north on the Peru Current before he began his homeward voyage. Sailing the Pacific recounts that trip in prose so vivid you can almost feel the spray sting your face and the deck heave beneath your feet. Here is prose so hawser-taut that it takes you back to Conrad, Melville, and Poe, indeed all those writers whose works about the bounding main have launched countless imaginations. Hordern pauses to consider those who have gone before him, recounting the stories that have given life to this lonely and magisterial part of the world. Writers, adventurers, fictional characters, cartographers, doomed voyages from history's pages—from the Whaleship S.S. Essex to the HMS Bounty: the South Pacific drew them all, and in their way they left mark on its vast surface. Part sailing yarn, part adventure story, part homage to an unending but beckoning horizon, Sailing the Pacific will appeal to the sailor in each one of us, whatever the way we choose to answer the ocean's call.
Download or read book A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean written by James King and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Crest Trail written by Chris M. Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Spine: Cook's third voyage.
Download or read book A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean written by James Cook and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of the famous voyage of Captain James Cook and his collegues Clerke, Gore and King in the years 1776 to 1780 around the world on board of the "Resolution" and "Discovery". Volume 3 of 3.
Download or read book A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child of the Sea written by Doina Cornell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Child of the Sea is the true story of Jimmy Cornell's daughter sailing around the world on the family's small yacht from the age of 7 to 14, based on Doina's diaries, letters and memories. From 1975 to 1981 the Cornell family visited 54 countries, sailed more than 68,000 miles, and travelled about the same distance overland. The story is told from Doina's point of view, although the main part of the book focuses on the family's three-year stay in the Pacific when she is aged between 10 and 13. Child of the Sea is unusual in that it gives a glimpse into a life that most young children couldn't imagine, swimming, diving and playing the days away in deserted anchorages; visiting some of the most beautiful islands in the world; falling in love with the sea in all its ever-changing moods, from balmy trade wind ocean passages to the treacherous breakers that crash onto tropical reefs, and taking a full part in sailing and handling the yacht on passage. The book also tells the story of a girl's coming of age in the South Pacific, understanding different cultures and values, and experiencing at first-hand how people judge each other depending on the colour of their skin - from the time on Easter Island when tourists mistake Doina for a Polynesian girl, to her and her brother's hostile prejudiced reception back in an English school at the end of their journey. What do children need to grow up happy and healthy? Security with their family; an element of risk; freedom to explore the world; openness to other peoples and cultures; closeness with nature and the elements and an appreciation of the environment and our finite resources. The sailing life offers all this and more, and this book captures it all.
Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Download or read book A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Undertaken for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
