Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Modern Library
Keywords: voyage, beagle, world, round, library, classics, visited, modern, geology, journal, researches, natural, history, countries
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2001-03-13
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0375756809
ISBN-13: 9780375756801
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on an expedition that, in his own words, determined my whole career. The Voyage of the Beagle chronicles his five-year journey around the world and especially the coastal waters of South America as a naturalist on the H.M.S. Beagle. While traveling through these unexplored countries collecting specimens, Darwin began to formulate the theories of evolution and natural selection realized in his master work, The Origin of Species. Travel memoir and scientific primer alike, The Voyage of the Beagle is a lively and accessible introduction to the mind of one of hist
Author: Stephen Baxter
Publisher: Eos
Keywords: voyage
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 1997-11-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0061057088
ISBN-13: 9780061057083
The space mission of a lifetime An epic saga of America’s might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events., Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket, and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall. There is: Dana, the Nazi camp survivo
Author: Philip Caputo
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: novel, voyage
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2000-11-14
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0679768394
ISBN-13: 9780679768395
In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, The Voyage is an intricately plotted, superbly detailed, and gripping story of adventure and courage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo has written a timeless novel about the dangerous reverberating effects of long held family secrets.On a June morning in 1901, Cyrus Braithwaite orders his three sons to set sail from their Maine home aboard the family’s forty-six-foot schooner and not return until September. Though confused and hurt by their father’s cold-blooded actions, the three brothers soon rise to the occasion and emba
Author: A.H. Clough
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: voyage, amours
Number of Pages: 52
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 141910599X
ISBN-13: 9781419105999
Yes, We Are Fighting At Last, It Appears. This Morning As Usual, Murray, As Usual, In Hand, I Enter The Caffe Nuovo; Seating Myself With A Sense As It Were Of A Change In The Weather, Not Understanding, However, But Thinking Mostly Of Murray, And, For To-day Is Their Day, Of The Campidoglio Marbles; Caffe-latte! I Call To The Waiter,--and Non C’e Latte.
Author: Jim Moore
Publisher: Sheridan House
Keywords: voyage, second, swan
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1994-01-25
List price: $16.50
ISBN-10: 1574090496
ISBN-13: 9781574090499
Swan - The Second Voyage, eagerly awaited by the many readers of Jim Moore’s first book, By Way of the Wind, again delights us with Jim and Molly’s cruising adventures. This is the story of a two-year, 10,000-mile voyage from Hawaii to the East Coast of the United States via the Panama Canal, with a sojourn in the Sea of Cortez. It is in some ways a sequel to the Moores’ circumnavigation story, but it is also a "nuts and bolts" book, with specific tips on boat building, sailing, and living aboard, woven seamlessly into the narrative. After 50,000 bluewater miles, the autho
Author: Adele Geras
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: voyage
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0152061002
ISBN-13: 9780152061005
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Mina, Daniel, Yasha, and Rachel are just a few of the many people leaving their countries for America. They have great hopes for their new lives, but before they can achieve their dreams, they must survive the long and difficult voyage across the sea. As passengers in an overcrowded steerage compartment, they must endure hunger, thirst, and even brushes with death. And as they struggle to hold on to their hopes for a better future, they find that even under such harsh conditions, friendship and love can flourish. Includes a reader̵
Author: Odo Hirsch
Publisher: Bloomsbury.
Keywords: voyage, ice, amp, bartlett
Published: 1999-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1864488352
ISBN-13: 9781864488357
"This is a splendid quest adventure, with larger than life but believable characters, natural but humorous dialogue, and a storyline driven by whimsical inventiveness There is a refreshing originality about the story" Books for Keeps A young queen who rules seven kingdoms is far too busy and important to leave her palace, so her loyal subjects send gifts from far and wide: monkeys, flamingos, giraffes, exotic fruits. But the thing that she longs for most of all has never survived the journey. Who can bring the Queen her heart’s desire? Only Bartlett has the inventiveness, desperation and
