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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Daniel Boone, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:
• Aprender más sobre Daniel Boone, que ya desde su más tierna infancia muestra un gusto por la caza y la aventura, algo que lo llevará a participar en el inicio de la expansión de los colonos hacia el oeste
• Descubrir la evolución de las colonias...
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A man, an axe, and a dog named Fuzzy ... let the adventure begin! Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in debt, Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere. But with a stroke of luck, his dream of escaping it all to live in the remote Alaskan tundra suddenly came true. Miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment, Guy built a log cabin from scratch and began carving a life for himself through fishing, hunting, and...
1743) Sovietistan
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Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in 1991. But though they are new to modern statehood, this is a region rich in ancient history, culture, and landscapes unlike anywhere else in the world. Traveling alone, Erika Fatland is a true adventurer in every sense. In Sovietistan, she takes the reader on a compassionate and insightful journey to explore how their Soviet heritage has influenced...
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Between 1915 and 1955 adventure-seeking Frank Glaser, a latter-day Far North Mountain Man, trekked across wilderness Alaska on foot, by wolf-dog team, and eventually, by airplane. In his career, he was a market hunter, trapper, roadhouse owner, professional dog team musher, and federal predator agent. A naturalist at heart, he learned from personal observation the life secrets of moose, caribou, foxes, wolverines, mountain sheep, grizzly bears, and...
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110 Real Life English Conversations is a collection of 110 English dialogues inspired by real life situations in my life. These conversations will help you speak naturally using English (USA) phrases and vocabulary. Included in this purchase: Audio of all 110 real life conversations recorded with a cast of 27 different American English speakers! This 110 Real Life English conversations E-book includes:OVER 2 HOURS OF FREE ENGLISH AUDIO READ BY A CAST...
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"Recounting sojourns with Abbey, but also Peter Matthiessen, Doug Tompkins, Jim Harrison, Yvon Chouinard and others, Peacock observes that what he calls "solitary walks" were the greatest currency he and his buddies ever shared. He asserts that "solitude is the deepest well I have encountered in this life," and the introspection it affords has made him who he is: a lifelong protector of the wilderness and its many awe-inspiring inhabitants. With adventures...
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Kathleen Phelan (nee Newton) was utterly unique; a female vagabond who embraced the freedom of the tramp lifestyle and philosophy. Like the infamous women explorers of the Victorian era, she traveled before as a single woman adventuring to every place on the planet funding her travels through canny bets on horseracing.
At age 26 in 1944, she met and married author and fellow tramp, Jim Phelan who introduced her to his literary circle. She tramped...
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In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to Antarctica. Not all of them would return. Written by one of its survivors, The Worst Journey in the World tells the moving and dramatic story of the disastrous Scott expedition. Driven by an obsession for scientific knowledge, these brave polar explorers embarked...
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Extrait : "Diverses circonstances concoururent à me donner de très bonne heure ce qu'on appelle « le goût de la mer ». En premier lieu, ma mère me mit au monde au bruit d"une tempête. Telle était la violence du vent, la pluie battait les murailles et le toit avec une telle force, qu'on se préparait à transporter l'accouchée dans une partie plus solide de notre demeure, qui tremblait du grenier à la cave."
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Un état des lieux magistral du continent le plus tourmenté du monde. Un livre profondément émouvant et optimiste. Chaque fois que vous tentez d'expliquer « L'Afrique, c'est... », les mots se désagrègent, se dissolvent. Chaque fois que vous tentez d'exprimer une généralité sur l'Afrique, il y aura toujours au moins cinq pays qui feront exception. Et quand vous pensez être arrivé à une certitude, vous réalisez que le point de vue opposé...
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When David Mauro was in his forties, his life hit rock bottom. With nothing to lose, he left everything he knew behind and set out on an epic international adventure. For the next seven years, Dave trudged across glaciers and frozen wastelands and through dense, dangerous forests. He communed with penguins and elephants, kept company with cannibals and gunrunners, and spoke with the dead. And though he'd never been a climber, he ended up joining history's...
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Dans les années 1970 et 1980, aux heures les plus sombres du communisme, la Pologne a vu éclore une génération d'alpinistes exceptionnels.
Sans espoir d'un avenir décent et assoiffés de liberté, ces grimpeurs téméraires ont réussi, à force d'obstination et d'ingéniosité, à parcourir le monde à la recherche des ascensions les plus extrêmes. Mais c'est surtout en Asie et en Himalaya qu'ils marquèrent l'histoire de l'alpinisme en réalisant...
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Jim Christy's life and adventures began on the mobbed-up streets of South Philadelphia. Over his 73 years to date, Christy has asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabond adventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and artist, in over 50 countries around the globe, and still found time to write over 30 books. His early adventures as a street fighter and child tramp provide a unique socio-cultural history of Philadelphia...
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In 1914, as Europe braces for an unfathomably deadly war, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton sets sail for Antarctica to do the impossible: traverse the continent. He has a ship (the aptly named Endurance), a head brimming with optimism, and 28 men willing to follow him on an expedition across some of the most treacherous terrain on the planet. But Shackleton's optimism doesn't last long. Despite his experience in the Antarctic, disaster strikes early...
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In 2014, author and bull running expert Bill Hillmann was gored in the streets of Pamplona by a bull named Brevito who left a baseball-sized wound in his thigh. Two years later he returned to Spain, eager to run with the bulls again.
Bill was on a mission to run a hundred and one bull runs over the course of the summer, putting his marriage and his life on the line in a quest to explore the breadth and depth of the Spanish bull running tradition...
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One of the most influential men of the twentieth century, Jacques Cousteau was an eco-emissary whose own life of derring-do brought him fame and the means to proselytize his cause. Ecologist, adventurer, celebrity, businessman - Cousteau was a brilliant and complex individual, and Madsen's biography captures him in style. Madsen, who knew the Cousteau family for over two decades, interviewed Cousteau personally for this book.
1758) Life on the Mississippi
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A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from...
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Wit, wisdom, and revelations from sixty years of life on the road.
Driving one highway after another at sunrise, winding through the mountainside, hearing the call to rise of the roosters, or simply exchanging "fishing stories" with the other guys at the truck stops. Like that one about the trucker who stopped along the highway and helped a little old lady who had a flat tire. By the time the trucker had told his tale a dozen times, the simple tire...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur James Cooks et l'exploration du Pacifique en moins d'une heure!
Le 25 août 1768, un charbonnier d'apparence banale quitte le port de Plymouth. À son bord, le jeune James Cook, officiellement chargé d'aller observer un phénomène rarissime: l'interposition de Vénus entre la Terre et le Soleil. Sur le chemin, il découvrira l'Australie et la Nouvelle-Zélande, s'inscrivant comme l'un des plus grands...
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