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"Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's expeditions were monumental failures-the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the...
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Editions Parujekad
Pub. Date
2022
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Français
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Au cœur d'une planète cerné par les élus, les chaos , et les violences inter-humaines sont les caractéristiques majeures d'une nation déséquilibrée cependant, l'écriture associée à une lecture instructive doivent être une solution satisfaisante pour la progéniture actuelle. En partant de ces traces ; des jeunes poètes élèvent des cris foudroyant
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2024.
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"A deserted shipwreck off the coast of Iceland holds terrors and dark secrets in this chilling horror novel from the author of The Lighthouse Witches. The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it's just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew - and they're all owed something only she can give them... Now, over one hundred years later,...
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier.
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the...
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Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly traversed frozen hells to be the first to reach the North or South Pole. It is a collection that will both inspire and inform as well as answer questions about the limits of human endurance"--
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Bearport Publishing Company
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[2024]
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English
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"In the past, traveling was difficult. Some places weren't even on maps! But many trailblazers have found ways to explore our world. Fun illustrations pair with bright photos to help readers learn all about our greatest adventures"--
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Bearport Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Most of our world is covered by water and we have only explored some of it. Follow a few trailblazers as they adventure on and under the sea. Fun illustrations pair with bright photos to help readers learn all about our greatest adventures"--
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus...
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Belt Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himself in a nearly deserted city, its walls and basilicas humming with strange magic. As he wanders a haunted landscape, we see him twist further into his own past: his family's difficult immigration from Nigeria to Detroit, his troubled relationship with his father, the sporadic joys of daily life and solitude, his experiences with migration, poverty, foreignness, racism, and his...
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The author of Shackleton: The Biography and the only man alive ever to have traveled around the Earth's circumpolar surface turns his attention to famed archeologist and adventurer Thomas Edward Lawrence, who, in 1916, made a legendary 300-mile journey during the Arab Revolt, bringing this extraordinary life into sharp focus."--
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