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Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In the annals of seafaring and exploration, there is one name that immediately evokes visions of the open ocean, billowing sails, visiting strange, exotic lands previously uncharted, and civilizations never before encountered-Captain James Cook. This is the true story of a legendary man and explorer. Noted modern-day adventurer Martin Dugard, using James Cook's personal journals, strips away the myths surrounding Cook's life and portrays his tremendous...
83) Saving the Tasmanian devil: how science is helping the world's largest marsupial carnivore survive
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it's too late. Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even humans, as they learn more about how to prevent and hopefully...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"The small, run-down town of Eden is the only place Jenny Burns has ever called home. The roots of the trees are in her bones, the air of the mountains is in her breath, the lakes and rivers are in her blood. And that's why, when her father loses his job and tells Jenny that they may have to move on from Eden, she knows she can't let that happen. The fever of New Zealand's gold rush still runs in the veins of Eden, and everyone knows the legend of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
He was an expert navigator who drew a chart of the Pacific encompassing 2,500 miles and locating nearly 100 islands totally unknown to Europeans. This man was also a translator, an artist, a high priest, a brilliant orator, and a most devious politician. A European polymath? No, merely the greatest known Polynesian navigator of the 18th century.
Tupaia sailed with Cook from Tahiti, piloted the Endeavour across the South Pacific, and interceded on...
87) The Southwest Pacific since 1900: a modern history; Australia, New Zealand, the islands, Antarctica
Author
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
93) Quokkas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Quokkas might be the cutest animals you've never heard of. These furry little creatures look like a cross between a kangaroo and a squirrel. Get fun details about this adorable Australian animal"--
94) Meet Maui
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the ancient South Pacific world of Oceania, Moana, a born navigator, sets sail in search of a fabled island. During her incredible journey, she teams up with the legendary demi-god Maui to traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage."--Amazon.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Into the Wild, the riveting story of a young man seeking his own truth and finding adventure and the awesome, unforgiving power of nature. Will Chaffey was 18 when he boarded a plane in New York bound for Australia. Taking time off to work and travel, Will met an enigmatic wanderer and herpetologist named Geoff there and with him crossed the inland desert to the tropical northwest coast, home to the saltwater crocodile, a predator...
99) Hawaii's story
Author
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen (1898) is an autobiography by Lili'uokalani. Published in 1898, the book was written in the aftermath of Lili'uokalani's attempt to appeal on behalf of her people to President Grover Cleveland, a personal friend. Although it inspired Cleveland to demand her reinstatement, the United States Congress published the Morgan Report in 1894, which denied U.S. involvement in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Hawaii's...
Author
Language
English
Description
With hundreds of facts about the famous explorer and the Age of Discovery and Exploration in the Pacific, this book offers a comprehensive, informative. and highly readable introduction to the world of Captain Cook. Features personal accounts, maps, primary sources, and graphics.
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