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  A Tenants Tale - A Chronicle of...

  Terence Casey

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  The Tenant's Tale is a fascinating chronicle of life in rural Ireland during the 19th Century. This narrative spans virtually the whole of the nineteenth century, a century that has been the most traumatic in Ireland's long and troubled history.

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  Travels in Alaska

  John Muir

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  In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest, for they enabled him to verify his theories of glacial action. Again and again he returned to this continental laboratory of landscapes. The greatest of the tide-water glaciers appropriately commemorates his name. Upon this book of Alaska travels, all but finished before his unforeseen departure, John Muir expended the last months of his life. (Summary by William Frederic Bade)

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  NPR Road Trips: Family Vacations...

  NPR

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  With generous splashes of popular culture and human interest, the NPR Road Trips series introduces you not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them—and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining way you’ve come to expect from NPR.We all have memories of family vacations—some successful, some less so, and some gone terribly awry. When it comes to reporting colorful, compelling tales of family vacations, no one does it better than National Public Radio. Originally heard on All Things Considered and Morning Edition, the stories gathered here are entertaining, provocative and moving. Like Laura Lorson’s “Hard-Earned Lessons from the Family Road Trip,” in which she recalls endless hours in a hot car, eating junk food and listening to AM radio. And “Setting Sail with Family, Imperfections in Tow,” Marion Winik’s account of a not-so-perfect family reunion at sea. And “Family Camping,” in which commentator Joel Achenbach points out that camping is a serious sport. NPR knows that everyone has a dream vacation, but many of us are settling for economic-reality vacations. So Tom Goldman asks, “Who Needs a Fancy Cruise If You’ve Got Inner Tubes?” And when Robert Smith learns the price of Broadway tickets to The Little Mermaid ($121 each!), he takes a more frugal route, piling the family into his Honda Civic and heading to the drive-in. Warmly remembered, richly detailed, these stories invite you to share in the journey of others—and may inspire you to plan your own.Contents:Introduction by Noah AdamsHard-Learned Lessons from the Family Road TripFamily CampingEducational VacationsThe History of the VacationThe Low-Cost Glories of the Drive-In TheaterPink Jeep ChroniclesTaking the Great American Road Trip, Google-StyleA Summer Outing to Chincoteague IslandWho Needs a Fancy Cruise If You’ve Got Inner Tubes?Pirates of the CaribbeanThe Discomfort ZoneSetting Sail with Family, Imperfections in TowMemories of Going on StaycationLost and Found Sound: A Partridge Family Vacation

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  National Trails Guide

  William Robert Buck

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  For the first time, the 30 routes of the National Trails System are profiled in a guidebook: National Trails Guide: America’s Hidden Wonders (Global CPR, Sausalito) is the only book available profiling all 30 national scenic and historic trails. The audio book includes detailed information on where to go and what to see: 
  	Many bold stories from the trail, with detailed information on places across America 
  	Introduction to 136 national park units, 89 national forests, and 141 wilderness areas with national trails 
  	With companion website( www.nationaltrailsguide.com ) including a large color US map	 
  “National parks are destinations; national trails are journeys,” says author William Robert Buck.These trails offer visceral examples of colliding cultures, a quest for livelihood in uncertain times, passionate stories of victory and defeat, and the celebration of human achievement and possibility.” 
  A modern-day champion of the National Trails System, Buck set out across the country to document all 30 trails. Over the course of eight years, with multiple road trip partners, he visited 50 states, taking 10,000 photographs, hiking segments of all the 30 national trails. Join the adventure...

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  Ramsey Island and Beyond - A...

  Ffion Rees

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  Ramsey. An island steeped in myth and history, rich in nature and spectacle. Lying just 1km off the Pembrokeshire coast at St Davids, Ramsey Island is home to some of the most important animal and bird populations in the UK, as well as being surrounded by challenging waters that teem with all manner of marine life. 
   
  Join local boat skipper Ffion Rees as she shares her intimate knowledge of the island and its surrounding waters; uncovering its human stories, natural highlights and occasional dangers. Told with both expertise and passion, this is a real insight into one of Britain's most important coastal locations. 
   
  Chapters include: 
  • A Trip Around Ramsey 
  • Bird Life 
  • Island Life and People 
  • The Waters 
  • Underwater Flora and Fauna

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  Blood on the Wave - Scottish Sea...

  John Sadler

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  A history of combat in Scottish waters—from the Iron Age to the Cold War—and the changes in the technology and tactics of naval warfare.   Scotland’s long coastline runs from the waters of Galloway and the Solway, through the Irish Sea to the long sea lochs and myriad islands of the Celtic west, around grim Cape Wrath, the coast of Caithness, Pentland Firth and the Orkneys, eastward down to the Moray Firth, the eastern seaboard, to the Forth and the sentinel of the Bass Rock. It is an ancient strand redolent with history. Sea battles have been fought in its lee from the time of Agricola to the Atlantic convoys.   In Blood on the Wave, John Sadler embarks on a pilgrimage around Scotland’s rugged and stunning coastline, to explore the fascinating history that has occurred in its waters. Beautifully illustrated throughout with photographs and line drawings, the narrative also describes developments in ship building technique and design, developments in naval gunnery with a look at coastal defenses. From the long-oared Norse galleys that swept down through the isles and the sea lochs to Somerled’s birlinns and nyvaigs contesting with those of Godred of Man in a moonlit clash of spears, many of the fiercest battles in Scottish history have been fought at sea.   Examining an array of skirmishes from the Wars of Independence to the Napoleonic Wars, the scuttling of the Imperial German Navy at Scapa Flow to the lurking threat of Second World War U-boats and nuclear submarines hunting for Soviet spy ships, John Sadler has created a brilliant, insightful and unique portrait of the Scottish war at sea.

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