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On Thin Ice: An Epic Final Quest into the Melting Arctic
ERIC LARSEN · Falcon Guides Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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In March 2014, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters set out to traverse nearly 500 miles across the melting Arctic Ocean, unsupported, from Northern Ellesmere Island to the geographic North Pole. Despite being one of the most cold and hostile environments on the planet, the Arctic Ocean has seen... |
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The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps
Edward Brooke-Hitching · Chronicle Books Pages: 256 Format: Hardcover
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The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding,... |
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
Craig L Symonds · Oxford University Press Pages: 792 Format: Hardcover
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Author of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize) , The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly) , and Operation Neptune (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature) , Craig L. Symonds ranks among the country's finest... |
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
BENJAMIN CARTER HETT · Henry Holt and Co. Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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A riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happenWhy did democracy fall apart so quickly and completely in Germany in the 1930s? How did a democratic government allow Adolf... |
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St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva
JONATHAN MILES · Pegasus Books Pages: 560 Format: Hardcover
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From Peter the Great to Putin, this is the unforgettable story of St Petersburg -- one of the most magical, menacing, and influential cities in the world. St. Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva... |
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Blood Moon: An American Epic of War and Splendor in the Cherokee Nation
John Sedgwick · Simon & Schuster Pages: 512 Format: Hardcover
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This sweeping American epic reveals one of the greatest untold stories of the nineteenth century: the fierce rivalry between two great Cherokee chiefs that led to war, forced migration, and the devastation of a once-proud nation.Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between... |
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Dirty Doc Ames and the Scandal that Shook Minneapolis
Erik Rivenes · Minnesota Historical Society Press Pages: 224 Format: Paperback
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The story of Albert Alonzo "Doc" Ames is perhaps the greatest political scandal in Minnesota history. As mayor of Minneapolis, Ames exposed the city to national humiliation-and helped jump-start an era of reform. At the turn of the twentieth century, Minneapolis was moving away... |
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Richard III: England's Most Controversial King
CHRIS SKIDMORE · St. Martin's Press Pages: 448 Format: Hardcover
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From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England's most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain.Richard III is one of English history's best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized... |
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