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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A celebrated travel writer tells the story of the tiny, fascinating island of Pitcairn, home of precisely 49 people, all descendants of the original founders of the island, the famous mutineers who were the basis for the novels and movie, The Mutiny On the Bounty. The public has been fascinated by Pitcairn since tales of it first started spreading in the early 1900s. But beyond the fictional Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy, there's never been a true...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
246 p., [8] pages of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A scientist credited with discovering more species than Darwin recounts the first major trips of his career, several expeditions to often remote Pacific islands where he found amazing animals, harsh weather, strange local taboos, and dense jungle.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
242 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Daniel Hays and his father built a twenty-five-foot boat and sailed it around Cape Horn, he thought he'd finally put his wanderlust to rest. He went back to school, bought a house, took a job, got married.
But as it turned out, in the real world Daniel Hays felt lost. So he took his love for the sea and his need to escape civilization and pushed it further: he bought an island off the coast of Nova Scotia; built a tiny house; packed up his...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war - the invasion...