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  • '...and the Mille Lacs who have no reservation...'
    Clarence Ralph Fitz
    The book chronologically explains the bungling of the federal government as they attempted to be fair to the Indians while at the same time moving them out of the way of settlement. It also delves into the interaction between the Sioux and the Chippewa, including the joint attempt in 1862 to kill all the white people in Minnesota, and how the results of that interaction affecte...
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    30,86 €

  • Bio-Invaders
    Sarah Johnson
    We are pleased to announce a new series ofenvironmental history readers, suitable for students.Comprising essays selected from our journals,Environment and History and Environmental Values,each inexpensive paperback volume will address animportant theme in environmental history, combiningunderlying theory and specific case-studies. The firstvolume, Bio-invaders, investigates th...
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    39,21 €

  • Mountain Environments in Prehistoric Europe
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    88,08 €

  • Discoverers and Explorers
    Edward R. Shaw
    The practice of beginning the study of geography with the locality in which the pupil lives, in order that his first ideas of geographical conceptions may be gained from observation directed upon the real conditions existing about him, has been steadily gaining adherence during the past few years as a rational method of entering upon the study of geography.After the pupil has f...
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    11,08 €

  • Our Sunburnt Country
    Arthur J Baillie / Molly G Johnson
    First published in 1964 this book was written by a young schoolteacher. It was a bestseller. It was updated and republished in 2013 by the original author who was still a passionate researcher of Australian history. Our Sunburnt Country tells the story of Australia’s heritage. It includes Aboriginal settlement, Dreamtime stories, European explorers, the First Fleet’s arrival, t...
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    33,55 €

  • The British Empire through buildings
    John M MacKenzie / John M. MacKenzie
    Buildings provide tremendous insights into the character of imperialism, not least in the manner in which Western forms were spread across the globe. They reveal the projection of power and authority in colonised landscapes, as well the economic ambitions and social and cultural needs of colonial peoples in all types of colonies. They also represent a colonial order of social c...
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    54,86 €

  • Géographie physique
    Jacques Babinet
    Pour étudier le développement des lois de la nature dans le monde entier, les observateurs ont parcouru les diverses régions, et ensuite les théoriciens, en rassemblant les faits analogues, ont pu en conclure les principes généraux qui forment le beau domaine de la géographie physique. Il semble néanmoins que, pour saisir les mille détails dont se compose tout ce qui se rappor...
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    9,87 €

  • Travels to the West of Qiu Changchun
    Li Chi Ch’ang / E. Bretschneider
    The Travels to the West of Qiu Changchun was a record of the journey embarked on by the Taoist monk Qiu Chuji who traveled from Shandong through Central Asia to present himself before Genghis Khan.In 1220, on the invitation of Genghis Khan with a golden tablet, Qiu Chuji left his hometown in Shandong with nineteen disciples and traveled through Beijing and traveled north. In Ju...
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    8,02 €

  • Essential Chinese Geography - Introduction- A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Learn Mandarin Chinese, Must-Know Vocabulary, Easy Sentences, Reading Practice, HSK All Levels (English, Pinyin, Simplified Chara
    Qing Qing Jiang
    Welcome to Chinese Geography series. In this book, we will discover basic and must-know facts about the Chinese geography (中国地理的常识).  The books in Chinese Geography series contain numerous lessons in Mandarin Chinese. We start with a brief introduction of the book in the preface (前言) in Chinese and pinyin, a bit detailed introduction of the main theme (in English), and continue...
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    76,70 €

  • China’s Five Great Mountains- Geography, Beginner’s Guide to Self-Learn Mandarin Chinese, Must-Know Vocabulary, Easy Sentences, Reading Practice, HSK All Levels, English, Pinyin, Simplified Characters
    Qing Qing Jiang
    Welcome to Chinese Geography series. In this book, we will discover China’s Five Great Mountains (五岳).  The books in Chinese Geography series contain numerous lessons in Mandarin Chinese. We start with a brief introduction of the book in the preface (前言) in Chinese and pinyin, a bit detailed introduction of the main theme (in English), and continue to dig the geography in diffe...
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    77,84 €

  • Chinese Ethnic Groups - A Beginner’s Guide to Self-Learn Mandarin Chinese, Geography, Must-Know Vocabulary, Easy Sentences, Reading Practice, HSK All Levels (English, Pinyin, Simplified Characters)
    Qing Qing Jiang
    Welcome to Chinese Geography series. In this book, we will discover numerous Ethnic Groups in China (中国民族).  The books in Chinese Geography series contain numerous lessons in Mandarin Chinese. We start with a brief introduction of the book in the preface (前言) in Chinese and pinyin, a bit detailed introduction of the main theme (in English), and continue to dig the geography in ...
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    76,70 €

  • The Loss of the Australia; A narrative of the loss of the brig Australia by fire on her voyage from Leith to Sydney
    Adam Yule
    The Loss of the Australia; A narrative of the loss of the brig Australia by fire on her voyage from Leith to Sydney, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book ha...
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    19,96 €

  • Papuan Pictures
    H. M. Dauncey
    Papuan Pictures, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors’ origina...
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    24,28 €

  • The Loss of His Majesty’s Frigate Anson
    Unknown
    The Loss of His Majesty’s Frigate Anson, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans...
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    19,01 €

  • The Loss of the S. S. Titanic
    Lawrence Beesley
    The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these bo...
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    22,52 €

  • Voyage autour du monde par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse et la flûte L’Étoile, en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769.
    comte Louis-Antoine Bougainville
    Voyage autour du monde par la frégate du roi La Boudeuse et la flûte L’Étoile, en 1766, 1767, 1768 & 1769., a été considérée comme importante tout au long de l’histoire de l’humanité. Dans un effort pour s’assurer que ce travail ne soit jamais perdu, nous avons pris des mesures pour assurer sa préservation en republiant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations actue...
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    23,34 €

  • Longhead
    C. H. Robinson
    Longhead: The Story of the First Fire, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans o...
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    19,96 €

  • Memorials of the Sea
    William Scoresby
    Memorials of the Sea: My Father; Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book ha...
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    23,49 €

  • The Pagan Tribes of Borneo
    Charles Hose / William McDougall
    The Pagan Tribes of Borneo, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the autho...
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    35,59 €

  • Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer
    Robert-Houdin
    Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these b...
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    29,83 €

  • Nord-Sud
    René Bazin
    Nord-Sud: Amérique; Angleterre; Corse; Spitzberg, a été considérée comme importante tout au long de l’histoire de l’humanité. Dans un effort pour s’assurer que ce travail ne soit jamais perdu, nous avons pris des mesures pour assurer sa préservation en republiant ce livre dans un format moderne pour les générations actuelles et futures. Ce livre complet a été retapé, remanié et...
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    23,66 €

  • The Coronation of King Charles III
    Fulton Titus
    Prepare to meet the man of the hour, King Charles III, who is set to ascend the throne after the passing of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The introductory section of this book delves into both the historical significance of the United Kingdom and an in-depth exploration of the new king based on deep research of his history, to gain valuable insight into how he will transform ...
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    22,19 €

  • Man and Nature
    George P. Marsh
    After being appointed the United States Minister Resident to the Ottoman Empire in 1849, George P. Marsh had the opportunity to travel the world and visit the sites of ancient civilizations. Troubled by what he saw, Marsh came to the conclusion that these societies were victims of self-destruction and that the same fate could be in store for the nations of today. Moved to actio...
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    12,49 €

  • Cilfái
    Nigel A. Robins
    A collection of essays on the historical geography of Kilvey Hill in Swansea (Cilfái in Welsh). The Hill is an important part of the industrial history of copper smelting in Swansea. For over two hundred years, the Hill was polluted by the copper smoke from Swansea’s famous White Rock Copper Works. This book looks at the impacts of pollution and the environmental recovery of th...
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    31,64 €

  • Bayocean
    Jerry Sutherland
    Like Plato’s fictional island kingdom, most of Bayocean sank below the sea long ago. The rest lies buried beneath the shore pine, salal, and beach grass covering the four-mile-long spit that protects Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean. This book chronicles the half-century during which this Oregon resort town existed, tells the stories of the people who lived there, and expla...
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    20,63 €

  • Letters From Wankie
    Patricia Friedberg
    'Letters from Wankie' is a unique true story based on the collection of some 500 air letters the author, British-born Patricia Friedberg, wrote home to England in the mid-1950s, during the first two years of her marriage to her South African physician husband. Together the newlyweds moved to the remote mining town of Wankie in the far northwest corner of Southern Rhodesia (now ...
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    16,67 €

  • Flora and Fauna of the Civil War
    Kelby Ouchley
    During the Civil War, humans impacted plants and animals on an unprecedented scale as soldiers on both sides waged the most environmentally destructive war ever on American soil. Refugees and armies alike tramped across the landscape foraging for food, shelter, and fuel. Wild plants and animals formed barriers for armies and carried disease, yet also provided medicine and raw m...
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    31,15 €

  • War and Modernization
    Charles Ynfante
    War is devastation and destruction. But war also contributes to modernizing a region, state or country. Actual war and the post-war experience forces the advancement of necessary improvements in social life, industry, technology, and other areas to counter the threat of war’s destruction. World War 2 in the 1940s and its influence in the American Southwest is an example of this...
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    34,59 €

  • Benandanti Battaglie mitico-rituali tra le Alpi e il Caucaso
    IPPOLITO MARMAI
    I BENANDANTI FRIULANI: NUOVA INTERPRETAZIONE, DATI INEDITI, RISCOPERTO L’INTROVABILE PRATO ROTONDO DI MALISANA, NUOVI DOCUMENTI DELL’INQUISIZIONE, ARCHIVI E VARIANTI DIALETTALI DEL NOME 'BENANDANTI', SOLTANTO UNO SU 80.000 NEONATI NELL’AMNIO o 'CAMICIA'.Le battaglie rituali dei Benandanti friulani - sepolte per secoli negli archivi dell’Inquisizione medioevale - sono state ripo...
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    27,20 €

  • The Place to Stay
    Steve Porter
    Hotel Victory was a beacon of luxury and grandeur along the shores of Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Attracting crowds especially for the short three-month tourist season, the allure of its sumptuous accommodations surrounded by sun and water promised an unforgettable memory. The truth is that unfortunately not every story culminates in a jubilant ending; however, the life lessons we are ab...
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    21,37 €