The mongol empire had a profound impact on the development of the world. It helped to spread trade and technology, and it also contributed to the fall of the islamic caliphate. This book tells the story of genghis khan's life and conquests. It begins with his humble...

Editeur : Rob Satterfield
Parution : 2025-08-29

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Genghis khan is one of history's immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, genghis united warring clans to create a nation and then an empire that ran across much of asia. Under his...

Editeur : Rob Satterfield
Parution : 2025-08-27

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Genghis khan fascinates us because of his ability to rise from a shunned leader to the most powerful ruler of his time. His intelligence and desires have provided the world with developments we may never have seen. In 25 years and the establishment of the mongol empire,...

Editeur : Rob Satterfield
Parution : 2025-08-22

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An epic account of how a new world order under tamerlane was born out of the decline of the mongol empire By the mid-fourteenth century, the world empire founded by genghis khan was in crisis. The mongol ilkhanate had ended in iran and iraq, china’s mongol rulers were...

Editeur : Rob Satterfield
Parution : 2025-08-13

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First published in 1915, written by Norman Douglas (1868 – 1952). Travel author Norman Douglas shares his experiences and photographs of Calabria, a beautiful and historic yet secluded region of rural Italy, as it was at the turn of the 20th century. A wonderful guide...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-05-08

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Pacific Palate is the expanded and updated edition of the ultimate guide to sourcing local, artisanal, gourmet food products on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.In this expanded and updated edition, well-known food writer Don Genova presents the best food producers...

Editeur : Touchwood Editions
Parution : 2025-04-22

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Quando Marco Polo partì alla volta della Cina, non sapeva ancora che quel viaggio avrebbe cambiato per sempre la sua vita e avrebbe contribuito a creare uno dei più grandi tesori della letteratura universale. Il Milione, frutto delle testimonianze e delle avventure...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2024-07-26

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An Atlantic BestsellerNova Scotia is blessed with numerous must-see waterfalls, and this volume from self-described “waterfall addict” Benoit Lalonde brings together 100 of the province’s best.Conveniently categorized by the government of Nova Scotia scenic route...

Editeur : Goose Lane Editions
Parution : 2024-05-28

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In 1909, the Smithsonian Institution commissioned ex-President Theodore Roosevelt to collect specimens of African wildlife for the National Museum. Roosevelt went to Africa with his son Kermit, several prominent naturalists, and many journalists, thereby initiating the...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2024-05-22

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In April of 1895, a Nova Scotian by the name of Joshua Slocum set sail from Boston with the goal of circumnavigating the globe by himself. Three years and 46,000 miles later, he would publish the story of his journey, Sailing Alone Around the World, an instant classic...

Editeur : Goose Lane Editions
Parution : 2024-05-21

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An exuberant travelogue involving visits to Cuba and various Middle Eastern locations, stories of Russia and the death of Czar Nicholas and family, and riding an elephant over the Alps!

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2024-04-05

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The Flying Carpet is the airplane in which the author and his pilot-companion, Moye Stephens, Jr., follow a royal road to romance in the air.

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2024-01-03

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Since childhood, Tony Fabijancic has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the south where he could break free...

Editeur : AU Press
Parution : 2023-08-15

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The Royal Road to Romance is the travel classic in which a happy, young romanticist goes laughing and beating and fighting his vagabond way into the glamorous corners of the world. When Richard Halliburton graduated from Princeton, he chose adventure over a career,...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2021-11-09

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Mornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence about Mexico where he travelled several times and was fascinated by what he observed there of the exotic people and their way of life. It displays Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2021-11-04

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A collection of personal travel essays that takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride across Africa as seen through the eyes of a solo female backpacker, Angela deJong.When Angela stepped onto African soil for the first time, alone, she never imagined it would be just...

Editeur : RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Parution : 2021-09-03

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A rollicking travel memoir that invites the curious, the initiated, and even the skeptics to tag along on the ever-changing landscape of “The Way”For many, walking the Camino is a decision predictably triggered by death, divorce, or a career crisis. It’s not Everest and...

Editeur : RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Parution : 2021-09-03

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In this engaging epistolary memoir, Howard Burton describes his early experiences of moving with his family to a medieval hilltop village called Le Pouget in Languedoc after years of running Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. The Languedoc region...

Editeur : Open Agenda Publishing Inc.
Parution : 2021-03-24

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'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society. Here he...

Editeur : ClassicBooks by KTHTK
Parution : 2021-01-01

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A deeply personal travel memoir that combines alpine adventure, family connections, and spiritual encounters in two very different worlds: a Himalayan village and Vancouver, Canada.In 2012, Michael Schauch and his wife, Chantal, undertook an expedition deep in the...

Editeur : RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
Parution : 2020-09-29

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