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Proficient Motorcycling: The Ultimate Guide to Riding Well

David L. Hough

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Publisher: BowTie Press
Hardcover: 288 pages
Language: English
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This fresh update of the world's best introduction to safe street-riding techniques now marries color imagery and contemporary road scenes with expanded content and more real road hazard strategies written in clear, concise,easy-to follow instruction that has made the book #1... More

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Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - active table of contents

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Publisher: C&C Web Press
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Language: English
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C&C Web Press brings you Robert Louis Stevenson's classic swashbuckling tale Treasure Island... More

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West with the Night

Beryl Markham

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Publisher: North Point Press
Hardcover: 320 pages
Language: English
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West with the Night is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s... More

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A Night to Remember

Walter Lord

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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Hardcover: 208 pages
Language: English
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The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanic's fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers and crew, both noble and ignominious... More

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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck

Gary Kinder

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Publisher: Grove Press
Hardcover: 560 pages
Language: English
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In 1857 the SS Central America sank off the California coast... More

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The Slave Ship: A Human History

Marcus Rediker

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Publisher: Penguin
Hardcover: 448 pages
Language: English
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In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century... More

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Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

Michael J. Tougias

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Publisher: Scribner
Hardcover: 240 pages
Language: English
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A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, Fatal Forecast is a spellbinding moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours in the lives of eightyoung fishermen, some of whom would never set foot on dry land again... More

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The Walt Disney World Trivia Book, Volume 1: Secrets, History & Fun Facts Behind the Magic

Louis A. Mongello

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Publisher: The Intrepid Traveler
Hardcover: 224 pages
Language: English
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Check your WDW know-how, quiz your friends, or open "The Walt Disney World Trivia Book" at random to brighten your day with new nuggets of WDW knowledge... More

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The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework

Hervey Garrett Smith

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Publisher: Dover Publications
Hardcover: 256 pages
Language: English
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Perfect shipboard reference, packed with useful "hands-on" information, covers sailor’s tools, basic knots and useful hitches, handsewing and canvas work and dozens of other topics important to safe, economic and efficient boat maintenance... More

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The Blue Book of Sailing

Adam Cort

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Hardcover: 272 pages
Language: English
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Transform basic sailing skills into true mastery No other sport is as complex or as gear- and technique-intensive as sailing... More

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Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront (War for the New York Waterfrnt)

Nathan Ward

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hardcover: 272 pages
Language: English
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What if the world of the old New York waterfront was as violent and mob-controlled as it appears in Hollywood movies? Well, it really was, and the story of its downfall, told here in high style by Nathan Ward, is the original New York mob story... More

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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey among the Christians of the Middle East

William Dalrymple

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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Hardcover: 496 pages
Language: English
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In 587 a... More

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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do

Michael Tougias

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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Hardcover: 336 pages
Language: English
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In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast... More

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The Story of the Titanic As Told by Its Survivors

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Publisher: Dover Publications
Hardcover: 320 pages
Language: English
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What it was really like... More

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The Titanic Coloring Book

Peter F. Copeland

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Publisher: Dover Publications
Hardcover: 32 pages
Language: English
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Impressive illustrations dramatically portray events leading up to and including the sinking of the "unsinkable" White Star liner... More

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Titanic: The Last Great Images

Robert D. Ballard

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Publisher: Running Press
Hardcover: 192 pages
Language: English
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Dead men tell no tales... More

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