The Secret Coast To Coast

Author : Andrew Bowden
Publisher : Rambling Man Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Coast to Coast written by Andrew Bowden and published by Rambling Man Books. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tell someone you're going off to Scotland to walk the Southern Upland Way and they'll probably look at you rather blankly before starting to tell you about Great Aunt Mabel's recent hip operation. Even in walking circles, it's not exactly a well known trail. Which is why, when Andrew Bowden told anyone who would listen that he was going to Scotland to walk the Southern Upland Way, everyone looked at him blankly and started telling him about Great Aunt Mabel's recent hip operation. Seems a lot of people have a Great Aunt Mabel. Still that didn't put him off writing about his experiences as he strode across from one side of Scotland's border region to the other. So join Andrew as he walks from Portpatrick to Cockburnspath with just an extremely large rucksack, a bright red tent and some dodgy packets of pasta to keep him company. As for Great Aunt Mabel? Well her hip operation seemed to go okay.

Author : Jennifer Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780935727296
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruising the Secret Coast written by Jennifer Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to unexplored anchorages on British Columbia's Inside Passage. Just off the Inside Passage's beaten path are countless channels, bays and lagoons that beg exploration. Some are easy, some can be entered only during a few minutes at high water slack. Waggoner correspondents Jennifer and James Hamilton have researched many of these hidden jewels, and provided detailed navigation instructions. Plus history, sights to see, trails and logging roads to walk. Added chapters discuss anchoring techniques, water conservation, food & meal planning, even laundry.

Author : William S. Kiser
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806162392
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coast-to-Coast Empire written by William S. Kiser and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Zebulon Pike’s expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, settlers, boundary adjudicators, railway surveyors, and the U.S. Army crossed into and through New Mexico, transforming it into a battleground for competing influences determined to control the region. Previous histories have treated the Santa Fe trade, the American occupation under Colonel Stephen W. Kearny, the antebellum Indian Wars, debates over slavery, the Pacific Railway, and the Confederate invasion during the Civil War as separate events in New Mexico. In Coast-to-Coast Empire, William S. Kiser demonstrates instead that these developments were interconnected parts of a process by which the United States effected the political, economic, and ideological transformation of the region. New Mexico was an early proving ground for Manifest Destiny, the belief that U.S. possession of the entire North American continent was inevitable. Kiser shows that the federal government’s military commitment to the territory stemmed from its importance to U.S. expansion. Americans wanted California, but in order to retain possession of it and realize its full economic and geopolitical potential, they needed New Mexico as a connecting thoroughfare in their nation-building project. The use of armed force to realize this claim fundamentally altered New Mexico and the Southwest. Soldiers marched into the territory at the onset of the Mexican-American War and occupied it continuously through the 1890s, leaving an indelible imprint on the region’s social, cultural, political, judicial, and economic systems. By focusing on the activities of a standing army in a civilian setting, Kiser reshapes the history of the Southwest, underlining the role of the military not just in obtaining territory but in retaining it.

Author : Richard Zacks
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401383114
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pirate Coast written by Richard Zacks and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A real-life thriller--the true story of the unheralded American who brought the Barbary Pirates to their knees. In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who at the last moment grew wary of "intermeddling" in a foreign government and sent Eaton off without proper national support. Short on supplies, given very little money and only a few men, Eaton and his mission seemed doomed from the start. He triumphed against all odds, recruited a band of European mercenaries in Alexandria, and led them on a march across the Libyan Desert. Once in Tripoli, the ragtag army defeated the local troops and successfully captured Derne, laying the groundwork for the demise of the Barbary Pirates. Now, Richard Zacks brings this important story of America's first overseas covert op to life.

Author : David K. Vaughan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476648778
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flying Adventurers written by David K. Vaughan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation books were a unique and prolific subgenre of American juvenile literature from the early to mid-20th century, drawing upon the nation's intensifying interest. The first books of this type, Harry L. Sayler's series Airship Boys, appeared shortly after the Wright brothers' first successful flight in 1909. Following Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, popular series like Ted Scott and Andy Lane established the "golden age" of juvenile aviation literature. This work examines the 375 juvenile aviation series titles published between 1909 and 1964. It weaves together several thematic threads, including the placement of aviation narratives within the context of major historical events, the technical accuracy in depictions of flying machines and the ways in which characters reflected the culture of their eras. Three appendices provide publication data for each series, a list of referenced aircraft and an annotated bibliography; there is a full index.

Author : Andrew Bowden
Publisher : Andrew Bowden
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambling Man Walks the East Highland Way written by Andrew Bowden and published by Andrew Bowden. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland. It's beautiful. Something about the trees, the lochs and, of course, the wide range of single malt whiskys as well. Oh and there's some lovely walking up there as well. Such as the East Highland Way. It's a nice walk. It has trees, lochs and, of course, places where you can purchase from a wide range of single malt whiskys. The lure of the East Highland Way was so strong that some people just have to hoist rucksacks on their backs, and rush to the train station with a good friend to do it. And who wouldn't? Along the way, such a person will see other things too. Old bridges, lots of rivers, the remains of crofts and a hydroelectric scheme. And there will be some tales to be told at the end of it as well. Maybe at the end of it, someone who walked the trail will write some sort of book about it all. Well, stranger things have happened.

Author : Linda Leigh Paul
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0789310708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cottages on the Coast written by Linda Leigh Paul and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cottages on the Coast: Fair Harbors and Secret Shores is a spectacular look at the extraordinary construction and interior design of coastal cottages on the shorelines of the Pacific, to the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, to the beaches of the Atlantic. The 200 present-day and vintage full-color photographs of more than two dozen sea-loving residences illustrate the physical desire, wonder, and fear that draw visitors to make their home along these coastal views. Featured in this survey are Tennessee Williams’s Key West haven and the modern Puget Sound cabin of Thomas Bosworth. Design writer and editor Linda Leigh Paul is the author of Cottage and Cabin, Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House, Ranches of the American West, and more.

Author : Andrew Bowden
Publisher : Rambling Man
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book See You In Kirk Yetholm written by Andrew Bowden and published by Rambling Man. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pennine Way. The grandfather of walking trails in the UK. For over 60 years walkers have been drawn to its journey across wild and empty moorland, murky bogs, cloud covered summits and endless rain. Yet somehow it has a hypnotic charm that persuades people to walk it, even if they never intended to do so. People like Andrew Bowden. Despite having absolutely no intent at all of walking the whole thing, somehow a two day jaunt in the Yorkshire Dales became an epic journey over several years. The Pennine Way grabbed him by the lapels – or should that be, the Gore-Tex jacket – and made the convincing case for walking between Edale and Kirk Yetholm. Somehow. And despite regularly being soaked to the bone in heavy rain, almost losing boots in sticky mud, getting stuck in a bog, and – on one memorable occasion – being snowed in, in a remote village in Northumberland, somehow he kept going, got to the end, and lived to tell the tale. See You in Kirk Yetholm is that tale. The tale of a walk that did its uttermost to put him off, but never succeeded.

Author : Andrew Bowden
Publisher : Rambling Man Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambling Man Walks The Thames Path written by Andrew Bowden and published by Rambling Man Books. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Bowden
Publisher : Rambling Man Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rambling Man Walks the Yorkshire Wolds Way written by Andrew Bowden and published by Rambling Man Books. This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yorkshire Wolds Way. A 79 mile walking route that starts near the Humber Bridge, and ends with fish and chips in sight at the Victorian seaside resort of Filey. It's a walk that takes you through a secret part of Yorkshire. One rather overshadowed by those famous Yorkshire Dales, and the North York Moors. Hidden it may be. But it's there. Not very well known. But there. So in the middle of a heatwave, two men left their respective homes, and headed to the town of Hessle, on the Humber Estuary. And they went on a walk. A walk along fields, through enchanting dales, quaint villages and so much more. Although there were quite a lot of fields. This is the important, and extremely true tale of that journey. Of the sights. Of the sounds. Of the conversations about Adrian Chiles. Of the benches. Of the questions. Like, just what is a wold, anyway? Includes a guide to planning your own walk on the Yorkshire Wolds Way National Trail.