Charles Darwins travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 & 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural worlds beauty & sublimity which language could barely capture. Words he said were inadequate to convey to those who have not visited the inter-tropical regions the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. Yet in a travel journal which takes the reader from the coasts & interiors of South America to South Sea Islands Darwins descriptive powers are constantly challenged but never once overcome. In addition The Voyage of the Beagle displays Darwins powerful speculative mind at work posing searching questions about the complex relation between the Earths structure animal forms anthropology & the origins of life itself. ...

The Narnia Chronicles first published in 1950 have been & remain some of the most enduringly popular childrens books ever published. The best known The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe has been translated into 29 languages! Eustace found himself standing on the picture frame. In front of him was not glass but real sea. When Lucy Edmund & their awful cousin Eustace are suddenly swept into the picture of a sailing ship they find themselves in the magical kingdom of Narnia & on a voyage of discovery to the End of the World. This is the fifth adventure in the exciting Chronicles of Narnia. ...

Sable Keech is a walking dead man. Was he resurrected because he was infected by the Spatterjay virus or it took place late in a tank of seawater? Taylor Bloc wants to know the truth. He also wants more -- adulation power control -- & will go to any lengths to achieve them. An ancient hive mind has sent an agent to this uncertain world. Does it merely want to obtain the poison sprine that is crucial to immortality? Erlin still faced with the ennui of immortality is interrupted by an angry whelkus titanicus & begins a strange journey. Deep in the ocean the Spatterjay virus has wrought a terrible change that will affect them all. Something long-dormant is breaking free. & Sniper its Warden finally receives his new drone shell. Its better than his old one: powerful engines more lethal weapons thicker armour. Hes going to need them. ...

A party of English people are aboard the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace a young girl innocent & wholly ignorant of the world of politics & society books sex love & marriage. She is a free spirit half-caught momentarily & passionately by Terence Hewet an aspiring writer who she meets in Santa Marina. But their engagement is to end abruptly & tragically. Virginia Woolf's first novel published in 1915 is a haunting exploration of a young woman's mind signalling the beginning of her fascination with capturing the mysteries & complexities of the inner life. ...

This is an epic historical novel following on from the bestselling Dragonfly in Amber." Their passionate encounter happened two centuries ago when the gallant renegade Jamie Fraser sent her back to her own time pregnant with his child believing he would be killed in the bloody Battle of Culloden in 1746. Now their daughter has grown up & Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Drawn back across the chasm of time she seeks once more the man she could never forget the destiny she cannot ignore..." ...

Cooks three voyages of discovery which took place between 1768 & 1779 are among the most remarkable achievements in the history of exploration. Cook charted vast areas of the globe with astonishing accuracy & the voyages also made a significant contribution towards solving some of the great problems of cartography & navigation. With crews containing gifted sailors & navigators as well as botanists painters & scientists Cook provides the link between the speculative profit-hungry voyages of the Elizabethan seafarers & the scientific expeditions of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries. ...

This is a new unabridged edition of the beloved story of the doctor who can talk to animals has long enchanted children. Strikingly illustrated by Scott Mc Kowen this book is sure to find a treasured place in any familys library. It is suitable for children aged 10 years & up. Hugh Loftings beloved story of the doctor who can talk to animals has long enchanted children. Though his fondness for pets drives away all his human patients as a veterinarian Doctor Doolittle has the magic touch. Join him Polynesia Jip the dog Dab-Dab the duck & the rest of his furry & feathered friends as they face evil kings & treacherous pirates while handling their most important case ever. This handsome unabridged edition of The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle" with striking illustrations by Scott Mc Kowen is sure to find a treasured place in any familys library." ...

' Tim & I both understood we had done something really stupid. We had underestimated the danger involved in going out to sea. We had no radio compass life raft or flares. In other words we were a couple of idiots'. This is the story of Shane & Timothy Spall & their Dutch barge The Princess Matilda. After a summer on the Thames they head out to sea with only a road atlas & a vast amount of ignorance
- & it is absolutely terrifying! On their travels memories are triggered of childhood trips to the seaside but also of more recent times. A decade before Tim had been diagnosed with acute leukaemia & was given only days to live. Shocked at how life can pass you by they decided that when & if Tim got better they would buy a boat. As Tim & Shane explore the coast from the Medway to Cornwall eventually they start to wonder could they make it out of England altogether? Could Matilda make it to.. . Wales? Taking over five years The Voyages of The Princess Matilda" is a minor epic charting a very personal moving & uplifting story of an everyday couple's adventure around their much loved homel&."
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' Tim & I both understood we had done something really stupid. We had underestimated the danger involved in going out to sea. We had no radio compass life raft or flares. In other words we were a couple of idiots.' This is the story of Shane & Timothy Spall & their Dutch barge The Princess Matilda. After a summer on the Thames they head out to sea with only a road atlas & a vast amount of ignorance
- & it is absolutely terrifying! On their travels memories are triggered of childhood trips to the seaside but also of more recent times. A decade before Tim had been diagnosed with acute leukaemia & was given only days to live. Shocked at how life can pass you by they decided that when & if Tim got better they would buy a boat. As Tim & Shane explore the coast from the Medway to Cornwall eventually they start to wonder could they make it out of England altogether? Could Matilda make it to... Wales? Taking over five years The Voyages of The Princess Matilda" is a minor epic charting a very personal moving & uplifting story of an everyday couple's adventure around their much loved homel&. It is a winner of the British Travel Press' Narrative Travel Book of the Year Award."
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A popular guide to the states canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers the great fur traders voyageurs Indians & loggers who passed that way. Photographs & maps support the fascinating authoritative text. ...