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  • Maori - Encountering Change
    Larry W Jones
    The Maoris of New Zealand are numerically the most important branch of the Polynesian race which inhabits the islands of the Pacific Ocean. There is no doubt that the race has been greatly influenced by contact with Aryans, and its language, customs, and beliefs all show strong traces of this influence. Tradition states that the race was living in Fiji about a.d. 450. In the ye...
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  • Hermit Of Suwarrow - Tom Neale’s Atoll
    Larry W Jones
    New Zealander Tom Neale spent a total of sixteen years alone, in three spells, on the uninhabited Suwarrow coral atoll, half a mile long and three hundred yards wide in the South Pacific. He first went there on October 7, 1952, from Rarotonga, and remained alone until June 24, 1954, when he was taken off ill after a dramatic rescue. The island was two hundred miles from the nea...
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    50,55 €

  • HMS Pandora - In Search Of the Bounty
    Larry W Jones
    HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. The vessel is best known for its role in hunting down the Bounty mutineers in 1790, which remains one of the best-known stories in the history of seafaring. Pandora was partially successful by capturing 14 of the mutineers, but wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on the return vo...
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    43,21 €

  • Rufus Perry - Texas Ranger
    Larry W Jones
    Cicero Rufus (Old Rufe) Perry, Texas Ranger, was not your ’typical’ image of a Texas Ranger. He participated in the siege of Bexar, served from July 1 to October 1, 1836, in Capt. William W. Hill’s company of Texas Rangers, and was involved in an Indian fight on Yegua Creek. In 1841 he served under Samuel Highsmith and Thomas Green and scouted for Edward Burleson and Mark B. Le...
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    40,58 €

  • Tramp Adrift - A Hobo’s True Story
    Larry W Jones
    Bart Kennedy (1861-1930), from the age of 6 until about the age of 20, worked in cotton mills and machine shops in Manchester, England. At age 20, pennyless, he left England, working as a deckhand on a cargo ship to Philadelphia. Illiterate and with no money or formal training, he used the force of his youth to 'tramp' his way westward across North America. At low-paying jobs,...
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    49,13 €

  • Geronimo - His Words His Story His Life
    Larry W Jones
    In 1905, on the Fort Sill Apache Reservation in Oklahoma, Geronimo agreed to tell his life story to Stephem Melvil Barrett, superintendant of education in Lawton Oklahoma. Geronimo said, 'Write what I have spoken.' During several sessions, he then told in detail the beginnings of the Apache, his own birth and family, his growing up as an Apache child, his wife, children, and th...
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    46,57 €

  • Zane Grey - On Colorado Trails
    Larry W Jones
    In 1917 Zane Grey went on a five month hunting and fishing trip into vast areas of the Colorado wilderness. The travel party included his brother R. C. (Romer Carl 'Reddy' Grey) and Romer’s wife Reba, Dorothy Ackerman, Claire Wilhelm, and Mildred Fergerson. After taking a locomotive train from Denver, on the 'Moffat Road' over the Continental Divide to Yampa, with their guide S...
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    42,20 €

  • Pioneers Of the American West Vol IV
    Larry W Jones
    'Pioneers Of the American West' comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible eve...
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    44,95 €

  • Pioneers Of the American West Vol III.
    Larry W Jones
    'Pioneers Of the American West' comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible eve...
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    44,82 €

  • Pioneers Of the American West Vol II.
    Larry W Jones
    'Pioneers Of the American West' comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible eve...
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    45,85 €

  • Pioneers Of the American West Vol I.
    Larry W Jones
    'Pioneers Of the American West' comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible eve...
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    43,93 €

  • Shipwrecked On the FeeJees
    Larry W Jones
    'Shipwrecked On the FeeJees' is the thrilling account from the log-book of William S. Cary, of Nantucket, the sole survivor of the crew of ship 'Oeno', which was wrecked on Turtle Island, in the Pacific Ocean, on the 5th of April, 1825. It is the personal description of the loss of a Nantucket whaleship, the capture and massacre of all but one of the crew, and the incidents of ...
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  • Pike’s Peak Gold Rush - One Miner’s Account
    Larry W Jones
    The Pike’s Peak Gold Rush (later known as the Colorado Gold Rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike’s Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861. The majority of the gold was found north of Pike...
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    43,93 €

  • Bully Hayes the Blackbirder
    Larry W Jones
    William Henry 'Bully' Hayes (1827 or 1829 - 31 March 1877) was a notorious American ship’s captain who engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s. Hayes operated across the breadth of the Pacific Ocean from the 1850s until his murder on 31 March 1877. He has been described as a South Sea pirate and 'the last of the buccaneers'. It is almost impossible to separate fact from ...
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  • Perils Of the Sea - Ironclad Disasters
    Larry W Jones
    We cannot think of the ocean without remembering the great voyagers and sea-captains, the brave commanders, the pirates, rovers, and buccaneers of bygone days. But much of civilised man’s fear is founded on a reasonable knowledge of the seas, sometimes his friend, yet often his foe. Vessel after vessel, fleet after fleet, arrived safely. But there was danger on the sea. The Bri...
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    41,67 €

  • Lady In the Strange South Seas
    Larry W Jones
    Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw (3 February 1870 - 30 June 1953) was an Irish writer and traveller. Beginning in 1903, she worked as a travel writer for the Daily Graphic and The Times. She had long harboured a desire to travel the world, especially the largely unexplored Pacific Ocean, and in 1903 she was engaged by the Daily Graphic to report on the Pacific. She was commissioned to w...
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  • Lifeboats Of Cape Cod - The Monomoy Disaster
    Larry W Jones
    Monomoy Station was one of the original nine LLS (life-saving) stations built on the shores of Cape Cod when the Life-Saving Service was extended to these shores in 1873. There is no more dangerous stretch of coast on Cape Cod than off Monomoy Island. Disaster follows disaster and the work of the life savers is attended with the greatest peril at all times. This book 'Lifeboats...
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  • Concorde - On The Wings Of Time
    Larry W Jones
    Concorde was the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane. It was built jointly by Great Britain and France. The Concorde made its first transatlantic crossing on September 26, 1973, and it inaugurated the world’s first scheduled supersonic (SST) passenger service on January 21, 1976 with British Airways initially flying the aircraft from London to Bahrain and Ai...
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    42,50 €

  • Texas Rangers - Last Scoutings
    Larry W Jones
    James Buchanan Gillett (November 4, 1856 - June 11, 1937) was a lawman of the Old West, mostly known for his service as a Texas Ranger. He is a member of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. Born in Austin, he grew up working as a cowboy on local ranches. In 1875 he joined the Texas Rangers in Menard. Gillett served under Captain D. W. Roberts with 'Company D', and later with Captai...
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  • Texas Rangers - Last Fight With Apaches
    Larry W Jones
    James Buchanan Gillett (November 4, 1856 - June 11, 1937) was a lawman of the Old West, mostly known for his service as a Texas Ranger. He is a member of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. Born in Austin, he grew up working as a cowboy on local ranches. In 1875 he joined the Texas Rangers in Menard. Gillett served under Captain D. W. Roberts with 'Company D', and later with Captai...
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  • Texas Rangers - Chief Victorio
    Larry W Jones
    James Buchanan Gillett (November 4, 1856 - June 11, 1937) was a lawman of the Old West, mostly known for his service as a Texas Ranger. He is a member of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. Born in Austin, he grew up working as a cowboy on local ranches. In 1875 he joined the Texas Rangers in Menard. Gillett served under Captain D. W. Roberts with 'Company D', and later with Captai...
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    41,06 €

  • Texas Rangers - The Outlaw Sam Bass
    Larry W Jones
    James Buchanan Gillett (November 4, 1856 - June 11, 1937) was a lawman of the Old West, mostly known for his service as a Texas Ranger. He is a member of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. Born in Austin, he grew up working as a cowboy on local ranches. In 1875 he joined the Texas Rangers in Menard. Gillett served under Captain D. W. Roberts with 'Company D', and later with Captai...
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  • Texas Rangers - The Mason County War
    Larry W Jones
    James Buchanan Gillett (November 4, 1856 - June 11, 1937) was a lawman of the Old West, mostly known for his service as a Texas Ranger. He is a member of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. Born in Austin, he grew up working as a cowboy on local ranches. In 1875 he joined the Texas Rangers in Menard. Gillett served under Captain D. W. Roberts with 'Company D', and later with Captai...
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  • Texas Rangers - The Making Of A Ranger
    Larry W Jones
    James Buchanan Gillett (November 4, 1856 - June 11, 1937) was a lawman of the Old West, mostly known for his service as a Texas Ranger. He is a member of the Texas Rangers Hall of Fame. Born in Austin, he grew up working as a cowboy on local ranches. In 1875 he joined the Texas Rangers in Menard. Gillett served under Captain D. W. Roberts with 'Company D', and later with Captai...
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    41,58 €

  • The Yodeling Art Of Slim Whitman
    Larry W Jones
    Slim Whitman was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his smooth yodeling abilities and his use of falsetto (a tenor, his notes covered three full octaves). He sold between 70 - 120 million records during a career that spanned over seven decades, and consisted of a prolific output of over 100 albums and around 500 recorded songs, consisting of cou...
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    42,31 €

  • Sand Creek Massacre - Chivington’s Shame
    Larry W Jones
    Taking place during the American Civil War, the Sand Creek Massacre (also known as the Chivington Massacre, the Battle Of Sand Creek or the Massacre of Cheyenne Indians) was a massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army in the American Indian Wars on November 29, 1864, when a 675-man force of the Third Colorado Cavalry, under the command of Colonel John Chivington,...
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  • The Last Indians Of Nantucket Island
    Larry W Jones
    Native Americans established settlement areas on the coastal areas of Massachusetts, including Nantucket Island and Martha’s Vineyard Island on a seasonal basis. The three principal tribes were the Massachusetts (or Naticks), the Nipmucks, and the Wampanoags when the first European Pilgrims arrived in 1659. The island sachems (chiefs) negotiated deeds, drawn up by the newcomers...
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    41,48 €

  • Titanic - A Survivor’s Account
    Larry W Jones
    English science teacher Lawrence Beesley survived the April 15, 1912 sinking of R.M.S. Titanic. When no more ladies or children answered the call, he boarded the overcrowded lifeboat number 13 and was transported to New York aboard the R.M.S. Carpathia. His first-hand account was written just weeks after the disaster and includes interview accounts from other survivors. This bo...
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  • The Command Of Cochise
    Larry W Jones
    The name Cochise means 'having the quality or strength of an oak'. Born around 1805, he was leader of the Chihuicahui Apache during the Apache Wars era from 1861 - 1872. Along with Geronimo and Mangas Coloradas, he resisted intrusions into traditional American Indian lands by Mexicans and Americans during the 19th century. Cochise commanded areas that now include the northern r...
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    41,18 €

  • Geronimo - the Nomad Apache
    Larry W Jones
    Geronimo (1829-1909) was born in the Gila River area of Arizona. As an Apache leader and medicine man, he is best known for his fearlessness in resisting anyone-Mexican or American-who attempted to remove his people from their tribal lands. He repeatedly evaded capture and life on a reservation, and during his final escape, a full quarter of the U.S. standing army pursued him a...
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