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  • The Pied Piper Of Hamelin
    Larry W Jones
    In 1284, the German town of Hamelin was plagued by an infestation of rats. A pipe-player appeared, dressed in multi-colored (pied) clothing. He struck a deal with the town Council to rid the town of rats if they paid him 1,000 guilders. An agreement was made and the piper played his pipe, leading all the rats to the river where they drowned. Returning to get his fee, the town C...
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    38,77 €

  • Chief Red Jacket - The Orator
    Larry W Jones
    Red Jacket (1758 - 1830), also called Sagoyewatha [Keeper Awake because of his oratorical skills], was a chief of the Senaca Nation in what became Buffalo, New York. His magnificent oratory masked his schemes to maintain his position despite double-dealing against his people’s interests. He was called 'Red Jacket' due to the red coats he wore while on the British side during th...
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    38,85 €

  • Animal Friends Of the Timberlands
    Larry W Jones
    All children will enjoy 'Animal Friends Of the Timberlands' as they read for themselves or hear read to them, the many entertaining animal stories, such as 'Mrs. Elephant’s Moonlight Dance', 'Mr. Mocking-Bird and His Prize Song', 'The Travels of Prince Flamingo' and twenty one additional short stories. This 95 page book 'Animal Friends Of the Timberlands' is a delightful way t...
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    44,37 €

  • Kidnapped - The Inheritance
    Larry W Jones
    David Balfour, a young lad from the Scottish Highlands, earned his inheritance the hard way. He worked his way through and out of misadventures, a murderous uncle, a kidnapping, a shipwreck, a conniving Frenchman, a blind robber, the boggy wasteland moors, the Highlander Rob Roy Macgregor and more trickery against him. Readers of this 215 page publication, 'Kidnapped - The Inhe...
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    55,54 €

  • Billy The Grizzly
    Larry W Jones
    As a cub, Billy the Grizzly was the only survivor of a hunter’s assault on his Mother and her four offspring. Growing up in the wilds of Wyoming, he wandered the Wind River Range, the Upper Meeteetsee and the Yellowstone. Learning the hard way, without a Mother’s guidance, Billy survived the hunter’s steel bear traps and many predators until he was King of his range and domain....
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    40,72 €

  • Expedition Of Cabeza de Vaca
    Larry W Jones
    The expedition and journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions from coast to coast during the eight years from 1528 to 1536 is the most remarkable in the record of exploration. As a narrative of suffering and privation, the record here presented has no equal in the annals of the New World continent. This publication, 'Expedition Of Cabeza de Vaca', details th...
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    44,37 €

  • Four Voyages Of Christopher Columbus
    Larry W Jones
    Christopher Columbus was an explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration, exploitation and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South American peoples. This publica...
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    47,99 €

  • Log Of Captain Bligh - Mutiny and Survival
    Larry W Jones
    On April 4, 1789, the Bounty departed Tahiti with its store of breadfruit saplings. On April 28, near the island of Tonga, Fletcher Christian and 25 petty officers and seamen seized the ship. Bligh was set adift in an overcrowded 23-foot-long boat in the middle of the Pacific. By remarkable seamanship, Bligh and his men sailed over 3,600 nautical miles, reaching Timor in the Ea...
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    52,09 €

  • English Gardens - The Estates
    Larry W Jones
    Some of the world’s most beautiful and iconic gardens were developed on grand properties of the 'Landed Gentry', designed by master landscapers and maintained by skilled gardeners. English gardens are created with entry ways, paths, retaining walls, flower beds, pools and hedges. Flowers include the exotic, bold and beautiful lupine, veronica, hydrangea, hibiscus, and bee balm....
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    39,12 €

  • Mother Goose Rhymes - The Complete Collection
    Larry W Jones
    Mother Goose is the author of children’s stories written as rhymes that have been passed down through oral tradition and published over centuries. This publication, 'Mother Goose Rhymes - The Complete Collection', contains over 100 full page color nursery rhymes that will thrill and amuse young children and the reader to them. Mother Goose is the most recognized book of nursery...
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    46,40 €

  • Texas Courthouses - Good Bad and Beautiful
    Larry W Jones
    'Texas Courthouses - Good Bad and Beautiful' showcases all 254 Texas county courthouses. Some are good, a few are bad but most are beautiful. Covering all 266,807 square miles of Texas, reading about the history of each town square and its courthouse is an adventure in arm-chair travel. From original log cabins to ornate palaces, 'Texas Courthouses - Good Bad and Beautiful' wil...
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    64,93 €

  • Squanto - The Patuxet Pilgrim
    Larry W Jones
    Squanto was of the Pawtuxet people in present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island. He was seized with other Indians and taken to Málaga, Spain, to be sold into slavery. Squanto somehow escaped to England and joined the Newfoundland Company. He returned home in 1619 on his second trip back to North America only to find that his people had been wiped out by disease. During the spr...
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    40,15 €

  • Osceola And the Seminole Sorrow
    Larry W Jones
    During the 1830s, Osceola, a Seminole warrior, led members of his tribe in Florida in a valiant attempt to resist the US Army’s efforts to forcibly deport them to a reservation west of the Mississippi River, following the directive of President Andrew Jackson. The result was three wars fought between the U.S. Army and the Seminole Indians, with Osceola as their leader. The Semi...
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    40,81 €

  • Last Of The Wampanoag
    Larry W Jones
    Last Of The Wampanoag is the account that led up to King Philip’s War, also known as the First Indian War, the Great Narragansett War or Metacom’s Rebellion, which took place in southern New England from 1675 to 1676. It was the Native Americans’ last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands. The war is named after th...
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    39,23 €

  • Pontiac and the Ottawa Wars
    Larry W Jones
    Pontiac was a war chief who led the Ottawas during Pontiac’s War, from 1763 to 1766, in an armed struggle against the British in the Great Lakes region. Pontiac’s importance was as the mastermind and leader of the revolt. In July 1763, Pontiac defeated a British detachment at Detroit in the Battle of Bloody Run. An accomplished orator, Pontiac was able to corral numerous other ...
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    40,42 €

  • First Nations - Eskimo
    Larry W Jones
    Canada’s First Nation peoples were settled and had established trade routes across Canada by 500 BCE - 1,000 CE. Communities developed each with its own culture, customs, and character. This book deals chiefly with the 'Central' Eskimo of Hudson Bay, Baffin Land, Davis Strait, and Labrador in the early 1900s. Learn about the country and its peoples, occupations, social life, th...
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    39,71 €

  • How Texas Got Its Shape
    Larry W Jones
    The shape of Texas was formed from 1519 - 1845 under six governments and flags. Its development included Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic Of Texas, the Confederate States Of America and the United States Of America. The 'Compromise Of 1850' settled disputes of boundaries with Oklahoma and New Mexico. For readers interested in history, this book, 'How Texas Got Its Shape', ma...
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    38,00 €

  • Otaheite 1769 - Log Of Captain Cook
    Larry W Jones
    Captain James Cook did three voyages of discovery. His first one lasted three years, from 1768 to 1771. This book, 'Otaheite - Log Of Captain Cook', covers the portion from Tierra del Fuego at the tip of South America through his three month stay in Tahiti. While there, he documented the track of Venus across the face of the sun, which was critical in determining the exact posi...
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    42,67 €

  • Hunga Tonga - The Volcano!
    Larry W Jones
    When the Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted on January 15,2022, destruction, death and personal stories of survival filled the news worldwide. Sonic waves from the blast were recorded around the globe. Tonga is known as 'The Friendly Islands' and will remain so, regardless of Hunga Tonga - Hunga Ha’apai. This book 'Hunga Tonga - The Volcano!' is filled with dramatic ph...
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    39,32 €

  • Tecumseh - The Roaming Cherokee
    Larry W Jones
    'Tecumseh - The Roaming Cherokee' outlines in detail why his name means 'goes through one place to another'. He travelled extensively, promoting resistance to the expansion of the United States onto Native American lands. As a persuasive orator, Tecumseh formed the first Native American confederacy and promoted intertribal unity. Taking sides with the British, he participated i...
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    39,88 €

  • Pocahontas - Powhatan Princess
    Larry W Jones
    Pocahontas was a young Native American woman of the Powhatan people, daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief. She is noted for her interactions with the early colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. This book, 'Pocahontas - Powhatan Princess', records interesting historical details of her childhood with the Powhatans, her saving of Captain John Smith, marriages to Powtawa...
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    39,04 €

  • Death Valley Days - The Manly Trail
    Larry W Jones
    'Death Valley Days - The Manly Trail' is the true story of William Lewis Manly and the pioneers he led through a life and death drama on their way to the gold fields of California in 1849. From the green fields of the Northern United States to the barren rocks, bare mountains and hot sands of an unnamed desert valley, the reader is transported and transfixed as history comes to...
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    59,56 €

  • Shackleton - Polar Quest
    Larry W Jones
    The Shackleton Expedition of 1921-22 was Sir Ernest Shackleton’s last Antarctic voyage, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His exploit is sometimes referred to as the 'Quest Expedition' named after its ship, the Quest, a converted Norwegian seal-hunter. Shackleton died on board the ship, at the Antarctic island of South Georgia. This voyage follow...
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    49,19 €

  • Sam Houston - Tennessee To Texas
    Larry W Jones
    Born in Virginia, Sam Houston moved to Tennessee with his mother and eight siblings after his father died when he was 13. He ran away in 1809 and spent nearly three years living with the Cherokee in eastern Tennessee. Houston learned to speak Cherokee and adopted their customs. He was given the Indian name Colonneh, or 'the Raven.' Houston went on to become a politician, warrio...
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    38,56 €

  • Jim Bowie - Life Legacy Legend
    Larry W Jones
    James 'Jim' Bowie is a legendary hero in the history of early Texas, mainly due to his use of the 'Bowie Knife' and his defence at the Alamo and subsequent death there. However, he is also a controversial figure, being an owner of slaves and an active businessman in the buying and selling of slaves in Louisiana and Texas. A convert to the Catholic faith and renouncing of Americ...
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    47,27 €

  • Davy Crockett Of the Wild Frontier
    Larry W Jones
    David 'Davy' Crockett was an early 1800s folk hero, frontier woodsman, scout, soldier, and politician. Known as the 'King of the Wild Frontier', he grew up poor and uneducated but ended up as a Congressman from Tennessee. He had a reputation for deer and bear hunting and storytelling. His active participation in the Creek War, part of the War Of 1812, saw fierce battles with th...
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    46,79 €

  • Daniel Boone On the Cumberland Trail
    Larry W Jones
    'Daniel Boone On the Cumberland Trail' is true history written as a novel, thus entertaining to read while educating the reader about the pioneer beginnings of western movement by white settlers from the thirteen original colonies of the United States. History comes alive with the scouting of bounteous woodlands beyond the Cumberland Gap, conflicts with native American Indians,...
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    44,99 €

  • Heritage Of An Indian Boy
    Larry W Jones
    Orphaned soon after birth, raised by his gandmother and uncle, he learned all the ways of the tree-dwelling Sioux. At age 4 his band was forced to flee into Canada across the wide Missouri in rawhide bull-boats, and later in northern Minnesota. Readers will be enthralled by this real-life saga of Ohiyesa from his birth to the age of fifteen, learning games and sports, scouting,...
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    43,49 €

  • Indian Ways Of Yore - Fables And Fact
    Larry W Jones
    The accounts in 'Indian Ways Of Yore - Fables and Fact' focuses on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in early pre-reservation days. It uncovers the traditional life of the Sioux people, their customs, legends, warm family relations, reverence for animals, and struggle for survival. Included are factual historical figures like Little Crow and Tamahay, the one-eyed scout, and the ...
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    48,63 €

  • Ohiyesa - From Sioux To Surgeon
    Larry W Jones
    Born in the deep woods of Minnesota, he was named Hakadah (Pitiful Last) when his mother died during childbirth. He was renamed Ohiyesa (Always Wins) after winning at Indian LaCross games. At fifteen his father, who had converted to the white man’s way of life and taken the name Jacob Eastman, steered him into civilization. Ohiyesa - Charles Alexander Eastman was educated at Be...
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    45,20 €


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