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  • Chief War Eagle - Peacemaker Of The Sioux
    Larry W Jones
    Wambdi Okichize Huya-Na was born as Little Eagle but the whites insisted on calling him War Eagle. He participated in sqirmishes with other tribes but came to be known as 'The friend of the white man'. From numerous historical documents, including those at the Sioux City Public Museum, this fully illustrated documentary, 'Chief War Eagle - Peacemaker Of The Sioux', details his ...
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    43,04 €

  • Clipper Ships - The Kiwi Connection
    Larry W Jones
    Fourth in the series of books on clipper ships, this fully illustrated edition, 'Clipper Ships - The Kiwi Connection', chronicles the 'Mayflowers of New Zealand', the beautiful sailing ships which brought settlers from the Old North Country to the exotic South Pacific. Their passages round the Cape and through the roaring forties filled many stout hearts with awe, wonder, fear ...
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    43,49 €

  • Clipper Ships - Iron Maidens
    Larry W Jones
    Third in the series of four books on clippers ships, 'Clipper Ships - Iron Maidens', details the transition from wood to iron-hulls. They were built to carry bulk cargo and passengers for long distances in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They were the largest of merchant sailing ships, with three to five masts and square sails, as well as other sail plans. They ar...
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    50,13 €

  • Clipper Ships - Wool and Wealth
    Larry W Jones
    Clipper ships were used to carry passengers and goods, migrants to the USA or between coasts and to Australia, notably for the wool trade, and wheat and other goods back to the UK. In July 1883, Cutty Sark was one of the fastest wool carriers, beating every ship sailing by 25 days to over a month on the UK to Australia route. These clippers caught the Roaring Forties trade wind...
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    43,79 €

  • Clipper Ships - Emigrants Passage
    Larry W Jones
    'Clipper Ships - Emigrants Passage' documents accounts of the beautiful sailing ships which played so great a part in the development of the British Territories. It contains actual log book records which bring to life the daily routine, successes and demise of clipper ships, captains, crew and passengers bound for far-off horizons such as Australia, New Zealand and other ports...
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    50,97 €

  • Range Of A Cowboy
    Larry W Jones
    'Range Of A Cowboy' documents all the hardships and rewards of driving 3,100 head of Mexican cattle from the Texas Rio Grande border to Montana along the Great Western Trail. Follow the narrative of a young cowhand as he brings to life the exploits of rancher Jack Sommers, trail boss Ben Hodges, remuda wrangler Teddy Walters, the segundo Donn 'Blaze' Milow, the cook 'Big John' ...
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    57,11 €

  • Images Of Old England
    Larry W Jones
    'Images Of Old England' showcases full-colour paintings of some of the most interesting historical places, sites and scenes of England and Scotland by world-renowned artists. From the beautiful and enchanting Cotswolds water-colours by G. F. Nicholls, to Warwickshire by Fred Whitehead, these paintings, along with their histories, will educate the reader and enhance their arm-ch...
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    36,13 €

  • China Clipper - Floatplanes Of Pan Am
    Larry W Jones
    This publication, China Clipper - Floatplanes Of Pan Am, is the only book to document all the 4-engine Clippers operated by Pan American and BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corp). It entertains the reader with photos, illustrations, history and published personal experiences surrounding the giant Sikorsky S-42, Boeing B-314 and Martin M-130 flying boats that opened the airways t...
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    42,61 €

  • Ode To Toulee - From Gosling To Goose
    Jerry L Jones / Larry W Jones
    Ode To Toulee - From Gosling To Goose, is the true life story of a Toulouse Goose, raised from when it was three days old to adulthood. The account includes joys and sorrows and compassion learned by geese and the pretty lady who cared for them. Enjoy the lessons learned in caring for God’s creation as you read Ode To Toulee - From Gosling To Goose. ...
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    40,16 €

  • Rockies In Bloom - Wildflowers
    Larry W Jones
    Rockies In Bloom - Wildflowers helps you to become acquainted with the wonderful world of wildflowers and get started on developing skills to identify different species found in the Rocky Mountains and beyond. Wildflowers do much more than make the Rockies, the 'land of flowers.' They also support a myriad of native wildlife, and provide habitat for bees and other pollinators t...
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    57,40 €

  • The Goodnight-Loving Trail - A Chuckwagon Saga
    Larry W Jones
    The Goodnight-Loving Trail ran from Young County, Texas, southwest to Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River, up the Pecos to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and on north to Colorado and Cheyenne Wyoming. In the spring and early summer of 1866 Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving drove their first herd of longhorn cattle over the Butterfield Overland Mail route from near Fort Belknap vi...
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    41,14 €

  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
    Larry W Jones
    In 1866, Professor Pierre M. Aronnax and his assistant Conseil, stranded in San Francisco by reports of a giant sea monster attacking ships in the Pacific Ocean, are invited to join an expedition to search for the creature. During the search, they and harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard during an attack, eventually discovering that the supposed monster is actually a submari...
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    69,92 €

  • Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
    Larry W Jones
    Uncle Remus is a fictional character and narrator of African American folktales compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris in 1881. He wrote stories to represent the struggle in the Southern United States plantations. They are written in a dialect which was his interpretation of Deep South African-American language of the time. Br’er Rabbit ('Brother Rabbit') is the main char...
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    45,26 €

  • The Call Of the Wild
    Larry W Jones
    Jack London’s book, 'The Call of the Wild' is an adventure novel published in 1903. The setting is in Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California. Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He ...
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    46,68 €

  • Black Beauty
    Larry W Jones
    In this fully illustrated book by Anna Sewell, Black Beauty is a first person (first horse) autobiographical recollection as related by a high-society equine. Follow his personal beginning, of carefree days as a young colt on an English farm, to his difficult life pulling two-wheel cabs in big and dangerous London, to a happy and well-deserved retirement in the English countrys...
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    55,66 €

  • Cynthia Ann Parker - Comanche Bride
    Larry W Jones
    Cynthia Ann Parker is the most famous Indian captive in American history. In 1833, her family moved to Texas and built Fort Parker. Comanche warriors attacked the fort in 1836 and took young Cynthia Ann captive. She spent the next twenty-four years with the Indians, eventually marrying the warrior Peta Nocona, with whom she had two sons and a daughter. In 1860 Texas Rangers and...
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    44,42 €

  • Heidi
    Larry W Jones
    Swiss orphan girl, Heidi, is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. She meets Peter, a boy who herds goats on the beautiful mountains. Eventually Heidi is sent to Frankfurt to live in wealthy Mr. Sesemann’s big house. She befriends invalid Clara. Heidi returns to the mountains and soon Clara is brought there too. With the fresh mountain air, good food and beautiful surr...
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    58,60 €

  • The Secret Garden
    Larry W Jones
    Mistress Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With silver bells, and cockle shells. And marigolds all in a row. Mary Lennox finds a secret garden in Yorkshire England. Her invalid cosin Colin regains his health while experiencing the cultivation of the garden with Mary, Dickon, Ben Weatherstaff and servants at the manor house. ...
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    60,12 €

  • Peter Rabbit
    Larry W Jones
    Peter Rabbit is a fictional animal character in various children’s stories by Beatrix Potter. He first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902, and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912. Peter wears a blue jacket with brass buttons and shoes. Peter lives in a rabbit hole and grows up to fall in love with Little Miss Fuzzytail while surviving foxes and owls ...
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    46,38 €

  • Alice In Wonderland
    Larry W Jones
    Alice In Wonderland is an 1865 novel by English author Lewis Carroll. It tells of a young girl named Alice, who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean fantasy world populated by peculiar creatures. It is considered to be one of the best examples of lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. This 110 book arrangement by Larry W Jones is fully illustrated a...
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    48,83 €

  • The Wind In The Willows
    Larry W Jones
    The Wind in the Willows, book of linked animal tales by British writer Kenneth Grahame that began as a series of bedtime stories for his son and was published in 1908. The beautifully written work, with its evocative descriptions of the countryside interspersed with exciting adventures, became a classic of English children’s literature. The tales relate the adventures of severa...
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    55,57 €

  • Treasure Island
    Larry W Jones
    Treasure Island tells of Jim Hawkin’s boyhood adventure on a quest for buried treasure. The tale revolves around Billy Bones, Black Dog, Captain Flint, Long John Silver, Captain Smollett, Ben Gunn, the ship Hispaniola, pieces of eight, and, of course, a treasure island. A classic tale of a boy coming-of-age, Treasure Island in an endearing and enduring book to read for all ages...
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    46,75 €

  • Songs Of The Seas
    Larry W Jones
    This 149 page book, 'Songs Of the Seas' Shanties, Music, History, chronicles the practice of using simple chants to coordinate shipboard tasks beginning in the the 1700s among English and French sailors. In 1800s, these simple chants were called 'sing-outs'. The shanty 'Cheer’ly Man' is considered to be the first widely established sailors’ work song. The popularity of shanty s...
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    38,98 €

  • Life On The Mississippi
    Larry W Jones
    Life on the Mississippi is a 471 page autobiographical of Mark Twain’s adventures during his training as a steamboat captain on the Mississippi River. The fully illustrated book includes historical content about the Mississippi River, from Hernando de Soto’s encounter with the river in 1542 and onward. The book focuses on Mark Twain’s apprenticeship to steamboat pilot Horace B...
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    85,60 €

  • The Oldest Greenhorn
    Larry W Jones
    Experience the adventure, joys and perils in a greenhorn wrangler’s account of the 40th annual Sombrero Ranches 'Great American Horse Drive'. Eight hundred half-wild horses were driven sixty two miles in two days, from their winter pastures in far northwest Colorado to the Big Gulch Ranch, west of Craig. Follow the five day adventure from arrival to the exciting 'Gate-to-Gate' ...
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    45,57 €

  • The Jungle Book - Her Majesty’s Servants
    Larry W Jones
    In Rawalpindi the Viceroy of India is due to receive a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan, and the story is set in a crowded camp full of men and their animals. The baggage camels are nervous creatures, and tend to stampede, and one wet night the narrator’s tent is knocked over, and he has to take shelter under a gun. Various animals are nearby, mules, a camel, a cavalry charge...
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    40,58 €

  • The Jungle Book - Toomai of the Elephants
    Larry W Jones
    Young animal-lover Toomai faces a life of impoverished orphanhood after a vicious tiger mauls his father. Toomai finds comfort and friendship in the family’s prized elephant, the gentle Kala Nag. But when Kala Nag attacks an abusive trainer in self-defense, the village decides the elephant must die. Toomai plots a daring rescue and sets off on a thrilling adventure through the ...
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    41,06 €

  • The Jungle Book - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
    Larry W Jones
    The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi after he becomes the pet of an English family residing in India. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden and is warned of the cobras Nag and Nagaina, who are angered by the human family’s presence in their territory.Accordingly, Nag enters the house’s bathroom before dawn t...
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    40,88 €

  • The Jungle Book - The White Seal
    Larry W Jones
    Unusual for a story in The Jungle Book, none of the action in 'The White Seal' takes place in India. The story proper begins on an island in the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska. The title character and protagonist, Kotick, is the first white seal ever to have been born on the island. When Kotick discovers that some of the seals on the island are killed by hunters for their...
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    25,59 €

  • The Jungle Book - Tiger! Tiger!
    Larry W Jones
    'The Jungle Book - Tiger! Tiger!' is the third in the series of seven books by Rudyard Kipling. At the end of the short story 'Mowgli’s Brothers', Mowgli, the boy raised by wolves, is cast out of the Wolf Pack and forced to leave the jungle. 'Tiger! Tiger!' follows Mowgli’s story as he enters a village and tries to learn to live among men. Mowgli learns the language quickly, bu...
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    40,98 €


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