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  • The Captain, The Missionary, and the Bell: The Wreck of the Steamship Atlantic

    by Eric Larsson ...
    The Captain: Isaac "Kip" Dustan, a well-respected mariner whose adventures were frequently recounted in the mid-1800s New York newspapers... The Missionary: Rev. Benjamin C.C. Parker of the Young Men's Church Missionary Society of the City of New York... The Bell from the Atlantic: Contains a history that spans more than one and a half centuries... On Wednesday, November 25, 1846, the steamer ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ake Wiberg

    Swedish Entrepreneur & Politician

    by Eric Troels Wiberg, Mats Larsson ...
    Translated by Roger Hinchliffe ...
    Politics took him to the Swedish Parliament in the 1940’s, but illness forced him to retire from politics after ten years of service. He energetically devoted his last dozen years to a number of cultural projects, including work for the National Arts Council and the East Asian Museum. Åke Wiberg was a man whose determination and personality have apparently moved many of those who knew him.The Åke ... Read more

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    James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw / Olaudah Equiano / Nat Turner / Frederick Douglass / William Wells Brown / Henry Bibb / Sojourner Truth / William and Ell

    Edited by William L. Andrews, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    This collection of landmark slave narratives demonstrates how a diverse group of writers challenged the conscience of a nation and laid the foundations of the African American literary traditionNo literary genre speaks as directly and as eloquently to the brutal contradictions in American history as the slave narrative. The works collected in this volume present unflinching portrayals of the ... Read more

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  • Here Shall I Die Ashore

    Stephen Hopkins: Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim.

    by Caleb Johnson ...
    In the spring of 1621, Plymouth Colony sent STEPHEN HOPKINS to make the first visit to Wampanoag sachem Massasoit to present a red horseman’s coat as a gift and sign of friendship. For most ordinary Englishmen, venturing off into the depths of unexplored America would have been a once in a lifetime adventure: but not for Stephen. By the time he turned forty, he had already survived a hurricane, ... Read more

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  • The Almost Nearly Perfect People

    Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

    by Michael Booth ...
    **The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the YearA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts” (Laura Miller, Salon).Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, ... Read more

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  • After Auschwitz

    The breathtaking true story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

    by Eva Schloss ...
    Series Book 1 - Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
    Eva Schloss's remarkable memoir of surviving the Holocaust, rebuilding her life after WW2 and honouring her stepsister Anne Frank's legacyThe extraordinary international bestseller'A book that is almost impossible to put down and stop reading. I've shed many a tear reading this book. We should never forget.' - READER REVIEW ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An absolutely heart breaking story. You can tell that this st... ... Read more

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  • The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

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    by Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta ...
    Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent CarrettaAn exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrativerecounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the ... Read more

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  • I Belong to Vienna

    A Jewish Family's Story of Exile and Return

    by Anna Goldenberg ...
    Translated by Alta L. Price ...
    A memoir of family history, personal identity, and WWII Vienna—a "well-researched, intimate, evocative look at some of the 20th century's foulest days" ( Kirkus).In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this ... Read more

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  • The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

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    by Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson ...
    The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville’s Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick’s monumental history, In the Heart of the SeaIn 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry sperm whale thousands of miles from home in the South Pacific. The Essex sank, leaving twenty crew members drifting in three small open boats for ninety days. ... Read more

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  • Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted: Surviving In Nazi Germany And Communist East Germany

    by Carolyn Gammon,Christiane Hemker ...
    Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in post-war East Germany, Johanna Krause (1907¬2001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted is her story. Born in Dresden into bitter poverty, Krause received little education and worked mostly in shops and factories. In 1933, when she came to the defence of a ... Read more

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  • The Mayflower and Her Passengers

    by Caleb H. Johnson ...
    When the Mayflower embarked on her famous voyage to America in 1620, she was carrying 102 passengers. To most, they are simply known as “the Pilgrims.” Perhaps the name of Governor William Bradford, Elder William Brewster, or Captain Myles Standish are vaguely familiar; but the vast majority of the Mayflower passengers have remained anonymous and nameless. In The Mayflower and Her Passengers, I ... Read more

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  • The Confessions of Nat Turner

    by Nat Turner ...
    Nat Turner's rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831 marked a turning point in the struggle for the ending of slavery in America. After being tried and convicted of insurrection, Turner's confession and jailhouse statements were published by Thomas Ruffin Gray. This work is considered the primary historical document regarding Nat Turner, though some historians ... Read more

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