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  • Watch Repairing, Cleaning and Adjusting - A Practical Handbook

    by F. J. Garrard ...
    This vintage book contains a complete guide to watch repair and maintenance, with information on the materials and tools used and directions for repairing, cleaning, altering, and adjusting all kinds of English and foreign watches, repeaters, chronographs, and marine chronometers. Written in plain language and full of invaluable tips, this timeless volume will be of considerable utility to the ... Read more

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    The Worst Journey in the World

    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

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    This gripping story of courage and achievement is an account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes, where began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region. On November 12, 1912, in ... Read more

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  • Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe

    Series Book 15 - Renaissance Lives
    Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women’s problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female protagonists have excited modern audiences, especially feminists.This book breaks new ground by placing the artist in the context of women’s ... Read more

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  • THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD ANTARCTIC 1910-1913

    The Great True Adventure Story, A Linked Index of all Editions, With Panoramas, Maps, And Illustrations

    With Panoramas, Maps, And Illustrations By The LateDoctor Edward A. Wilson And Other Members Of The ExpeditionIN TWO VOLUMESThe Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922) As War and Peace is to novels, so is The Worst Journey in the World to the literature of polar travel: the one to beat. The author volunteered as a young man to go to the Antarctic with Robert Falcon Scott in ... Read more

    $4.88 USD

  • Boy Erased

    A Memoir

    “This brave and bracing memoir is an urgent reminder that America remains a place where queer people have to fight for their lives… Equal parts sympathy and rage, Boy Erased is a necessary, beautiful book.” —Garth Greenwell“Every sentence of the story will stir your soul” —O MagazineThe New York Times bestselling memoir about a young man’s traumatizing experiences in gay conversion therapy... ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913

    "The Worst Journey in the World" is a gripping account of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's harrowing experiences during the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. The narrative captures the extreme challenges faced by the explorers, including brutal weather conditions, physical exhaustion, and the psychological toll of isolation. Cherry-Garrard, who undertook the perilous journey to collect Emperor ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    The Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey, draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scott's legendary expedition. Cherry himself ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey in the World

    “The Worst Journey in the world is to travel writing what ‘War and Peace’ is to novel... a masterpiece.” —New York Review of Books Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s 'The Worst Journey in the World', first published in 1922, is a harrowing account of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition (19101913) led by Captain Robert Falcon Scott to Antarctica. As one of the youngest expedition members, Cherry-Garrard ... Read more

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  • Wah-to-yah, and the Taos Trail

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    Wah-to-Yah is the only well-known book written by Garrard. It has won a secure place in the literature of the AmericanWest.On 1 Sept 1846, Garrard, 17 years old, joined a caravan in Westport Landing, Missouri to travel along the Santa Fe Trail toNew Mexico. He stopped off at Bent's Fort for two months and continued on to Taos with a company of Mountain Men to avengethe death of Charles Bent in the ... Read more

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  • The Worst Journey In The World

    In 1910 famous explorer Robert Falcon Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. The expedition was part scientific and part adventure: Scott wanted to be the first to reach the pole. The expedition was beset by hardship from the beginning, and after realizing that they had been beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian Expedition, the party suffered a final tragedy: the loss of ... Read more

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  • How to Think Politically

    Sages, Scholars and Statesmen Whose Ideas Have Shaped the World

    'A wonderful introduction to history's most influential scribblers' – Steven PinkerWhat is truly at stake in politics? Nothing less than how we should live, as individuals and as communities. This book goes beyond the surface headlines, the fake news and the hysteria to explore the timeless questions posed and answers offered by a diverse group of the 30 greatest political thinkers who have ever ... Read more

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    The Return of the State

    And Why It Is Essential for Our Health, Wealth, and Happiness

    Narrated by Thom Rivera ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 46 min

    A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for goodFor decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens’ everyday lives in living memory.Graeme ... Read more

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