Our Journey In The Pacific

Author : Barney Scout Mann
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781680513226

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Journeys North by Barney Scout Mann Pdf

2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Finalist in Adventure Travel In Journeys North, legendary trail angel, thru hiker, and former PCTA board member Barney Scout Mann spins a compelling tale of six hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail in 2007 as they walk from Mexico to Canada. This ensemble story unfolds as these half-dozen hikers--including Barney and his wife, Sandy--trod north, slowly forming relationships and revealing their deepest secrets and aspirations. They face a once-in-a-generation drought and early severe winter storms that test their will in this bare-knuckled adventure. In fact, only a third of all the hikers who set out on the trail that year would finish. As the group approaches Canada, a storm rages. How will these very different hikers, ranging in age, gender, and background, respond to the hardship and suffering ahead of them? Can they all make the final 60-mile push through freezing temperatures, sleet, and snow, or will some reach their breaking point? Journeys North is a story of grit, compassion, and the relationships people forge when they strive toward a common goal.

Author : Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Pacific Coast
ISBN : UCAL:B4754614

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Our Journey in the Pacific by Sir S. Eardley-Wilmot Pdf

Author : Sir S Eardley-Wilmot,Zealous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020177128

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Our Journal in the Pacific by Sir S Eardley-Wilmot,Zealous Pdf

In this engaging travelogue, Sydney Marow Eardley Wilmot recounts his journey through the Pacific islands in the mid-19th century. With vivid descriptions of the landscapes, cultures, and people he encounters, Wilmot offers a fascinating glimpse into a world that was rapidly changing due to Western influence. Our Journal in the Pacific is a valuable resource for historians, geographers, and anyone interested in the history of colonial exploration and travel writing. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Sir S Eardley-Wilmot,Zealous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021524816

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Our Journal in the Pacific by Sir S Eardley-Wilmot,Zealous Pdf

In this engaging travelogue, Sydney Marow Eardley Wilmot recounts his journey through the Pacific islands in the mid-19th century. With vivid descriptions of the landscapes, cultures, and people he encounters, Wilmot offers a fascinating glimpse into a world that was rapidly changing due to Western influence. Our Journal in the Pacific is a valuable resource for historians, geographers, and anyone interested in the history of colonial exploration and travel writing. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : David Doubilet
Publisher : Bulfinch
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Science
ISBN : 0821219030

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Pacific by David Doubilet Pdf

The Pacific dominates our planet - it is an ocean so vast that it makes islands out of continents. Beneath its surface lie a series of kingdoms, populated by diverse creatures. This book is a photographic record of the diversity of the Pacific, from the Hawaiian islands to Suruga Bay.

Author : Paul Marcoy (pseud. [i.e. Laurent Saint Cricq.])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000633665

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A Journey Across South America from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by Paul Marcoy (pseud. [i.e. Laurent Saint Cricq.]) Pdf

Author : Joshua L. Tracy,Kansas Pacific Railway Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Colorado
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002224462

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Hand Book for the Kansas Pacific Railway by Joshua L. Tracy,Kansas Pacific Railway Company Pdf

Author : Kansas Pacific Railway Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Pacific railroads
ISBN : CHI:083715189

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Senatorial Excursion Party Over the Union Pacific Railway, E.D. by Kansas Pacific Railway Company Pdf

Author : Jim McEnery,Bill Sloan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451659146

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Hell in the Pacific by Jim McEnery,Bill Sloan Pdf

In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy years ago, Marine Jim McEnery has teamed up with author Bill Sloan to create an unforgettable chronicle of heroism and horror McErery’s Rifle Company—the legendary K/3/5 of the First Marine Division, made famous by the HBO miniseries The Pacific—fought in some of the most ferocious battles of the war. In searing detail, the author takes us back to Guadalcanal, where American forces first turned the tide against the Japanese; Cape Gloucester, where 1,300 Marines were killed or wounded; and bloody Peleliu, where McEnery assumed command of the company and helped hasten the final defeat of the Japanese garrison after weeks of torturous cave-to-cave fighting. McEnery’s story is a no-holds-barred, grunt’s-eye view of the sacrifices, suffering, and raw courage of the men in the foxholes, locked in mortal combat with an implacable enemy sworn to fight to the death. From bayonet charges and hand-to-hand combat to midnight banzai attacks and the loss of close buddies, the rifle squad leader spares no details, chronicling his odyssey from boot camp through twenty-eight months of hellish combat until his eventual return home. He has given us an unforgettable portrait of men at war.

Author : Eugene McCann
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781503581500

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The Journey of My Life by Eugene McCann Pdf

This book is a compilation of my daily life. I was inspired by St. Benedict teachings that you really look at yourself you will see yourself and others this is where you get woke up and you begin to change your life and this is where Benedictine spirituality comes in.

Author : Miles Hordern
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781466871960

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Sailing the Pacific by Miles Hordern Pdf

Solo sailors are widely known to be a breed apart, and here's an unforgettable book that shows just how wide a berth they give themselves from the crowds. Several years ago, Miles Hordern, a schoolteacher by training---though he had run away to sea a few times before---set sail on a twenty-eight-foot boat from New Zealand to South America, the largest uninterrupted stretch of water on earth, and into the dominion of icebergs, cyclones, and swells of monumental proportions. The trip would take him through the fjords of Patagonia, one of the last uncharted areas in the world, then north on the Peru Current before he began his homeward voyage. Sailing the Pacific recounts that trip in prose so vivid you can almost feel the spray sting your face and the deck heave beneath your feet. Here is prose so hawser-taut that it takes you back to Conrad, Melville, and Poe, indeed all those writers whose works about the bounding main have launched countless imaginations. Hordern pauses to consider those who have gone before him, recounting the stories that have given life to this lonely and magisterial part of the world. Writers, adventurers, fictional characters, cartographers, doomed voyages from history's pages—from the Whaleship S.S. Essex to the HMS Bounty: the South Pacific drew them all, and in their way they left mark on its vast surface. Part sailing yarn, part adventure story, part homage to an unending but beckoning horizon, Sailing the Pacific will appeal to the sailor in each one of us, whatever the way we choose to answer the ocean's call.

Author : Commander F. J. Bell
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786252623

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Condition Red; Destroyer Action In The South Pacific [Illustrated Edition] by Commander F. J. Bell Pdf

Includes the Second World War In The Pacific Illustration Pack – 152 maps, plans and photos. Commander Frederick Bell recounts his wartime experiences on the USS G (Grayson) during the Pacific War. “CONDITION RED” was an expression that we used to indicate the imminence of any type of engagement. Aboard the G it was a colloquialism that served to express the conviction that the next few hours or days or weeks were going to be packed with action. We first heard it soon after we arrived in the Solomons, where the term was used on Guadalcanal and Tulagi to indicate the approach of the enemy, and when our voice radio blared out the words we went to General Quarters and prepared to greet the Tokyo Express or the Zeros and Mitsubishis when they came within view. Little has been written of the part that our destroyers are playing in the Pacific War, where they are called upon to fulfil such a variety of missions that they have become multipurpose ships, engaging in any form of combat. Because we lacked suitable escort ships we used destroyers to protect convoys as well as to guard our combatant Task Forces. We used them to bombard enemy shore positions and to carry bombs and aviation gasoline and stores to Guadalcanal during the lean weeks early in our campaign in those far-distant seas. By nature as well as by name, the purpose of the destroyer is wholly offensive. Bantamweights in comparison with the great battlewagons, they pack a punch out of all proportion to their size. They are triple-threat weapons, built to strike at any enemy on or over or under the sea. In the words of Rear Admiral Tisdale, “They are the fightingest thing afloat.”

Author : Ira G. Hoitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : California
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133091921

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Pacific Coast Guide and Programme of the Knights Templar Triennial Conclave at San Francisco, August, 1883 by Ira G. Hoitt Pdf

Author : George Vancouver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1798
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5324330803

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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World by George Vancouver Pdf

Author : George Vancouver
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1798
Category : Voyages around the world
ISBN : UCLA:31158010062338

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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean by George Vancouver Pdf