El Hombre Primitivo y El Oceano

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Sigrid Crump

"Sigrid's solo travels took her to remote parts of New Zealand's back country, and from North Island bush to the ice of southern winters [this is her story]" --Back cover.

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Nan Elliot

A guide book to Alaska covering restaurants, hotels, travel information, state and national parks, festivals, and events. The material is organized by geographic region and a chapter on Canada's Yukon Territory is included.

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David McDermott Hughes

European settler societies have a long history of establishing a sense of belonging and entitlement outside Europe, but Zimbabwe has proven to be the exception to the rule. Arriving in the 1890s, white settlers never comprised more than a tiny minority. Instead of grafting themselves onto local societies, they adopted a strategy of escape.

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Peter Ulf Møller and Natasha Okhotina Lind

"Eighteenth-century Danish explorer Vitus Bering led expeditions to the Russian Far East and Alaska under the patronage of Peter the Great, and his wife Anna Christina accompanied him on his expedition to Okhotsk in 1739. The sixteen letters that they wrote over the following year make up the core of this volume, which features facing-page translations from the original German. The documents offer an intimate look into eighteenth-century customs, as well as the explorer's family life and daily routine. Also featured is an inventory of goods that Anna Christina brought back to Moscow after Bering's death in 1742, revealing key insights into the types of goods available in Russia at the time."--BOOK JACKET.