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Language: en
Pages: 450
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-03 - Publisher: Courier Corporation
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Language: en
Pages: 392
Pages: 392
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-26 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Darwin took his books aboard the Beagle. Swift and Defoe used his experiences as inspiration in writing Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Captain Cook rel
Language: en
Pages: 612
Pages: 612
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Random House
Spanning fifty years, Before the Fall-Out tells the full story of how an exhilarating quest to unravel the secrets of the material world produced the knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 1957 - Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Singlehanded achievement by Ralph Edwards of wresting a farm homestead from the wilderness in British Columbia. A condensed version appeared in "Reader's digest