Mingming II & the Impossible Voyage (Taylor Roger D.)(Paperback)

Mingming II & the Impossible Voyage (Taylor Roger D.)(Paperback)

Far to the north of Russia, across the cold waters of the Barents Sea, lies the desolate archipelago known as Franz Josef Land. Hidden away still further to the north and west of those islands is one of the most inaccessible and least known seas on this planet - the Queen Victoria Sea. In his fifth

Mingming II and the Islands of the Ice (Taylor Roger)(Paperback)

Sailing his newly-created yacht Mingming II, Roger ventures into the Baring Sea and explores the islands of north-eastern Svalbard. During the 55-day voyage to waters seldom sailed in, he encounters everything from walruses to inquisitive humpback whales to massive ice cliffs, and nearly rescues a

The Great Movies II (Ebert Roger)(Paperback)

Continuing the pitch-perfect critiques begun in The Great Movies, Roger Ebert's The Great Movies II collects 100 additional essays, each one of them a gem of critical appreciation and an amalgam of love, analysis, and history that will send readers back to films with a fresh set of eyes and renewed

Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles (Bilstein Roger)(Paperback)

'A classic study of the moon rocket that launched the Apollo astronauts on their voyages of discovery.' Roger Launius, chief historian, National Air and Space Museum'This volume is just one of the many excellent histories produced by government and contract historians for the NASA History Office

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - Lewis Clive Staples

A beautiful paperback edition of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, book five in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage

Demanding the Impossible (Marshall Peter)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present

A Voyage to the Moon (Bergerac Cyrano de)(Paperback)

In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator (called, like the author, Cyrano de Bergerac), after a failed first attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally makes it into space and to his desired destination using the more scientific means of a rocket-powered craft. After landing, he

Impossible Boy (Brooks Ben)(Paperback / softback)

Believe in the impossible... A magical story celebrating the power of children's imagination, from the bestselling author of STORIES FOR BOYS WHO DARE TO BE

Heart of Darkness: Vintage Voyages (Conrad Joseph)(Paperback)

VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindLife on the river is brutal, and unknown threats lurk in the darkness; the silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Marlow's mission to captain a steamer upriver into the dense

The Lusiads (De Camoes Luis Vaz)(Paperback)

1998 is the quincentenary of Vasca da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India, the voyage celebrated in this new translation of one of the greatest poems of the Renaissance. Portugal's supreme poet Camoes was the first major European artist to cross the equator. The freshness of that original

Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin Charles)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events leading to The Origin of Species When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. His journal, here

The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery (Bell P. G.)(Paperback)

A middle-grade fantasy and nonstop adventure, The Train to Impossible Places: A Cursed Delivery by debut author P. G. Bell is as fun as it is full of heart, and the first book of a planned trilogy.A train that travels through impossible places. A boy trapped in a snow globe. And a girl who's about

Great Brain Robbery (Bell P.G.)(Paperback / softback)

Suzy can't wait to return to the Union of Impossible Places on the Impossible Postal Express. But when she arrives, she overhears a dastardly plan to destroy Trollville from a shadowy and unexpected villain. Suzy and her friends must race from magical cloud-worlds to secret caverns to catch the

Shadow of the Silk Road - (Vintage Voyages) (Thubron Colin)(Paperback / softback)

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and

The Voyage of St Brendan (Jackson A. B.)(Paperback)

In The Voyage of St Brendan, A.B. Jackson tells the tale of the legendary seafaring Irish abbot in poetry and prose. After burning a book of fantastical stories, Brendan is compelled to sail the ocean with a crew of six monks in a leather-skinned currach; his task, to prove the existence of wonders

The Voyage Out (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback)

In The Voyage Out, one of Woolf's wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship, and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a modern version of the mythic voyage. Lorna Sage's Introduction and Explanatory Notes offer guidance to the reader

Two Hours - The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon (Caesar Ed)(Paperback / softback)

Takes us into the world of the elite of the elite: the greatest marathoners on

Rings of Saturn - (Vintage Voyages) (Sebald W.G.)(Paperback / softback)

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad,

Roger II and the Creation of the Kingdom of Sicily (Horrox Rosemary)(Paperback)

This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. The kingdom created by King Roger was the most centralised and administratively advanced

New Voyage Round the World (Dampier William)(Paperback / softback)

Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell (Jackson Kevin)(Paperback / softback)

Voyage to the Stars (Copple Ryan)(Paperback)

The hit sci-fi comedy podcast blasts into comics with this all-new graphic novel adventure Voyage to the Stars is a bonafide podcast phenomenon starring Colton Dunn (Superstore), Felicia Day (Supernatural), Janet Varney (Legend of Korra), Kirsten Vangsness (Criminal Minds), and Steve Berg (Drunk

Max Jupiter and the Impossible Planet (Reynolds Alison)(Paperback / softback)

The Voyage of the Space Beagle (Van Vogt A. E.)(Paperback)

One of the great original classics of modern SF returns An all-time classic space saga, The Voyage of the Space Beagle is one of the pinnacles of Golden Age SF, an influence on generations of stories. An episodic novel filled with surprises and provocative ideas, this is the story of a great