Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

The recent global tale of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his personal wordsThis riveting actual tale is the 1st significant narrative detailing the exploration of North the USA via Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). the writer, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was once a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an day trip despatched to assert for Spain an enormous zone of modern southern usa.

African Wanderlust

In 1962 on the peak of the Cuban missile difficulty, a tender Canadian tv author and his artist pal have been prowling the docks in Montreal looking for a munitions send headed for blockaded Cuba. Their objective used to be to join up as crewmen, as a primary step of their deliberate trip of event worldwide.

Unplugged From The Norm

Raised through the hippie period, Anne Spring had an inborn wish to be loose to event lifestyles and the wonders of what she appeared to be God's production as she observed healthy, loose from the shackles of a nine to five activity simply to continue to exist. She observed Jesus for what He was once: a long-haired hippie in sandals who rebelled opposed to the approach of His day whereas loving the outcasts and the sinners.

Farewell to a Queen: The Mysterious Sinking of the Pride of BC Ferries

Almost immediately after nighttime on March 22, 2006, passengers aboard the Canadian ferry Queen of the North have been flung from their beds because the vessel crashed right into a rocky island. Evacuated into existence rafts, many have been rescued through heroic Gitga'at First international locations humans in fishing boats. passengers have been by no means chanced on.