Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

The recent international 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 by way of Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). the writer, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, used to be a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an excursion despatched to assert for Spain an enormous region of modern southern usa.

African Wanderlust

In 1962 on the peak of the Cuban missile trouble, a tender Canadian tv author and his artist good friend have been prowling the docks in Montreal looking for a munitions send headed for blockaded Cuba. Their objective was once to join up as crewmen, as a primary step of their deliberate trip of experience around the globe.

Unplugged From The Norm

Raised in the course of the hippie period, Anne Spring had an inborn wish to be loose to adventure lifestyles and the wonders of what she seemed to be God's construction 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 method 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 middle of the night 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 lifestyles rafts, many have been rescued by way of heroic Gitga'at First countries humans in fishing boats. passengers have been by no means discovered.