Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

The hot global tale of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his personal wordsThis riveting precise tale is the 1st significant narrative detailing the exploration of North the US by way of 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 region of brand new southern usa.

African Wanderlust

In 1962 on the peak of the Cuban missile challenge, a tender Canadian tv author and his artist buddy have been prowling the docks in Montreal looking for a munitions send headed for blockaded Cuba. Their objective was once to sign up as crewmen, as a primary step of their deliberate trip of event world wide.

Unplugged From The Norm

Raised throughout the hippie period, Anne Spring had an inborn wish to be loose to adventure existence and the wonders of what she seemed to be God's production as she observed healthy, loose from the shackles of a nine to five task simply to continue to exist. She observed Jesus for what He used to be: 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

Presently 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 existence rafts, many have been rescued by way of heroic Gitga'at First countries humans in fishing boats. passengers have been by no means came across.