Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

The recent international 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 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 region of present day southern usa.

African Wanderlust

In 1962 on the top of the Cuban missile quandary, 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 around the globe.

Unplugged From The Norm

Raised throughout the hippie period, Anne Spring had an inborn wish to be loose to adventure lifestyles and the wonders of what she gave the impression to be God's construction as she observed healthy, unfastened from the shackles of a nine to five task simply to live on. 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 dead 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 means of heroic Gitga'at First international locations humans in fishing boats. passengers have been by no means came across.