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 US through 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 say for Spain an unlimited quarter of contemporary southern usa.

African Wanderlust

In 1962 on the peak of the Cuban missile problem, 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 aim used to be to join up as crewmen, as a primary step of their deliberate trip of event all over the world.

Unplugged From The Norm

Raised in the course of the hippie period, Anne Spring had an inborn wish to be unfastened to event 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 activity simply to live to tell the tale. She observed Jesus for what He used to be: 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

Presently after hour of darkness 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 international locations humans in fishing boats. passengers have been by no means stumbled on.