Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (Penguin Classics)

The recent global tale of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his personal wordsThis riveting real tale is the 1st significant narrative detailing the exploration of North the USA by means 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 say for Spain an enormous region of modern-day southern usa.

African Wanderlust

In 1962 on the peak of the Cuban missile situation, 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 target used to be to sign up as crewmen, as a primary step of their deliberate trip of experience 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 adventure lifestyles and the wonders of what she appeared to be God's construction as she observed healthy, loose from the shackles of a nine to five task simply to live to tell the tale. 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 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 way of heroic Gitga'at First countries humans in fishing boats. passengers have been by no means stumbled on.