Flight Lines: Across the Globe on a Journey with the Astonishing Ultramarathon Birds 9781643135779

Lines Drawn across the Globe: Reading Richard Hakluyt’s “Principal Navigations” 9780228018414

How England saw the world and itself in 1600. Around 1600, Richard Hakluyt sought to honour his nation by publishing a

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Birds in Flight

Two estranged sisters reunite to solve the harrowing mystery of their missing mother. In 1998, the American Jorgenson fa

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Conversations with Biographical Novelists: Truthful Fictions across the Globe 9781501341465, 9781501341458, 9781501341496, 9781501341489

How does a writer approach a novel about a real person? In this new collection of interviews, authors such as Emma Donog

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Raptor: A Journey through Birds 9780226470610

From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart’s stunning debut is a qu

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Australian Birds of Prey in Flight: A Photographic Guide [Annotated]

Birds of prey spend most of their time in flight, and, when viewed from the ground, they are notoriously hard to identif

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Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain 9781526618658, 9781526618665

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Legal Encounters on the Medieval Globe 9781942401117

Law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history—as a system of ideas embodied in people and ena

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One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe

Bruce C. Steele is a journalist and Disney fan with a long career of profiling the famous and unheralded, from the pastr

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Sailing the Pacific. A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past 0312310811

Traces the author's 18-month small-boat voyage from New Zealand to South America, during which he overcame treacher

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On the wing: insects, pterosaurs, birds, bats and the evolution of animal flight 9780199996773, 0199996776, 9780199996780, 0199996784

On the Wing is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the evolution of flight in all four groups of powered flye

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