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An English-Ukrainian phrasebook and dictionary in ebook format with the following features:<br>1. Phrases and terms grouped under key word(s) that they contain. <br>2. Key words, in red font, arranged in alphabetical order, as in a dictionary. (No categories as in most phrasebooks.)<br>3. Tiny x's in front of the key words to prevent mass results in searches. (When searching, type an x and then the word.)<br>4. English pronunciation of Ukrainian in blue...
| Автор | Masha Drach |
In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years � from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin�s rule � she wrote more than 2,000 letters chronicling her family life and the tumultuous social and political events she witnessed. Vladivostok, 5,600 miles east of Moscow, was shaped by a rich intersection of Asian cultures, and...
| Автор | Eleanor L. Pray |
Walking Washington�s History: Ten Cities, a follow-up to Judy Bentley�s bestselling Hiking Washington�s History, showcases the state�s engaging urban history through guided walks in ten major cities. Using narrated walks, maps, and historic photographs, Bentley reveals each city�s aspirations.She begins in Vancouver, established as a fur trade emporium on a plain above the Columbia River, and ends with Bellevue, a bedroom community turned...
| Автор | Judy Bentley |
First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment in English of Chinese travel literature (youji), James M. Hargett identifies and examines core works in the genre, from the Six Dynasties period (220�581), when its essential characteristics emerged, to its florescence in the late Ming dynasty (1368�1644). He traces the dynamic process...
| Автор | James M. Hargett |
With the same ability to make personalities and events come alive that characterizes his classic Skid Road, Murray Morgan here tells the colorful story of Tacoma, �the City of Destiny,� and southern Puget Sound, where many major events of Washington�s history took place. Drawing upon original journals and reports, Morgan builds Puget�s Sound around individuals, interweaving portraits of well-known historical figures with those who are more obscure but...
| Автор | Murray Morgan |
This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism. Early Alaskan military and bush pilots navigated some of the highest and most rugged terrain on earth, taking off and landing on glaciers, mudflats, and active volcanoes. Although they were consistently portrayed by industry leaders and lawmakers alike as cowboys—and their planes compared to...
| Автор | Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth |
In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan, leading an expedition of five ships and over 270 men, set sail from Spain in search of the Spice Islands. Three years later, one ship returned to port with just 18 men. Magellan was not among the survivors, having been killed in the Philippines. But the remainder of his party, quite inadvertently, had been first to circumnavigate the world.One of the survivors of the voyage was Antonio Pigafetta, a young Italian nobleman and volunteer member of the crew. His diligent...
| Автор | Antonio Pigafetta |
The Apostle Islands are a solitary place of natural beauty, with red sandstone cliffs, secluded beaches, and a rich and unique forest surrounded by the cold, blue waters of Lake Superior. But this seemingly pristine wilderness has been shaped and reshaped by humans. The people who lived and worked in the Apostles built homes, cleared fields, and cut timber in the island forests. The consequences of human choices made more than a century ago can still be read in today�s wild...
| Автор | James W. Feldman |
Born to transcend the social constraints of Victorian England, Gertrude Bell left the comforts of her privileged life for the unconventional — but thrilling — world of the Middle East. One of the first women to graduate from Oxford, she traveled to Persia and became passionately drawn to the Arab people, the language, and their architecture. A skilled archeologist, historian, and linguist, Bell traveled the world and wrote compelling, perceptive accounts of her daring...
| Автор | Bell Gertrude Lowthian |
The time is 1 p.m., May 24, 1869. The place: the Green River portage, in present-day Wyoming. The personnel are ten: Major John W. Powell, one-armed Civil War veteran, later head of the U. S. Geological Survey) and nine geologists, geographers, scouts, and adventurers. Their assignment: to fill in the last white space on the map, to explore the last great unmapped and unknown part of the continental United States.No man has ever descended the Colorado River — some 1,000 miles cut...
| Автор | J. W. Powell |
Seattle is often listed as one of the most walkable cities in the United States. With its beautiful scenery, miles of non-motorized trails, and year-round access, Seattle is an ideal place to explore on foot.In Seattle Walks, David B. Williams weaves together the history, natural history, and architecture of Seattle to paint a complex, nuanced, and fascinating story. He shows us Seattle in a new light and gives us an appreciation of how the city has changed over time, how the past has influenced...
| Автор | David B. Williams |
Working abroad offers adventure, friendship with people of other cultures, intimate familiarity with exciting places, and opportunities to make real differences in communities. It also presents countless challenges, ranging from packing and staying safe and healthy to balancing project objectives with on-the-ground realities, working with local officials, and forging respectful and productive relationships. These challenges and many more are tackled in How to Work in Someone Else's Country....
| Автор | Ruth Stark |
Murray Morgan’s classic history of the Olympic Peninsula, originally published in 1955, evokes a remote American wilderness “as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon.”Drawing on historical research and personal tales collected from docks, forest trails, and waterways, Morgan recounts vivid...
| Автор | Murray Morgan |
The Arab equivalent of Marco Polo, Sheikh Ibn Battuta (1304-77) set out as a young man on a pilgrimage to Mecca that ended 27 years and 75,000 miles later.The only medieval traveler known to have visited the lands of every Muslim ruler of his time, Ibn Battuta was born into a family of highly respected religious judges and educated as a theologian. Leaving his native city of Tangier in 1326, he traveled — over the next several years — to East Africa, Byzantium, Iraq, southern...
| Автор | Ibn Battuta |
Roger Sale’s Seattle, Past to Present has become a beloved reflection of Seattle’s history and its possible futures as imagined in 1976, when the book was first published. Drawing on demographic analysis, residential surveys, portraiture, and personal observation and reflection, Sale provides his take on what was most important in each of Seattle’s main periods, from the city’s founding, when settlers built a city great enough that the railroads...
| Автор | Roger Sale |
Impelled by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure and aided by an extraordinary facility in Eastern languages, Sir Richard Burton (1821-90) was one of the great traveler-explorers of history. He was the first European to enter the capital of Somaliland and the first to discover the Great Lakes of Central Africa. He was also an Orientalist of the first rank.But it is for his pilgrimage in 1853 to Mecca and Medina and the most sacrosanct shrines of Islam that Burton is best known — and...
| Автор | Richard Burton |
Renowned for its old-growth rain forest, wilderness coast, and glaciated peaks, Olympic National Park is a living laboratory for ecological renewal, especially as the historic Elwha River basin regenerates in the wake of dam removal. In this classic guide to the park, Tim McNulty invites us into the natural and human history of these nearly million acres, from remote headwaters to roadside waterfalls, from shipwreck sites to Native American historical settlements and contemporary resource...
| Автор | Tim McNulty |
The experts at <i>Entrepreneur</i> provide a two-part guide to success. First, learn the nuts and bolts of starting a travel hosting business, including everything from writing your property listing to dealing with guests who break the rules. Then, master the fundamentals of business startup including defining your business structure, funding, staffing and more. <b>This kit includes:</b> • Essential industry and business-specific startup steps with worksheets,...
| Автор | The Staff of Entrepreneur Media |
'This is the story of a journalist's journey round and across Australia… It was in July 1930 that I first set out, a wandering "copy-boy" with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines…' Ernestine Hill's classic account of travelling in the Australian outback, in a pilgrimage of many years and 100,000 miles. "The most picturesque account of our outback that has yet been written… a vivid and arresting page of Australian...
| Автор | Ernestine Hill |
Des Molloy and Dick Huurdeman look like the sort of guys who should be sedately steering a sleigh in a Santa parade, not riding old single-banger British bikes half way across the world through some of the most di ffi cult and remote terrain imaginable. Des's son Steve joined this intrepid pair as a cameraman and general factotum for the highs and lows of an incident-packed three-month trek from Beijing to Arnhem on 'Penelope', a 1965 Yorkshire-made 650cc Panther, and...
| Автор | Des Molloy |
I Won't Be Silenced Any Longer…<br /> <br />International Author, songwriter and life coach, Sandi Allan shares her story of going overseas to live her dream. The Bali Paradise lifestyle… until it was shattered by a terrifying course of events.<br /> <br />This book is a warning for all women about the mine field of another country's overwhelming cultural and legal differences. It will help keep you safe and teach you what to avoid.<br /> <br...
| Автор | Sandi Allan |
International Author, Tour Guide and Feng Shui Master Teacher, Sharon Breslin takes you on a truly magical journey as she shares her tale of adventures through mystical ancient lands.<br />From the moment she stepped foot on Egyptian soil the mysteries began to unfold. There were chance meetings with strangers who passed on life changing messages, a moment high up in the mountains of Tibet where her third eye fully opened and so much more. Sharon's intrepid journeys have fed her gypsy...
| Автор | Sharon Breslin |
Imagine being able to see and experience different countries all over the world, and feel like you're a participant and not just an observer. To be immersed in the culture, and apart of the community, and not just a visitor looking in. To have authentic experiences and really see the world, from outside the all-inclusive's, Google Images, and Yelp reviews. This book is a collection of experiences and perspectives, created from 24 locals all over the world, that wanted you to know why...
| Автор | Jessa Bresser |
First published in 1941 as part of the American Guide Series, this lively book describes Minnesota's popular northern region. Special features include fifteen canoe trips; five maps; thirty-seven photographs; forty-seven city, town, and village profiles; four road tours; a chronology; a glossary; and a bibliography with updated suggestions for further reading in fiction and nonfiction about the region.
| Автор | Federal Writers' Project |