More than five hundred money-saving ideas include how to save on household goods, slash home energy expenditures, cut food costs with out cutting nutrition, maintain a cost-efficient car, travel cheaply, and have fun for free. Original.

More than 50,000 devoted Patrick O'Brian fans have made this their reference book of choice. No other book provides the thorough research and scholarship that made it such a runaway success--and it's just gotten better. Dean King has added hundreds of new definitions and new illustrations and background essays, many from the two new O'Brian novels published since A Sea of Words was first released. 15 illustrations, diagrams and maps. Online promo. (view table of contents)

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The history of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars comes alive through letters, diaries, official chronicles, accounts of life at sea, and eyewitness descriptions of great sea battles, such as Cape St. Vincent and Trafalgar, the death of Nelson, and more.

Written by and for cancer patients, a unique book presents the inspirational stories and no-nonsense advice of more than eighty people who have fought cancer and survived, covering such subjects as enduring chemotherapy and maintaining one's dignity. Original.

Presents the first definitive biography of bestselling author Patrick O'Brian, the creator of the popular AubreyMaturin historical novels, describing the dramatic personal life of the reclusive eccentric who radically altered his own identity. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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A compelling portrait of the man behind the Aubery-Maturin novels reveals the dramatic life experiences that helped shape O'Brian into one of the most beloved writers of the last century. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: In October 1934, the Chinese Communist Army found itself facing annihilation, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Nationalist soldiers. Rather than surrender, 86,000 Communists embarked on an epic flight to safety. Only thirty were women...read more

Desert explorer Michael Asher investigates the most disastrous exploration mission in the history of the Sahara. In 1880, the French government ordered a surveying expedition for a railway that would bring the fabulous wealth of Timbuktu, in French Sudan, to Paris. This trek should have heralded a new era of French prosperity. Instead, it was a deadly fiasco. Under-armed in hostile territory, and foolishly employing the enemy as guides, the one hundred men of the expedition were ambushed and stranded without camels or supplies in the deserts of southern Algeria. Many were killed outright, and for four months the survivors were menaced by the Tuareg, the "lords of the desert," robbed, starved, and tricked into eating poisoned fruit. To escape, the men hid in the wastelands of the Sahara with little hope of finding food or water. They were finally forced to eat their own dead, or, worse, the merely weak. Only a dozen malnourished men lived to tell their tale. The story of their 1,000 mile journey is one of the most astonishing narratives of survival ever recorded. With a "superb grip of narrative and uncanny ability to evoke battle scenes" (The Guardian), Michael Asher has written an amazing true story that is as dramatic as it is frightening.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Chronicles the hardships encountered by twelve American sailors who, in 1815, were shipwrecked on the coast of North Africa, captured, sold into slavery, and sent on a difficult odyssey through the perilous heart of the Sahara.

Product Description: The classic, harrowing tale of a shipwrecked crew’s fight to survive in the deserts of North Africa—annotated and with a new introduction.Listed by Abraham Lincoln, alongside the Bible and The Pilgrim’s Progress, as one of the books that most influenced his life, this is an enthralling account of the courage and perseverance it took one man and his crew to survive inconceivable hardship...read more