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9781590172292 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, January 15, 2008), cover price $19.95
9781508722885 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 1, 1836, cover price $14.50

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The Pirates Own Book is a classic pirate history text by Charles Ellms. In the mind of the mariner, there is a superstitious horror connected with the name of Pirate; and there are few subjects that interest and excite the curiosity of mankind generally, more than the desperate exploits, foul doings, and diabolical career of these monsters in human form.

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9781503397705 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 13, 2015, cover price $18.99
9781500995287 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 30, 2014, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: The Pirates Own Book is a classic pirate history text by Charles Ellms.
9781499278347 | Createspace Independent Pub, May 1, 2014, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: In the mind of the mariner, there is a superstitious horror connected with the name of Pirate; and there are few subjects that interest and excite the curiosity of mankind generally, more than the desperate exploits, foul doings, and diabolical career of these monsters in human form.
9781484811962 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 24, 2013, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers.
9781523979929 | Createspace Independent Pub, February 10, 1837, cover price $14.99
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Product Description: A father once said to his son, respecting books, "Read first the introduction; if that be good, try a few pages of the volume; if they are excellent, then, but not else, read on." But I do not wish this criterion to be applied in the present instance...read more

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9781511476645 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 23, 1857, cover price $14.65 | About this edition: A father once said to his son, respecting books, "Read first the introduction; if that be good, try a few pages of the volume; if they are excellent, then, but not else, read on.

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Product Description: Vine and Olive, the fifth volume of the second series of “Young America Abroad,” contains the history of the Academy Squadron during the cruise along the shores of Spain and Portugal, and the travels of the students in the peninsula...read more

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9781508797487 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 8, 1876, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Vine and Olive, the fifth volume of the second series of “Young America Abroad,” contains the history of the Academy Squadron during the cruise along the shores of Spain and Portugal, and the travels of the students in the peninsula.

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Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, industry, culture, historic sites, and famous people of this state composed of two peninsulas more or less surrounded by Great Lakes water

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9781484121597, titled "The Ebbing of the Tide South Sea Stories" | Createspace Independent Pub, April 15, 2013, cover price $8.99
9781406599176 | Dodo Pr, March 15, 2008, cover price $17.99
9781511496933 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 17, 1896, cover price $13.75

School and Library:

9780516004686, titled "Michigan" | Childrens Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $29.40 | also contains Michigan | About this edition: Introduces the geography, history, government, economy, industry, culture, historic sites, and famous people of this state composed of two peninsulas more or less surrounded by Great Lakes water

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more
By William Knight (editor)

Hardcover:

9780548121795 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780548121788 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 30, 2007, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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9780548772928 | Kessinger Pub Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9781408607190 | Lightning Source Inc, October 30, 2007, cover price $29.45 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9781406725612 | Read Books, March 30, 2007, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9781428631052 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2006, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9781428631069 | Kessinger Pub Co, June 30, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
2 other edition(s) in this binding (see all)

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Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

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9781429005128 | Applewood Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

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9781429005135 | Applewood Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Glazier, Willard
9781590480205 | Long Riders Guild Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The “soldier-author” was how Willard Glazier billed himself.
9781511476263 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 12, 1899, cover price $18.75 | About this edition: It was the intention of the writer to publish a narrative descriptive of his overland tour from the Atlantic to the Pacific soon after returning from California in 1876, and his excuse for the delay in publication is that a variety of circumstances compelled him to postpone for a time the duty of arranging the contents of his journal until other pressing matters had been satisfactorily attended to.

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Product Description: The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: New Arabian Nights

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9780559505263 | Bibliolife, November 30, 2008, cover price $35.99

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9781466318519 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 9, 2011, cover price $19.88 | About this edition: The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: New Arabian Nights
9780559505225 | Bibliolife, November 30, 2008, cover price $20.99
9781466318502 | Createspace Independent Pub, January 2, 1903, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: My good sailor friend Captain Crutchley has asked me to write a foreword to his autobiography. It is a pleasure to comply. The author began his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the age of the Black Ball liners, the Baltimore clipper-ships, and those perfect specimens of naval architecture built in Aberdeen for the China tea trade...read more

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9781511532129 | Createspace Independent Pub, March 30, 1912, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: My good sailor friend Captain Crutchley has asked me to write a foreword to his autobiography.

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Product Description: Traces the history of man's impact on African animals, from the Roman games to their display in National Park arenas. The volume abounds with extracts of particular interest from the works of the great hunters and early explorers, detailing the methods which have depleted the herds...read more

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9780854290628 | Dufour Editions, December 15, 1967, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of man's impact on African animals, from the Roman games to their display in National Park arenas.

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Product Description: Uncommon collection of photographs, drawings and poems celebrating the history of the now-abandoned mining boom towns. 182 pages. Large hardcover with dust jacket. Pruett Press (Boulder, CO). No edition indicated; undated except for 1973 copyright date.

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9780871089007 | Pruett Pub Co, June 1, 1973, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Uncommon collection of photographs, drawings and poems celebrating the history of the now-abandoned mining boom towns.

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Product Description: A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.

Hardcover:

9780853453796 | Monthly Review Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: A biography of the fifteenth-century Italian seaman and navigator who unknowingly discovered a new continent while looking for a western route to India.

Paperback:

9780853456001 | Monthly Review Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: "The book is an idea that has finally found its time.

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Product Description: From beside a fleecy cloud where the icy mountain top hides a rising sun that will in moments bathe the little emerald lade with warmth and splendour, I dedicate this book to the 'esprit de corps' that exists among the bush pilots of the north...read more

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9780888390608 | Hancock House Pub Ltd, January 1, 1976, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From beside a fleecy cloud where the icy mountain top hides a rising sun that will in moments bathe the little emerald lade with warmth and splendour, I dedicate this book to the 'esprit de corps' that exists among the bush pilots of the north.

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An account of the adventures of a big-game hunter offers glimpses of man-eating leopards, fear-maddened elephants, charging buffalo, cunning hyenas, and other great killers of the African bush country

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9780312186135 | St Martins Pr, January 1, 1978, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: An account of the adventures of a big-game hunter offers glimpses of man-eating leopards, fear-maddened elephants, charging buffalo, cunning hyenas, and other great killers of the African bush country

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Product Description: “Doctor! Compadre! Adios!” with these words passed a wiry little man who has become a legend of the Old West.Much has been written about Kit Carson, some of it truth, a great deal of it fiction. The two have been mixed all too often, resulting in an unfaithful and highly distorted picture of the Great Scout...read more

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9780806116013 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, August 1, 1980, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: “Doctor!

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9780664253240 | Reprint edition (Westminster John Knox Pr, January 1, 1993), cover price $45.00
9780226703831 | Reissue edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1980), cover price $14.00 | also contains Jacqueline Cochran: Biography of a Pioneer Aviator

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Product Description: The Medieval World (Mentor Series) [Feb 01, 1981] Freidrich Heer and Janet Sondheimer

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9780451625427 | Reissue edition (New Amer Library, February 1, 1981), cover price $5.95 | also contains Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley | About this edition: The Medieval World (Mentor Series) [Feb 01, 1981] Freidrich Heer and Janet Sondheimer

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9780806116983 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, December 1, 1981, cover price $19.95

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The Alaskan bush pilot's dedication and bravery are revealed in accounts of specific rescue missions

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9780312853372 | Subsequent edition (Griffin, August 1, 1982), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The Alaskan bush pilot's dedication and bravery are revealed in accounts of specific rescue missions

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A complete guide to America's most popular parks, national recreation areas, and national seashores includes practical details such as safety and facilities, detailed reviews of family campgrounds and lodgings, and much more. Original.
By Jack Beeching (contributor) and Richard Hakluyt

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9780028618456, titled "Frommer''s Family Vacations in the National Parks" | Frommer, April 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | also contains Frommer''s Family Vacations in the National Parks | About this edition: Describes the parks, offers strategies for sightseeing with children, reviews campgrounds and lodgings, and suggests activities for the entire family
9780140430738 | Reissue edition (Penguin Classics, December 1, 1982), cover price $18.00

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Product Description: Book by Rh Value Publishing

Hardcover:

9780517640494 | Random House Value Pub, April 1, 1983, cover price $3.99 | also contains Intrepid Explorer: The Autobiography of the World's Best Mine-finder | About this edition: Book by Rh Value Publishing

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Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Frederick Davidson]*Winner of the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Biography* Admiral of the Ocean Sea is Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's classic biography of the greatest sailor of them all, Christopher Columbus...read more

Hardcover:

9781443727358 | Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2008, cover price $49.95
9781597402668 | Acls History E-Book Project, February 28, 2006, cover price $105.00
9781567311433 | Fine Communications, May 1, 1997, cover price $12.98
9780316583541 | Reissue edition (Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1991), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Christopher Columbus retraces his expedition to create a vivid recreation of his life and career

Paperback:

9781597406192 | Acls History E-Book Project, November 30, 2008, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: [This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.
9780316584784 | Reissue edition (Little Brown & Co, October 1, 1991), cover price $30.99 | About this edition: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Christopher Columbus retraces his expedition to create a vivid account of his life and career.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780786107230 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 1995), cover price $69.95
9780786107247 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, May 1, 1995), cover price $56.95

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Traces the life of the American explorer and documentary filmmaker, and describes the difficulties he faced in creating each of his films

Hardcover:

9780812278873 | Reprint edition (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 1, 1984), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Traces the life of the American explorer and documentary filmmaker, and describes the difficulties he faced in creating each of his films

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