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Book DescriptionOriginally published in 1984 by Alaska Northwest Books(r), this fascinating book about one of Canada's best-known northern pilots is back in print! Bush pilot Ernie J. Boffa was inducted into Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame at Edmonton andreceived the Order of Polaris medal and scroll, created by the Government of Yukon, for bush pilots who have given outstanding service to the northern territories.

Book Description Brother in the Bush is a coming-of-awareness memoir about what the experience of Africa can mean for a twenty-first-century African American. John Slaughter is a successful stockbroker in his thirties who decides to travel to Africa to broaden his horizons. He's "made it" as a black man in America, but his life is full of constant reminders of how violently fragile existence here really is. Not long after his Baltimore townhouse is invaded one night-and Slaughter confronts, shoots and kills the intruder with his shotgun-he embarks on a series of trips that unfolds over almost a decade. Along the way, he discovers a way of life that transforms and deepens his identity as an African American. Slaughter finds himself seduced and humbled by the contrasting realities, beauties and dangers he discovers in eastern Africa. He begins to ask questions, out loud, about his life, his relationships and his place here in twenty-first-century North America,...

Book DescriptionFrom a young age, Karen Morris developed an insatiable desire to explore life throughout the United States. On her eighteenth birthday, she left her family and, for twenty years, she traveled extensively. Soon enough, Karen was able to attach a heart to the literature she read about. She learned that how people felt about life was vastly different from how it was described in books ? people had to adapt to society?s laws, not just to the government?s. There were things people did to survive that the books never tell about, and never will. Society could change from a natural physical phenomenon, as well ? such as an earthquake ? yet, any change of life could change the course of history forever. For this reason, Karen believes that her subject matter is as timeless an entity as how history portrays itself today ? ?Life is too interesting to simply ignore the little things.?

Book DescriptionExpatriate Games describes the expatriate experience through the eyes of a culture-shocked young mother, as well as through the words and experiences of a cast of other young mothers who struggled to maintain some sense of identity while coping with the changes wrought by their husbands careers. When faced with her husband's job transfer to Orsay, France, the author struggled with learning a strange language, and navigating in unfamiliar surroundings, while trying to make a home for herfamily amid the puzzling characteristics of a different culture. The challenges did not confine themselves to France. Back in Michigan, the family's home and finances were damaged due to a misplaced trust in a disreputable property manager, a situation that threatened to plunge the family into financial ruin.

This New York City 5 Borough atlas is the most accurate of its kind. It includes a full street index, history, postal zones and stations, outdoor activities, a map of the Theater District and of Downtown, and a map of main routes that pass through the areas of New York City, eastern New Jersey, Nassau County, NY and Fairfield County, CT. The atlas shows 321 square miles of crisp, new digitized map, which makes all of the details sharper and cleaner. Features in this atlas include subway lines and stops, transportation information, and tolls for bridges and tunnels, airport maps, building numbers, direction of streets in Manhattan, schools, hospitals, ZIP codes and other points of interest in New York City.

Book Description1874. This work entails the autobiographical account of Edwin Eastman's nine year stint with the Camanche and Apache Indians. In these chapters, Eastman details the trials and sufferings of those who were snatched from their homes and carried off to the mountain fastnesses of these Indians. He believes that the experiences of his wife and himself, during their captivity among the Camanches and Apaches, will serve as a prototype of many similar cases. Illustrated.

In the spring of 1957 Tokyo-based American journalist Boye Lafayette De Mente joined Australian adventurer Ben Carlin on an amphibious jeep called HALF-SAFE (named after a deodorant slogan, "Don't Be Half-Safe!") on a journey from Japan to Anchorage, Alaska via the North Pacific, the Bering Sea and Shelikof Strait--an incredible adventure that made news worldwide and the Guinness Book of World Records." ONCE A FOOL is De Mente's account of the remarkable 3-month long journey that began and ended with one mishap and emergency after the other; combined with an explosive relationship between the two men in and on the tiny jeep. In addition to each other, the two encountered Russians,a frozen propeller, Japanese fishing nets, engine problems, a tidal wave, refueling at sea, frigid water, giant kelp fields, and rough seas that bounced them around in the jeep "like rocks in a tin can." The book has become a classic among jeep fans and small-boat sailors around the world.