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“fergus fleming”

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  • The Sword and the Cross

    by Fergus Fleming ...
    "[A] searing story of France's attempt to colonize the vast Sahara desert and of two unforgettable men who dedicated their lives to the effort." —Rob Mitchell, The Boston HeraldWhether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today's most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barrow's Boys

    A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy

    by Fergus Fleming ...
    From the author of Ninety Degrees North, a spellbinding account of how officers of the British Navy explored the world after the Napoleonic Wars.In 1816, John Barrow, second secretary to the British admiralty, launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For the next thirty years, his handpicked teams of elite British naval officers scoured the globe from the Arctic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Killing Dragons

    The Conquest of the Alps

    by Fergus Fleming ...
    A "dramatic and masterful" account of early alpine explorers and the challenges they faced to scale the summits (Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure).In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history's greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps. Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of the men ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ninety Degrees North

    The Quest for the North Pole

    by Fergus Fleming ...
    The author of Barrow's Boys offers a fascinating look at the exploration of the Arctic in the nineteenth century.Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the Seattle Times, Publishers Weekly, and TimeIn the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shaken

    Drinking with James Bond and Ian Fleming, the Official Cocktail Book

    by Ian Fleming ...
    Readers can explore James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s writing on the pleasures of drinking and mix themselves fifty delicious cocktails from recipes inspired by his books and developed by award-winning London bar, Swift.Both Bond and Fleming were partial to a stiff drink. In both fiction and real life, cocktails were an important and well-chosen accompaniment to adventure and daring and often ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Man with the Golden Typewriter

    Ian Fleming's James Bond Letters

    Edited by Fergus Fleming ...
    On August 16, 1952, Ian Fleming wrote to his wife, Ann, "My love, This is only a tiny letter to try out my new typewriter and to see if it will write golden words since it is made of gold." He had bought the golden typewriter as a present to himself for finishing his first novel, Casino Royale. It marked in glamorous style the arrival of James Bond, agent 007, and the start of a career that saw ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Explorer's Eye

    First-hand Accounts of Adventure and Exploration

    Edited by Fergus Fleming, Annabel Merullo ...
    The golden moments of exploration and adventure - glorious, triumphant, perilous and dramatic.In the 18th century, exploration entered a new dimension - explorers were motivated by scientific inquiry rather than greed. To this end they were expected to make a full record of everything they encountered; and for the first time in history, that record was to include pictures as well as words. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • South

    The Endurance Expedition

    by Ernest Shackleton ...
    As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • 1941: Fighting the Shadow War

    A Divided America in a World at War

    by Marc Wortman ...
    "A wide-ranging examination of America's entry into World War II." — Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1941: Fighting the Shadow War, A Divided America in a World at War, historian Marc Wortman thrillingly explores the little-known history of America's clandestine involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor.Prior to that infamous day, America had long been involved in a shadow war ... Read more

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  • The Barbary Corsairs

    Pirates, Plunder, and Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1480-1580

    by Jacques Heers ...
    The Barbary corsairs first appeared to terrorize shipping at the end of the fifteenth century. These Muslim pirates sailed out of the ports of North Africa, primarily Sal?, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli. This area was known in Europe as the Barbary Coast, a term derived from the name of its Berber inhabitants. Acting as officers of the sprawling Ottoman Empire, these pirates plundered the ... Read more

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  • Emperor

    A New Life of Charles V

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    This "elegant and engaging" biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: "a masterpiece" (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times).The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But capturing the nature of this elusive man has ... Read more

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