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First Across!

Author : Richard K. Smith

Publisher : US Naval Institute Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 44,75 MB

Release : 2012

Category : History

ISBN : 9781591147978

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First Across is the exciting story of the first transatlantic flight. The flight, made in 1919, took a six-man crew nearly three weeks to complete. This book describes in detail the entire operation: the planning, the men and their aircraft, the primitive radio communication, and method of air navigation. In First Across Richard K. Smith has used photographs, cartoons, and even advertisements of the era to help evoke that spring of 1919, an important moment in the history of transportation.



First Across the Continent

Author : Barry M. Gough

Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 48,53 MB

Release : 1997

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780806130026

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Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness



First Crossing

Author : Derek Hayes

Publisher : D & M Publishers

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 23,55 MB

Release : 2009-12-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781926706597

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First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.



First across the Continent

Author : Noah Brooks

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 10,53 MB

Release : 2019-09-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 3734082900

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Reproduction of the original: First across the Continent by Noah Brooks



First Across the Roof of the World

Author : Graeme Dingle

Publisher : Salem House Publishers

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 40,47 MB

Release : 1988-01-01

Category : Himalaya Mountains

ISBN : 9780340362020

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Alice Across America

Author : Sarah Glenn Marsh

Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Page : 25 pages

File Size : 36,30 MB

Release : 2020-02-04

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1250776317

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Writer Sarah Glenn Marsh and illustrator Gilbert Ford's Alice Across America is a nonfiction picture book account of maverick Alice Ramsey, the first woman to drive a car across America in 1909. When Alice Ramsey was little, she loved to ride horses. As she grew up, more people were driving cars. From the moment Alice slid behind the wheel, she was crazy about cars. So when the Maxwell-Briscoe Company challenged her to drive one of their new cars across the country as a promotional ploy to prove that even a lady could do it, Alice daringly accepted. With several women by her side, these brazen drivers sustained many hardships over the course of a remarkable two-month journey and far surpassed all expectations. With a clever blend of women’s history, technological history, and American roading geography, this is a celebration of unstoppable women making strides in twentieth-century America. Christy Ottaviano Books



Eren Sarigul: Across Japan

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Publisher : Trope Emerging Photographers

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 11,15 MB

Release : 2021

Category : Photography

ISBN : 9781732693692

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It takes a particular blend of curiosity and courage to dive into a culture foreign to your own. In Across Japan, photographer Eren Sarigul takes us on a wide-eyed journey through the beautiful country that has fascinated him since he was a boy in south London. Born into a family with deep roots in Istanbul, Eren grew up bilingual and frequently visited relatives in Turkey. But it was the Japanese exchange students his family hosted that planted a dream of one day travelling much farther east. Across Japan documents this young photographer's travels from the streets of Tokyo, to the enchanted forests of Yakushima, to the mountains of Nagano and back again. His lifelong love affair with Japan's geography, its cultures, and its people are evident on every page.



Race Across Alaska

Author : Libby Riddles

Publisher : Turtleback Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 18,26 MB

Release : 1988-03

Category :

ISBN : 9780785773931

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For use in schools and libraries only. The author recounts her experiences in the 1985 Iditarod race from Anchorage to Nome Alaska, and shares her insights on strategy, sled dogs, and winter survival.



First Across the Rhine

Author : Colonel David E. Pergrin

Publisher : Zenith Press

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 26,82 MB

Release : 2006-03-20

Category : History

ISBN : 9780760324080

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In what quickly came to be called the Battle of the Bulge, the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion found itself directly in the path of the German spearhead. With heart-stopping suspense, Colonel David Pergrin describes one of the European theater's critical delaying actions as his unit destroyed bridges, planted mines, and defended roadblocks in the face of oncoming tank columns. Here, in gritty detail, is the story of how ""those damned Engineers"" ruined Hitler's winter offensive, and how the 291st, with a reputation almost as big as its accomplishments, went on to build a 1100-foot pontoon bridge across the Rhine at Remagen in 32 hours-in the face of fierce opposition and near-impossible odds. Pergrin follows the battalion from its formation and training through the campaigns in France, Belgium, and Germany, making us witness the genuine heroics, skill, and spirit that lifted the 291st to the realm of legend.



Across the Savage Sea

Author : Maud Fontenoy

Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Page : 142 pages

File Size : 40,23 MB

Release : 2012-01-04

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 161145106X

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Over the last century only six men had defied the power of nature and successfully rowed across the Atlantic from west to east. Maud Fontenoy, a 2005 Time (Europe) Hero, changed that forever when she became the first woman to do so. In 2003 Fontenoy, a young woman and seasoned mariner, set out from Newfoundland in her twenty-four-foot-long boat, Pilot, to row across the North Atlantic. Her goal: to prove that a woman could do what men once believed to be impossible. It became a journey both far more harrowing than even she had imagined and one full of unexpected wonders. Her extraordinary story continues to inspire.