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Sejlbåden WICHWAM tager dig med på en eventyrlig rejse gennem forskellige farvande og klimaer. Fra Skotland på whiskytur til Den Botniske Bugt i tropevarme, og videre gennem Rusland og Dødens Kanal til Ishavet. Du vil opleve sårbare dunvær på Norges kyst, det kontrastfyldte Island, og den ukendte Kuriske Lagune i Litauen. Bogen udforsker sejladsens magi, horisontens skiftende perspektiver, og respekten for natur og mennesker i de besøgte områder. En rejse med båd, der åbner op for eventyr og oplevelser i skærgårde og Arktis. Summary: Bogen handler om sejlads, bådoplevelser og den fascinerende verden, der åbner sig, når man bevæger sig over havet.

History of a Six Weeks¿ Tour (1817) is a travelogue by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Composed of journal entries, letters, and a poem, History of a Six Weeks¿ Tour was published anonymously with a preface by Percy. Detailing their stay in Switzerland during the legendary ¿year without a summer,¿ the travelogue was Mary¿s first published work and remains an invaluable text for the study of English Romanticism. When Percy Bysshe Shelley met Mary Godwin, he had initially planned to acquaint himself with her father, a famous philosopher. Soon, however, the pair fell in love and eloped with Claire Clairmont, Mary¿s stepsister. They journeyed through France, Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands before returning home with little money and without the support of their families. In 1816, following the death of their first child, Percy and Mary travelled with Claire to Geneva, Switzerland, where the infamous Lord Byron had rented a villa along the shores of Lake Geneva. Due to a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, temperatures in Europe and throughout the world plummeted, creating the conditions for the ¿year without a summer.¿ Forced to remain indoors for much of their stay, the group soon grew tired of telling one another folk tales and ghost stories to pass the time. On a whim, Byron suggested they all write their own works of fiction, igniting the spark for some of the defining texts of the Romantic era. Having never published her own writing before, Mary unwittingly began mapping out her masterpiece. Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus appeared in print two years later, changing the course of English literature forever. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley¿s History of a Six Weeks¿ Tour is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals .

Some of Nevada's more unusual attractions and events include the annual Elko Running from the Bulls, the Virginia City Camel Races, and of course, Route 375--the "Extraterrestrial Highway"--where a number of UFO sightings have been reported. These and many more are found in this offbeat guide to Nevada.

I 1906 drog den grønlandske polarforsker og opdagelsesrejsende Jørgen Brønlund (1877-1907) afsted på en livsfarlig ekspedition i det nordøstlige Grønland sammen med lægen Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen og kartografen Niels Peter Høeg Hagen. Ekspeditionen gik ikke som planlagt. Rejsekammeraterne kunne ikke finde vej og omkom en efter en af sult, kulde og udmattelse. Jørgen Brønlund var den sidste, der døde, og sammen med hans lig fandt man efterfølgende hans dagbøger og Niels Peter Høeg Hagens kortoptegnelser.I denne bog bruger Niels Fenger Brønlunds dagbogsnotater til at forestille sig hans sidste tid alene på den grønlandske indlandsis, indtil han til sidst må erkende, at solen ikke mere kommer op. Fenger drager i bogen paralleller til andre polarekspeditionen, der fik en tragisk slutning.Niels Fenger (1916-1992) var en dansk pelsdyrsavler og forfatter, der skrev en lang række spændende bøger. Mange af bøgerne beretter om livet med jagt, fiskeri og sejlads, sådan som han selv kendte det, og om Grønland, som han var stærkt knyttet til. Niels Fengers bøger opnåede stor popularitet hos den danske befolkning, og han modtog blandt andet to legater til sit arbejde fra Statens Kunstfond.

This edition of Kipling's ""The Song of the English"" was originally published in November 1909. It included the six subsidiary poems: The Coastwise Lights, The Song of the Dead, The Deep-Sea Cables, The Song of the Sons, The Song of the Cities, and England's Answer. The theme underlying much of this collection, is that the English are the Chosen under the Lord, so long as they obey the Law. This is one of Kipling's earliest verses specifically setting out his vision of the British Empire, and the duties which it imposes on the English (British) people. His definition of 'the English' is wide, certainly embracing the people of the overseas Empire, Australia, New Xealand, Canada, South Africa, but arguably also the Americans. These classic poems are accompanied by thirty incredible colour illustrations and many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. An English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines - for achieving deceptively simple objectives. Such was (and is) his fame, that the term 'Heath Robinson' entered the English language during the First World War, as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance.

Victoria and Joe look forward to peace in their Spanish mountain village. But life refuses to stand still, even in tiny El Hoyo. Lola Ufarte's behaviour surprises nobody but now a millionaire has turned the village into a battleground.