Название: Wilderness Adventure Camp: Essential Outdoor Survival Skills for Kids
Автор: Frank Grindrod
Издательство: Storey Publishing
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 35 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This hands-on guidebook teaches kids aged 10 and up essential outdoor camping and survival skills, with step-by-step photos for how to build a fire, pick a campsite, make a lean-to, use a knife, cook over an open fire, and more. Whether in the rugged backcountry or a suburban backyard, kids can experience the sense of personal independence and self-confidence that come from outdoor proficiency, while also developing a deeper connection to and understanding of the natural world. With this skills-based book, kids learn essential safety and survival tips and bushcraft that they need to have a safe wilderness experience.

Название: One Jump at a Time: My Story
Автор: Nathan Chen
Издательство: Harper
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 44 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this exhilarating memoir, three-time World Champion and Olympic gold-medalist Nathan Chen tells the story of his remarkable journey to success, reflecting on his life as a Chinese American figure skater and the joys and challenges he has experienced—including the tremendous sacrifices he and his family made, and the physical and emotional pain he endured. When three-year-old Nathan Chen tried on his first pair of figure skates, magic happened. But the odds of this young boy—one of five children born to Chinese immigrants—competing and making it into the top echelons of figure skating were daunting. Chen’s family didn’t have the resources or access to pay for expensive coaches, rink time, and equipment. But Nathan’s mother, Hetty Wang, refused to fail her child. Recognizing his tremendous talent and passion, she stepped up as his coach, making enormous sacrifices to give Nathan the opportunity to compete in this exclusive world.

Название: The Wonder of Little Things
Автор: Vince Copley
Издательство: ABC Books
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

'Welcome to my story. It's a simple story of a simple person, who's lived a long life now with some struggles along the way. I didn't learn a lot in school, not in the classroom, anyway. But I learned a lot from life.' Vince Copley was born on a government mission into poverty in 1936. By the time he was fifteen, five of his family had died. But at a home for Aboriginal boys, he befriended future leaders Charles Perkins, John Moriarty and Gordon Briscoe. They were friendships that would last a lifetime.

Название: Other People's Love Letters: 150 Letters You Were Never Meant to See
Автор: Bill Shapiro
Издательство: Clarkson Potter
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 47 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. It's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. In Other People’s Love Letters, Bill Shapiro has searched America’s attics, closets, and cigar boxes and found actual letters–unflinchingly honest missives full of lust, provocation, guilt, and vulnerability–written only for a lover’s eyes. Modern love, of course, is not all bliss, and in these pages you’ll find the full range of a relationship, with its whispered promises as well as its heartache. But what at first appears to be a deliciously voyeuristic peek into other people’s most passionate moments, will ultimately reawaken your own desires and tenderness…because when you read these letters, you’ll find the heart you’re looking into is actually your own.

Название: Mark Twain for Cat Lovers: True and Imaginary Adventures with Feline Friends
Автор: Mark Dawidziak
Издательство: Lyons Press
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

America is cat crazy, and Mark Twain may have been the American writer most crazy about cats. From his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his last years in Connecticut, Mark Twain spent much of his life surrounded by cats, and they stalk through many of his best-known books, including The Innocents Aboard, Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and Puddn’head Wilson. In this lighthearted book, Twain scholar Mark Dawidziak explores the writer’s lifelong devotion to cats through stories, excerpts, quotes, photos, and illustrations, illuminating a little-known side of this famous writer’s life that will appeal to Twain aficionados and cat lovers alike.

Название: Сотворение Элсмира
Автор: Боярский В.
Издательство: СПб.: РГМАА
Год: 2010
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 397
Размер: 20 mb
Язык: Русский

«Сотворение Элcмира» является третьей и завершающей трилогию «От Полюса до Полюса» книгой. Автор - участник всех описываемых событий - продолжает рассказ о приключениях участников международной команды и их верных собак, начатый в предыдущих книгах «Гренландский меридиан» и «Семь месяцев бесконечности».

Название: World's Greatest National Parks, 4th Edition
Автор: Future Publishing
Издательство: Future Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Размер: 127 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Award-winning travel writer Aaron Millar explores the greatest national parks of the world, giving insider tips on how best to discover their secrets.

Название: Notes From the Sofa
Автор: Raymond Briggs
Издательство: Unboun
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 31 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From Raymond Briggs, the beloved and bestselling author of The Snowman, comes his first book in a decade, now in an updated edition with new columns and illustrations. Notes from the Sofa is a beautifully illustrated compilation of reflections on life and what it means to get older. Raymond dips into his past to remind us of scrumping apples, National Service, party lines on telephones, the torment of cinema organs and the endless obsession with laxatives, alongside his take on the absurdities of the modern world. This collection gives us warm and memorable sketches of Raymond’s life now and reminds us why he is one of our best-loved storytellers.

Название: Christmas Sentiments: 19 Nostalgic Songs Arranged by Phillip Keveren
Автор: Phillip Keveren
Издательство: Hal Leonard
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

(Easy Piano Songbook). 19 wonderful seasonal songs for the aspiring pianist and/or singer cleverly arranged by Phillip Keveren. Songs include: Because It's Christmas (For All the Children) * Believe * Blue Christmas * Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song) * Christmas Time Is Here * Mary, Did You Know? * Merry Christmas, Darling * River * Star of Bethlehem * White Christmas * Who Would Imagine a King * and more.

Название: Гренландский меридиан
Автор: Боярский В.
Издательство: М.: Паулсен
Год: 2017
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 432
Размер: 13 mb
Язык: Русский

В книге рассказывается о том, как проходила подготовка международной экспедиции Трансантарктика, и о главном ее этапе - переходе через Гренландию по меридиану с юга на север на лыжах и собачьих упряжках.