Death Valley in '49 Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green ... children who gave "Death Valley" its name
By: William Lewis Manly
4.24
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
By: David Roberts
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrati… read more
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2. 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
By: Jonathan Franklin , Jonathan Franklin
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"There's a lot of talk these days about a thing called resilience. That's the in term at the moment," says Dr. John Leach, a survival psychologist. "You've got built-in resilience, so you can bounce b…"-Jonathan Franklin, 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea
3. The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
By: None , Judith M. Heimann
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
N ovember 1944: Army airmen set out in a B-24 bomber on what should have been an easy mission off t… read more
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4. The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
By: Scott Zesch
3.73
Format: 238 pages, Hardcover
On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Trade… read more
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5. Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth
By: Richard J. Foster
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6. Scratch One
By: Michael Crichton , John Lange
4.20
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To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out t… read more
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7. Hiroshima
By: John Hersey
3.50
Format: 36 pages,
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8. The Confessor (Gabriel Allon, #3)
By: Daniel Silva
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Dark secrets are revealed in Vatican City in this Gabriel Allon thriller from #1 New York Times bes… read more
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9. The Diary of a Forty-Niner
By: Chauncey L. Canfield
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
1849, California. The Gold Rush had begun. 300,000 gold-seekers left their homes, grabbed what they… read more
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10. My First Summer in the Sierra
By: John Muir
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In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foo… read more
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11. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea
By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian
3.71
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
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12. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
By: Blaine Harden
5.00
Format: 30 pages, Hardcover
A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more
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13. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
By: David McCullough
3.81
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more
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14. Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide
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4.34
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
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15. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
By: Fanny Kelly
3.87
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
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4.04
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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17. Two Against the Ice: A Classic Arctic Survival Story and a Remarkable Account of Companionship in the Face of Adversity
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4.16
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Farlig tomandsfærd handler om et af den grønlandske histories mest eventyrlige afsnit. Bogen fortæl… read more
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18. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
By: Kevin Fedarko
4.36
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20. Death Valley in '49 Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green ... children who gave "Death Valley" its name
By: William Lewis Manly
4.24
Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. The Oregon Trail (Go West, Young Man #2)
By: William W. Johnstone
4.47
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JOHNSTONE TRUST IN THE LORD—SOMETIMES HE’S ALL YOU GOT. From national bestselling authors Wil… read more
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