Undiscovered Tasmania is your travel guide to the real Tasmania. Beyond the usual tourist attractions, this small island is brimming with special places to see and experience, and locals Rochelle and Wally Dare are here to let visitors in on their secrets.This isn’t your typical guidebook. Rochelle and Wally will take you deep into the Corinna Wilderness, along stretches of beautiful beaches and to their favourite places to camp. Sections include 'Beaches We Barefo...

In a time of war, mistrust, and global uncertainty, where do we turn for hope? Can we still cooperate in a divided world? Walter B. Gyger has spent a lifetime at the fault lines—between power and principle, failure and breakthrough. This book is not a memoir. It is a field guide to international governance, grounded in lived experience. It shows what is possible when we move beyond slogans and engage with the real world. For diplomats, students, and citizens alike, this book offers a path ...

Challenging Child Protection offers a ground-breaking new perspective which will illuminate and improve the professional understanding and practice of social workers and child protection workers.Taking a fresh look at the principles underlying child protection, this book provides a thought-provoking analysis of the evidence base which underpins professional understanding and intervention. It outlines the ways in which agencies have worked to prevent child abuse and neglect...

Washington Irving's 'Astoria' is a gripping historical narrative that follows the true story of John Jacob Astor's ambitious expedition to establish a fur-trading post in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1800s. Irving's meticulous attention to detail and vivid storytelling bring to life the treacherous journey, the hardships faced by the explorers, and the clash of cultures they encountered along the way. Drawing on extensive research and firsthand accounts, Irving weaves a compelling ta...

GOD’S world is great; too great for a little mind like mine to hold. I have traveled over thousands of miles of it, but for the most part my memory holds only a blur of space and movement.But there are a few places which my memory has made all my own. I know a place, just above Little Mud Turtle Lake, where the Gull River tilts around the rocks and sweeps in a curling crescent of foam around the wooded basin below the rapids. That place is mine because I swam in it with my boys; th...

GOD’S world is great; too great for a little mind like mine to hold. I have traveled over thousands of miles of it, but for the most part my memory holds only a blur of space and movement.But there are a few places which my memory has made all my own. I know a place, just above Little Mud Turtle Lake, where the Gull River tilts around the rocks and sweeps in a curling crescent of foam around the wooded basin below the rapids. That place is mine because I swam in it with my boys; the...

In "The Catalpa Expedition," Zephaniah Walter Pease explores the intricacies of a daring rescue mission that became a symbol of hope and resistance against oppression. Set against the backdrop of the 19th-century American landscape, Pease's narrative deftly combines historical detail with engaging prose, employing a vivid, almost cinematic literary style that transports readers to the heart of the action. His meticulous research and attention to the complexities of human emotion illuminate...

Step into the adventurous and remarkable life of Sir Walter Raleigh with Edmund Gosse in Raleigh, an audiobook that vividly chronicles the exploits, explorations, and literary contributions of one of England’s most iconic figures. Gosse’s narrative provides listeners with a rich portrait of Raleigh’s courage, ambition, and the complex interplay of politics, exploration, and personal character that defined his life.The audiobook del...

What if the 1587 Lost Colony of Roanoke was not lost? What if the survivors left Roanoke Island North Carolina and found their way to Georgia? That is the scenario scholars contemplated when a series of engraved stones were found in the 1930's. The first found near the Chowan River in North Carolina claimed that Eleanor Dare and a few other settlers had made their way inland after an Indian attack wiped out the rest of the colony. Among the dead were Eleanor's daughter Virginia Dare the fi...

Empower, encourage, and inspire the next generation of women with this sweetly illustrated children’s book of letters from parents to their daughters.A feel-good nighttime read aimed at girls ages 3 and 4 but sure to be appreciated by all, Letters to My Darling Daughter is a love letter from parent to daughter brimming with advice and life lessons. Each spread of this book features a letter or note from a parent to their daughter, along wi...

This collection was specially prepared to introduce you to the greatest voyagers, captains, heroes of the sea, as well as forever fascinating pirates: Content: Randall Parrish: Wolves of the Sea Charles Boardman Hawes: The Dark Frigate The Mutineers Jack London: The Sea Wolf The Mutiny of the Elsinore A Son of the Sun Walter Scott: The Pirate Captain Charles Johnson: The History of Pirates R. L. Stevenson: Treasure Island Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe Captain Singleton Tobias Smollett: The...

The 'Maritime Classics Boxed Set: 46 Sea Adventures Novels in One Volume' offers a treasured compilation representing the epitome of maritime literature from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. This anthology spans a vast array of literary styles from the suspenseful tales of survival and piratical adventures to the profound introspective narratives that delve into the human spirit and its relationship with the sea. Amongst these pages, one encounters the perilous allure of the vast ocea...