The Gentle American: George Horton’s Odyssey and His True Account of the Smyrna Catastrophe by Ismini Lamb, Christopher LambRequirements: .PDF reader, 146 mbOverview: How many lives can one man save? Never enough, Horton realized. As his ship backed away from Smyrna’s wharf, he could better see the helpless, teeming crowd on the waterfront trapped between […]
Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrathRequirements: .ePUB reader, 16.7MB Overview: The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina.Thisbook “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable […]
American Odyssey (Ghost Rifle Western Book 2) by Max McCoy Requirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 1.8MB | RetailOverview: THE WEAPON AND THE WILDERNESS Ten years have passed since Jack Picaro lost his Ghost Rifle—the firearm he invented, the one that never missed its target. The loss of the rifle calmed the hellraiser in his soul. Instead […]
African American Odyssey (7th Edition, The Combined Volume) by Clark Hine Darlene, Hine William C., Harrold StanleyRequirements: .PDF reader, 56 MbOverview: More than any other text, The African-American Odyssey illuminates the central place of African Americans in U.S. history – not only telling the story of what it has meant to be black in America, […]
An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887 by Kevin J. HayesRequirements: .MP3 reader, 203 MBOverview: In 1887 a 21-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865-1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in 72 days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged 50 miles a day pedaling a 52-inch, high-wheeled Columbia Expert […]