Southern Adventures

Pastor Tui has had a most interesting life from his childhood living in South America with missionary parents to his worldwide travels, working as a scrub nurse, probation officer, and a dish washer on a cargo ship. Pastor Tui went on to work as a pastor in South America and then as a pastor in the southern United States and shares the stories of his many exciting, often humerus, and sometimes near-death experiences.

When recently divorced Muslim mother Zeenat books a five-day safari in South Africa's wilderness, she's seeking an escape from her carefully ordered life—not a whirlwind romance with her ruggedly handsome Afrikaner guide, Andries. But fate has other plans. Their cautious attraction explodes into desperate survival when a bull elephant in musth attacks their camp. As dawn breaks over the African bush, Zeenat must find courage she never knew she had: performing emergency medical procedures, handling a high-powered rifle, and facing down one of nature's most dangerous creatures. All while ...

This book was previously published as “The Marriage Solution” by Rose Bak. She needs a husband. He needs money for his mother’s medical treatments. What could go wrong? Liz Baseball was in my blood. I’d grown up in the Seagulls stadium, learning all the ins and outs of running a minor league franchise. As the Chief Administrative Officer, everyone assumed that I’d take over for my father when he retires. Everyone except my mother. She convinces my father and the investors that as a single, forty-five year old woman, I didn’t have the maturity to run this team. With the fate of ...

Newly promoted to command of his first ship, Captain Jack Aubrey, along with his crew, and new friend and ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, must patrol a Mediterranean fraught with peril but rich with rewards. A glimpse of white sails on the horizon could mean a prize to be taken – or a fight for survival.

Following a daring rescue, Jack Aubrey accepts a new command and a new commission to a far-flung destination. Ahead of him and his crew are the new sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and the terrifying hazards of an archipelago of islands in the East Indies, where their French enemies have near overwhelming superiority.

South Solo is a story of indomitable courage, of passion to save an endangered species like the albatross, and the unique adventure of solo kayaking in the frigid waters off Antarctica.

This is volume 3 in The Madame Timbu Adventures Series. An ancient jewel with an evil past- and a horrible secret- threatens a small southern community. In this stirring sequel to The Madames of Pinkerport, renowned occultist Madame Timbu comes face to face with malevolent forces that lead her to the Scottish home of deceased magician Aleister Crowley. The dead know secrets, as do two old Southern families. Our Daring Diva of the Divine comes face to face with ancient adversaries in this latest Madame Timbu adventure.

From stunning views atop the Great Smoky Mountains to the depths of the largest known cave system in the world, the national parks of the Southern states have something for everyone. From swamp lands in South Carolina to the tallest mountain peak east of the Mississippi in North Carolina, the Southern US offers some wonderful national treasures with something for everyone.

This is the updated Second Edition of the book 'Cycling to the South Pole'. It contains extended historical content and an additional chapter celebrating Maria's 10-year anniversary. It also includes unseen colour photographs from the expedition. It had been deemed impossible, but British woman Maria Leijerstam made history on December 27, 2013, by becoming the first person in the world to cycle to the South Pole from the edge of the Antarctic continent. Simultaneously, she set a second world record for the fastest human-powered coast-to-South Pole traverse. For four years, Maria fought ...

A spy is dead. A legend is born. This is how it all began. The explosive prequel to Casino Royale, from best-selling author Anthony Horowitz. Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking listeners into the very beginning of James Bond’s illustrious career and the formation of his identity.

Captain Bligh, of Bounty fame, is now governor of New South Wales and facing mutiny anew, having lost the support of local settlers. Jack Aubrey is commissioned to come to his rescue. With a beautiful but dangerous spy on board, along with an unwelcome hold full of convicts, and war with America brewing, can Captain Jack Aubrey reach Australia in one piece?

“An amazing real life perspective on African safari that has been delightfully shared. Funny and witty. Footsteps well worth following.” –Philip Coetzee, South Africa, Advanced Nature Guide, author of Birds for Beginners. Four friends, all big-city dwellers, embark on their first African safari. An internationally published travel writer and her husband, an award-winning travel photographer, are joined by their life-long friends on a journey to South Africa and Zimbabwe. Previously, their exploration of over 60 countries took them to big cities, architectural masterpieces, and world-...

Cast No Shadow by Julian Bound 35 stories of travel and adventure set across 20 countries from National Geographic photographic contributor Julian Bound. From Tibet’s high altitudes of a Mount Everest base camp to encounters with sharks on Fiji’s coastline, and from earthquakes in Nepal to a meeting with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in the foothills of the Himalayas, each story tells of life on the road with a backpack, camera and a large amount of wanderlust. Countries Featured: Thailand, Japan, India, Cambodia, Bhutan, Tibet, Myanmar, Nepal, Indonesia, China. About The Author Born...

From an early age, the author grows up on the beach, surfing and playing music. As a forlorn hippy in the 60’s, he indulges in drugs and ends up in prison. His life takes a turn for the better when he starts working and discovers his real passion in life – 'The business edge'. He works for some major blue-chip companies in senior marketing positions and eventually launches his own Ad Agency, which is incredibly successful. However, he never loses his core values of surfing and music, for this is his balance in life... When his family relocates to Jeffreys Bay, eleven-time World Surfing ...

Two buddies go on vacation for some much-needed R&R. Even those from the tip-of-the-spear Special Operations community of America's elite Tier One units have to go on vacation to destress and decompress like the rest of working stiffs. Not all vacations go according to plan, unfortunately, and this one went from sun, fun, and pretty girls to FUBAR quickly. One man is missing; the other is on the run from unknown assassins. What went wrong?

Giant Sea Bats, Land Crabs, Lap Dragons, untouched islands and native villages are visited by Gifford Pinchot the father of modern environmentalism, and Chief of the United States Forest Service under Theodore Roosevelt. Gifford Pinchot, with his family, explores The Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas, the Tuamotu Archipelago and Tahiti in 1929, before the South Seas was changed forever by modern civilization and war.

The role of resident vet in the British Overseas Territories of the Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha, and Ascension encompasses the complexities of caring for the world’s oldest land animal—a 200-year-old giant tortoise—and MoD mascots at the Falklands airbase; pursuing mystery creatures and invasive microorganisms; relocating herds of reindeer; and rescuing animals in extraordinarily rugged landscapes, from subtropical cloud forests to volcanic cliff faces.

This handy travel guide, centered on San Pedro and Ambergris Caye, will ensure you arrive with the confidence of a local, having a clear direction of where to go and what to explore.

When eight-year-old Agnes is signed up for SPEARS (the Society for the Protection of Endangered and Awesomely Rare Species), she has no idea of the adventures that lie ahead with her elephant-shrew mentor Attie (short for 'Attenborough'). Operation Honeyhunt sends them to the Brazilian rain forest, on a mission to save an endangered, dance-loving bee named Elton. Will Agnes pass the test and become a full SPEARS Agent? Species in danger? Girl and shrew to the rescue!

Dean Arnold takes listeners on a journey into the Andes, recounting the adventures of his 1960s research in the village of Quinua, Peru. Arnold’s quest to understand how contemporary pottery production reflected current Quinua society, as well as its ancient Inca and pre-Inca past is one of the earliest studies in what later became known as ethnoarchaeology.