Southern Adventures

Bloody Nick Turnhouse has returned from Mauritius to Bombay, where he is welcomed with orders received from London by the overland route. He is to frighten the Spanish by showing himself in a powerful ship of war off Manila and then along the Pacific coast of South America, lands which have not seen an enemy in a generation.

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.

A poacher vanishes into thin air, defying logic and baffling ace tracker Mia Greenaway. Meanwhile Captain Sannie van Rensburg, still reeling from a personal tragedy, is investigating the disappearance of two young girls who locals fear have been abducted for use in sinister traditional medicine practices. But poachers are also employing witchcraft, paying healers for potions they believe will make them invisible and bulletproof.

Where did Professor Abner Jefferson go? Can the kids put history back together, find the pieces of the puzzle, and save Professor Abner or will they be stuck in history forever?

On half-pay and without a command, Captain Jack Aubrey is stranded at home in an over-crowded cottage with his large and frequently bad-tempered family. When Jack has almost given up hope of ever returning to sea, Stephen Maturin, ship's doctor, occasional intelligence agent, and Jack's closest friend, brings secret orders that Jack is to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a Commodore's pennant.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Southern Finland. Greater Than a Tourist - Southern Finland by Author Mika Langel offers the inside scoop on top cities to see in Southern Finland. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Embark on an Extraordinary Journey Towards Achievement Are you tired of watching life pass you by? Dr. Randall Peeters unveils the secrets to living a life free of regrets in his groundbreaking book. Through gripping narratives of triumph over adversity, Dr. Peeters shares his awe-inspiring quest to conquer the Adventure Grand Slam - scaling the Seven Summits and venturing to the North and South Poles. In this captivating read, Dr. Peeters not only recounts his remarkable feats, he distills the essence of his success. He shares a practical system that you can adopt to reach your aspirations...

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.

This isn’t exactly what Dad had in mind when he took his son on a mission trip to the South American rain forest. But he should have known better. After all, we are talking about Wally-If-Anything-Can-Go-Wrong-It-Will McDoogle. My Life as Crocodile Junk Food keeps listeners laughing as Wally stumbles into a whole new set of impossible (and man-eating) predicaments...until he finally understands the need and joy of sharing Jesus Christ with others.

NEVER ONE TO HOLD A GRUDGE, ALTON RHODE DECIDES TO HELP OUT A FORMER HOOKER WHO ONCE PLOTTED TO HAVE HIM KILLED. SHE WANTS HIM TO FIND OUT WHO MURDERED HER GRANDFATHER WITH AN ICE PICK! LORENE ROBILLARD BETRAYED ALTON RHODE AND ALMOST GOT HIM KILLED. NOW, SHE WANTS HIS HELP! ***The private investigator soon finds himself in a Southern town that has more secrets than pigeons on Confederate statues. But with two brutish killers straight out of “Deliverance” on his tail, Rhode is forced to call for backup. The new ally, making his own contributions to a rising body count, helps uncover a ...

Greater Than a Tourist: Cartagena de Indias, Bolivar, Colombia by Simón Cartagena Sevillano offers the inside scoop on Cartagena. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

This guide offers the inside scoop on Jeju Island, South Korea. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this audiobook will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

When the mysterious death of a childhood friend forces homicide detective Alex Abrams to return to her hometown, she’s pulled back into a world of dark secrets and painful memories she thought she’d left behind. Alex, a battle-hardened Iraq War veteran, is forced to confront the ghosts of her past—and the deadly truth lurking in the shadows of her tight-knit community. Teaming up with her twin brother, Lucca, Alex soon uncovers a chilling pattern of so-called "accidental" deaths—each one more calculated and chilling than the last.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Cape Town. Greater Than a Tourist - Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, by author Hendrik Human, offers the inside scoop on Cape Town, the Mother City. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Fishing in the future takes more than a net! Rickets is a PAC-Man, his patrol and attack craft the first line of defence against encroaching vessels. Moss is a Fisheries Observer, tasked with seeing that companies abide by the quotas set on target species. Together they play a part in ensuring the waters are not fished to extinction. But as fisheries elsewhere play out, New Zealand waters start to look more attractive until every ship protects itself with PAC boats, missiles that skim the surface, and kamikaze drones equipped with explosives. Only there is a bigger shadow on the horizon, ...

Considerada en algún momento la patria "más suiza de América", este bello país bañado por las aguas del Atlántico es el corolario de una fascinante historia de empuje, tesón y esfuerzo por sobresalir. Hoy, a casi 200 años de su fundación, la nación uruguaya inicia con esperanza un nuevo período económico que haga olvidar el caos y desastre al que de común incurrieron su sociedad y gobernantes sobre todo en la segunda mitad del siglo XX.

Everett had a problem. His brand new baby daughter was the living, breathing, cranky, pooping, colicky incarnation of Magic herself! Magic, Unfettered? is the sequel to Potatoes, Come Forth! and the second book in the Inconvenient Magic fantasy series. This work is a novel of 83,957 words.

NO CHANCE It is an exciting story of adventure, sorrow and love between two very different people. Twelve-year old Randy Wilson escaped from his prison. Without money, food or a destination he has no chance to remain free. While hiding from the police, Randy enters the Sandhills National Forest and soon find life alone in the forest to be dangerous and lonely. When it became necessary, he stole. Rand told himself that he was not a thief and reconciled himself to do what was necessary to stay alive. He borrowed tools from an old woman’s shed to build himself a cabin. Returning a hammer, ...

Captain David Grief, South Pacific tycoon, owns plantations and trading stations from New Guinea to Samoa, pearling fisheries in the Paumotus, and rubber acreages in the Louisiades. His own vessels recruit contract labor, and he operates three steamers on ocean runs. He came to the South Seas at the age of 20 and, blessed with a blond skin impervious to tropical rays, became browner through two decades as a true "son of the sun". At 40 years of age, he looks no more than 30.

Unlike much of the rest of Maine, which is famous for its rockbound coast, the South Coast is best characterized by its long, flat, sandy beaches. Great swimming and sunning begins in Kittery, just across the border from New Hampshire, and continues north up the coast through York, Ogunquit, Well, Kennebunk, Biddeford, and Old Orchard.