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  • An Outpost of Progress

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    “An Outpost of Progress” is one of the best-known novellas written by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924).First published in 1897, the tale is centered around a trade outpost in Africa and the two European men who work there and go mad in that heart of darkness. ... Read more

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    Motor City: The History of the Fur Trade Outpost that Became Detroit

    Narrated by Scott Clem ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 19 min

    Few cities epitomize the best and worst of the United States like Detroit, which started as a remote trading post and grew into an industrious town before exploding into a bustling city. That city then fell, leaving a legacy of anger and despair only recently beginning to turn things around.At the same time, the same mighty city that proved capable of arming a nation at war found itself seething ... Read more

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  • Endurance of the Free

    Miraibanashi, #3

    Series Book 3 - Miraibanashi
    This trilling tale of espionage and revolution in a dystopian future Japan completes the story that started with Code of the Kyoushi.Having little hope left, Roshike's friends refuse to give up as they approach the endgame of their effort to take down the power behind the Batsu. Against almost impossible odds, they're ready to risk their lives to remake the system—but what else are they willing to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Native Persistence at a California Mission Outpost

    The Bioarchaeology and History of the Asistencia de San Pedro y San Pablo

    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support by the University of California Davis Library.Collaborative research revealing the lives of Ohlone individuals buried at an eighteenth-century Spanish mission outpostConstruction work in 2016 at Sanchez Adobe Park, the site of a historic Spanish mission outpost in the San Francisco Bay Area, led to the ... Read more

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  • Outpost

    A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth

    by Dan Richards ...
    There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of Washington State; from Iceland’s ‘Houses of Joy’ to the Utah desert; frozen ghost towns in Svalbard to shrines in ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • At The Outpost of Fate

    Dodge Dalton Adventures, #2

    by Sean Ellis ...
    Series Book 2 - Dodge Dalton Adventures
    Return to the Golden Age of Adventure!Dodge Dalton’s discovery of an ancient outpost at the bottom of the world made him a hero, but now a new evil has arisen, intent on seizing the power of the outpost to literally unleash Hell.Guided by a deadly prophecy, a faceless villain will stop at nothing to transform the world into a place of skulls.It’s a race to save the world from the terrible secret ... Read more

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  • Outpost of Occupation

    The Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-45

    by Barry Turner ...
    The Channel Islands were what could have happened to all of us: a test-run of German occupation. That was certainly Hitler’s plan. Once Britain had demilitarised the idyllic, unspoilt holiday islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark in 1940 their fate was sealed: in July the Germans invaded.The following five years in their history offer an intriguing, and often uncomfortable, virtual ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Kalamari Outpost: Deal Of The Devil.

    Kalamari Outpost, #1

    by Liam Harper ...
    Series Book 1 - Kalamari Outpost
    Wolf is a fifteen-year-old mercenary and one of the last two survivors of the Dark Devil Pack, a tribe once 20,000 strong that possessed the "common tongue"...the ability to communicate with the spirits of animals and nature. While her ancestors used this gift to protect the wild, Wolf uses it to survive. Operating as a freelance assassin for the Kalamari Outpost, a high-tech military industrial ... Read more

    Free

  • Outposts

    Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

    The New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa and The Professor and the Madman takes readers on a quirky and charming tour of the last outpost of the British empireOutposts is Simon Winchester's journey to find the vanishing empire, "on which the sun never sets." In the course of a three-year, 100,000 mile journey—from the chill of the Antarctic to the blue seas of the Caribbean, from the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bastion by the Bay: The Presidio of San Francisco, from Outpost of Empire to Magnificent Park

    The Pinkerton Files, Volume 1

    Since ancient times societies have employed outposts to secure new frontiers. The Presidio of San Francisco, founded in 1776, offers a classic case study of this phenomenon. Under the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, this bastion by the bay stood guard over a major port that evolved into the storied city by the Golden Gate. During the early phases of the presidio’s precarious ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Tales of Unrest

    Five Stories of the Outposts

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Marianne North, James Tissot and John Everett Millais. Five early stories of men posted where the empire runs out: a Dutch trader married into a Malay family and despised by both sides, a colonial agent alone at a river station, a Breton farm where the peasants deal with a fool. Conrad's first collection, written while he was still deciding ... Read more

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  • An Outpost of Progress

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    "An Outpost of Progress" is a short story written in July 1897 by Joseph Conrad, drawing on his own experience at Congo. The story deals with two European men, named Kayerts and Carlier, who are assigned to a trading post in a remote part of the African Jungle. There they take part in ivory trading, hoping to financially benefit the company as well as themselves. With no specific tasks or ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus