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  • The Story of Sitka: The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast

    by Clarence Leroy Andrews ...
    Sitka of the Russians, a century ago, was the center of trade and civilization on the Northwest Coast of America, the chief factory of the Russian American Company in the vast and little known land of the Russian Possessions in America. The sails of ships from far off Kronstadt on the Baltic brought Russian cargoes. The famous clipper ships of New England made it a stopping place on their way to ... Read more

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  • A History of Georgia Forts

    Georgia's Lonely Outposts

    by Alejandro M. de Quesada ...
    A look at military fortifications over the centuries, with photos included.The state of Georgia has a long tradition of building stalwart military fortifications—going all the way back to the early sixteenth century, when it was part of a much larger region of the Southeast claimed by Spain and known as La Florida.After the failure of Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon's settlement in 1526 on the coast of ... Read more

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  • Native Persistence at a California Mission Outpost

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

    Edited by Jelmer W. Eerkens, Lee M. Panich, Christopher Canzonieri, Christopher Zimmer ...
    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

    $10.69 USD

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  • Outposts

    Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

    by Simon Winchester ...
    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

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  • Lily Starling and the River of Time

    Lily Starling, #4

    by Christian Hurst ...
    Series Book 4 - Lily Starling
    Lily Starling finally has everything she never dared to dream of: a home aboard the Salamander, a future she chose, and someone she loves. For the first time in her life, the chaos has quieted enough for her to imagine the impossible.Staying.Until a stranger steps out of the fractures of time and offers her an impossible choice.As temporal disturbances tear across the galaxy, Lily is pulled toward ... Read more

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  • Code of the Kyoushi

    Miraibanashi, #1

    by James Litherland ...
    Series Book 1 - Miraibanashi
    A wanted rebel tries to infiltrate the enemy hunting him in this gripping spy story set in a dystopian future Japan.In the shadow of Mt. Fuji, the oppressive Batsu government controls the rebuilding of a devastated country, bestowing boons on privileged citizens while leaving most to fend for themselves on the fringes. After a disastrous job ends with Batsu enforcers hunting him, reformed thief ... Read more

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

    The Pinkerton Files, Volume 1

    by Langellier, John P. ...
    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

    $20.19 USD

  • Dreamers and Schemers

    How an Improbable Bid for the 1932 Olympics Transformed Los Angeles from Dusty Outpost to Global Metropolis

    by Barry Siegel ...
    How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation.Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles’s pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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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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  • 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

    $11.59 USD

  • The American-Style University at Large

    Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education

    Edited by Kathryn L. Kleypas, James I. McDougall ...
    The focus of research on the globalization of higher education has historically been on universities within the United States. More recently, the focus has shifted to the international scene, yet there remain few published works to document this phenomenon.The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education, edited by Kathryn L. Kleypas and ... Read more

    $121.49 USD