Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael holm”
Skip side bar filters

  • La Leyenda Del Pirata Mundaca

    The Saga of a Spanish Pirate

    by Michael Holm ...
    Fermin Antonio Mundaca y Marecheaga was born in Spain in 1825 and became a wealthy man as a result of his involvement in shipping, but mostly from the slave trade. That is the reason for his reputation as a pirate. Mundaca actually existed. This book is historical fiction with roots in true events and research of the vessels, the weaponry, the equipment, sailing skills, and the impact of world ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Marshall Plan

    A New Deal For Europe

    by Michael Holm ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    Between 1948 and 1951, the Marshall Plan delivered an unprecedented $12.3 billion in U.S. aid to help Western European countries recover from the destruction of the Second World War, and forestall Communist influence in that region. The Marshall Plan: A New Deal for Europe examines the aid program, its ideological origins and explores how ideas about an Americanized world order inspired and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • How Democracy Survives

    Global Challenges in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Michael Holm, R. S. Deese ...
    Series series
    How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state.The authors bring perspectives from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, their chapters engaging with the concept of transnational democracy by tracing its development in the past, assessing its performance ... Read more

    Free

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Over the Edge of the World

    Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage.Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe during the Age of Discovery was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World Updated Edition, prize-winning biographer ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Columbus

    The Four Voyages, 1492-1504

    by Laurence Bergreen ...
    From the author of the Magellan biography, Over the Edge of the World, a mesmerizing new account of the great explorer.Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Conquering The Pacific

    An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    The true story of a colorful and momentous 16th-century voyage, and of the Black mariner whose accomplishment was almost lost to history.It was a voyage of epic scope. In a Spanish plot to break Portugal's trade monopoly with the fabled Orient, four ships set sail from a hidden Mexican port. The smallest of them was guided by Black seaman Lope Martín, one of the most qualified pilots of the era. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Lost Fleet

    The Discovery of a Sunken Armada from the Golden Age of Piracy

    by Barry Clifford ...
    An explorer recounts historic events surrounding the sinking of a seventeenth-century, eighteen-ship French fleet, along with modern-day efforts to find it.On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Black Pearl

    A Newbery Honor Award Winner

    by Scott O'Dell ...
    A Newbery Honor BookFrom the depths of a cave in the Vermilion Sea, Ramon Salazar has wrested a black pearl so lustrous and captivating that his father, an expert pearl dealer, is certain Ramon has found the legendary Pearl of Heaven.Such a treasure is sure to bring great joy to the villagers of their tiny coastal town, and even greater renown to the Salazar name. No diver, not even the swaggering ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • The Incredible Voyage

    by Tristan Jones ...
    A Welshman's witty and gritty sailing adventure memoir with "the bite of fine sea salt and a whiplike delivery" ( Kirkus Reviews).Follow the supreme adventurer, Tristan Jones, as he takes a solitary and intrepid six-year voyage on his small craft, The Sea Dart. Covering a distance twice the circumference of the globe, from the lowest body of water in the world—the Dead Sea—to the highest—Lake ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Was Christopher Columbus?

    by Bonnie Bader, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Nancy Harrison ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Learn all about Christopher Columbus' early life at sea, which led him to seek fortune by sailing west in hopes of creating new trade routes with the Indies. Kids will read about why he called himself the "Great Admirald of the Seas" and learn of all his struggles to find finacial support for his voyage. ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $3.99 USD

  • Zia

    by Scott O'Dell ...
    In this sequel to the beloved Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, readers can learn what happened to Karana after she left the island.For years, Zia has dreamt of going to the Island of the Blue Dolphins to find her aunt Karana, her dead mother’s sister who was left alone on the island nearly twenty years earlier. It’s the reason Zia came to the Santa Barbara Mission in the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Voyage of Columbus

    Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery

    by Martin Dugard ...
    This account of the explorer's disgrace, imprisonment, and desperate, final expedition "breathes life into that futile, unquenchable, 500-year-old dream" ( San Francisco Chronicle).#1 New York Times –Bestselling AuthorThe year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that ... Read more

    $14.39 USD