Ben Macintyre, "Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison"
English | ISBN: 0593136330 | 2022 | EPUB | 368 pages | 80 MB
The definitive and surprising true story of one of history's most notorious prisons-and the remarkable cast of POWs who tried relentlessly to escape their captors, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spy and the Traitor

English | ISBN: 9781004099306 | 2022 | 4 hours and 58 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 136 MB
Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen. In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a vital source of knowledge and revelation. Drawing on insights from ten years spent thinking through cooking, she explores the radical openness of the recipe text, the liberating constraint of apron strings and the transformative intimacies of shared meals.

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English | 2022 | ISBN: 059324382X | 301 pages | True EPUB | 6.93 MB
A sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir about gangs, drugs, cooking, and living life on the line—both on the streets and in the kitchen—from one of the most exciting stars in the food world today
"As compelling or more so thanBoyz N the HoodandMenace II Society. . . When Corbin writes about his life, it burns with the intensity of the best pulp fiction, but it isn't fiction—it's the life he lived."—Los Angeles Times

English | 2019 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B07PFLNYNK | Duration: 11:31 h | 158 MB
Mark Owens, Delia Owens / Narrated by Donna Postel, Sean Runnette
Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the African wilds. Yet in the 1970s and 1980s, about 1,000 of these captivating creatures were slaughtered in Zambia each year, killed for their valuable ivory tusks. When biologists Mark and Delia Owens, residing in Africa to study lions, found themselves in the middle of a poaching fray, they took the only side they morally could: that of the elephants.

George C Daughan, "The Shining Sea: David Porter and the Epic Voyage of the U.S.S. Essex during the War of 1812"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0465019625 | EPUB | pages: 376 | 2.3 mb

Colin Burgess, Richard F. Gordon Jr, "Footprints in the Dust: The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0803226659 | 520 pages | PDF | 23.1 MB

English | ASIN: B09KX8M2D3 | 2022 | 15 hours and 21 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 421 MB
The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand "flatboat era" of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America's first western frontier. Seven years ago, readers and listeners around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
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Edward Robb Ellis, "Epic of New York City: A Narrative History"
English | ISBN: 0786714360 | 2004 | 641 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
In swift, witty chapters that flawlessly capture the pace and character of New York City, acclaimed diarist Edward Robb Ellis presents his masterpiece: a thorough, and thoroughly readable, history of America's largest metropolis. Ellis narrates some of the most significant events of the past three hundred years and more - the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr's fatal duel, the formation of the League of Nations, the Great Depression - from the perspective of the city that experienced, and influenced, them all. Throughout, he infuses his account with the strange and delightful anecdotes that a less charming tour guide might omit, from the story of the city's first, block-long subway to that of the blizzard of 1888 that turned Macy's into one big slumber party. Playful yet authoritative, comprehensive yet intimate,

Ross Coen, "Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil: The Epic Voyage of the SS Manhattan through the Northwest Passage"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1602231699 | PDF | pages: 249 | 2.6 mb
In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Proposed as an alternative to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Manhattan made two voyages to the North American Arctic and collected volumes of scientific data on ice conditions and the behavior of ships in ice. Although the Manhattan successfully navigated the Northwest Passage-closing a five-hundred-year chapter of Arctic exploration by becoming the first commercial vessel to do so-the expedition ultimately demonstrated the impracticality of moving crude oil using icebreaking ships.