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The SS Keewatin, affectionately known as the Kee, is a time capsule. Built in Clyde, Scotland in 1907, she's the last of her kind – a Titanic era luxury passenger liner that helped to open up Canada. After Canadian Pacific retired her, she sat in a small town marina in Michigan for 45 years, where tourists and locals could take a tour and gaze in wonder. As Honorary Captain Eric Conroy bringer her home, there is an almost unbelievable outpouring...
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THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ENGLISH SPELLING RULES is the most complete and detailed guide to English spelling rules ever written.
Most people consider English spelling to be an intimidating tangle but John Fulford easily and carefully leads the reader through the linguistic maze and proves that there is a great deal of logic to English spelling.
Written for the layperson, the book explains all and every spelling problem with plentiful examples and illuminating...
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English
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English spelling is complex, confusing, and often seems illogical. Teaching English spelling often seems a thankless task. No matter what techniques the teacher or parent uses, the results are often disappointing.
This book, written by an experienced English teacher and the author of The Complete Guide to English Spelling Rules, should bring a sigh of relief to those teachers and parents who struggle to teach their students how to spell and keep...
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This book chronicles the remarkable adventures of a school dropout with an insatiable curiosity who, with no skills, no advice, and no idea what he wants to do with his life, stumbles into an amazing series of jobs ranging from ditch digging and dish washing to movie making, geologist, advertising manager of a magazine and even a chemist in a chocolate factory. His first teaching experience was in a one room school in the far north of Canada. He survived...
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It is the 1950s. The final years of colonialism in Africa and the beginning of the long struggle for independence. A young and very naïve RAF serviceman stationed in Rhodesia (Simbabwe) ignores warnings that white men never hitchhike in Africa, takes a map, a pack, and his insatiable curiosity and sets off to see Africa. In this lively, evocative, richly drawn travel account, author, writer, and world trekker John Fulford shares his pre-revolutionary...
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The author is researching a history of Bolivia and is determined to visit every corner of that vast country - famous for its extremes. Along the way he visits arid deserts and steaming jungles, tours silver, copper, tin and led mines high in the Andes. He travels the most dangerous roads in the Americas. Rides buses, trains, trucks, boats and even an ox cart. He is one of the last people to take the steamer across Lake Titicaca and to ride the infamous...