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Get the Summary of Isaac Arnsdorf's Finish What We Started in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Finish What We Started" by Isaac Arnsdorf delves into the political landscape post-2020 U.S. election, focusing on key figures like Steve Bannon and Dan Schultz. Bannon, a former White House strategist, now a podcast host, promotes the "Precinct Strategy" to reshape the Republican Party from within. Schultz, inspired by...
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The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. They illustrate how the use of GIS is changing our understanding of the geographies of the past and has become the basis for new ways...
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About 20 years ago I was a cruise lecturer assisting a local guide on a shore excursion from the port of Monaco to nearby Nice and Eze. In Eze, I saw a street sign referencing a Templar castle that was destroyed in 1706. We were on a steep hill some 2,000 feet above the port of Monaco. I wondered why the castle was so high, far too high to protect tiny Monaco below. I wondered how Monaco could have avoided major destruction or annexation by the...
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The book depicts the ignominious recent historical facts that manifested to the people of Tigrai, as individuals and groups by allied, conspired, and betrayal. A reader will see the light in the book what it means to aspire to the saying goes back long as "Give a dog a bad name, and kill it." All the names of people, places and events mentioned in this book are real, one by their consent and the other is the culprits. The author himself had to risk...
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From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east-and of the tour itself
Sick of producing the bromides of the professional travel writer, Lawrence Osborne decided to explore the psychological underpinnings of tourism itself. He took a six-month journey across the so-called Asian Highway-a swathe of Southeast Asia that, since the Victorian era, has seduced generations of tourists...
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The acclaimed author of Conquistador and Labyrinth of Ice charts one of history's greatest expeditions, a legendary 16th-century adventurer's death-defying navigation of the Amazon River.
In 1541, Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Pizarro and his lieutenant Francisco Orellana searched for La Canela, South America's rumored Land of Cinnamon, and the fabled El Dorado, "the golden man." Quickly, the enormous expedition of mercenaries, enslaved natives, horses,...
7) Beyond the Edge: Accounts of Historic, Significant, and Little-Known Expeditions on the Greenland
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In the 1870s, maps of Greenland were incomplete, and the interior was a blank space. Was there ice from coast to coast, or was there land somewhere in the middle? Did, or could, anything live there? Neither explorers nor local inhabitants had yet ventured beyond the coast. Then, in 1876, the Danish government began a series of expeditions to answer the question of what lay inland from Greenland's coast, setting off more than a century of Ice Cap investigations...
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Before GPS, celestial navigation was an essential part of polar exploration. It was so critical that it was often the cause of the success or failure of expeditions. Beyond the Edge, Vol. III relates firsthand accounts of the critical role played by navigators in arctic exploration.
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For nearly two thousand years, men and women have sought to find Earth's elusive northernmost point of land. In Beyond the Edge, Gerald Johnson chronicles the search for this unique and mysterious place. The journey joins together vastly different civilizations and eras in a common quest. The ancient Greeks, the Vikings, and European and American explorers-past and present-all share the ambition, courage, and persistence needed to find and to understand...