Tag: Improbable

Free Download Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DBM9NYLF | 2024 | 6 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 378 MB
Author: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner
The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving work of natural history inspired by the PBS series American Buffalo. The American buffalo-our nation’s official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals.

Free Download No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust by Chris Heath
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 0805243712 | 640 pages | True EPUB | 43.00 MB
This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.

Free Download Andrew F. Smith, "American Tuna: The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food (Volume 37) "
English | ISBN: 0520261844 | 2012 | 264 pages | PDF | 1062 KB
In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called "chicken of the sea" is both the subject and the backdrop for other facets of American history: U.S. foreign policy, immigration and environmental politics, and dietary trends.

Free Download Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth
English | March 28, 2023 | ISBN: 030025072X | 480 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion

Free Download The Bee & the Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott & Emily Dickinson by Lorraine Tosiello, Jane Cavolina
English | May 10, 2022 | ISBN: 1955904030 | True EPUB | 266 pages | 0.4 MB
The Bee and the Fly: The Improbable Correspondence of Louisa May Alcott and Emily Dickinson presents a lifelong exchange of unknown letters between Dickinson, the reclusive poet, and Alcott, the most renowned author of the time.