London Allen Unwin: 2 books
The Kon-Tiki expedition
By raft across the South Seas
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This is the story of how Thor Heyderdahl and five other men crossed the Pacific Ocean on a balsa-wood raft in an extraordinary bid to prove Heyderdahl's theory that the Polynesians undertook the same feat on such a craft over 1000 years ago.
The apostle of freedom
A portrait of Vasil Levsky against a background of nineteenth century Bulgaria.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Vasil Levsky, whom the Bulgarians call the Apostle of Freedom, is Bulgaria's national hero; in the early 1870's he led an underground movement against the five-century-old Turkish occupation. A combination of Sir Galahad and Robin Hood, Vasil Levsky was an outlaw who outwitted his enemies and slipped...