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Twenty To The Mile
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Author : Derek Pugh
language : en
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Release Date : 2021-11-08
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A history of the Overland Telegraph Line connecting Port Augusta with Port Darwin in 1872, and allowing telegraph connection between Adelaide and London. This is the story of the men who solved the greatest engineering problem facing Australia - the tyranny of distance. In two years, Charles Heavitree Todd, leading hundreds of men, had constructed a telegraph line across the centre of the continent. At nearly 3,000 kilometres long and using 36,000 poles at '20 to the mile', it was a mammoth undertaking. But after a huge expense, and the loss of five lives, Adelaide was linked to London via the Aboriginal lands seen by John McDouall Stuart and his party just 10 years before. The line crossed the most inhospitable parts of the country and set off under the seas north of Port Darwin to London. Messages which previously took weeks, now took hours, passing across the globe and then through eleven new repeater stations that were installed about every 250 kilometres. Each became a centre of white civilization and the cattle industry, and each held a staff of six. The unique stories of how they lived and/or died on the line remain an indelible part of Australia's history.
Incident At Twenty Mile
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Author : Trevanian
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1999-07-15
Incident At Twenty Mile written by Trevanian and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07-15 with Fiction categories.
For fifteen years he has been silent. Now, the legendary #1 New York Times bestselling author of such classic suspense novels as The Eiger Sanction and Shibumi returns-- unleashing a stunning thriller set against the backdrop of the American West. A godforsaken town. A young, eager-to-please stranger carrying a homemade shotgun and a staggering secret. And a madman escaped from the Territorial Prison at Laramie, cutting a swath of sadistic violence with two killers at his side. Now, for the people of Twenty-Mile-- the God-fearing and the godless, heroes, whores, lovers and a boy teetering on the edge of madness-- a siege is about to begin amidst a harrowing mountain storm. And when the killing, the thunder, and the terror are over, some will live, some will be buried, and the myth of the American frontier will never be the same...
Incident Twenty Mile
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Author : Trevanian
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-07
Incident Twenty Mile written by Trevanian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-07 with categories.
Incident Twenty Mile
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Author : Trevanian
language : fr
Publisher: Éditions Gallmeister
Release Date : 2019-03-07
Incident Twenty Mile written by Trevanian and has been published by Éditions Gallmeister this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-07 with Fiction categories.
En 1898, au coeur des montagnes du Wyoming, la petite bourgade de Twenty-Mile dépérit en même temps que s’épuise sa mine d’argent. C’est donc avec scepticisme que ses quinze derniers habitants considèrent l’arrivée inopinée d’un jeune étranger bien décidé à se faire une place parmi eux. Mais le danger vient d’ailleurs : trois tueurs au sang froid, échappés de prison, s’abattent sur la ville pour y attendre le prochain convoi chargé de minerai. L’isolement de Twenty-Mile, encore renforcé par une terrible tempête, va coûter cher à ses habitants pris au piège.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
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Author : Jules Verne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea written by Jules Verne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Submarines (Ships) categories.
Great By Choice
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Author : Jim Collins
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-13
Great By Choice written by Jim Collins and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-13 with Business & Economics categories.
THE NEW QUESTION Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns with another groundbreaking work, this time to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? Based on nine years of research, buttressed by rigorous analysis and infused with engaging stories, Collins and his colleague, Morten Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in unpredictable, tumultuous, and fast-moving times. THE NEW STUDY Great by Choice distinguishes itself from Collins's prior work by its focus not just on performance, but also on the type of unstable environments faced by leaders today. With a team of more than twenty researchers, Collins and Hansen studied companies that rose to greatness - beating their industry indexes by a minimum of ten times over fifteen years - in environments characterized by big forces and rapid shifts that leaders could not predict or control. The research team then contrasted these "10X companies" to a carefully selected set of comparison companies that failed to achieve greatness in similarly extreme environments. THE NEW FINDINGS The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as: * The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid. * Innovation by itself turns out not to be the trump card in a chaotic and uncertain world; more important is the ability to scale innovation, to blend creativity with discipline. * Following the belief that leading in a "fast world" always requires "fast decisions" and "fast action" is a good way to get killed. * The great companies changed less in reaction to a radically changing world than the comparison companies. The authors challenge conventional wisdom with thought-provoking, sticky, and supremely practical concepts. They include 10Xers; the 20 Mile March; Fire Bullets then Cannonballs; Leading above the Death Line; Zoom Out, Then Zoom In; and the SMaC Recipe. Finally, in the last chapter, Collins and Hansen present their most provocative and original analysis: defining, quantifying, and studying the role of luck. The great companies and the leaders who built them were not luckier than the comparisons, but they did get a higher Return on Luck. This book is classic Collins: contrarian, data driven, and uplifting. He and Hansen show convincingly that, even in a chaotic and uncertain world, greatness happens by choice, not by chance.
Twenty Miles Per Cookie
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Author : Nancy Sathre-Vogel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-11
Twenty Miles Per Cookie written by Nancy Sathre-Vogel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with Travel categories.
What do you get when you take two burned out schoolteachers, their 8-year-old twins, a regular bike, and a bicycle built for three? 9000 miles of madness.
Twenty Miles From A Match
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Author : Sarah E. Olds
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2012-05-28
Twenty Miles From A Match written by Sarah E. Olds and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Twenty Miles From a Match, originally published in 1978, is the autobiography of an indomitable woman and her family’s twenty years of adventures and misadventures in a desert wilderness. In 1908, a venturesome woman named Sarah Olds packed up her brood and went homesteading in the deserts north of Reno, west of Sutcliffe on Pyramid Lake. Her ailing husband said, welcoming her to their new home, "There, old lady. There’s your home, and it’s damn near in the heart of Egypt." Olds tells of the hardships, frustrations, poverty, and other tribulations her family suffered from shortly after the turn of the century until well into the Great Depression. Through it all, however, runs a thread of humor, cheerfulness, and the ability to laugh at adversity. The foreword is by her daughter, Leslie Olds Zurfluh, the fourth of Sarah and A. J. Olds's six children.
Judgment At Twenty Mile Bend
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Author : Stephen R. Koons
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Judgment At Twenty Mile Bend written by Stephen R. Koons and has been published by Atlantic Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with Fiction categories.
Jack Shook is a young felony prosecutor in Palm Beach County in the late 1970s who thinks he understands what justice is all about. He confidently, if not arrogantly, charges through life mowing down drug dealers, thieves, thugs, and other assorted malefactors and miscreants, thinking that he is the answer to the problem people in our society. Young Jack has an idyllic life, finding time to enjoy all the great benefits that young professionals experience, including an active social and recreational life. Along the way, it appears that he is perfectly suited to his position, when in reality, he is deeply conflicted by his deep-seated opposition to the death penalty and his dislike of guns. This conflict exists even though it's his job to pursue the death penalty, and he is surrounded by friends and associates in the law enforcement community, which include a law-and-order judge and a popular chief of police. After much success in the courtroom, Shook is assigned the prosecution of a grisly murder case that he cannot lose (appearing to be an obviously guilty verdict) only to be faced with the biggest surprise he has ever seen in a courtroom. Shook is confronted with people that will stop at nothing to get what they want, including his complete destruction. Through a series of events and reversals, Shook discovers that one often has little control over how justice is finally meted out — and to whom and by whom. Will young Jack survive this great crisis in his life? Will he literally survive certain death? Read on and find the answer to these and other more vexing questions we all face in life.
The Twenty One Mile House
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Author : Michael R. Häack
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2015-12-12
The Twenty One Mile House written by Michael R. Häack and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-12 with Fiction categories.
The frozen rock and gravel road over Sonora Pass was not kind to any form of weakness. Crossing the 10,000 foot Sierra Nevada pass was a balancing act where one side dropped off into icy snow-melt river waters and the other side dived into canyons of massive granite boulders. The harsh winters blast brought death everywhere. Into this setting arrived the Byers brothers and six horse drawn Murphy freight wagons from East to West at a time when the pass should have been closed to winter travel. They hoped to overnight at the ancient 21 Mile House for shelter, perhaps even warmth and food. If the weather didnt stop them first then the outlaw Pau Lim, was certain to kill anyone who ventured into the 21 Mile House. Within that abandoned lodge he hid his victims, his horrible secrets and stolen Wells Fargo gold. Pau was no stranger to killing; one more victim meant nothing to him, and the Byers brothers and their wagon train were headed right his way! Death in the frozen clutches of the old hotel fit into his plans just fine.