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Author | : John Buchan |
Publisher | : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2019-06-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Prester John is an adventure thriller novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. Nineteen-year-old David Crawfurd travels from Scotland to South Africa to work as a storekeeper. On the voyage he encounters again John Laputa, the celebrated Zulu minister, of whom he has strange memories. In his remote store David finds himself with the key to a massive uprising, led by the minister, who has taken the title of the mythical priest-king, Prester John. David's courage and his understanding of this man take him to the heart of the uprising, a secret cave in the Rooirand. John Buchan wrote Prester John seven years after he himself returned from South Africa. It was his first to reach a wide readership across the world, and it established him as the writer of fast-paced adventures for which he is famous.
Author | : Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 2271 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465529896 |
Author | : Henry Beston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Birds |
ISBN | : |
Long recognized as a classic of American nature writing. This chronicle of a solitary year spent on a Cape Cod beach was written in longhand at the kitchen table, in a little room overlooking the North Atlantic and the dunes. In 1964, the Cape Cod house was officially proclaimed a National Literary Landmark. In 1978, a massive winter storm swept it off its foundation and out to sea.
Author | : William Morris |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2015-03-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1329020707 |
FROM THE FATHER OF MODERN FANTASY THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN AND LEWIS. Warriors, dwarves, gods, epic battles, magic armor, and a ring. If this all sounds a familiar, it's for good reason. In The House of the Wolfings, the first of the author's many great fantastic romances, William Morris weaves the traditional with the supernatural, and establishes a precursor to the modern epic fantasy genre. Based on a translation of an old Norse saga, Morris reconstructs a portrait of the lives of the Germanic Gothic Tribes galvanized into action againts the attacks of imperial Rome. Thiodolf, the leader of the Wolfings, is one of two men chosen as War-Dukes to lead the tribes against their enemies. Thiodolf may be supported by his lover the Wood-Sun and their daughter the Hall-Sun (both of whom are related to the gods), but he also possesses a dwarf-made mail-shirt that, unbeknownst to him, bears a curse.
Author | : Isaac Asimov |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1984-07-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780345316233 |
Lucky Starr and Bigman Jones journey to the remote moons of Jupiter to find the spy who is leaking the vital secrets of the hyperatomic engines of a prototype spaceship to the enemy Sirians
Author | : James Stephens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : A.P. Wavell |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992-10-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0712653422 |
First published in 1944, during the darkest days of the war, Lord Wavell's great anthology of English poetry - enhanced by his own introduction and annotations - encouraged and delighted many thousands of readers. It has remained in print every since, proving beyond doubt that, whatever the fashion of the day, poetry can fulfil its ancient function, finding its way to the hearts of the many, not only to the minds of the few.
Author | : George Wilkins Kendall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1851 |
Genre | : Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Petroski |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0307773280 |
From the author of the highly praised The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things comes another captivating history of the seemingly mundane: the book and its storage. Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn't. As a result, readers are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Unimpeachably researched, enviably written, and charmed with anecdotes from Seneca to Samuel Pepys to a nineteenth-century bibliophile who had to climb over his books to get into bed, The Book on the Bookshelf is indispensable for anyone who loves books.
Author | : Clive Cussler |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2014-11-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0553394924 |
In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved, economically devastated nation, but the only two copies plummeted into the watery depths of the Atlantic in twin disasters long ago. The original document must be found—and the one American who can do the job is Dirk Pitt. But in London, a daring counterplot is being orchestrated to see that the treaty is never implemented. Brian Shaw, a master spy who has often worked hand in hand with American agents, now confronts his most challenging command. Pitt’s mission: Raise the North American Treaty. Shaw’s mission: Stop Pitt. Praise for Night Probe! and the Dirk Pitt® novels “A rich tale . . . an absorbing, carefully told mystery with plenty of surprises.”—Los Angeles Times “Dirk Pitt is a combination James Bond and Jacques Cousteau.”—New York Daily News