Download or read book Lady Spy Gentleman Explorer written by Heather Rossiter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lady Spy Gentleman Explorer written by Heather Rossiter and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of spy and Antarctic explorer Herbert Dyce Murphy. Tells of his rejection of his wealthy upbringing in favour of apprenticing himself to a wool clipper and then going whaling in the Arctic. Recounts his time as a spy in drag for British intelligence before World War I and his trip to Antarctica with the Mawson expedition in 1911. Includes photographs, list of expeditioners and ship's officers, glossary, notes on sources and selected bibliography.
Download or read book Spy Wore Blue written by Shana Galen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting new novella in Shana Galen's popular Lord and Lady Spy series. Blue, an elite spy, tracks an assassin to Naples and the theater where his estranged wife performs. As he falls in love with his Helena again, Blue races to apprehend the assassin before he destroys them both. Praise for Lord and Lady Spy: "Lively, utterly delightful adventure romance..."—RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars "I loved this book! There was action, adventure, mystery/suspense as well as love."—Night Owl Reviews, 4.75 Stars, Reviewer Top Pick "Captivating. This book was everything that I wanted it to be and then there were the little quirks that made it even better!"—Fresh Fiction
Download or read book Lord and Lady Spy written by Shana Galen and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No man can outsmart him, but she's been outsmarting him for years Lord Adrian Smythe may appear a perfectly boring gentleman, but he leads a thrilling life as one of England's most preeminent spies, an identity so clandestine even his wife is unaware of it. But he isn't the only one with secrets. Now that the Napoleonic wars have come to an end, daring secret agent Lady Sophia Smythe can hardly bear the thought of returning home to her tedious husband. Until she discovers in the dark of night that he's not who she thinks he is after all. Celebrate the 80th birthday of Regency Romance with great books from Sourcebooks Casablanca! Lord and Lady Spy Trilogy: Lord and Lady Spy (Book 1) True Spies (Book 2) Love and Let Spy (Book 3) Praise for Shana Galen: "FANTASTIC! Ms. Galen really knows how to wrench our hearts." —History Undressed "Galen sets a quick pace that enthralls the reader from the first page." —The Romance Studio "Vividly intense and totally absorbing...Shana Galen brings her characters to life through the expertise of her writing." —A Romance Review
Download or read book Lady Spy written by Toni Cabell and published by Endwood Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark fay uprising. A dashing fay wizard. And a growing anti-magic movement. Mara's blades aren't sharp enough to cut through this tangled web. By day, Mara runs a clockwork toyshop. By night, she spies for the resistance. The last thing Mara needs is a ridiculously handsome fay to train in customer service and spy craft. Arnesto is persistent, bedazzling, and a twelfth-level fay wizard. He also casts spells in all the wrong places, talks more than he listens, and manages to get himself arrested. Mara plans to send the incompetent fay packing if he makes one more mistake. But Mara and Arnesto must team up when a fresh threat imperils both the human and fay realms. Are swords, magic, and a scrap of prophecy enough to save the kingdom?
Download or read book The End of Me The Single Lady Spy 1 written by Tara Brown and published by Single Lady Spy. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired spy.A dead husband.A new job offer to save the world.It
Download or read book The End of Tomorrow written by Sophie Starr and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrayed by her husband.Sold by the government.Owned by a mortal enemy.Underestimated by everyone.It's been one hell of a winter for Evie Evans.Just as things start to settle into a bit of a routine, a single phone call from a certain arms dealer halts everything.Evie's spy instincts kick into gear, putting being a parent on the back burner.But it's not the only thing taking a backseat to the mission.Evie's love life also takes a hit when Coop decides not to trust Servario's latest tip from the underworld, and accuses her of feelings Evie isn't sure she can deny.But when Servario's information is confirmed by an attack on a major city, the team is once again swept up in the chaos that comes with protecting the Burrow.Only this time the mission isn't saving the burrow from the usual suspects.This time it's saving the world from a young woman on the verge of creating something so deadly Evie isn't sure the Burrow should have it either.But could you end an innocent's life to stop them from ending everything, including tomorrow?Don't miss this sexy and exciting adventure!
Download or read book The End of Tomorrow The Single Lady Spy 3 written by Tara Brown and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING author TARA BROWN, comes a dark romantic comedy you won't want to miss!A retired spy.A dead husband.A new job offer to save the world.And saying no isn't an option.Just as things start to settle into a bit of a routine, a single phone call from a certain arms dealer halts everything.Evie's spy instincts kick into gear, putting being a parent on the back burner.But it's not the only thing taking a backseat to the mission.Evie's love life also takes a hit when Coop decides not to trust Servario's latest tip from the underworld, and accuses her of feelings Evie isn't sure she can deny.But when Servario's information is confirmed by an attack on a major city, the team is once again swept up in the chaos that comes with protecting the Burrow.Only this time the mission isn't saving the burrow from the usual suspects.This time it's saving the world from a young woman on the verge of creating something so deadly Evie isn't sure the Burrow should have it either.But could you end an innocent's life to stop them from ending everything, including tomorrow?Don't miss this sexy and exciting comedy!
Download or read book The Gentleman Thief written by Camille Elliot and published by Camy Tang. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Regency Adventure Prequel to the Lady Wynwood's Spies series A mysterious thief has been committing daring heists and stealing rare, exquisite gemstones during the time their owners are throwing grand parties for the Season. Mr. Solomon Drydale, a clandestine agent for the Crown, is baffled because the thefts bear the mark of a former agent whom he mentored. Sol is tasked with finding the agent, Mr. Stewart Allinton, who is attending a birthday celebration at a country manor house, but Sol is determined to speak to Allinton first before bringing him in. However, there is more at stake than a few gemstones, and with the help of his friend, Lady Wynwood, he discovers that the few acts of larceny may be connected to high treason ... This is a stand-alone story that occurs after The Spinster's Christmas and before Lady Wynwood's Spies, volume 1: Archer.
Download or read book Alone on the Ice The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration written by David Roberts and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the epic journey undertaken by Douglas Mawson, who suffered starvation, the loss of his team, and a crippling foot injury as he resorted to crawling back to base camp during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1913.
Download or read book Born Adventurer written by Stephen Haddelsey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-09-29 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldiers and sailors, geographers and geologists, submariners and balloonists all flocked to Antarctica during the 'Heroic Age' of Polar exploration. No one better represented this eclectic band than Frank Bickerton, engineer on Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911–14. A true pioneer of Antarctic exploration, he piloted the expedition's 'air-tractor', established the first crucial wireless link between Antarctica and the rest of the world, and discovered one of the first meteorites ever to be found on the continent. Treasure-hunter, explorer, fighter pilot, entrepreneur, big-game hunter and movie-maker, Bickerton not only made a major contribution to the success of the AAE, but was also recruited by Ernest Shackleton for his ill-fated Endurance Expedition, dug for pirate gold on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, survived bloody dogfights over the Western Front during the First World War, and flirted with the glittering world of 1920s Hollywood. In Born Adventurer, historian Stephen Haddelsey draws on unique access to family papers, journals and letters to provide a thrilling account of Bickerton's rich and colourful life.
Download or read book Sweet Boy Dear Wife written by Heather Rossiter and published by Wakefield Press Pty, Limited (AUS). This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Dieulafoy dressed as a boy to accompany her husband on digs in Persia, where women were veiled and enclosed. Her adventures led to the discovery of enamelled brick friezes in the 2500-year-old city of Susa. Displayed at the Louvre in 1886, the Lion and Archer friezes created a sensation and remain among the Louvre's greatest treasures.
Download or read book Body at the Melbourne Club written by David Burke and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertram Armytage, son of a wealthy squatter, a popular sportsman who rowed for Cambridge, was the first Australian-born member of an Antarctic expedition. An expert horseman, he was given charge of the ponies in Ernest Shackleton's great 1907-1909 expedition, narrowly escaping the jaws of killer whales. In London he was decorated by royalty, but on coming home to Australia he went to his part-time city residence, the exclusive Melbourne Club, put on his dinner suit and polar medals and, at the age of 41, shot himself. This mystery-cum-biography provides a new perspective on one of Shackleton's greatest expeditions.
Download or read book Flaws in the Ice written by David Day and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Mawson was determined to make his mark on Antarctica as no other explorer had done before him. What really happened on the ice has been buried for a century. Flaws in the Ice is the untold true story of Douglas Mawson’s 1911-1914 Antarctic Expedition, mistakenly hailed for a century as a courageous survival story from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Prize-winning historian David Day takes off on a five-week odyssey in search of the real Douglas Mawson, famed colleague and contemporary of Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott. Beginning his book on board an expedition ship bound for the Antarctic, Dr. Day asks the difficult questions that have hitherto lain buried about Mawson —, his leadership of the ill-fated Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, his conduct during the trek that led to the death of his two companions, and his intimate relationship with Scott’s widow. The author also explores the ways in which Mawson subsequently concealed his failures and deficiencies as an explorer, and created for himself a heroic image that has persisted for a century. To bolster his career and dig himself out of debt, Mawson would have to return from Antarctica with a stirring story of achievement calculated to capture public attention. South Pole expeditions, by-among others--Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen--were going on at same time With Amundsen having reached the South Pole-- and Scott having died on his return--Mawson would be forgotten if he did not return with an exciting story of achievement and adversity overcome. Mawson obliged, though the truth was something entirely different. For many decades, there has been only one published first-hand account of the expedition —Mawson’s. Only now have alternative accounts become publicly available. The most important of these is the long-suppressed diary of Mawson’s deputy, Cecil Madigan, who is scathing in his criticisms of Mawson’s abilities, achievements, and character that he instructed that his diary was not to be published until the last of Mawson’s children had died. At the same time, other accounts have appeared from leading members of the expedition that also challenge Mawson’s official story. While most historians ascribe the deaths of the two men to bad luck, the author’s re-examination of the existing evidence, and a reading of the new evidence, reveals that the deaths of two men on the expedition were caused by Mawson’s relative inexperience, overweening ambition, and poor decision-making. In fact, there’s some suggestion that Mawson was consciously responsible for one’s starvation so that Mawson himself could survive on the limited food rations. After the death of his companions, Mawson’s bungling of his return to the ship forced a team to remain for another full year during which he recovered his strength and began to craft an image of himself as a courageous and resourceful polar explorer. The British Empire needed heroes, and Mawson was determined to provide it with one. In this compelling and revealing new book, David Day draws upon all this new evidence, as well as on the vast research he undertook for his international history ofAntarctica, and on his own experience of sailing to the Antarctic coastline where Mawson’s reputation was first created. Flaws in the Ice will change perceptions of Douglas Mawson—one of the icons of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration— forever.
Download or read book Expedition into Empire written by Martin Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a pioneering journey through the cultures of empire. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, Expedition into Empire plots the rise and transformation of expeditionary journeys from the eighteenth century until the present. Conceived as a series of spotlights on imperial travel and colonial expansion, it roves widely: from the metropolitan centers to the ends of the earth. This collection is both rigorous and accessible, containing lively case studies from writers long immersed in exploration, travel literature, and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounter.
Download or read book A Memory of Ice written by Elizabeth Truswell and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the Southern Ocean. The departure of the Glomar Challenger from Fremantle took place 100 years after the HMS Challenger weighed anchor from Portsmouth, England, at the start of its four-year voyage, sampling and dredging the world’s oceans. Sailing south, the Glomar Challenger crossed the path of James Cook’s HMS Resolution, then on its circumnavigation of Antarctica in search of the Great South Land. Encounters with Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the US Exploring Expedition and Douglas Mawson of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition followed. In the Ross Sea, the voyages of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror under James Clark Ross, with the young Joseph Hooker as botanist, were ever present. The story of the Glomar Challenger’s iconic voyage is largely told through the diaries of the author, then a young scientist experiencing science at sea for the first time. It weaves together the physical history of Antarctica with how we have come to our current knowledge of the polar continent. This is an attractive, lavishly illustrated and curiosity-satisfying read for the general public as well as for scholars of science.
Download or read book Mawson s Forgotten Men written by Heather Rossiter and published by Murdoch Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tasmanian-born Charles Turnbull Harrisson (1867-1914) was one of the members of Douglas Mawson's legendary Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. Harrisson joined the expedition as a biologist and artist, a part of the Western Party based on Queen Mary Land and led by Frank Wild. He was also a gifted writer and the diary he kept from December 1911 to March 1913 has been transcribed and edited by Heather Rossiter, and reproduced for the first time. Harrisson's engaging narrative is complemented by his sketches and watercolor paintings of the landscape, as well as photographs of the men in the Western Base party. By bringing Harrisson's diary from obscure history to published volume, complete with his own sketches and watercolor paintings, Mawson's Forgotten Men honours the daring spirit of these lesser known but equally audacious Antarctic explorers.
