Download or read book The Gold Eaters written by Ronald Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Utterly irresistible…The Gold Eaters is truly the gold standard to which all fiction — historical and otherwise — should aspire.” — Buzzfeed A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of conquest and resistance, and of an enduring love that must overcome the destruction of one empire by another. Kidnapped at sea by conquistadors seeking the golden land of Peru, a young Inca boy named Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances. Forced to become Francisco Pizarro's translator, he finds himself caught up in one of history's great clashes of civilzations, the Spanish invasion of the Incan Empire of the 1530s. To survive, he must not only learn political gamesmanship but also discover who he truly is, and in what country and culture he belongs. Only then can he be reunited with the love of his life and begin the search for his shattered family, journeying through a land and a time vividly depicted here. Based closely on real historical events, The Gold Eaters draws on Ronald Wright’s imaginative skill as a novelist and his deep knowledge of South America to bring alive an epic struggle that laid the foundations of the modern world.

Download or read book Jangam The Movement written by Debendranath Acharya and published by Global Collective Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jangam (Movement) is the poignant tale of ordinary people who embarked on a great, unknown journey in the midst of WWII but whose bids for survival were thwarted as they battled Nature. Hardly any account of this massive calamity has been registered in India’s literature, says Debendranath Acharya in the late 1970s, in the preface to his Sahitya Akademi award-winning Assamese novel. During this migration an estimated 450,000-500,000 Burmese Indians walked to north-east India, fleeing from the Japanese advance and also from escalating ethnic violence in the Burmese theatre of war. ‘Corpses lay everywhere, and there were no jackals and vultures to pick them clean... All other forms of animal life seem to have abjured this pathway, save for scores of beautiful butterflies that cover the bodies in a sea of colour’, say contemporary foreign accounts of this exodus. Jangam is the only sustained fictional treatment of this long march.

Download or read book Manku Too written by John F. Rowles and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haiku from a Man's Point of View

Download or read book Annie s Stories Volume ll written by Ana María Núñez and published by Ibukku LLC. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ANNIE’S STORIES arises from the need to tell interesting stories to children, help them in their day to day answering their doubts, fears, feelings, joys and questions about everything that surrounds them in an easy and entertaining way that takes them to the magical world of reading. It is aimed at children from 3 years old.

Download or read book Setswana Grammar Manual written by Tshepo Dioka and published by Arthur T Chambers. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Max the Cat written by Nana Grey-Johnson and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Max the Cat, Max, the son of the district officer, returns to his provincial hometown after qualifying as a teacher. However, Max returns under a cloud. His father is unhappy with reports of his son’s radical political activities at college. This sets the tone of a one-sided relationship: While the son loves his father and holds him in highest regard, the ambitious old politician plots for Max’s removal by any means, fair or foul. The young man’s crusade against official corruption does not sit well with some of the skeletons that his father would rather keep hidden to maintain his privilege and protect his friends. Between these two men there is a woman – a loving stepmother and a faithful wife – who tries to reconcile her stepson and her husband. With quiet faith and patience, she lives with the great irony in their differences arising out of the son’s firm belief in the moral principles his father taught him, while her husband’s own faith in his early teachings has been eroded by complacency and compromise after years in office. Father and son are set on a warpath. Behind the scenes in this struggle, the spirits of their ancestors are at work. The interplay is quite thrilling, as African folklore, religion and contemporary politics mix dramatically in this book to see if good triumphs over evil.

Download or read book Cut Stones and Crossroads written by Ronald Wright and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling through Peru, tracing the history of the Incas from their royal cities of Cusco and Machu Picchu to their mythic origin in Lake Titicaca, Ronald Wright explores a country of contrasts—between Spanish and Indian, past and present, coastal desert and mountainous interior. In his highly entertaining and perceptive account, Wright brings to life a complex culture, a land of ancient traditions seeking its place in the modern world. Embracing history, politics, anthropology, and literature, Cut Stones and Crossroadsis a fascinating travel memoir and the study of a civilization by a writer who has won international awards as both a novelist and a historian.

Download or read book Cultural Geography Form and Process written by Neelam Grover and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers A Wide Range Of Cultural Concerns Such As-Methodological Statements, Impression Of Culture On Landscape, Cultural Processes And Change, Cultural Traits And Distribution And Cultural Ecology, Has 29 Papers Contributed By Eminent Geographers From Indian And Abroad. Researchers In Cultural Geography, Anthropology, Sociology And History Will Find It Useful.

Download or read book The Splendour of Himalayan Art and Culture written by Aśoka Jeratha and published by Indus Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Himalayas are a source of inspiration and challenge to the researchers, intellectuals and adventurers. The lofty mountains with snow-clad peaks and lush green forests fascinate one and all. This work on the art and culture of people of the Himalayan region is fourth in sequence by the author. After Folk Art of Duggar; Ripples in the Himalayas; and Rajat Shikhron Ke Rupehle Swar, this work completes the first phase of studies of Himalayan culture. Earlier Kumaon, Garhwal, Kashmir and Ladakh Himalayas and their ranges were covered in detail. With the inclusion of Dhauladhar ranges and nearby surroundings of Kangra, Palampur, Baijnath, Mandi, Kullu, Manali, Lahaul & Spiti, Kinnaur and upper regions of Shimla in this book, it completes the studies of western Himalayas. The author has visited himself in most of these areas and collected the data so that first hand information can be provided to the readers. In a way it is a first endeavour in this field wherein the people and the land are discussed collectively for the first time. However, individual tribes of Himachal Pradesh do find their place in sociological studies done in the field, but we do not find a comparative study for which an objective effort has been made in this book for the benefit of readers and art historians alike. The book covers the art, architecture and cultural aspects of Himachal Pradesh. References have also been made to Basohli, Jammu, Manket, etc. as the Pahari art of minature paintings had its own legacy in these erstwhile kingdoms." -- Cover description.

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Download or read book Beckoning Star written by Eric Jerpe and published by 1st Impression Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pharaonic concept of afterlife becomes reality in the Earth-imitation world of Ormuzad, where the post-mortem brain of Gausifer, an interstellar despot preserved in liquid Nitrogen, is kept functioning via linkage to an omnipotent computer. This demonic mind spawns the creatures of classical mythology through genetic engineering, generates holographic phantoms, fiats breeding and tyrannizes over a population of submissive humans. In this world of lush paradises and horrific infernos, Tristan and Miranda, a betrothed couple within a population matrix, reach adulthood having been raised in a state of computerized ignorance. As newlyweds, they journey throughout the biospheres, witnessing amazing and often terrifying truths about the world they live in. Innocent and kind-hearted, the couple discovers the evil nature of Gausifer, who stages human sacrifices in the form of gladiatorial spectacles and uploads computerized egos of the slain onto the omnipotent mainframe. Choosing good over evil, Tristan and Miranda valiantly resist the Totalitarian Will.

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Download or read book The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye written by Jay Weidner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-12-10 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decodes the message inscribed on the Great Cross of Hendaye in France • Uses the work of 20th-century alchemist Fulcanelli to predict the date of the fatal season of the apocalypse • Shows how periodic galactic alignments may cause catastrophes on Earth • Examines how the secret of the center of the galaxy reveals the true location of the lost civilization of Atlantis • Reveals the alchemical secret of the imperishable Light Body of ancient Egypt deep within our DNA The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye reveals one of Western occultism's deepest secrets: The alchemical transformation of base metal into gold is also the transformation of the current Iron Age into the Golden Age. Based on the work of the enigmatic 20th-century alchemist Fulcanelli, authors Weidner and Bridges show how the greatest alchemical secret is that of time itself and that coded into an obscure monument in southwestern France--the cross in the town square of Hendaye--is the imminent date of the apocalypse. The authors' explorations of this symbolism lead them from the cross of Hendaye to the western facade of the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the Pyrenees, ancient Egypt, and the secret origins of Atlantis in Peru, to reveal that we are indeed living in a "fatal season" and that this season is intimately connected to our solar system's alignment with the galactic center. The authors' in-depth examination of alchemy's connection with the coming end days also reveals that this astro-alchemical knowledge was part of the sacred science of the Egyptians and the Atlanteans, whose coded messages are, at last, deciphered to guide humanity to its future destiny.

Download or read book Principles of Distributed Systems written by Teruo Higashino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 8th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2004) was held during December 15 –17, 2004 at Grenoble, France.

Download or read book The 4Th Breed Ramanuk written by Mark Ihada and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwendel Williford, a fourteen-year-old boy from Anthor, was caught in the middle of a struggle for survival between the human race and the vicious dogmen of Arthorias called the Alvenrus Bludgens. Following Dwendels quest of unearthing Hordess magical tome, the humans have claimed victory in their battle against the dogmen. Human lives were saved, and peace was restored, or so they thought. Unbeknownst to Dwendel, the battle for human survival had just begun. Everything he knew that existed in his world would be destroyed by an awakened evil force more powerful than the dogmen theyd fought in Plaenoras. If he didnt find the cure to the preternatural curse that beleaguered the humans for centuries and free the nameless unicorn, then his life and the lives of the people he loved would end soon.

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