Download or read book Down the Great Unknown written by Edward Dolnick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition. On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis—and as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory down the Colorado in four wooden rowboats. Ninety-nine days later, six half-starved wretches came ashore near Callville, Arizona. Lewis and Clark opened the West in 1803, six decades later Powell and his scruffy band aimed to resolve the West’s last mystery. A brilliant narrative, a thrilling journey, a cast of memorable heroes—all these mark Down the Great Unknown, the true story of the last epic adventure on American soil.
Download or read book All Elevations Unknown written by Sam Lightner Jr. and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-07-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sam Lightner, Jr., combines two tales of adventure, one historic and the other modern-day in his page-turner . . . With its rich sense of place and history, All Elevations Unknown offers a surprisingly fresh twist to an adventure-climbing tale.” –Climbing Magazine In the spring of 1999, armed with little more than a description from a book and a map labeled “all elevations unknown,” Sam Lightner and his German rock-climbing buddy, Volker, found themselves deep in the jungles of Borneo on a mission to climb a mountain that was only rumored to exist. What little they knew about the mountain they had learned from the memoirs of Major Tom Harrisson, a British World War II soldier who in 1945 had been assigned the near-impossible mission of parachuting blindly into the thick Borneo rainforest–where the natives had a grisly habit of cutting off heads–to try to reclaim the island for the Allies. A captivating, utterly original combination of travel adventure memoir and historical re-creation, All Elevations Unknown charts Lightner’s exhilarating and at times harrowing quest to ascend the mountain Batu Lawi in the face of leeches, vipers, and sweat bees, and to keep his team together in one of the earth’s most treacherous uncharted pockets. Along the way, he reconstructs a fascinating historical narrative that chronicles Tom Harrisson’s adventures there during the war and illuminates an astonishing piece of forgotten World War II history. Rife with suspense and vivid detail, the two intertwining tales open up the island of Borneo, its people, and its history in a powerful, unforgettable way, taking adventure writing to new heights.
Download or read book The Sacred Laws of the Aryas written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cause Unknown written by Barbie Bellinger and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally built in 1407, the Cooper home is the keeper of many horrific secrets and is riddled with hidden passageways. The present collides with the past as the Coopers try to unravel the mysterious events that unfold around them. A mysterious ancient Egyptian disease known as the grunge has attacked their neighbors and a cure must be found. Using binoculars that can see 150 years into the past may be the only way to solve the curse by attempting to discover how the disease began. Rural Midwesterners, the Coopers and their four young children solicit the help of Dr. Grear Barnes, an established and trusted physician from New York, as they try to stop this plague before they all become infected.
Download or read book Origin Unknown written by Pierre Davis and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfecting a top-secret technology that can map secrets of the brain, Dr. Lydia South, a brilliant neuroscientist, becomes the target of a deranged sociopath and Lt. Elliot Elliot must enter the mind of a monster to save her and a gifted 4-year-old boy. Original.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia written by South Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DADDY UNKNOWN written by Judy Christenberry and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baby is His! The minute Alexandra Logan made a grand reentrance into Cactus, Texas, Tucker Langford sensed a change. Seems that though Tuck could never forget the woman who'd stolen his heart, she couldn't remember him. Nor how she got pregnant! Tuck knew the baby was his. And deep inside his Texas-sized heart he knew Alex had to remember how much in love they once were. But no way was this cowboy willing to stand around and wait. Even if he had to kiss Alex back to her senses, he aimed to claim his baby—and its mother.
Download or read book Unknown Reality written by Madison Capps and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twenty-one-year-old college student Maya Rivers and her older sister, Malia, are kidnapped, their lives are turned upside down. Maya discovers a secret about herself and Malia—a secret that changes everything. The Rivers sisters are Nexus Killian, a rare superhuman species, each with their unique abilities. When they are rescued by the Department of Special Operations, the agency recruits them to team up with two other Nexus Killian special agents. Maya and Malia quickly discover how important their unique reality is. But with their newfound powers comes an envious reaction from one of the DSO’s highest-priority enemies. After Maya suffers a traumatic experience at the hands of this particular enemy, a dormant gene awakens in her, making her more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Will Maya be able to control her new powers, or will they be the reason for her downfall?
Download or read book Pursuits Unknown written by Ellen Clary and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amy and her kelpie-shepherd mix, Lars, work with a search team that specializes in finding lost people. Despite his average-mutt appearance, Lars is no ordinary dog. He and Amy have a telepathic connection. While Lars has a lot to learn about human language, their bond allows them to communicate in unusual ways and is a boon to their success rate. When Amy and Lars find a missing scientist suffering from the Alzheimer's-like disorder "Disorientation," Amy and her support team realize this is not a typical lost-person case. Instead, this assignment appears to be an attempt to steal this man's highly sensitive research on nanotechnology—which, in the wrong hands, could be used to wipe out undesirables from their overpopulated world. Forced to go undercover to seek out the truth, Amy will have to confront—and surpass—her own limitations.
Download or read book Unknown Ties written by Van Kell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jumvella Samonte has to move to a realm where everyone is half animal, she realizes that being a Vampire with awesome power's not enough. With the realm being mysterious in every way possible, she discovers a lot about its past while falling in love at the same time. When an ancient threat tries to escape from their condemned lives, Jumvella has to find out where she fits in all of this. She discovers secrets about herself that started in her past and begins to wonder what she has to do in order to save her home. Since she is different from the others, trouble follows her no matter what...almost completely to her losing the people who mean the world to her.
Download or read book Highlander Unknown written by Claudia Wilson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-02-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Stewart was beautiful and gentle. She was to be married in days, but her betrothed had yet to show up. Or had he? She met a large man whose name she didn't know and who had moved her to her very core. Could this be love? And what was she to do, since she would be marrying another? Alexander McDonald was a tall man, standing head above the rest. He had shown up at the Stewart keep but was keeping his identity quiet. He wanted to learn about his soon-to-be wife as well as keep her safe from those who wanted him to suffer. Each time he was near Susan, she moved him in ways no other woman had. Could their newfound love survive once she knew who he was? And would they be strong enough to survive the perils ahead of them?
Download or read book Barrier Unknown written by John Glasby and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The logical outcome of the space race, and the preliminary step towards the Moo, was the manned satellite, the Big Wheel moving in a stable orbit about the Earth, integrating the data necessary for a landing on the Moon, and eventually acting as a fuelling station for the Lunar rockets. After several failures, the station is ready, but even there, danger exists, unseen, unheard, invisible and terrible. Forced to exist in the belt of cosmic radiation surrounding the planet, men die within weeks from aplastic anemia. Seeking a solution to the problem, Doctor Paul Russell is sent up to the satellite and here learns of the two men fro the previous crew who vanished without a trace after spotting an unidentified spaceship in orbit further out from Earth than themselves.
Download or read book Neighbors Unknown written by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts and published by New York : Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1911 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Persons Unknown written by Virginia Tracy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: "Persons Unknown" by Virginia Tracy
Download or read book Class Unknown written by Mark Pittenger and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Gilded Age, social scientists, middle-class reformers, and writers have left the comforts of their offices to "pass" as steel workers, coal miners, assembly-line laborers, waitresses, hoboes, and other working and poor people in an attempt to gain a fuller and more authentic understanding of the lives of the working class and the poor. In this first, sweeping study of undercover investigations of work and poverty in America, award-winning historian Mark Pittenger examines how intellectuals were shaped by their experiences with the poor, and how despite their sympathy toward working-class people, they unintentionally helped to develop the contemporary concept of a degraded and "other" American underclass. While contributing to our understanding of the history of American social thought, Class Unknown offers a new perspective on contemporary debates over how we understand and represent our own society and its class divisions.
Download or read book The Unknown Wizard written by Michael Bralich and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an enormous army of ogres attacks the civilized kingdoms around their homeland of Sylvannia, three friends set out on a dangerous quest to find the last known living wizard to enlist his aid in the war. Little did the three know that among themselves, one had the potential to become a wizard, and if they can find and recover the Crystal of Enhancement, he could become a very powerful wizard.
Download or read book Into the Unknown written by Susan E. B. Schwartz and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Unknown is the inspiring story of one man's successful quest for meaning, from hair-raising mountain adventures, to medical breakthroughs, to the inner circle of Camelot.
