Download or read book The Boy s Guide to the Historical Adventures of G A Henty written by William Potter and published by . This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book charts Henty's works of historical fiction chronologically and provides both a plot summary and an historical overview of over 70 of his classic tales.
Download or read book Adventures in Ancient Greece written by Linda Bailey and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Greece fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.
Download or read book Master and Commander written by Patrick O'Brian and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2007 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set sail for the read of your life! Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Now these evocative stories are being re-issued in paperback by Harper Perennial with stunning new jackets.
Download or read book The Devil s Library written by Tom Pugh and published by Crux Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Pugh’s first novel is a magnificent achievement. Let us hope he returns to enthral us with another very soon.” David Dickinson, author of the Powerscourt series The Otiosi? As far as Mathew Longstaff knows, they’re just a group of harmless scholars with an eccentric interest in the works of antiquity. When they ask him to travel east, to recover a lost text from Ivan the Terrible’s private library, he can’t think of anything but the reward – home. A return to England and an end to the long years of exile and warfare. But the Otiosi are on the trail of a greater prize than Longstaff realises – the legendary ‘Devil’s Library’. And they are not alone. Gregorio Spina, the pope’s spymaster and chief censor, is obsessed with finding the Library. It’s not the accumulated wisdom of centuries he’s after – a swamp of lies and heresy in his opinion – but among the filth, like a diamond at the centre of the Devil’s black heart, Spina believes that God has placed a treasure, a weapon to defeat the Antichrist and pitch his hordes back into hell. Only Longstaff, together with the unpredictable physician, Gaetan Durant, can stop Spina using the Library to plunge Europe into a second Dark Ages. The two adventurers fight their way south, from the snowfields of Muscovy to the sun-baked plains of Italy, where an ageing scholar and his beautiful, young protégé hold the final piece of the puzzle. But is it already too late? Can the four of them take on the might of the Roman Church and hope to win?
Download or read book Adventures in History written by Richard Unglik and published by Walter Foster Jr. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover with Playmobil the most iconic people, places, and time periods throughout history. Discover with Playmobil the most iconic people, places, and time periods throughout history, from Ancient Greece, the Renaissance, and the modern ages to Kublai Khan, Shakespeare, and Albert Einstein. Richard Unglik, a professional photographer and child at heart, uses Playmobil figurines and scenery to create a humorous look at world history. Each double page showcases a famous historical figure, civilization, or historical event. Readers of all ages will enjoy this tongue-in-cheek, unique guide to world history, and all things Playmobil!
Download or read book Adventures in Ancient China written by Linda Bailey and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the Binkertons, twins Josh and Emma and their little sister, Libby, as they return to the Good Times Travel Agency -- and end up knee-deep in an ancient Chinese rice paddy! Adventures in Ancient China is an engaging mix of adventure and historical information about life in China during first century A.D. Kids will learn about Chinese society, inventions, medicine, the Silk Road, the Great Wall, nomadic warriors and much more. They'll love the book's contemporary comic-book look, while parents, teachers and librarians will appreciate the well-researched story line and solid factual information.
Download or read book Adventures in Ancient Egypt written by Linda Bailey and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Egypt fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.
Download or read book Adventures in Unhistory written by Avram Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Where did Sinbad Sail? * Who Fired the Phoenix? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Great Rough Beast * Postscript on Prester John * The Secret of Hyperborea * What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? authoritative? fantastic? deadpan?--investigations into the real, the true...and the things that should be true PREFACE BY PETER S. BEAGLE ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE BARR "Although the wombat is real and the dragon is not, nobody knows what a wombat looks like and everyone knows what a dragon looks like." Not a novel, not a book of short stories, Adventures in Unhistory is a book of the fantastic--a compendium of magisterial examinations of Mermaids, Mandrakes, and Mammoths; Dragons, Werewolves, and Unicorns; the Phoenix and the Roc; about places such as Sicily, Siberia, and the Moon; about heroic, sinister, and legendary persons such as Sindbad, and Aleister Crowley, and Prester John; and--revealed at last--the Secret of Hyperborea. The facts are here, the foundations behind rumors, legends, and the imaginations of generations of tale-spinners. But far from being dry recitals, these meditations, or lectures, or deadpan prose performances are as lively, as crazily inventive, as witty as the best fiction of the author, a writer praised by Gardner Dozois as "one of the great short story writers of our times." Who, on the subject of Dragons, could write coldly, dispassionately, guided only by logic? Certainly not Avram Davidson. Certain facts, these facts, deserve more than recitation; they deserve flourish, verve, gusto, style--the late, great Avram Davidson's unique voice. That prose which, in the words of Peter S. Beagle's Preface to this volume, "cries out to be read aloud."
Download or read book Hannah Pritchard written by Bonnie Pryor and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her parents and brother are killed by Loyalists, fourteen-year-old Hannah leaves their farm and eventually, disguised as a boy, joins a pirate ship that preys on other ships to get supplies for the American Revolution.
Download or read book A Pickle for the Knowing Ones written by Timothy Dexter and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DreamWorks Dragons Adventures with Dragons written by Joshua Pruett and published by Insight Kids. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soar alongside the Viking heroes and their majestic dragons from all three of the DreamWorks Dragons films in this ingeniously crafted pop-up book. Relive the enduring story of Hiccup and Toothless as they get to know each other on the Island of Berk, learn to trust and live harmoniously, and grow into fearless leaders. Pushing artistic boundaries to deliver a new type of immersive and engaging experience, DreamWorks Dragons: The Pop-Up Book invites you to explore dragon lore and peek inside the Hidden World from the upcoming film. Engage with six large pops, seven smaller pops, and a removable map woven into beautifully illustrated artwork just waiting to be explored. This absorbing new dimension in pop-up books is sure to captivate both the collector and DreamWorks Dragons fans of all ages.
Download or read book Adventures in the Ice Age written by Linda Bailey and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the Binkertons as they return to the Good Times Travel Agency only to find themselves deep-frozen in the Ice Age.
Download or read book Historic Adventures written by Rupert Sargent Holland and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Man of War written by Charlie Schroeder and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the middle of a heat wave, and Charlie Schroeder is dressed in heavy clothing and struggling to row a replica eighteenth-century bateau down the St. Lawrence River. Why? Months earlier, Schroeder realized he knew almost nothing about history. But he wanted to learn, so the actor spent a year reenacting it. This book is Schroeder's account of the time he spent chasing Celts in Arkansas, raiding a Viet Cong village in Virginia, and flirting with frostbite en route to "Stalingrad" in Colorado. Along the way, he illuminates just how much the past can teach us about the present.--From back cover.
Download or read book DK Illustrated Book of Great Adventurers written by Richard Platt and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1999 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the true-life adventures of 30 unique human beings such as Marco Polo and Amelia Earhart.
Download or read book No Stopping Us Now written by Gail Collins and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beloved New York Times columnist "inspires women to embrace aging and look at it with a new sense of hope" in this lively, fascinating, eye-opening look at women and aging in America (Parade Magazine). "You're not getting older, you're getting better," or so promised the famous 1970's ad -- for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated relationship with aging: embrace it, deny it, defer it -- and women have been on the front lines of the battle, willingly or not. In her lively social history of American women and aging, acclaimed New York Times columnist Gail Collins illustrates the ways in which age is an arbitrary concept that has swung back and forth over the centuries. From Plymouth Rock (when a woman was considered marriageable if "civil and under fifty years of age"), to a few generations later, when they were quietly retired to elderdom once they had passed the optimum age for reproduction, to recent decades when freedom from striving in the workplace and caretaking at home is often celebrated, to the first female nominee for president, American attitudes towards age have been a moving target. Gail Collins gives women reason to expect the best of their golden years.
Download or read book Ancient Adventures written by Jimmy Lynn and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coloring Edition is finally here! You've never seen these EPIC Bible stories portrayed like this before! Join us on an exciting journey through ancient times and discover some of the most famous adventures from the bible.
