Download or read book Tarzan and the Leopard Men written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amnesiac Tarzan and his monkey companion Nkima are taken by an African warrior to be his guardian spirits, and as such come into conflict with the murderous secret society of the Leopard Men, led by Gato Mgungu.
Download or read book The Tarzan Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs written by David A. Ullery and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-04-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who recognize that the original Tarzan is a literary creation of Edgar Rice Burroughs understand that the exploits of Tarzan are best explored through the magical medium of the printed word. Readers can experience a journey that lasts through 24 books and wanders not only into the jungle depths but farther down through the Earth's crust into the savage prehistoric land of Pellucidar. Also covered is the long out of print The Tarzan Twins as well as the recent Tarzan, the Lost Adventure and The Eternal Savage. This book serves as a literary guide to all the Tarzan novels. Section One provides an overview of Tarzan the character, including a list of the many names and titles used by and given to Tarzan; Section Two covers the mythical language used in the novels, including a dictionary of the ape language; Section Three enumerates the lost cities, civilizations, tribes, peoples and religions discovered by Tarzan, detailing their religious rites and locations; Section Four describes the characters (human and otherwise) found in the novels; and Section Five gives summaries of all 24 books that comprise the Burroughs canon. The book also includes over thirty illustrations from the series' various printings.
Download or read book The Stranger written by Jenifer Jennings and published by Peacock Press. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebekah must choose between her family’s future and the offer of an uncertain path. The demanding work of shepherding consumes Rebekah’s days, but when she returns home to winter her flock, the nightmares of her childhood come back to haunt her. After a tragic injury leaves her father unable to lead, he entrusts her with the responsibility of training her younger brother, Laban, to take his place. Will Laban rise to the challenge, or will the future of their family rest in unsteady hands? When a mysterious stranger offers her a different path, Rebekah faces a choice: stay and support the family that depends on her or follow someone she barely knows into an uncertain future. Walk with Rebekah as she grapples with faith, family, and the unknown in The Stranger, Book 1 of The Rebekah Series.
Download or read book Daughters of the Inquisition written by Christina Crawford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Mommie Dearest explores WomanSpirit through the ages, from the Neolithic Goddess to the Inquisition to present day. Breaking free of the emotional wreckage of her childhood and a devastating illness that challenged her physically, emotionally, and spiritually, Christina Crawford sought out an indomitable and innate inner source of power. Upon reconnecting with the very essence of the female spirit—that which unites all daughters throughout time—Crawford decided to pursue and discover its “herstory.” Drawing on years of research, she explores every aspect of the evolution of womanhood over the past ten thousand years: culture, government, religion, professions, laws, customs, family, fashion, marriage, commerce, art, industry, and sexuality. Charting the trajectory of female communion, Crawford delves into the Goddess culture of the Neolithic period, in which self-sovereign women governed, built empires, and were deified; explores the Inquisition in which women were demonized, brutalized, and erased from history; and celebrates the rebirth of the WomanSpirit and its influence over generations on the Western world. Both an enlightening journey and an invaluable reference, Daughters of the Inquisition is a testament to the rise, endurance, survival, and lasting impact of the WomanSpirit—its givers of life, its queens, and its warriors.
Download or read book Leopard written by Desmond Morris and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sleek, spotted leopard may be the smallest of the big cats, but its ferocity and solitary style makes lions and tigers seem puny in comparison. Lacking the social mentality of other animals, the leopard is stealthy and selfish, ambushing its prey and carrying it high into a tree where it can dine alone. Humans call leopards the “perfect predator." In Leopard, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris seeks to show all sides of the cat, delving into the fascinating history of these incredible animals. Morris examines the leopard’s athletic elegance, predatory skill, wary shyness, and cunning intelligence while also exploring the animal’s parental devotion, preference for solitude, and capacity for revenge. In addition to tracing the evolution of leopards, he considers how humans have related to the animal throughout history. Leopards, he shows, have long featured in the art, mythology, and folklore of ancient Greece, Persia, Rome, and even England, where they have not lived for several millennia. But humans and leopards do not always coexist peacefully; as Morris explains, leopards have been known to attack humans when their food is scarce or they are injured. He reveals how humans have exploited the cats, attempting to train them for circus roles, and how today some people are now making strides toward the leopard’s conservation. He also describes their rich symbolism, appearances in literature and film, and the use of the leopard print in both haute couture and down-market fashion. Packed with compelling images of this amazing animal in action, Leopard sheds new light on these gorgeous cats.
Download or read book Lawino s People written by Okot p'Bitek and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2019 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okot p'Bitek's epic poem, Song of Lawino, debates Acholi customs around the time that Uganda became independent. This book presents seminal anthropological works from that period by p'Bitek himself and by Frank Girling, who was researching among the Acholi when p'Bitek was a teenager. They were both introduced to anthropology in Oxford by Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, and they both faced difficulties writing up their fieldwork. Girling, a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, was a suspected communist activist, and was expelled from Uganda in 1950. Against the odds, he managed to complete his doctorate, but the Colonial Office demanded cuts to the published version. Okot p'Bitek is a famous African creative writer, but his engaging anthropological studies have been unjustly neglected. He found academic ideas about Africans taught at Oxford misconceived and offensive. He rejected established analytical approaches and, consequently, the university failed his doctorate in 1970."
Download or read book Hadon of Ancient Opar written by Philip José Farmer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic fantasy novel a warrior sets out to win a deadly contest to rule a prehistoric empire—and take the hand of its beautiful priestess. The lost city of Opar was first introduced to readers in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Hidden deep in Africa, it is a place shrouded in mystery and awash with incredible riches. In Hadon of Ancient Opar, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Philip José Farmer reimagines this forgotten land, revealing the heroes who lived in its prehistoric golden age . . . A poor young man of great ambition, Hadon leaves his village to enter the great games of Klakor—a bloody contest in which only the strongest and most cunning warrior will survive. He seeks the ultimate prize: to rule the Khokarsan Empire alongside the powerful High Priestess. But his quest for the throne leads him beyond the empire’s edge, where he finds himself embroiled in civil war.
Download or read book The Princess and the Rogue in the Tears of Hathor written by Richard J Johnson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A princess and a thief meet in the desert and go on a magical quest to find the Tears of Hathor. At the beginning of time, the Egyptian god Horus was blinded by his jealous brother and fell in pain on the Island of Flames in the Sea of Chaos. Hathor, the goddess of beauty, found Horus and cried, shedding tears that fell on Horus and brought back his sight. The Tears still exist, dripping from a large turquoise eye deep in a cave. Whoever can find the Tears will be freed of all curses and evil.
Download or read book European and African Stereotypes in Twentieth Century Fiction written by Sarah L.Milbury- Steen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-06-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Isle of Woman written by Piers Anthony and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Xanth novels: An epic drama of two souls whose tragedies and triumphs span human history. Piers Anthony’s Isle of Woman is a monumental epic of unprecedented drama and scope, retelling the saga of humankind in a unique and dramatic way. The culmination of more than a quarter century of research, it is a stunningly ambitious achievement from a master of imaginative fiction. At once grand in scope and intimate in human detail, Isle of Woman tells the story of a man and a woman born at the dawn of human history, separated by fate, yet united by an unquenchable passion that even time could not conquer: Blaze, the fire worker who raised his kind of savagery, and Ember, the beautiful green-eyed woman who forever haunted his dreams. Through their eyes and those of their descendents, we witness humanity’s odyssey from savagery to civilization as they are reborn again and again throughout history. We share with these two eternal lovers an unforgettable odyssey of triumph, tragedy, and discovery that takes them from the African savannah to the ancient Middle East, from the South Pacific to the caves of northern Europe, from the court of imperial China to India during the British Raj, ending in a stunning reunion in an America in ruins only a few short years from now.
Download or read book The Secret History of Dreaming written by Robert Moss and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreaming is vital to the human story. It is essential to our survival and evolution, to creative endeavors in every field, and, quite simply, to getting us through our daily lives. All of us dream. Now Robert Moss shows us how dreams have shaped world events and why deepening our conscious engagement with dreaming is crucial for our future. He traces the strands of dreams through archival records and well-known writings, weaving remarkable yet true accounts of historical figures who were influenced by their dreams. In this wide-ranging, visionary book, Moss creates a new way to explore history and consciousness, combining the storytelling skills of a bestselling novelist with the research acumen of a scholar of ancient history and the personal experience of an active dreamer.
Download or read book What is this Thing Called Sunsum written by Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, African scholarship has stressed the importance of regional oral traditions in academic learning. With this broad knowledge base in African studies, significant categories of socio-religious learning have been closely studied. This volume focuses on the notion of "spirit" as understood by the Akan people of West Africa.
Download or read book Terradon Prime written by J. Maxwell Cross and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine being ripped from a life of bad decisions and transposed on an alien world without any memory of your past. Our hero vanished in front of fellow investigators to discover a renovated body, the heart of a leopard, and insight that penetrates the soul. On Terradon Prime, he crawls from a pond and encounters a feral race of inhabitants, adopting the title, the Mandagral. Meanwhile, on Earth, his forgotten life spins out of control under the investigation of his disappearance. The secret's out! Three hurdles stand between him and his future: finding his lost identity, his alter ego, and two all-too-familiar antagonists. Disoriented and resentful, yet fearlessly, he begins his journey of self-discovery with the help of an oracle, who shares a kindred spirit. Will his mysterious guide help him to recover his memory without reproducing the same heartbreaking chain of tragic events that mislead him the first time? On top of all his challengers, he must resolve three intimate relationships. The mysterious and complex race against time is on.
Download or read book Opportunity written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hundred Choice Selections written by Phineas Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Speaker s Garland and Literary Bouquet written by Phineas Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hundred Choice Selections written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
