Author : Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Dakota Territory
ISBN :
A narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism on the boundless Dakota prairie, as a Norwegian-American immigrant family passed through Ellis Island and worked to eke out a living in America's midwest.
Author : Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0063308347
“The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.”—The Nation O. E. Rolvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains—a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America Based in part on Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s own recollections as well of those of his wife’s family who were immigrant homesteaders, Giants in the Earth is the riveting story of a Norwegian family forging a new life amid the harsh, desolate climate of the Dakota Territory. Rølvaag recounts the hardships they endured on the high prairie—blizzards, locust storms, poverty, hunger, loneliness, homesickness, and culture shock—as well as their simple joys, culminating in a magnificent epic that bridges Norwegian culture and the history of the American dream. "A moving narrative of pioneer hardship and heroism. . . . The background of the boundless Dakota prairie, with its mysterious distances and its capacity for evil, is painted with alternating beauty and grimness." —The Atlantic
Author : Zecharia Sitchin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,30 MB
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1591439574
The crowning work of the best-selling Earth Chronicles series • Reveals the existence of physical evidence of alien presence on Earth in the distant past • Identifies and describes the demigods, such as Gilgamesh, descended from these visitors • Outlines the tests of this physical evidence of alien presence that could unlock the secrets of health, longevity, life, and death In whose genetic image were we made? From his first book The 12th Planet on, Zecharia Sitchin has asserted that the Bible’s Elohim who said “Let us fashion The Adam in our image and after our likeness” were the gods of Sumer and Babylon--the Anunnaki who had come to Earth from their planet Nibiru. The Adam, he wrote, was genetically engineered by adding Anunnaki genes to those of an existing hominid, some 300,000 years ago. Then, according to the Bible, intermarriage took place: “There were giants upon the Earth” who took Adam’s female offspring as wives, giving birth to “heroes of renown.” With meticulous detail, Sitchin shows that these were the demigods of Sumerian and Babylonian lore, such as the famed Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh as well as the hero of the Deluge, the Babylonian Utnapishtim. Are we then, all of us, descendants of demigods? In this crowning oeuvre, Zecharia Sitchin proceeds step-by-step through a mass of ancient writings and artifacts, leading the reader to the stunning Royal Tombs of Ur. He reveals a DNA source that could prove the biblical and Sumerian tales true, providing conclusive physical evidence for past alien presence on Earth and an unprecedented scientific opportunity to track down the “Missing Link” in humankind’s evolution, unlocking the secrets of longevity and even the ultimate mystery of life and death.
Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101543558
Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .
Author : Jeff Campbell
Publisher : Zest Books ™
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 154158189X
Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, and there is only one likely reason for that: the evolution and arrival of the earth's only tool-wielding hunter, the wildly adaptive, comparatively pint-sized human species. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures—including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk—have vanished since our world became truly global. Last of the Giants chronicles those giant animals and apex predators pushed to extinction in the modern era. The book also highlights those giant species that remain—even though many barely survive, living in such low numbers that they are on the brink of leaving this world within the next few decades. However, there is hope, for many endangered species can still be saved. As it profiles each extinct and endangered animal, Last of the Giants focuses on the conservation efforts that are trying to preserve the world's remaining charismatic species before they are lost forever.
Author : Sterner St. Paul Meek
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465559329
Author : Bob Mitchell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 2016-10-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781539697282
The Bible, the book of Enoch and other ancient texts speak of the Giants that ruled the earth many years ago. The Nephilim; the Titans and so on. Were they real or are the stories, a vehicle we can use to entertain and scare children? Did all traces of the Giants of long ago vanish as new civilisations rose and fell, burying the graves and the memories of the Giants further below the surface. America is, relatively speaking, a new country. As the settlers moved Westward and dug into the soil did they discover the remains of the Giants that once ruled the land before the settlers and even the native American Indians arrived? This book presents reports from eye witnesses who, as they planted crops and built their homes discovered something they never expected or dreamed of finding; the remains of a race of gigantic humans who ruled the land long before they ever set foot on the continent.
Author : Ole Edvart Rølvaag
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781013591518
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Author : Mick Wall
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 33,21 MB
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429985615
The first significant fresh reporting on the legendary band in twenty years, built on interviews with all surviving band members and revealing a never-before-seen side of the genius and debauchery that defined their heyday. Veteran rock journalist Mick Wall unflinchingly tells the story of the band that pushed the envelope on both creativity and excess, even by rock ‘n' roll standards. Led Zeppelin was the last great band of the 1960s and the first great band of the 1970s—and When Giants Walked the Earth is the full, enthralling story of Zep from the inside, written by a former confidante of both Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Rich and revealing, it bores into not only the disaster, addiction and death that haunted the band but also into the real relationship between Page and Plant, including how it was influenced by Page's interest in the occult. Comprehensive and yet intimately detailed, When Giants Walked the Earth literally gets into the principals' heads to bring to life both an unforgettable band and an unrepeatable slice of rock history.
Author : Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania Staff
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Bible stories
ISBN : 9789707870437
