Author : Amy Gordon
Publisher : Holiday House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780823426560
In this adventure-filled, middle-grade mystery, eleven-year-old Aiden and her friends aren't the only ones hot on the trail of gold stashed in the mysterious Ingle Building.
Author : Joshua Hammer
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 150119190X
A “well-written, engaging detective story” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him. On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a “vivid tale of obsession and international derring-do” (Publishers Weekly), following the parallel lives of a globe-trotting smuggler who spent two decades capturing endangered raptors worth millions of dollars as race champions—and Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom’s National Wildlife Crime Unit, who’s hell bent on protecting the world’s birds of prey. “Masterfully constructed” (The New York Times) and “entertaining and illuminating” (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative, part epic adventure—and wholly unputdownable until the very last page.
Author : Wilbur Smith
Publisher : Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 17,76 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1785765701
BOOK 1 IN THE BALLANTYNE SERIES BY INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH 'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King 'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times 'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' - Daily Mirror A DISHONOURABLE MAN. AN HONOURABLE MISSION. Dr Robyn Ballantyne has always worked hard for what she wants. Following in the footsteps of their father she and her brother, the celebrated soldier Zouga Ballantyne, depart England on an expedition to Africa, the land of their birth. Robyn is determined to bring an end to slave trading, while Zouga is certain that Africa will be the land that makes him, and determines to make his fortune there, whatever the cost. Manning the expedition is the notorious American merchant, Mungo St John. Robyn is deeply attracted to St John but is horrified to discover that he is a slave-trader, and that she is unwittingly travelling on a slave ship. Also vying for her love is the fanatical anti-slavery naval captain, Clinton Codrington. Kind and respectable, Codrington is deeply in love with Robyn, but despite herself she cannot return his feelings. As Robyn finds herself torn between the two men, she is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever, and which will shape the future for them all. The first book in the first sequence of the epic Ballantyne series Book 2 in the Ballantyne series, Men of Men, is available now.
Author : Robin S. Oggins
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 31,88 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300100587
Perhaps the equivalent of polo-playing today, the sport of falconry was the preserve of the wealthy and royalty, regarded as both a suitable and enjoyable leisure activity, and as a source of status and prestige.
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 41,93 MB
Release : 1852
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Current events
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Author : David Square
Publisher : Poppy Productions
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0978281802
Author : Christine Lilyquist
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art objects, Egyptian
ISBN : 1588390462
This book results from a collaborative effort to reconstruct the 15th-century BC tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III, discovered and robbed by villagers near Luxor in 1916. A general account was published by Herbert Winlock in 1948 (The Treasure of Three Egyptian Princesses, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). The present volume differs substantially in the type and extent of documentation provided and in interpretation. Verification is provided of tomb provenance for a number of objects, for example, while other objects previously thought to have come from the tomb are now considered forgeries. The text explores and documents the location of the tomb in the southwest valleys at Thebes; field work conducted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the site in 1988; art market finds alleged to have come from the tomb; and the names of the foreign wives and the life they might have led.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 21,4 MB
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338281787X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Amy Gordon
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9780439643122
While spending the summer before seventh grade with his aunt, Willy Wilson finds his first friends ever in the colorful characters who all love the neighborhood park owned by an eccentric old man.
