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The story of one man's search for people from his past and the moral dilemma it produces for him.

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Jack and Susan Riordan return to their farm. However, he retains his commission in the army reserve. On an exercise in northern Australia, he encounters pirates and frees a ship they had captured. The pirate leader, a Muslim extremist, vows vengeance. He pursues Jack to the USA, where his attempt at terrorism fails.Back in Australia, Jack and Susan fight drought and falling markets until they finally triumph and established a farming dynasty.B...

Since seeing his first photographs of Stonehenge as a young boy living in northern California, Patrick has been fascinated by the standing stones of Europe. His first actual experience of walking among the stones did not occur until 1986, when he was in his mid 30's. Over the following years he continued to make return trips and his passion for them, and his desire to understand them, grew stronger with each visit.Megalithic stone monuments ar...

“[Patrick K. Ford’s] style is fluent and follows a careful line that avoids archaisms on one hand and modern idioms on the other. . . . [A book for] the general reader and for university classes.”—Western Folklore “Ford has made a useful contribution in this book, which will not only be readable for undergraduates but hopefully will help keep alive this fascinating body of narratives.”—The Journal of American Folklore

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Hans is an old soldier, a refugee from post-war Germany. Patrick Riordan befriends him and learns his story. When the old man is arrested and charged with war crimes in the camps in Poland, Patrick and his father Jack set off for Europe to find his missing sister to prove his identity. Meanwhile, the real criminal has been living in Florida. He flees after being recognised by a camp survivor and goes to ground. In Europe, a group of old ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

The story of Jack Riordan, who served in two wars, acquired a sawmill and finally, the farmland he always craved. A fabulous story of pioneering spirit, bravery, hard work and the support of a loving family.

Patrick and Michael ('young Jack') go on a hiking trip to Europe with their girlfriends. They stumble upon a lost cache of WW2 gold and set in motion a chase across Germany, where they uncover a blackmail attempt on the USA by a former Stasi General. They are captured and escape and help the CIA andf the Germans to avoid the threat.

Excerpt from Criminal History of the British Empire The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) was itself an infamy, as It was secretly negotiated, after the fashion of conspirators, Mr. Gardner says, and after the preliminaries had been secretly agreed upon, they actually communicated a false copy of them to the Dutch, their allies. England obtained the largest share of the material advantages of the peace, whilst she lost credit by her ill faith in conce...