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Jan Fisher, an American circus artist at the end of the nineteenth century, Raga the Sardon, living on the rocks at the coast of Albis, brought together to fight for the honor of the gods! A quarrel has erupted between the two kingdoms of heaven, Encore and Ultra. With no resolution in sight, the universe faces total destruction and collapse! The gods have decided to resolve their dispute using the mortal world: men of flesh and blood will hav...

Old Jacques, and young Vic, his grandson, share one passion - the history of Cro-Magon man and the Neanderthal tribes who once shared their territory in France. After a life of successful business ventures, Jacques decides to tell his grandson on how he became one of the wealthiest men in France.It has all to do with the mysterious way of life of the Neanderthal man.Earlier, old Jacques Poiron was an amateur archaeologist and discovered a cave...

In Silver and the Ghost Horse, Book 3 of Saladin series, Angie and her wonder horse Silver plunge into another dangerous adventure when a sly counselor and a giant soldier decide to destroy the camp of Robin Hood. The giant soldier, Buck Bains, and the counselor work with the evil Prince John to create a super army to find Angie, force her to bring them to the camp to arrest Robin Hood, and bring Angie and the two wonder horses, Saladin and S...

Prince John reigns over England now that his brother Richard Lionheart is not there. He exploits the people and wears Richard's crown. Everyone fears this mean prince except for men like Robin Hood and girls like Angie!Angie roams the country on the back of her wonder horse Silver and comes across the most odd persons. She runs into knight Rush and his little son Arthur, she meets a merry rat catcher and finally returns to the camp of Robin Ho...

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted. Despite these i...

First published in 1934, Burmese Days is a novel by George Orwell. Set in British Burma during the waning days of the Empire, it is "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." The story is based on Orwell's own experiences as a police officer in Burma. The main character of the novel is John Flory and he represents what is known as the "pukka sahib" who upholds British values and the British way of life. Flory is deliberately contrasted ...

A rollicking history of Australia's amateur scientists, from settlement to the present To the first European colonists, Australian wildlife was bewildering. Marsupials and gum trees seemed strange and hostile, rabbits, sheep and oak trees were familiar and safe. A bustling animal trade soon developed in both directions: foxes, starlings and other reminders of 'home' were unleashed on the Australian landscape, while countless Australian anima...

Trascrizione commentata del Testamento (1780) del Cardinal Gennaro Antonio de Simone, versione integrale dall'Archivio di Stato di Roma.

One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his critical eye to the sketches in Repin's studio. Tolstoy's criticisms would later prompt Repin to reflect on the question of creative expression and conclude that the path to artistic truth is relative, dependent on the mode and medium of representation. In this original stu...

Missionary Heroes in Asia are true stories of the Intrepid Bravery and Stirring Adventures of Missionaries with Uncivilized Man, Wild Beasts and the Forces of Nature. Written by John C Lambert, this book is a reprint of the 1910 edition. The contents of this book have been taken from the author's larger book entitled The Romance of Missionary Heroism. A remarkable account of faith and courage, it now ranks among the classics of missionary roma...

Nothing is what it seems in this new, exciting Koos Verkaik murder mystery - Heavenly Vision undoubtedly one of his masterpieces! A book collector of limited means comes across a 1745 Atlas of the Cape of Good Hope in a second-hand bookshop in Amsterdam. Once his historian friend lays eyes on it, he becomes very excited and life for Jan Glas is never the same again. Murder, mystery and intrigue will keep the reader guessing what is going on....