Beyond The Horizon

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625793140

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Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy.... But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man. And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. A secret cabal of revolutionaries who find utopia not just boring, but desperately in need of leaders who know just What Needs to be Done, are planning to revolt and put themselves in charge. Knowing of Hamilton's disenchantment with the modern world, they have recruited him to join their Glorious Revolution. Big mistake! The revolutionaries are about to find out that recruiting a superman is definitely not a good idea.... With an all new afterword by Tony Daniel. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Colin Angus
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 0385663641

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In June, 2004, Colin Angus left Vancouver on his bicycle. Nearly two years later, he rolled back in, looking like a castaway, and having completed the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. Angus cycled, skiied, and rowed a route that took him to Alaska, across the Bering Sea and the Siberian winter, across Europe from Moscow to Portugal, then across the Atlantic to Costa Rica-a 156-day rowing odyssey. From there it was a short 8,300 kilometre ride back to Vancouver. Along the way he burned through 4,000 chocolate bars, 72 inner tubes, 250 kgs of freeze-dried foods, 31 dorado fish (caught from the sea), 2 offshore rowboats, 4 bicycles, 80 kgs of clothing. And he showed the world that if he can travel 43,000 kilometres without polluting the planet, then the rest of us can get off our butts, and clean up our own acts. "We lay in the rowboat cabin as the seas swelled and the sky boiled like a devil's cauldron. Slanting yellow sun beams cut between black squalls, and corrugated cirrus clouds interlaced the remaining areas of blue. Huge anvil heads roiled and billowed, like slow-moving atomic explosions. Flashes of lightning illuminated the IMAX screen of the horizon. Such energy and volatility would have been breathtakingly beautiful, if we had been watching from nearly anywhere else, and if it weren't for the fact that it was all just a prelude to a killer storm. It was hard to believe that yet another tropical cyclone was heading our way. We had chosen the worst hurricane season in recorded history to make our five-month, 10,000 km unsupported rowboat crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. Now, two months into our voyage, it looked very likely our expedition might come to an abrupt end. Our voyage across the Atlantic was only a part of a much larger expedition: an attempt to complete the first human-powered circumnavigation of the planet. So far we had trekked, skied, cycled, canoed, and rowed non-stop across three continents and were half-way across our second ocean. Now, as I huddled in the dog-house sized cabin with my fiancée waiting for the Hurricane Epsilon to reach us, I cursed myself for ever believing I could achieve such an impossible quest." --From Beyond the Horizon

Author : Colin Angus
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0897329171

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"Beyond the Horizon will inspire as well as entertain you. As society finally realizes that decades of fast-and-easy transportation extract a heavy toll on our planet, Angus's quest is a triumph of spirit and a testament to simple human fortitude and perseverance in the face of obstacles that most of us can barely imagine."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Amma Darko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781837930494

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Beyond the Horizon is the heart-wrenching debut novel by award-winning author Ammo Darko, telling the tale of a young Ghanaian woman tricked into a life of exploitation by her husband. Mara stares in the mirror, searching for the woman she used to know. The sweet, innocent woman that was excited to marry the man her father chose for her, to start a family and live in a house of her own. But her husband had other plans. Determined to make his fortune in Europe, Mara's husband expects her to sacrifice everything to make his dreams come true – but the sacrifice is more than she could ever have imagined... Beyond the Horizon is a gripping and provocative story of the plight of African women, the lies they were sold about life in Europe, and the false hopes of those they leave behind.

Author : Bea Paige
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798626577907

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He arrived on a warm summer's day...Malakai Azaiah Dunbar, a loner whose home was the ocean I adored.I was eighteen, he was thirty-six.My foolish heart was stolen by a man who refused to accept I existed. A forbidden kiss sending him back into the arms of the ocean.I was nineteen. He was thirty-seven.He was changed. Cruel. Abrasive. Until he wasn't and I gave him something precious.I'm twenty. He's thirty-eight.Just like the ocean we both adore, Malakai is mysterious, tumultuous, dangerous and not to be tamed. Fear has kept us apart for too long, but I'm not afraid anymore. It's time to lay everything on the line. It's time to bring him home. **This is a standalone, age gap, contemporary romance with high heat levels and a love story that might just make you weep. Recommended for 17+ readers due to adult content and language.

Author : Eoin Lane
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982641566

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She points the lens of the camera. The artist turns his head slightly. The light catches his brow and his silver-white hair. She snaps. He is lit like a Vermeer. Ireland. County Wexford, 1951. A father and son go swimming in the sea. The waves crash. The wind rises. Only one comes back—Colin, aged six. His mother, Eileen, runs to seek help, but this is a tragedy that will haunt them forever. Colin won’t speak a word. He is mute and struggling to cope. But Eileen can see he has a talent for painting. She shows him his father’s artwork and gives him a print of a Paul Henry landscape, and slowly, with her encouragement, he begins to follow his dream. Years later on Inishbofin island off the west coast of Ireland, out walking with his dog on the sand, Colin meets Laura, a young woman on holiday, and a tentative friendship starts to develop. Gradually his past comes to life in a story filled with love and frustration, loss and betrayal, but above all with the passion he has held through his life for the light in the sea and the sky and his search for that distant shore where the sky sweeps down to the water. One man. The sea. One painting.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822201127

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THE STORY: The introspective and sensitive Robert falls in love with Ruth, who is engaged to his brother, Andrew; she marries Robert, and Andrew goes to sea. Ruth later discovers that her marriage has been a mistake and that she is still in love with Andr

Author : Madhu Vajpayee
Publisher : Sristhi Publishers & Distributors
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390441211

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Love Beyond The Horizon by Madhu Vajpayee Pdf

She was broken. He was lonely. Both were trying to emerge from the ruins of their past. Dr Avni, a first-year postgraduate student in medicine, was gathering the broken pieces of her heart, trying to find a new meaning for her life. Dr Aakash, a senior, was trying to lose himself in the chaos of the world, perhaps in his quest to find himself. Somewhere along the journey, they found each other. Their unconditional love washed away all their pain and seemed to open the path to eternal happiness. It appeared that they had finally found their destination until fate decided to throw a challenge where they had no choice but to let go. Despite that, she couldn't let go of her insecurities and fears, and he couldn't let go of her. Love Beyond the Horizon is a journey of love, longing, and loss; a story of unconditional love that transcends time; and of unfathomable destiny that has its own plans.

Author : Carolina Celas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 3899558405

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Just like the ungraspable horizon, each of us is limitless. Uncover the infinite potential of your imagination with Beyond the Horizon.

Author : Walter J. Boyne
Publisher : Saint Martin's Griffin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 031224438X

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Beyond the Horizons by Walter J. Boyne Pdf

Explores the many factors that led Lockheed from near bankruptcy in the 1930s to become one of the most successful and innovative aerospace corporations in the world

Author : Laurence Picq
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0312028717

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A former revolutionary gives the only Western account of the Cambodian regime of Pol Pot, one of the most brutal dictators in all history, and tells how her family was torn apart and her daughters indoctrinated Pol Pot's murderous henchmen

Author : Fred Brown Morrill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435018606988

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Author : John Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1803363479

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Author : Clifford Sather,Timo Kaartinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : 9517469853

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Society is never just a localised aggregate of people but exists by virtue of its mem-bers' narrative and conceptual awareness of other times and places. In Jukka Siikala's work this idea evolves into a broad ethnographic and theoretical interest in worlds beyond the horizon, in the double sense of "past" and "abroad". This book is a tribute to Jukka Siikala's contributions to anthropology by his colleagues and students and marks his 60th birthday in January 2007. By exploring the near, distant, inward and outward horizons towards which societies project their reality, the authors aim at developing a new, productive language for addressing culture as a way of experiencing and engaging the world.

Author : Christopher Many
Publisher : Delius Klasing Verlag Gmbh
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Motorcycle touring
ISBN : 3667105649

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Right Beyond the Horizon by Christopher Many Pdf

Christopher Many embarked on an overland trip in 1997, believing he'd spend no more than a year or two on the road. Well, that didn't quite work out as planned - 19 years have passed, and he's still somewhere out there, doing what he loves most: circumnavigating the globe with vehicles of questionable reliability in a quest to understand, through first-hand experience, what makes humanity tick . Right Beyond the Horizon tells the gripping tale of Christopher's latest voyage between 2012 and 2016: a motorcycle adventure from Germany to Australia, together with his partner Laura Pattara. Their modern-day odyssey follows the ancient Silk Road from Europe to Central Asia, then across the Pamir Mountains into China, where Christopher and Laura become the first overlanders with a foreign vehicle to obtain legal permission to transit the Middle Kingdom unescorted. Four years later they reach the harbour of Denpasar on the Indonesian island of Bali - the gateway to Australia and terminus of the classic trans-Asia overland route.