The Fateful Journey

Author : Robert Joost Willink
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789089643520

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The Fateful Journey by Robert Joost Willink Pdf

Bold, headstrong, and fabulously wealthy, Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1834–1869) made several excursions into the African interior, often accompanied by her mother, at a time when very few European women traveled. The Fateful Journey follows her trip with German zoologist Theodor von Heuglin, which took them through Egypt and Sudan in search of adventure and unknown regions in Central Africa.. Drawing upon four years of research in the Tinne archives, and including never before published correspondence, photographs, and other documents, Robert Joost Willink presents a compelling account of their journey and its tragic ending. This exciting volume not only sheds light on Tinne's life and times, it also offers captivating insights into the world of European adventurers in the 19th century. An enthralling mix of adventure and careful scholarship, The Fateful Journey creates a powerful portrait of Alexine Tinne throughout her life, from her start as a rich heiress in the Netherlands to her end as the intrepid explorer who risked—and lost—everything on a daring, doomed quest.

Author : Margaret Lovell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1391535049

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Fateful Journey by Margaret Lovell Pdf

Author : Tony C. Mobley
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456058159

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Brother Rabbit and the Tar Baby A Fateful Journey Through Life by Tony C. Mobley Pdf

Tony C. Mobley is an entrepreneur who still lives in Gary, Indiana. Music has been a passion of his for a very long time, and he has decided to spend most of his time developing this craft. Nowadays, you will find him writing songs in his music room. If you would like him to speak at your school, you can reach him at (219) 885-1058 or by email at [email protected]

Author : Robert Joost Willink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sudan
ISBN : OCLC:1202982796

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Author : Frankye Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Donner Party
ISBN : 0972262466

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The Fateful Journey of Tamsen Donner by Frankye Craig Pdf

The compelling story of the Donner Party comes to life in tragedy and horror in The Fateful Journey of Tamsen Donner. In the spring of 1846, the Donner and Reed families pointed their wagons west and pushed off across the American continent where few white men had gone before. They make a fateful decision to leave the established trail and become trapped in deep snow in the mountains. Subjected to months of unimaginable hardship and suffering, half the party perishes before rescuers finally reach them. By putting Tamsen Donner at the center of the saga, author Frankye Craig gives an exceptional poignancy to this tale of people pushed to the limits of survival.

Author : Markar Melkonian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786739537

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My Brother's Road by Markar Melkonian Pdf

What do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native California he was once a kid in cut-off jeans, playing baseball and eating snow cones. Europe denounced him as an international terrorist. His adopted homeland of Armenia decorated him as a national hero who led a force of 4000 men to victory in the Armenian enclave of Mountainous Karabagh in Azerbaijan. Why Armenia? Why adopt the cause of a remote corner of the Caucasus whose peoples had scattered throughout the world after the early twentieth century Ottoman genocides? Markar Melkonian spent seven years unravelling the mystery of his brother's road: a journey which began in his ancestors' town in Turkey and leading to a blood-splattered square in Tehran, the Kurdish mountains, the bomb-pocked streets of Beirut, and finally, to the windswept heights of Mountainous Karabagh. Monte's life embodied the agony and the follies bedevelling the end of the Cold War and the unravelling of the Soviet Union. Yet, who really was this man? A terrorist or a hero? "My Brother's Road" is not just the story of a long journey and a short life, it is an attempt to understand what happens when one man decides that terrible actions speak louder than words.

Author : Thomas M. Myers,Christopher C. Becker,Lawrence E. Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Boating accidents
ISBN : 1884546021

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Fateful Journey by Thomas M. Myers,Christopher C. Becker,Lawrence E. Stevens Pdf

Author : John Textor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 097737100X

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Phoenix by John Textor Pdf

Author : Frankye Craig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Donner Party
ISBN : 0979490413

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The Donner Party by Frankye Craig Pdf

The Donner Party journey and entrapment in a format that brings the historical characters to life for the reader. The book covers the day to day experiences and decisions that led the group to their ultimate fate, becoming trapped in the mountains of California.

Author : Joseph R. Graziano
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938223570

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Fateful Journey by Joseph R. Graziano Pdf

Bob Owens, an ambitious man with an ominous past, will stop at nothing to stay at the top. He soon hatches a plan to intercept perhaps the most important news that has ever broken in the medical world--news of a chemotherapy drug that has successfully treated cancer in people. When Owens enlists the help of the easily distracted Jeff Marshall in his plan, everything begins to unravel. As Marshall seduces Jennifer's beautiful and naive secretary, Jennifer gets caught in the eye of the storm. Fateful Journey weaves together these lives, motives, and desires--some less admirable than others--into a treacherous web. Author Joseph Graziano captures a story of intrigue, romance, and murder set against a seemingly idyllic 1950s Northeastern town. His debut novel will leave you gasping at the twists involved in the characters' own fateful journeys.

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735222373

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The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Author : Antal Szerb
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906548506

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Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb Pdf

An early-twentieth-century classic — the turbulent, dreamlike story of a businessman torn between middle-class respectability and sensational bohemia “No one who has read it has failed to love it.” — Nicholas Lezard Mihály and Erzsi are on honeymoon in Italy. Mihály has recently joined the respectable family firm in Budapest, but as his gaze passes over the mysterious back-alleys of Venice, memories of his bohemian past reawaken his old desire to wander. When bride and groom become separated at a provincial train station, Mihály embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome, where he must reckon with both his past and his future. In this intoxicating and satirical masterpiece, Szerb takes us deep into the conflicting desires of marriage and shows how adulthood can reverberate endlessly with the ache of youth.

Author : Robert Sheckley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473207516

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Journey Beyond Tomorrow by Robert Sheckley Pdf

Tomorrow...and the day after. Citizens worship the Almighty Machine. Passion is a beatnik, love the new frontier. Both God and Satan have been driven underground. The insane are treated by making their delusions real. Jail is a place to break into. Government is lost in the mapless Octagon. And science has given birth to superstition. Where? In America. When? Less than forty years from today.' to 'Tomorrow... and the day after. Citizens worship the Almighty Machine. Passion is a beatnik, love the new frontier. Both God and Satan have been driven underground. The insane are treated by making their delusions real. Jail is a place to break into. Government is lost in the mapless Octagon. And science has given birth to superstition. Where? In America. When? Less than forty years from today.

Author : Hugh Brewster
Publisher : Scholastic Canada
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443119276

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I Am Canada: Deadly Voyage by Hugh Brewster Pdf

Historical fact and fiction blend in this riveting novel set aboard the Titanic. Fourteen-year-old Jamie Laidlaw is returning to Canada from England aboard the Titanic. In his four days on board, he busies himself with new friends, finding ways to explore the ship's forbidden areas, and generally landing himself in trouble. When disaster strikes and the horrifying scramble for survival ensues, Jamie is on the front lines — struggling to help free the lifeboats and get people on board them. When a huge wave washes over the ship's sloping deck, it's time for Jamie to take action — and take his fate into his own hands. With hundreds of others, he dives into the sea, hoping he will find a way to survive. Since its launch in Fall 2010, the I Am Canada series has been praised for its accurate and energetic exploration of fascinating moments in Canadian history, through the eyes of young men who lived through them. In Deadly Voyage, award-winning author and noted Titanic historian Hugh Brewster draws from his vast knowledge of that fateful journey to create an enthralling tale of historical fiction — the ultimate adventure, whose terrifying end we know all too well.

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Railroad accidents
ISBN : 0571216080

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The Last Journey of William Huskisson by Simon Garfield Pdf

From the author of Mauve comes a dramatic and hugely readable account of the day which saw the dawning of the railway age - and the first railway accident