This Accursed Land

Author : Lennard Bickel
Publisher : Canelo + ORM
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781800325487

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This Accursed Land by Lennard Bickel Pdf

Sir Edmund Hillary described Douglas Mawson’s epic and punishing journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland as ‘the greatest story of lone survival in polar exploration’. This Accursed Land tells that story; how Mawson declined to join Captain Robert Scott’s ill-fated British expedition and instead lead a three-man husky team to explore the far eastern coastline of the Antarctic continent. But the loss of one member and most of the supplies soon turned the hazardous trek into a nightmare. Mawson was trapped 320 miles from base with barely nine days’ food and nothing for the dogs. Eating poisoned meat, watching his body fall apart, crawling over chasms and crevices of deadly ice, his ultimate and lone struggle for survival, starving, poisoned, exhausted and indescribably cold, is an unforgettable story of human endurance. Grippingly told by Lennard Bickel, this is the most extraordinary journey from the brutal golden age of Antarctic exploration. Perfect for fans of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or Michael Palin’s Erebus.

Author : Sir Henry Edward Colvile
Publisher : London : S. Low, Marston ; Searle & Rivington
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Sinai (Egypt)
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5MS4

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The Accursed Land; Or, First Steps on the Water-way of Edom by Sir Henry Edward Colvile Pdf

Author : Henry Edward Colvile
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358608849

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The Accursed Land by Henry Edward Colvile Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ian Francis McLaren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : UVA:X002523638

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Australian Explorers by Sea, Land, and Air, 1788-1988 by Ian Francis McLaren Pdf

Author : Pierre Loti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UCD:31175007180733

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From Lands of Exile by Pierre Loti Pdf

Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300248852

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Accursed Tower by Roger Crowley Pdf

The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left this once great Mediterranean city a crumbling ruin.The ‘Accursed Tower’ was the focal point of this siege. As the last garrison of the Crusader defences, it came to symbolise the disintegration of the old world and the rise of a new era of Islamic jihad. Crowley’s narrative is based on forensic research, drawing heavily on little known first hand sources, both Christian and Arabic. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of a pivotal moment in world history.

Author : Edward Hayes Plumptre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600091773

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The Bible educator, ed. by E.H. Plumptre by Edward Hayes Plumptre Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:ajd9265:0001.001

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A Supplement to the Plays of William Shakspeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Dave Duncan
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497606029

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The Living God by Dave Duncan Pdf

The final volume in the Aurora Award–winning author’s epic fantasy series. “Duncan’s plots add up and his characters have personalities” (Kirkus Reviews). War had engulfed the whole world. The imposter imperor ruling in Hub was the tool of the paranoid and almighty sorcerer Xinixo, who wielded the combined power of thousands of sorcerer slaves. And yet, despite his seeming omnipotence, the pathetic few who resisted him were still at liberty, even making a little progress. Xinixo’s prime foe, Rap of Krasnegar, had rallied troll sorcerers to the cause and was about to try enlisting the incomprehensible elves. Fortunately, for his sanity, he did not know that his daughter, Kadie, had been carried off by goblin invaders or that his son, Gath, was heading for stark Nordland to deal with the fearsome jotnar, or that his wife, Inos, was in Guwash, negotiating with gnomes. Shandie, the rightful imperor, was with her, unaware that his wife, Impress Eshiala, believed him dead and had fled with Signifer Ylo, that notorious rake. And none of them knew about the sorcerers of Thume, especially the rebel pixie girl, Thaïle, who chafed against the secret binding of a thousand years. But the odds were still impossible and Longday was fast approaching. The sorcerers of the world foretold blood on Longday.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 6751 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547808213

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author) by William Shakespeare Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Comedies All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night or What You Will Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen The Winter's Tale Tragedies Romeo and Juliet Coriolanus Titus Andronicus Timon of Athens Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet Troilus and Cressida King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline Histories King John Richard II Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Richard III Henry VIII Poetry The Sonnets Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Passionate Pilgrim The Phoenix and the Turtle A Lover's Complaint Apocryphal Plays Arden of Faversham A Yorkshire Tragedy The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine Mucedorus The King's Son of Valentia, and Amadine, The King's Daughter of Arragon The London Prodigal The Puritaine Widdow The Second Maiden's Tragedy Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cromwell King Edward The Third Edmund Ironside Sir Tomas More Faire Em A Fairy Tale in Two Acts The Merry Devill of Edmonton Thomas of Woodstock The Life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 6753 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547390428

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Shakespeare collection: Comedies All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Twelfth Night or What You Will Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen The Winter's Tale Tragedies Romeo and Juliet Coriolanus Titus Andronicus Timon of Athens Julius Caesar Macbeth Hamlet Troilus and Cressida King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Cymbeline Histories King John Richard II Henry IV, Part 1 Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3 Richard III Henry VIII Poetry The Sonnets Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece The Passionate Pilgrim The Phoenix and the Turtle A Lover's Complaint Apocryphal Plays Arden of Faversham A Yorkshire Tragedy The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine Mucedorus The King's Son of Valentia, and Amadine, The King's Daughter of Arragon The London Prodigal The Puritaine Widdow The Second Maiden's Tragedy Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cromwell King Edward The Third Edmund Ironside Sir Tomas More Faire Em A Fairy Tale in Two Acts The Merry Devill of Edmonton Thomas of Woodstock The Life of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Author : Elizabeth Williams Champney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Animals
ISBN : IND:39000002764871

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Great-grandmother's Girls in New Mexico, 1670-1680 by Elizabeth Williams Champney Pdf

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062234360

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The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates Pdf

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damned Princeton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel town for genteel souls. But something dark and dangerous lurks at the edges of the town, corrupting and infecting its residents. Vampires and ghosts haunt the dreams of the innocent. A powerful curse besets the elite families of Princeton; their daughters begin disappearing. A young bride on the verge of the altar is seduced and abducted by a dangerously compelling man–a shape-shifting, vaguely European prince who might just be the devil, and who spreads his curse upon a richly deserving community of white Anglo-Saxon privilege. And in the Pine Barrens that border the town, a lush and terrifying underworld opens up. When the bride's brother sets out against all odds to find her, his path will cross those of Princeton's most formidable people, from Grover Cleveland, fresh out of his second term in the White House and retired to town for a quieter life, to soon-to-be commander in chief Woodrow Wilson, president of the university and a complex individual obsessed to the point of madness with his need to retain power; from the young Socialist idealist Upton Sinclair to his charismatic comrade Jack London, and the most famous writer of the era, Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain–all plagued by "accursed" visions. An utterly fresh work from Oates, The Accursed marks new territory for the masterful writer. Narrated with her unmistakable psychological insight, it combines beautifully transporting historical detail with chilling supernatural elements to stunning effect.

Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119247455

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Votes & Proceedings by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council Pdf

Author : Chicago Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Book catalogs
ISBN : UIUC:30112087486046

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Finding Lists of the Chicago Public Library, 1889-1895 by Chicago Public Library Pdf