Travels In The Labyrinth

Author : Marie Brennan
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466856981

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In the Labyrinth of Drakes by Marie Brennan Pdf

In the Labyrinth of Drakes, the thrilling new book in the acclaimed fantasy series from Marie Brennan, the glamorous Lady Trent takes her adventurous explorations to the deserts of Akhia. Even those who take no interest in the field of dragon naturalism have heard of Lady Trent's expedition to the inhospitable deserts of Akhia. Her discoveries there are the stuff of romantic legend, catapulting her from scholarly obscurity to worldwide fame. The details of her personal life during that time are hardly less private, having provided fodder for gossips in several countries. As is so often the case in the career of this illustrious woman, the public story is far from complete. In this, the fourth volume of her memoirs, Lady Trent relates how she acquired her position with the Royal Scirling Army; how foreign saboteurs imperiled both her work and her well-being; and how her determined pursuit of knowledge took her into the deepest reaches of the Labyrinth of Drakes, where the chance action of a dragon set the stage for her greatest achievement yet. The Lady Trent Memoirs 1. A Natural History of Dragons 2. The Tropic of Serpents 3. Voyage of the Basilisk 4. In the Labyrinth of Drakes 5. Within the Sanctuary of Wings At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Patrice Kindl
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547348049

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Lost in the Labyrinth by Patrice Kindl Pdf

“Kindl inventively meshes classical myths, archeological findings and imaginative speculation in an intriguing tale full of mystery and emotion.” —Publishers Weekly Last night I saw my sister, who is dead. She stood at the end of a long corridor, weeping. “Can it really be you, Ariadne, come back after all this time?” I whispered. She did not answer, but began slowly to sink through the floor. Princess Xenodice is content to spend her days tending to the animals in the royal menagerie, haunting the workshop of a beautiful young man named Icarus, and visiting her brother who lives in the Labyrinth. Her safe and privileged world, however, has ominous cracks underfoot. Soon battles for power and revenge threaten everything Xenodice loves. Betrayals from both within and without her family lead to a series of tragedies that Xenodice struggles to avert. From the deepest layer of the Labyrinth under the Royal Palace to the topmost floor of the prison tower, this enthralling version of the myth of the maze and the Minotaur by master storyteller Patrice Kindl is filled with the marvelous and the strange. “It’s Xenodice’s strong, appealing character that will get readers through the maze; her first-person narration brings the ancient setting vividly to life with rich detail and timeless emotions—sibling rivalry, heart-pounding crushes, moral outrage, and the pain of family secrets. An intriguing . . . blend of history, myth, and fiction.” —Booklist “Readers who know the legend will enjoy the parallels and contrasts that occur throughout, but the strong storytelling lets Xenodice’s tale stand on its own, as well.” —School Library Journal

Author : Buddy Levy
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250182203

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Labyrinth of Ice by Buddy Levy Pdf

National Outdoor Book Awards Winner Winner of the BANFF Adventure Travel Award “A thrilling and harrowing story. If it’s a cliche to say I couldn’t put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn’t put this book down.” —Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins “Polar exploration is utter madness. It is the insistence of life where life shouldn’t exist. And so, Labyrinth of Ice shows you exactly what happens when the unstoppable meets the unmovable. Buddy Levy outdoes himself here. The details and story are magnificent.” —Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Based on the author's exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region unmarked on global maps. Their goal: Farthest North. What would follow was one of the most extraordinary and terrible voyages ever made. Greely and his men confronted every possible challenge—vicious wolves, sub-zero temperatures, and months of total darkness—as they set about exploring one of the most remote, unrelenting environments on the planet. In May 1882, they broke the 300-year-old record, and returned to camp to eagerly await the resupply ship scheduled to return at the end of the year. Only nothing came. 250 miles south, a wall of ice prevented any rescue from reaching them. Provisions thinned and a second winter descended. Back home, Greely’s wife worked tirelessly against government resistance to rally a rescue mission. Months passed, and Greely made a drastic choice: he and his men loaded the remaining provisions and tools onto their five small boats, and pushed off into the treacherous waters. After just two weeks, dangerous floes surrounded them. Now new dangers awaited: insanity, threats of mutiny, and cannibalism. As food dwindled and the men weakened, Greely's expedition clung desperately to life. Labyrinth of Ice tells the true story of the heroic lives and deaths of these voyagers hell-bent on fame and fortune—at any cost—and how their journey changed the world.

Author : Adam Shoalts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735236844

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Beyond the Trees by Adam Shoalts Pdf

National bestseller A thrilling odyssey through an unforgiving landscape, from "Canada's greatest living explorer." In the spring of 2017, Adam Shoalts, bestselling author and adventurer, set off on an unprecedented solo journey across North America's greatest wilderness. A place where, in our increasingly interconnected, digital world, it's still possible to wander for months without crossing a single road, or even see another human being. Between his starting point in Eagle Plains, Yukon Territory, to his destination in Baker Lake, Nunavut, lies a maze of obstacles: shifting ice floes, swollen rivers, fog-bound lakes, and gale-force storms. And Shoalts must time his departure by the breakup of the spring ice, then sprint across nearly 4,000 kilometers of rugged, wild terrain to arrive before winter closes in. He travels alone up raging rivers that only the most expert white-water canoeists dare travel even downstream. He must portage across fields of jagged rocks that stretch to the horizon, and navigate labyrinths of swamps, tormented by clouds of mosquitoes every step of the way. And the race against the calendar means that he cannot afford the luxuries of rest, or of making mistakes. Shoalts must trek tirelessly, well into the endless Arctic summer nights, at times not even pausing to eat. But his reward is the adventure of a lifetime. Heart-stopping, wonder-filled, and attentive to the majesty of the natural world, Beyond the Trees captures the ache for adventure that afflicts us all.

Author : Rainer Neumann
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780615172255

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Labyrinth a Mythic Journey by Rainer Neumann Pdf

Two brothers travel through stories that define their lives - from a fairy tale to a future world. One is tying to evade his past while the other is trying to confront it. Emotional and historical memories merge as they journey through a labyrinth of different times, places and characters...

Author : J. P. Beaubien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681012332

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Aeon Legion by J. P. Beaubien Pdf

Time travel has made the Edge of Time a dangerous place. To protect the Edge of Time from the disastrous alterations of time travelers, the Aeon Legion seeks the greatest soldiers and warriors from the most bloody, war-torn eras in history. Those they deem worthy gain a chance to compete in the toughest training program ever designed. Terra Mason, a plain eighteen-year-old girl from the modern United States, has an impressive stubborn streak. Her persistence and bravery gains the notice and sponsorship of one of the Aeon Legion's greatest heroines. Now Terra must turn that stubbornness into determination if she is to contend with history's finest soldiers and somehow pass the Aeon Legion's final test, the mysterious Labyrinth. She will not quit. Terra will prove that even someone as average as her can still be a heroine. Hanns Speer is polite, good-natured, charming, a genius inventor of a time travel machine, and a dedicated member of the Nazi Party. Yet he cannot understand why people from the future regard him and his fellow Nazis as monsters. Now he must use his charisma and cunning to challenge the seemingly invincible Aeon Legion and its monopoly on time travel. He will not quit. Hanns will steal history itself if he has to, mistakenly believing it will prove him to be a hero.

Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781590173145

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Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson Pdf

Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson’s ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of the landscape itself, come alive in writing. It is a project that draws on the legacies of Thoreau and Joyce, to which Robinson brings his own polymathic gifts as cartographer, mathematician, historian, and, above all, shaper of words. In Pilgrimage Robinson walked the entire coast of Airann, largest of the Aran islands. In Labyrinth he turns in to the island’s interior. These two books—parts of an inseparable whole that can, for all that, be read quite separately from each other—constitute a vast polyphonic composition, at once encyclopedic and lyrical, scientific and surprisingly personal. Exploring the illimitable complexity and bounty contained in the seemingly limited confines of a single island, Robinson invites us to look without and within and to see the wonder of the world.

Author : Riva Zmajoki
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798374809480

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Labyrinth of Death by Riva Zmajoki Pdf

Moving about the universe you have little knowledge of isn't easiest of tasks. For a Detective Alyyes Fuegott, it's not easy to forfeit his hunches just because he's on a new planet. While trying to clear out the mess Alyyes made, Lordan Trenk will have some of his most intimate routines disturbed. Join Alyyes and Lordan as they find their way through the rest of their roundabout journey that is constantly challenging what they know about themselves. In the second book of Outer's saga, we'll visit Dentolyne and Luton while fending off suspicions of smuggling women.

Author : Sally Welch
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848256729

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A Labyrinth Prayer Handbook by Sally Welch Pdf

There is a rapidly growing group – church leaders and lay people alike - who are interested in the labyrinth as an aid to prayer and reflection and who appreciate this form of spirituality for its freedom and the unmediated space it offers. Many people on the fringes of mainstream church have found labyrinths to be a way to focus their prayers and explore their own spirituality in a non-judgemental and open setting. Following on from her introductory volume, Walking the Labyrinth, Sally Welch now offers an imaginative resource for all who use the labyrinth in their worship and spiritual practice. It includes ideas for using labyrinths in different settings, such as with children, those with learning difficulties, the elderly, in hospices, as part of a retreat and with seasonal emphases at different times of the year. It includes practical advice on how to create labyrinths in different settings and ideas for themed workshops and quiet days, suggestions for musical accompaniment and other aids.

Author : Sue Hodor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 088474101X

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Labyrinth by Sue Hodor Pdf

Author : Jonathan Raban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780601395

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Jonathan Raban, Arabia Through the Looking Glass by Jonathan Raban Pdf

Author : Arthur Ross Gallery,Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0812217748

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Travels in the Labyrinth by Arthur Ross Gallery,Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art Pdf

"A complete account of modern Mexican art."--Choice

Author : Alethea Kehas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0578400316

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The Labyrinth by Alethea Kehas Pdf

Six teens travel a magical labyrinth plagued by darkness where they must unlock their hidden gifts and learn to work together to repair the light within Earth. First, though, they must save themselves from their inner darkness and discover trust, the power of friendship and the strength of their individual light.

Author : Alex Bevan
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786839961

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Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism by Alex Bevan Pdf

Gothic tourism is a growing phenomenon and a medium through which Gothic fictions and folkloric tales are re-imagined and generated. This book examines the complex relationship between contemporary English Gothic attractions and storytelling, uncovering how works of Gothic fiction can both inspire Gothic tourism and emerge from the spaces of Gothic tourism, contending that Gothic tourist attractions are multi-layered storytelling experiences. Contributing to the study of literature and place, Gothic Literary Travel and Tourism draws together the study of literary Gothic tourism and spatial philosophy, offering interdisciplinary analysis into the interface between Gothic narrative(s) and the spaces in which the tourist navigates. The storytelling practices taking place in Gothic caves, theme parks, ghost tours and rural walks serve to reflect contemporary fears and anxieties. This book situates the act of touring a Gothic site as a process of literary and social discovery.

Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : SRLF:AA0012302451

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Travels by Bayard Taylor Pdf