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Voyage to the City of the Dead

Author : Alan Dean Foster
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504084444

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From a #1 New York Times–bestselling author, a research expedition to an alien planet takes a treacherous turn for married scientists in this sci-fi fantasy. As the first humans granted permission to explore Tslamaina, Etienne and Lyra Redowl should have been ecstatic. The planet’s massive river valley is like no other in the known universe, with three intelligent species living along its waters—a dream expedition for the geologist–anthropologist duo. But the intolerable climate makes their research arduous, as does the growing tension between them. Fortunately, the husband-and-wife team are well prepared for their adventure, with a state-of-the-art hydrofoil and the assistance of the native inhabitants. But nothing could have prepared them for the dangers they encounter as they make their way to the river’s source. “One of the most consistently inventive and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy.” —The Times (London)

Voyage to the City of the Dead

Author : Alan Dean Foster
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345350618

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Sequels

Author : Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 793 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838909676

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Sequels by Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband Pdf

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Fantasy Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fantasy fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014747724

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Voyages and Travels

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : UCAL:$B807109

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A Voyage to Australia and New Zealand, Including a Visit to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter's River, Newcastle, Maitland, and Auckland

Author : John Askew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Australia
ISBN : OXFORD:N10547327

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A Voyage to Australia and New Zealand, Including a Visit to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter's River, Newcastle, Maitland, and Auckland by John Askew Pdf

Physical description of Aborigines in Adelaide area; death of white man by inserting emu bone into heart; natives near Newcastle; Jackey Jackey, who went with Kennedy.

The Voyage of the Rose City

Author : John Moynihan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679643814

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A gripping, beautifully told story of a young man’s coming-of-age at sea When John Moynihan decided to ship out in the Merchant Marine during the summer of his junior year at Wesleyan University, his father, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, was not enthusiastic: As a young man, before joining the U.S. Navy, Pat Moynihan had worked the New York City docks and knew what his son would encounter. However, John’s mother, Elizabeth, an avid sailor, found the idea of an adventure at sea exciting and set out to help him get his Seaman’s Papers. When John was sworn in, he was given one piece of advice: to not tell the crew that his father was a United States senator. The job ticket read “forty-five days from Camden, New Jersey, to the Mediterranean on the Rose City,” a supertanker. As the ship sailed the orders changed, and forty-five days became four months across the equator, around Africa, across the Indian Ocean, and up to Japan—a far more perilous voyage than John or his mother had imagined. The physical labor was grueling, and outdated machinery aboard the ship, including broken radar, jeopardized the lives of the crew. They passed through the Straits of Malacca three times, with hazardous sailing conditions and threats of pirates. But it was also the trip of a lifetime: John reveled in the natural world around him, listened avidly to the tales of the old timers, and even came to value the drunken camaraderie among men whose only real family was one another. A talented artist, John drew what he saw and kept a journal on the ship that he turned into his senior thesis when he returned to Wesleyan the following year. A few years after John died in his early forties, the result of a reaction to acetaminophen, his mother printed a limited edition of his journal illustrated with drawings from his notebooks. Encouraged by the interest in his account of the voyage, she agreed to publish the book more widely. An honestly written story of a boy’s coming into manhood at sea, The Voyage of the Rose City is a taut, thrilling tale of the adventure of a lifetime.

Voyage of the Dead

Author : David P. Forsyth
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1483957993

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Voyage of the Dead is the first book of the Sovereign Spirit Saga detailing the adventures of several groups of survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse. Most of them are aboard a ship that is well equipped to survive the end of civilization, while others struggle to survive in a world suddenly overrun by undead cannibals. This is a science fiction adventure set within a horror genre, full of blood, guts, violence and the human emotions that fuel our survival instincts. While some scenes include graphic violence, it is intended to be more exciting than disgusting and more about using your brains than eating them. Enjoy the ride! Book length is over 100,000 words. This is the first book of a series, followed by "Flotilla of the Dead" and "Deluge of the Dead" in the Sovereign Spirit Saga. "Without a doubt one of the better Zombie books." Anthony Wessel for The Kindle Book Review "This is one of those books that starts with a bang and I read waiting for the pace to slacken, except it doesn't. Too often, books of this kind start out with an action scene, and then we get chapters of backfill and descriptions of the soap opera-like travails of our characters. While Forsyth indeed fills in the characterizations, the key quality of this book is that most valuable in any kind of thriller--PACING." John S. Walsh "What a truly entertaining read. I started reading on Friday morning and couldn't put the book down until I finished. Not just your everyday, run-of-the-mill, ho-hum story of the apocalypse." -- 5 stars from Paul Jones, author of "Extinction Point" and "Towards Yesterday." "Gorey, pulpy, zombie fun! Basically it's the A-Team meets Battlestar Galactica meets The Walking Dead. If this were a show I'd watch it." -- 5 stars from Nathan Yocum, author of "The Zona." "The Walking Dead meets Battlestar Gallactica! This novel has all the ingredients for an epic series of books and would be great for television too. It's like a Star Trek of the Zombie Apocalypse." Tom McWilliams

Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites

Author : Marcel Mauss,Henri Hubert,Robert Hertz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317252603

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Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites by Marcel Mauss,Henri Hubert,Robert Hertz Pdf

Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Annee sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today's growing interest in and reinterpretation of Durkheimian thought on culture, religion, and symbolism. The central thrust in this new interpretive effort uses the Durkheimian theory of the sacred to understand the symbolism and meanings of cultural structures and narratives more generally. This book is vital to any contemporary collection emphasizing social theory.

Architecture for the Dead : Cairo's Medieval Necropolis

Author : Galila El Kadi,Alain Bonnamy
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774160746

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Architecture for the Dead : Cairo's Medieval Necropolis by Galila El Kadi,Alain Bonnamy Pdf

The great medieval necropolis of Cairo, comprising two main areas that together stretch twelve kilometers from north to south, constitutes a major feature of the city's urban landscape. With monumental and smaller-scale mausolea dating from all eras since early medieval times, and boasting some of the finest examples of Mamluk architecture not just in the city but in the region, the necropolis is an unparalleled--and until now largely undocumented--architectural treasure trove. In Architecture for the Dead, architect Galila El Kadi and photographer Alain Bonnamy have produced a comprehensive and visually stunning survey of all areas of the necropolis. Through detailed and painstaking research and remarkable photography, in text, maps, plans, and pictures, they describe and illustrate the astonishing variety of architectural styles in the necropolis: from Mamluk to neo-Mamluk via baroque and neo-pharaonic, from the grandest stone buildings with their decorative domes and minarets to the humblest--but elaborately decorated--wooden structures. The book also documents the modern settlement of the necropolis by families creating a space for the living in and among the tombs and architecture for the dead.

Voyage of the Damned

Author : Gordon Thomas,Max Morgan-Witts
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497658950

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The “extraordinary” true story of the St. Louis, a German ship that, in 1939, carried Jews away from Hamburg—and into an unimaginable ordeal (The New York Times). On May 13, 1939, the luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before World War II erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews—some had already been in concentration camps—who believed they had bought visas to enter Cuba. The voyage of the damned had begun. Before the St. Louis was halfway across the Atlantic, a power struggle ensued between the corrupt Cuban immigration minister who issued the visas and his superior, President Bru. The outcome: The refugees would not be allowed to land in Cuba. In America, the Brown Shirts were holding Nazi rallies in Madison Square Garden; anti-Semitic Father Coughlin had an audience of fifteen million. Back in Germany, plans were being laid to implement the final solution. And aboard the St. Louis, 937 refugees awaited the decision that would determine their fate. Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan Witts have re-created history in this meticulous reconstruction of the voyage of the St. Louis. Every word of their account is true: the German High Command’s ulterior motive in granting permission for the “mission of mercy;” the confrontations between the refugees and the German crewmen; the suicide attempts among the passengers; and the attitudes of those who might have averted the catastrophe, but didn’t. In reviewing the work, the New York Times was unequivocal: “An extraordinary human document and a suspense story that is hard to put down. But it is more than that. It is a modern allegory, in which the SS St. Louis becomes a symbol of the SS Planet Earth. In this larger sense the book serves a greater purpose than mere drama.”