GENERAL HISTORY AND COLLECTION OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, ARRANGED IN SYSTEMATIC ORDER: FORMING A COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION, DISCOVERY, AND COMMERCE, BY SEA AND LAND, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY...
Atlantis: for centuries the magic of that name has haunted man's imagination.
Now, an incredible expedition is being prepared. Its destination: the final resting place of the ancient gold-encrusted city – one mile beneath the surface of the...
On the last day of December 1921, three men sat down to a game of poker in the back room of an antiquities shop in Jerusalem: * Cairo Martyr an enigmatic black giant from Africa who controlled the supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust in the Middle...
"Hornblower and the Widow McCool" is a short story by C. S. Forester, featuring his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story, "The Last...
Jack Drumm, a dandified Englishman making The Grand Tour, finds himself stranded with his valet in the middle of the Arizona desert. His struggle to survive against the savage elements and raiding Apaches becomes a struggle to conquer, to prove...
On January the 22nd, 1945, a secret weapon of unimaginable power was brought from the quiet town of Haigerloch in Germany’s southwest, and loaded onto a plane waiting at Stuttgart.
Less than a dozen people knew of the weapon’s existence, and...
Ex-lawman Jack Shaw turned bad fast by going on a crime spree. Now Longarm has him cornered in a deserted cabin. Or does he? Seems Jack has all the water and ammo. Someone's gotta give, and the lesser man will be cooking the Devil's breakfast for...