WARNING! This book is NOT for the faint-hearted reader!
It wasnt the way he was born or brought up. Something happened. Something that turned him, mind and soul, into a case-hardened man. His was a life shaped by death. He was a man alone,...
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The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux’s train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston’s subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to the arid plateau of Argentina’s most southerly tip,...
Природа и животные
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated the West as nothing more than a treasure chest of...
“I felt something alive moving on my left leg … when bending my Eyes downwards as much as I could. I perceived it to be a human Creature not six inches high.”
Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput,...
Marshal Long isn't looking to win any popularity contests - and standing up for the Ute Indians will make him pretty unpopular in the town of Snowshoe. To the tribe of Utes imprisoned in an abandoned mine shaft, he's the only protection they've got....
Allan Quatermain is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. The legend appears to be reality as Quatermain is to find out after arriving in Zululand and...
Hell Around the Horn is a nautical thriller set in the last days of the great age of sail. In 1905, a young ship’s captain and his family set sail on the windjammer, Lady Rebecca, from Cardiff, Wales with a cargo of coal bound for Chile, by way...
**In this Ralph Compton western, a man has two targets: the one he's looking for and the one on his back...**
Bighorn Point appears to be a quiet town. But when a stranger comes looking for a murderer, it turns out that not all the respectable...
Nada the Lily is the thrilling story of the brave Zulu warrior Umslopogaas and his love for the most beautiful of Zulu women, Nada the Lily. Young Umslopogaas, son of the bloodthirsty Zulu king Chaka, is forced to flee when Chaka orders his death....
Longarm's headed for a powwow with Chief Pocatello, to iron out a land deal. But along the way, he hooks up with a spirited Scotswoman, who claims to be hunting a kidnapping ring. Seems her countrywomen have been lured to the Wild West with promises...