The author of the phenomenally selling Riding the Iron Rooster presents his own choice selection of his best travel writing. "There are those who think Theroux is the finest travel writer working in English. This collection can only enhance that...
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В результате произошедшего землетрясения на виду у английского торгового судна появился неизвестный...
There lay the caravan, a crumbled, blackened ruin. The story was told even by the smoldering remnants of the wagons. There had not been time to curl the train into a perfect circle. The danger struck too quickly after the first warning. While the...
Jake Dillon, in his inaugural adventure thriller, is brought into the headquarters of Ferran & Cardini under the pretense of investigating a Cabinet Minister's sunken cruiser and its compromising cargo. At the bottom of the English Channel,...
"The Last Encounter" is a short story by C. S. Forester, the final chapter in the life of his fictional naval hero, Horatio Hornblower. It was published together with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis and another short story,...
The Curse of...
The East Indies spice trade in the early part of the 19th century provides the setting for this exciting novel. Packed with rich period detail, peopled with a fascinating cast of characters, BLACK SPICE makes action-filled reading from the first...
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The Grand Canyon has been hiding an explosive secret for over a hundred years. But is the closely-guarded cavern filled with Egyptian artifacts his true target… or is his real objective something far more incredible — something that can only be...
“Iron Dust,” an eight-part serial, was Frederick Faust’s fourth contribution to Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine. It appeared under his George Owen Baxter byline, beginning in the issue for January 15, 1921, and is in book form as...
The fourth book in the Nathaniel Drinkwater series
In The Bomb Vessel, a young Captain Nathaniel Drinkwater is given command of the old VIRAGO, to be sent to the Baltic as a cargo ship. Drinkwater's ambition is to turn VIRAGO back into a...