The adventures of an intelligence agent in Yorkist England. Alianore tells the true story of Richard III – but don't look here for a conventional historical...
A tale of strange adventures, befalling Tod Moran, mess boy of the tramp steamer "Araby," upon his first voyage from San Francisco to Genoa, via the Panama canal.
Teenaged Tod goes in search of his missing older brother. He takes a job as a cabin...
Following the disastrous rule of Stephen (1135-1154), who could neither inspire loyalty to control his friends and family, nor successfully subdue his opposition, King Henry II (1154-1189) ascended to the throne. Seen as the founder of English...
Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire’s son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner–only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schooner. Thus begins the boy’s second voyage into the rugged rites and ways of sailors. Like all Kipling’s...
In 1465 the Scottish Quentin Durward set of to France, because the Duke of Burgundy wants that countess Isabelle marries with Durward's uncle. Once there he himself falls in love with Isabelle, no much interested in the quarrel between the Duke...