He knows that he is Giles Dennison of Hampstead, but that is the only thing he knows for sure. He wakes up one morning in an Oslo hotel and the face in the mirror is not his own. This is only the beginning of an adventure in which he is trapped,...
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Three Englishmen, marooned on a mysterious South Sea island, learn of the islanders’ powerful god Oro, who has been sleeping for 250,000 years. They manage to wake him, along with his beautiful daughter, who is the spitting image of the hero’s...
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...
Set during the 19th century when emigrants were leaving England to settle in Australia, and of a young man, Jim Robbins, who set out on the ship, the Sardis, which founded in the estuary of the Thames River. Jim was one of the few survivors of the...
In this thrilling tale of danger and adventure, young Harry joins his father, the famous Alan Quatermain, on a hunt for lions deep in Africa. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable...
HOURS later, and every hour like the weighty length of a day, Kildare was saying: "Next, please!" when Mary Lamont answered: "That's the end of the line for today."He shook his head at her impatiently. "There are twenty more people out there!" he...
Джонатан Свифт – блестящий писатель-сатирик и один из самых проницательных умов английской литературы XVIII века. Его тетралогия...
Edge #2. Ten Grand: Most of the heroic figures in the stories of our early days as a nation were known for their ideals and sense of honor. Not Edge. Most heroes give their enemy a sporting chance. Not Edge. Respectful to ladies? Kind to animals?...
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,...
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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...