"This small and admirable memoir records the experiences of a young Dutch student who spent a year and a half as a novice monk in aJapanese Zen Buddhist monastery. As might be expected, the author shows a deep respect for the teachings of Zen....
Allan and the Holy Flower is a 1915 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. It first appeared serialised in The Windsor Magazine. Brother John, who has been wandering in Africa for years, confides to Allan a huge and rare orchid, the...
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express, takes to the rails once again in this account of his epic journey through China. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and sets...
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,...
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...
**Fargo takes a ride straight into hell.**
Fargo is in no mood to talk when a wealthy freight baron tries to hire him to guide a valuable delivery through hostile Apache country. Then he meets the Frazier sisters: three wild, wanton, and...
**Skye Fargo vows to unveil a killer at a Kansas wedding …**
Skye Fargo likes a wedding just fine, as long as it isn't his own. And his friend, Jeb, sure knows how to throw a good party, with plenty of sousing and carousing. But just when the...
An extraordinarily beautiful Indian princess and a white Englishman fall in love but suffer deeply because of their feelings. Set mostly in Central America in the 1870s, this is one of Haggard’s more interesting romantic adventure novels in which...
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?...