Ordered to Naples after the battle of Trafalgar, Ramage and the Calypso are given fresh orders. The Barbary Coast pirates, the Saracens, are active in Sicily again, and terrorizing fishing ports. Ramage and his crew are sent to Sicily to track...
The Brazos Devil is a smelly, seven-foot-tall mankiller--half-man, half-bear, and all hair. It tore four men limb from limb. It kidnapped the wife of the richest man in Cottonwood Springs. And it gave Longarm's prisoner a powerful scare. But is...
"The Baudelaire orphans looked out the grimy window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get better," begins The Miserable Mill. If you have been introduced to the three...
“Dirk Pitt is oceanography’s answer to Indiana Jones,” praises the Associated Press. “Exotic locations, ruthless villains and many narrow escapes—Cussler’s fans come for swashbuckling [and] he delivers.”
And now the Cusslers bring...
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The trailsman protects a passel of prairie pioneers
Skye Fargo runs across a wagon train being “guarded” by some low-down men in the employ of one Victor Gore—a man who makes his money at others'...
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains" by Isabella L Bird (1831 — 1904) represents a series of the author’s letters to her sister, written during her journey to Colorado. In a six-month period of time she covered over a thousand miles alone,...
Set in a remote corner of Wiltshire, Mordon research centre is not a pretty place. From the surrounding road you come to double fences of barbed wire. They are 15 feet high, sloping at the top, and patrolled at night by armed guards with...
In September 1804, England stands alone against France and the fleets of Spain, daily expecting an invasion. Entrusted with an urgent mission for the King, Vice-Admiral Richard Bolitho hoists his flag above the veteran seventy-four-gun ship...