This is the first novel in a trilogy that follows the fortunes of Arn Magnusson. Born in 1150 to an aristocratic family, Arn is taught the best of spiritual and worldly learning. When he grows up, he joins the Knights...
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Автор: Lambdin Dewey
Серия: alan lewrie #19
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
Статус: Закончена
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In 1805, with news of Admiral Nelson's death fresh on his mind, Captain Lewrie's HMS Reliant joins up in the voyage that will culminate in the Battle of Cape Town, in which the British wrested control of South Africa from the Dutch. In the wake...
Автор: Lambdin Dewey
Серия: alan lewrie #20
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
Статус: Закончена
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The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. His frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he’s living at his father’s estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he’s recovering from a wound suffered in...
Автор: Lambdin Dewey
Серия: alan lewrie #21
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
Статус: Закончена
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In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding...
This book, subtitled "An Interlude" is a longish short story in Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewrie Napoleonic war...
Автор: Cussler Clive
Серия: Fargo Adventure #7
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
Статус: Закончена
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There are many rumors about the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Some say it was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and...
Four people on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada find more adventure than they ever imagined. Each of them is drawn to the mountains for reasons as diverse as their own lives. Gwen Foster, a counselor for at-risk youth, is struggling with...
Eleven charming, delicate sketches of diplomatic life in service of the crown.
After decades spent representing Britain around the globe, Antrobus has earned a shirtful of medals and the right to pass afternoons in his London club, musing over...
Although Durrell spent much of his life beside the Mediterranean, he wrote relatively little about Italy; it was always somewhere that he was passing through on the way to somewhere else. Sicilian Carousel is his only piece of extended writing on...
A pair of lectures from one of the twentieth century’s most mesmerizing speakers.
Lawrence Durrell was in his early twenties when, tired of the stiffness of London life, he took his family to live in Corfu. Interwar Greece, whose hard beds and...