Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
A Duel Of Giants
Download A Duel Of Giants full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online A Duel Of Giants ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Download or read book A Duel of Giants written by David Wetzel and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining impeccable scholarship and literary elegance, David Wetzel depicts the drama of machinations and passions that exploded in a war that forever changed the face of European history.
Book Synopsis In the Days of Giants by : Abbie Farwell Brown
Download or read book In the Days of Giants written by Abbie Farwell Brown and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,-the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and pleasant, but winter is a terrible time of cold and gloom; where rocky mountains tower like huge giants, over whose heads thunder rolls and crashes, and under whose feet are mines of precious metals."--p.1-2.
Download or read book A Duel of Nations written by David Wetzel and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 19, 1870, Emperor Napoleon III of France declared war against the Prussia of King William I and Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck. This book depicts the world in which that war took place. In this study of the diplomatic history of the Franco-Prussian War, the author draws extensively on private and official records, journalistic accounts, cabinet minutes, and public statements by key players to produce a book that is unmatched in the range and clarity of its analysis, its characterizations, and its vivid language. -- Description from book cover.
Book Synopsis The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature by : Tina Marie Boyer
Download or read book The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature written by Tina Marie Boyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Giant Hero in Medieval Literature Tina Boyer counters the monstrous status of giants by arguing that they are more broadly legible than traditionally believed. Building on an initial analysis of St. Augustine’s City of God, Bernard of Clairvaux’s deliberations on monsters and marvels, and readings in Tomasin von Zerclaere’s Welsche Gast provide insights into the spectrum of antagonistic and heroic roles that giants play in the courtly realm. This approach places the figure of the giant within the cultural and religious confines of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and allows an in-depth analysis of epics and romances through political, social, religious, and gender identities tied to the figure of the giant. Sources range from German to French, English, and Iberian works.
Book Synopsis When Giants Ruled the Sky by : John J. Geoghegan
Download or read book When Giants Ruled the Sky written by John J. Geoghegan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Sky is the story of how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going despite the obstacles thrown in their way – until the Navy deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first time, what really happened can be revealed.
Book Synopsis New Times and Old Rhymes by : Charles Larcom Graves
Download or read book New Times and Old Rhymes written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Girl Giant and the Monkey King by : Van Hoang
Download or read book Girl Giant and the Monkey King written by Van Hoang and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debut author Van Hoang comes Girl Giant and the Monkey King, a tale packed with magic, adventure, and middle-school woes—perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Roshani Chokshi. Eleven-year-old Thom Ngho is keeping a secret: she’s strong. Like suuuuper strong. Freakishly strong. And it’s making it impossible for her to fit in at her new middle school. In a desperate bid to get rid of her super strength, Thom makes a deal with the Monkey King, a powerful deity and legendary trickster she accidentally released from his 500-year prison sentence. Thom agrees to help the Monkey King get back his magical staff if he'll take away her strength. Soon Thom is swept up in an ancient and fantastical world in where demons, dragons, and Jade princesses actually exist. But she quickly discovers that magic can’t cure everything, and dealing with the trickster god might be more trouble than it’s worth. Kirkus Best Book of 2020
Book Synopsis Undaunted Courage by : Stephen E. Ambrose
Download or read book Undaunted Courage written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by PREMIER DIGITAL PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson's hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the heart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis' lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it -- wild, awsome, and pristinely beautiful. Undaunted Courage is a stunningly told action tale that will delight readers for generations. In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis was the perfect choice. He endured incredible hardships and saw incredible sights, including vast herds of buffalo and Indian tribes that had had no previous contact with white men. He and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Ambrose has pieced together previously unknown information about weather, terrain, and medical knowledge at the time to provide a colorful and realistic backdrop for the expedition. Lewis saw the North American continent before any other white man; Ambrose describes in detail native peoples, weather, landscape, science, everything the expedition encountered along the way, through Lewis's eyes. Lewis is supported by a rich variety of colorful characters, first of all Jefferson himself, whose interest in exploring and acquiring the American West went back thirty years. Next comes Clark, a rugged frontiersman whose love for Lewis matched Jefferson's. There are numerous Indian chiefs, and Sacagawea, the Indian girl who accompanied the expedition, along with the French-Indian hunter Drouillard, the great naturalists of Philadelphia, the French and Spanish fur traders of St. Louis, John Quincy Adams, and many more leading political, scientific, and military figures of the turn of the century. This is a book about a hero. This is a book about national unity. But it is also a tragedy. When Lewis returned to Washington in the fall of 1806, he was a national hero. But for Lewis, the expedition was a failure. Jefferson had hoped to find an all-water route to the Pacific with a short hop over the Rockies-Lewis discovered there was no such passage. Jefferson hoped the Louisiana Purchase would provide endless land to support farming-but Lewis discovered that the Great Plains were too dry. Jefferson hoped there was a river flowing from Canada into the Missouri-but Lewis reported there was no such river, and thus no U.S. claim to the Canadian prairie. Lewis discovered the Plains Indians were hostile and would block settlement and trade up the Missouri. Lewis took to drink, engaged in land speculation, piled up debts he could not pay, made jealous political enemies, and suffered severe depression. High adventure, high politics, suspense, drama, and diplomacy combine with high romance and personal tragedy to make this outstanding work of scholarship as readable as a novel.
Book Synopsis The Buried Giant by : Kazuo Ishiguro
Download or read book The Buried Giant written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Book Synopsis An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary by : William Adolphus Wheeler
Download or read book An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary written by William Adolphus Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Blood Shards of a Shattered Destiny by : Austin Smith
Download or read book Blood Shards of a Shattered Destiny written by Austin Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jace had the prince in his hand and was seconds away from slaughtering the last member of the royal bloodline who had for so long oppressed or killed people like Jace. Now he had the power to stop it. Jace wanted to see the eyes of the prince as his soul was drained, but thats when he saw somethingsomething different. In this boys eyes he saw something that he used to see in himself. Jace dropped the prince, turned on his heel, and started to walk away. As he walked, the remaining blood of the slain swirled around him as its power entered him. He had to think. Something was wrong. He created a portal from the remaining blood that he didnt suck power from, and before he entered, he turned to the prince. I am Jace. I am no god, but a mortal, and with that he stepped into the portal.
Book Synopsis David and Goliath by : Malcolm Gladwell
Download or read book David and Goliath written by Malcolm Gladwell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell, no.1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw, takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates how we misunderstand the true meaning of advantage and disadvantage. When does a traumatic childhood work in someone's favour? How can a disability leave someone better off? And do you really want your child to go to the best school he or she can get into? David and Goliath draws on the stories of remarkable underdogs, history, science, psychology and on Malcolm Gladwell's unparalleled ability to make the connections others miss. It's a brilliant, illuminating book that overturns conventional thinking about power and advantage. 'A global phenomenon... there is, it seems, no subject over which he cannot scatter some magic dust' Observer
Book Synopsis Saga Six Pack 4 by : Peter Christen Asbj¿rnsen
Download or read book Saga Six Pack 4 written by Peter Christen Asbj¿rnsen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saga Six Pack 4 presents a sizzling sextet of Scandinavian super-sagas: In The Days of Giants - A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown; Saga of Halfdan the Black by Snorri Sturluson; True and Untrue by George Webbe Dasent; Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and his Brothers Eystein and Olaf by Snorri Sturluson; King Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. Whistler and Little Annie the Goose-girl by Peter Christen Asbjornsen."
Author :Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science) Publisher :Simon and Schuster ISBN 13 :1787552608 Total Pages :508 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (875 download)
Book Synopsis Norse Myths & Tales by : Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science)
Download or read book Norse Myths & Tales written by Flame Tree Studio (Literature and Science) and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curated new Myths and Tales. Lively, stark and formidable, the imagery of Norse mythology storms through this classic collection. The fierce glory of Odin, Frey, Loki and their fellow gods of Asgard are featured here with all the great adventures, from Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, to the endings of Ragnarok. And from the fabled Bifrost to the forging of Thor’s hammer, each Viking legend is riven with a vitality that speaks to us still. The latest title in Flame Tree's beautiful, comprehensive series of Gothic Fantasy titles, concentrates on the ancient, epic origins of modern fantasy.
Book Synopsis Asatru: The Old Ways for Today by : Robert Sass
Download or read book Asatru: The Old Ways for Today written by Robert Sass and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Sass has been studying and practicing Heathenry for twenty years. The goal of this book is to educate Heathens on ""how to do"" Heathenry, based on a historical perspective first. How to do Sumble and Blot based on historical passages, as well as educating Heathens on the various Germanic Heathen calendars that survived from the 8th, 9th, and 10th centuries. Truly bringing the Old Ways into Heathenry based on solid research, as oppossed to just saying ""We do the Old Ways."" If this book does not have at least ten times as many historical sources, Edda, and Saga passages quoted than any other Asatru 101 book on the market, I will be most disappointed. I quote sources left and right. Studying where our Ancestors left off is essential.
Download or read book Norse Mythology written by Nolan Lested and published by Top Notch International LTD. This book was released on with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entrigued by the allure of Norse Mythology? Feeling lost amidst the enthralling yet intricate tales and legends? Looking for a guide that navigates with both clarity and enthusiasm? Embark on a journey where mystery and knowledge entwine, providing you with a clear path through the enchanting fog of ancient stories and legends. I've listened to the silent whispers and loud roars of enthusiasts' curiosities and confusions, crafting a guide that illuminates the captivating realms of Norse mythology in a way that’s accessible, engaging, and deeply satisfying for all. Why This Guide is Your Mythological Companion: • 🔥 CRAFTED WITH PASSION: This isn’t merely a guide; it’s a carefully woven tapestry of tales and insights born from a personal exploration and deep love for the mystical world of Norse mythology. • ⚡ DESIGNED FOR YOUR CURIOSITY: Addressing the questions enthusiasts often wonder about, this guide translates the enchanting myths into accessible chapters filled with adventure and age-old wisdom. • 🛡️ NAVIGATE SAFELY: More than tales, this guide acts as your shield and compass through the expansive and treacherous landscapes of Norse mythology, offering expert navigation and insightful guidance. • ⚔️ DISCOVER HIDDEN TREASURES: Venture through both renowned and obscure tales, all intuitive, engaging, and rich with profound insights and thrilling discoveries. • ⚓ SAIL AT YOUR OWN PACE: Whether you're a novice or seasoned adventurer, navigate through the sagas at your own pace, with expert guidance every step of the way. • 📚 EXPLORE BEYOND THE GUIDE: Norse mythology is boundless; let this guide open doors to additional resources and tales, continually fueling your curiosity and deepening your understanding. With dedication, scholarly expertise, and a spirited passion for ancient tales, the "Norse Mythology Guide" is not just a book; it's a gateway to a realm waiting to be explored. Ready to embark on an enthralling adventure through the captivating world of Norse Mythology, without losing yourself in its maze? Click the “Buy Now” button and begin your mythological journey today!
Book Synopsis Season of Shattered Dreams by : Eric Vickrey
Download or read book Season of Shattered Dreams written by Eric Vickrey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one of the most significant and overlooked seasons in professional baseball, told through the travails of the Spokane Indians On June 24, 1946, a bus carrying the Spokane Indians baseball team crashed to the bottom of a deep ravine in Washington state’s Cascade mountains, killing nine players. To this day, it remains the deadliest accident in the history of American professional sports. In Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything, Eric Vickrey details the series of events that occurred before, during, and after the heartbreaking accident. Vickrey chronicles the often-overlooked impact that the end of World War II had on the major and minor leagues, now crowded with players returning from military service. The Spokane Indians were no exception, with several top prospects and former big leaguers arriving that season. The journeys of three Spokane players in particular—Vic Picetti, Ben Geraghty, and Jack Lohrke—reveal the impact of the war on players’ lives, the struggles of a minor-league career, and the devastating impact of that catastrophic crash. The Spokane Indians were not your average minor-league team, and though their story has been largely forgotten with time, it is one that deserves to be told. Featuring original interviews, as well as letters and photos from the personal collections of players and their families, Season of Shattered Dreams offers incredible insight into one of the most singular seasons in professional baseball.
