The Mountain of Light

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451643527
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mountain of Light by : Indu Sundaresan

Download or read book The Mountain of Light written by Indu Sundaresan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally bestselling author of The Twentieth Wife, a novel based on the tumultuous history of a legendary 186-carat diamond—originating in India—and the men and women who possessed it. As empires rose and fell and mighty kings jostled for power, its glittering radiance never dimmed. It is the “Mountain of Light”—the Kohinoor diamond—and its facets reflect a sweeping story of love, adventure, conquest, and betrayal. Its origins are the stuff of myth, but for centuries this spectacular gem changes hands from one ruler to another in India, Persia, and Afghanistan. In 1850, the ancient stone is sent halfway around the world where it will play a pivotal role in the intertwined destinies of a boy-king of India and a young queen of England—a queen who claims the Mountain of Light and India itself for her own burgeoning empire, the most brilliant jewels in her imperial crown. The Mountain of Light is a magnificent story of loss and recovery, sweeping change and enduring truth, wrapped around the glowing heart of one of the world’s most famous diamonds.

Chasing the Mountain of Light

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Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250098777
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Chasing the Mountain of Light by : Kevin Rushby

Download or read book Chasing the Mountain of Light written by Kevin Rushby and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed at and occasionally lost, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to please young Queen Victoria. It now lies in the Tower of London where some say its curse controls the fate of the Windsor family. In Chasing the Mountain of Light, Kevin Rushby pursues the dramatic career of the Koh-i-Noor on a journey to the heart of Indian culture meeting dealers, smugglers, and petty crooks along the way. It's another adventure from Rushby whom the Washington Post recently compared to William S. Burroughs and Arthur Rimbaud.

Mountain Light

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ISBN 13 : 9780871563675
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book Mountain Light written by Galen A. Rowell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique artistic vision of Galen Rowell, one of the world's greatest photographers, is presented in these spectacular landscapes. "The viewer's first reaction to these photographs is awe--they are sheer magic".--Publishers Weekly. 80 color photos.

Koh-i-Noor

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635570778
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Book Synopsis Koh-i-Noor by : William Dalrymple

Download or read book Koh-i-Noor written by William Dalrymple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the internationally acclaimed and bestselling historians William Dalrymple and Anita Anand, the first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond, arguably the most celebrated jewel in the world. On March 29, 1849, the ten-year-old leader of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab was ushered into the magnificent Mirrored Hall at the center of the British fort in Lahore, India. There, in a formal Act of Submission, the frightened but dignified child handed over to the British East India Company swathes of the richest land in India and the single most valuable object in the subcontinent: the celebrated Koh-i-Noor diamond, otherwise known as the Mountain of Light. To celebrate the acquisition, the British East India Company commissioned a history of the diamond woven together from the gossip of the Delhi Bazaars. From that moment forward, the Koh-i-Noor became the most famous and mythological diamond in history, with thousands of people coming to see it at the 1851 Great Exhibition and still more thousands repeating the largely fictitious account of its passage through history. Using original eyewitness accounts and chronicles never before translated into English, Dalrymple and Anand trace the true history of the diamond and disperse the myths and fantastic tales that have long surrounded this awe-inspiring jewel. The resulting history of south and central Asia tells a true tale of greed, conquest, murder, torture, colonialism, and appropriation that shaped a continent and the Koh-i-Noor itself.

The Mountain Made of Light

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Publisher : Tarcher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mountain Made of Light written by Edward Myers and published by Tarcher. This book was released on 1992 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy.

Beautiful on the Mountain

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Publisher : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 1414395965
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful on the Mountain by : Jeannie Light

Download or read book Beautiful on the Mountain written by Jeannie Light and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you enjoyed the classic novel Christy and the bestselling Mitford series, then you’ll love Beautiful on the Mountain, a real-life tale about serving God in unlikely circumstances. In 1977, Jeannie Light left her fine plantation home amid heartbreak and came to Graves Mill, a tiny hamlet in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Alone in an utterly new kind of life, Jeannie was determined to find the courage to make a fresh start. To Jeannie’s surprise, she found herself called upon by her new neighbors to open the old, deteriorated country church, a place that had once united the fractured community of mountain folk. With no training, and no small amount of trepidation, she undertook the task. And as she embarked on an unforeseen series of adventures, from heartbreaking to hilarious, Jeannie would learn more than she ever expected about faith, loving your neighbor, and doing the work that God sets in front of you. Because sometimes, God calls us to go where there is no path . . . and leave a trail.

Paths of Light and Darkness

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Publisher : Summit University Press
ISBN 13 : 1932890009
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (328 download)

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Book Synopsis Paths of Light and Darkness by : Mark Prophet

Download or read book Paths of Light and Darkness written by Mark Prophet and published by Summit University Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cornerstone of metaphysical literature explores a cornucopia of topics important to every spiritual seeker.

The Twentieth Wife

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743428187
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (281 download)

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Book Synopsis The Twentieth Wife by : Indu Sundaresan

Download or read book The Twentieth Wife written by Indu Sundaresan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Mehrunnisa, the daughter of servents who became the an empresses of the Mughal empire.

The Light in the Forest

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400077885
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Book Synopsis The Light in the Forest by : Conrad Richter

Download or read book The Light in the Forest written by Conrad Richter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.

Lights on the Mountain

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Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1640602097
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Lights on the Mountain by : Cheryl Anne Tuggle

Download or read book Lights on the Mountain written by Cheryl Anne Tuggle and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, loss, and the memory of an otherworldly encounter haunt the days and nights of a Pennsylvania dairy farmer. Barely old enough to vote when he loses his parents in an accident and inherits the family farm, Jess Hazel struggles to find meaning in the life he has always loved. Unable to shake the memory of a strange light he has seen hovering on the mountain peak above his valley home, he embarks on a pilgrimage, a halting inner odyssey riddled with fits and false starts. Like the creek which cuts through the Allegheny foothills of its Western Pennsylvania setting, hope runs through every chapter of this novel. The beauty of the story lies in the unlikely people Jess encounters along the way, transmitters of a grace which at first hounds, then quietly eludes. Through events both tragic and joyous, Jess is led on a journey of self-discovery through ancestral sin, unexpected love, loss, holiness, compassion, forgiveness and redemption.

Mountain Light

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0064406679
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Book Synopsis Mountain Light by : Laurence Yep

Download or read book Mountain Light written by Laurence Yep and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1997-02-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their families fought one another for generations, maintaining an age-old blood feud. But that changed when they found themselves on the same side of a new struggle against the tyrannical Manchu dynasty. By devoting himself fully to the revolution, Squeaky Lau wins Cassia's trust -- and her heart. But winning Cassia's love is not enough. Now Squeaky must prove his worth as a man -- to Cassia, to his villa village, and most importantly, to himself. And the only way he can do that is by giving up everything he has worked for and traveling to the Land of the Golden Mountain, the place foreign demons call America.

Light in the Mountain Sky

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Publisher : Misty M. Beller Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light in the Mountain Sky written by Misty M. Beller and published by Misty M. Beller Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This epic journey may seal her fate forever. Determined to prove her worth, Meksem fiercely fought to earn her place among the warriors in her Nez Perce camp. When her half-sister is captured by an enemy tribe, she refuses to trust the rescue to anyone else. But her new friends insist on joining her mission, and she battles between relief and frustration at their presence. Especially the white man who peers at her as if he can see through the face of the warrior she struggles so hard to maintain. Spaniard Adam Vargas thrives on adventure wherever his travels take him. He’s fallen in love with this Rocky Mountain wilderness, as well as the spotted horses the Nez Perce tribe raise. His fascination with this Indian maiden-turned-warrior catches him off guard though, including the way she seems to be fighting for more than her sister’s safe return. The journey proves more perilous than any of the group expects, and the secret Meksem hides becomes impossible to conceal. If they live through this mission, the life they knew will never be the same again. From a USA Today bestselling author comes another epic journey through breathless landscapes and intense adventure.

To Light a Candle

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Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1429931167
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis To Light a Candle by : Mercedes Lackey

Download or read book To Light a Candle written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Outstretched Shadow, which was named by VOYA as Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror book for 2003, Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory introduced readers to The Obsidian Trilogy and a complex new fantasy world populated by humans, centaurs, elves, talking unicorns, and demons. The Golden City of the Bells, where only humans live, is ruled by the Mage Council, practitioners of High Magic---a powerful magic that is stable and reliable, though rigidly controlled and performed only by men. Outside the City's walls, humans and magical beings mix freely and call upon Wild Magic---a system sometimes erratic, always driven by desire and need, and performed by both men and women. Now, in To Light a Candle, the Demon Queen sends her forces against her human and elven enemies, sowing distraction and death. In the human City, the Queen's agents work to divide the Council and foment rebellion among the City's citizens. In the countryside, they target the most vulnerable and valuable---the young Elf Prince and the Wild Mages who might be the Demons' most dangerous enemies. To his own surprise, young Kellen, once the disappointing son of the great Mage who leads the City's Mage Council, has become a powerful Knight-Mage. Valued for his bravery and his skills as both wizard and warrior, Kellen joins the Elves' war councils. Yet he cannot convince the City of his birth that it is in terrible danger. Kellen's sister Idalia, a Wild Mage with great healing ability, has pledged her heart to Jermayan, a proud Elven warrior. Someday Idalia will pay a tragic Price for a world-saving work of Wild Magic, but until then, she will claim any joy life can offer her. Jermayan, who has learned much while fighting at Kellen's side and loving the human Idalia, finds that everything changes when he Bonds with a dragon while rescuing the Elf Prince and becomes the first Elven Mage in a thousand years. Furious at her enemies' success with the dragon, the Demon Queen attacks in force. Light struggles against Dark, like flickering candle flames buried deep in the shadow of Obsidian Mountain. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Mountain of Light

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis A Mountain of Light by : Austin Coates

Download or read book A Mountain of Light written by Austin Coates and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes account of acquisition of turbo-alternators from Dawson City, p.72-74.

Silence on the Mountain

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822333685
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis Silence on the Mountain by : Daniel Wilkinson

Download or read book Silence on the Mountain written by Daniel Wilkinson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

Rancho Cucamonga

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738575001
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Rancho Cucamonga by : Paula Emick

Download or read book Rancho Cucamonga written by Paula Emick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains near the southern end of the Cajon Pass, Rancho Cucamonga has served as a natural crossroads for those traveling to and from Southern California. In 1776, while freedom was being declared on the east coast of North America, Spanish explorers were meeting native Cucamonga Indians for the first time. From that point on, Spanish missionaries, pioneers, gold miners, immigrants, settlers, and businessmen traveled through Cucamonga on the Mojave Trail, the Old Spanish Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, El Camino Real, and more recently, former U.S. Route 66. While some continued on, others stayed and built farms, vineyards, and more. Italian immigrants, attracted by stories of Cucamonga's ideal soil and climate, planted vast vineyards of Italian grape stock and produced many world-famous wines. Although Cucamonga's heyday of grapes and winemaking spanned a century, little wine is produced today. Now Rancho Cucamonga attracts people as an excellent place to live. Money magazine placed it in the top 100 in its "Best Places to Live" rankings in 2006.

Light on the Mountain

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ISBN 13 : 9781946956354
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Light on the Mountain written by John S. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: