Author: Bradley Mill Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1669887995 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 191
Book Description
Autobiographical fiction, the story of ‘Boy’. Take a journey with a young lad from birth, through the years of World War 2, his early boyhood and his transition to the teenage years. Hear his voice as you make this journey with him; the period is the 1940s and early 50s and what one boy experiences on a day to day basis. His trials, of which there are many, his highlights of which there are some, his friends, one in particular, a boy, called Clive, who stands beside him through all his travails. Meet the parents, the neighbours, the good boys and the bad boys, the good girls and the bad girls, the life and the pulse of the street. Hear him tell of his maturing from boy into teenager and the problems he encounters. How will he cope, when his parents shift him from his normal environment and his beloved long grass?
Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1466803924 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 321
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As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it—leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer. Based on Capstick’s own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grassportrays the great killers of the African bush—not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world—underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.
Author: Heath J. Worboys Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1452562563 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
Starik, a wanderer on the plains of Eros, is desperate to find his own path, after suffering horrendous disfigurement as a child at the hands of a murderous king. He now wears the scars of a lost man, an orphan of the world he once knew, as he travels alone amongst the islands of his world. The wanderer wears a metallic limb, gifted to him from a demented merchant, in order to forge something better of himself than the wretched beast he was becoming. By chance, as the wanderer is rescuing a distraught teenage girl, he is charged by an obese monk with a sacred prophecy to save his planet. Starik comes to realize that fate has conspired in his favour, as his quest would lead him back towards the king who stole his family, his childhood, and left him a morsel of his former self... With the assistance of a mysterious teenage girl, a blind monk, and his elusive friend, Starik will face the snow-capped mountain ranges, the deserts, and the savage Lone Sea to destroy the fortified city of Kerr for the Gods he serves.
Author: Frank Gee Patchin Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3387037236 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 266
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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author: Ali Smith Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0307279758 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
Filled with the bestselling, award-winning author's trademark wordplay and inventive storytelling, here is the dizzyingly entertaining, wickedly humorous story of a mysterious stranger whose sudden appearance during a family’s summer holiday transforms four variously unhappy people. Each of the Smarts—parents Eve and Michael, son Magnus, and the youngest, daughter Astrid—encounter Amber in his or her own solipsistic way, but somehow her presence allows them to see their lives (and their life together) in a new light. Smith’s narrative freedom and exhilarating facility with language propel the novel to its startling, wonderfully enigmatic conclusion.
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