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Author: Julian Stockwin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493075063
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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The 16th volume in the popular high-seas nautical adventure series featuring naval hero Thomas Kydd. The greatest naval trial in the Georgian period is underway at Portsmouth with the court-martial of Sir Home Popham, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd’s commanding officer in the doomed occupation of Buenos Aires. Kydd has sympathy for Popham’s unauthorized action but his support for his former commander leaves him athwart some very influential people in the Admiralty. With his frigate L'Aurore unfit for sea, Kydd is given a new commission that his rivals hope will destroy his career. The Tyger's have recently mutinied, but instead of dispersing her company around the fleet as is customary, the ship is pressed into immediate service in the North Sea and Kydd faces a crew still under some malign influence. Enemies aboard and on the high seas are just the start of the problem. Soon he will have to take his untested and untrustworthy crew into the Baltic, where they will find themselves entangled with Napoleon’s invasion of Prussia. The stakes are desperate, the task seemingly impossible, and the French implacable. The only way for Kydd to avoid disgrace is to gamble his reputation and crew on a crazy mission to snatch a Prussian division out of the jaws of Napoleon’s advancing army. Will he return home once more a hero or face a court-martial himself?

Author: Adrian Mitchell
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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A celebration of the life and works of William Blake.

Author: Stanley Gardner
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838635667
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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The first section of this book follows Blake out of the family haberdashery shop, where his parents tacitly and unwittingly shaped his future as a poet; then into (and out of) the custody of Basire, Moser, and the Medway militia. The book then turns back to the days of Samuel Pepys for the crowning of King Mob, and for the formulation of systems of social control, particularly directed at the young. Gardner traces the exploitation of children (both poor and "the better sort") through the century and Blake's familiar knowledge of the rescue of workhouse children in his parish which he chronicled in Innocence. It was these turbulent decades that fostered Blake's reactions to what he saw in the city around him, and which became the poems and designs in Innocence and Experience. For Blake, "the terrible desart of London" was where the triad of State, Church and Imperial Commerce set the foundations of privilege and oppression. Respite from this for Blake lay among the Surrey hills south of the Thames, and in "organised Innocence". Illustrated with maps, drawings and engravings of the period this part demonstrates how remarkably Blake's vision responded to his times. The second part of this book includes complete facsimiles of two copies of each of fifty-four plates in the Songs set.

Author: Richard Hoyt
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645404374
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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"A pleasure to read....Hoyt offers a fascinating guided tour of the Asian black market in bones and other parts of endangered species."—The Washington Post In the forests of the world, the mighty tiger is disappearing. A symbol of virility and power, its bones are a principal ingredient in traditional homeopathic medicines—and worth hundreds of dollars per pound on the Asian black market. The latest threat to these magnificent creatures is a well-organized profiteering ring that is trying to corner the market on tiger parts by systematically exterminating all wild tigers. Western diplomatic efforts and economic sanctions have failed laughably against simple human greed and indifference. Bribery and corruption are rampant, leaving CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) desperately fighting for a lost cause. But when the law falls short of justice, there are men like James Burlane, of Mixed Enterprises, a former CIA agent who specializes in delicate international cases. Following leads from Germany all the way to the Philippines, Burlane finds he is not just up against poachers. A killer of women stalks the night, with a twisted fire in his eyes, sensuously painting his naked victims in the buff-orange and luscious black stripes of the tiger before his dread hand seizes the knife. "Hoyt has a fresh, invigorating style that grabs the reader immediately. He is a master."—The New York Times "[Tyger! Tyger!] divides the world into predators and prey, into those who eat and those who go hungry. The raffish story pricks our consciences about issues for which there may be no solution but compassion—and curbing our appetites."—Portland Oregonian

Author: Shannon West
Publisher: Siren-BookStrand
ISBN: 1622413466
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131

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Author: Keven Leslie
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532097506
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Walter and Layla Lemon, aka Big Popi and Li’l Freckles have finally found peace. One fall day during their daily five mile run around their rural property, the state and county police plus the entire local volunteer fire department scream past their property. Popi said, “There must be a fire at a top secret government donut farm.” As it turns out, a hermit with an illegal zoo, fearing a government raid turned all of his dangerous wild animals loose. For a week, federal agents tracked down and slaughtered the dangerous animals. Finally the last of the predators were killed and Popi allowed Layla to resume their five mile runs. In their three years of marriage, Popi had never beaten Layla, not even close. During their week off, He trained in secret, determined to finally beat his darling Layla. He did win, but when Layla failed to meet him at the finish line, he knew something was seriously wrong. He ran back up the trail and saw that Layla was cornered by a huge tiger. Popi attacked the beast and was sent flying ten feet into a ditch. While struggling to breathe, Popi saw signs that the tiger was sexually attracted to his wife. While Popi was in the hospital, Layla captured her tiger. She named him Czar. The ensuing adventures take Popi and Li’l Freckles to ancient Ireland, present day Russia and 2035 Siberia.

Author: Anne Louise Bannon
Publisher: Healcroft House, Publishers
ISBN: 0990992322
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183

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When teacher Brenda Finnegan and her animal trainer boyfriend Bob Zebrinski witness a kidnapping, Brenda decides it's time to deal with the violence that has dogged her life. Too late, she realizes that the search for the kidnappers means facing an angry religious cult, helping the little girl left behind by the kidnappers and facing her own neuroses. All of that's got to be easier that facing the fact that Bob really loves her.

Author: Philip José Farmer
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504091396
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351

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A South African tycoon attempts to engineer his own Tarzan in a novel that deconstructs the original legend with unparalleled imagination. In a remote African valley, Ras Tyger is the Lord of the Jungle. He lives each day fulfilling his appetites for deadly prey and sexual conquest. But something sinister lurks behind his unspoiled life. He will soon discover the devastating truth: his entire existence has been engineered by a madman. Obsessed with the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, a white South African uses his fortune to turn an English nobleman into the heroically untamed figure. Everything in Ras Tyger’s world—from his jungle home to the “apes” who raised him—is an elaborate lie. But the Tarzan books weren’t very plausible. And the experiment is about to get dangerously out of control . . . Drawing on true stories of feral children, Lord Tyger explores the real-life implications of the Tarzan legend. With ingenious meta-fiction, Philip José Farmer delivers a wildly entertaining sci-fi adventure that critiques popular colonial mythmaking.

Author: William Blake
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241251974
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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'How can the bird that is born for joy / Sit in a cage and sing?' A selection of Blake's most haunting verse, including 'The Songs of Innocence and Experience'. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Author: Elizabeth Stanley
Publisher: UWA Publishing
ISBN: 1920694846
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Elizabeth Stanley was inspired to write this story after she read a brief article in a newspaper that reported on a small community of Thai Buddhist monks who are committed to saving the endangered Indo-Chinese tiger from extinction. Especially compelling were the photographs that accompanied the article, revealing the close relationship between the monks and the tigers.