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Author: Michael Pears Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466957395 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 678
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Being mugged at knife-point by a friendly taxi driver; suffering from frostbite on various appendages; being mauled by some of the many ravenous stray packs of dogs which roam the nation; attending weddings, hunting expeditions and beauty pageants - discover these and more mis-adventures which befell the author during his 10-month jaunt across the largest, most intriguing and exasperating country in world. Unearth for yourself the untold joys of Russia's very own International Women's Day, Maslenitsa and New Year's Eve celebrations, in a journey which stretches from Vladivostock to Murmansk, and takes in the history, architecture and customs of over 30 towns and cities en route, and includes a special detour section through China and Mongolia.
Author: Michael Pears Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1466957395 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 678
Book Description
Being mugged at knife-point by a friendly taxi driver; suffering from frostbite on various appendages; being mauled by some of the many ravenous stray packs of dogs which roam the nation; attending weddings, hunting expeditions and beauty pageants - discover these and more mis-adventures which befell the author during his 10-month jaunt across the largest, most intriguing and exasperating country in world. Unearth for yourself the untold joys of Russia's very own International Women's Day, Maslenitsa and New Year's Eve celebrations, in a journey which stretches from Vladivostock to Murmansk, and takes in the history, architecture and customs of over 30 towns and cities en route, and includes a special detour section through China and Mongolia.
Author: Alec Soth Publisher: ISBN: Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 130
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Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected "third coast." Soth's richly descriptive, large format color photographs describe an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Sensuous in detail and raw in subject, his book elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing and reverie. "In the book's forty-six ruthlessly edited pictures," writes Anne Wilkes Tucker, "Soth alludes to illness, procreation, race, crime, learning, art, music, death, religion, redemption, politics, and cheap sex... The coherence of the project places Soth's book exactly within the tradition of Walker Evans' American Photographs and Robert Frank's The Americans." Like Frank's classic book, Sleeping by the Mississippi merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. The Mississippi is less the subject of the book than its organizing structure. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust. This is the third print run and third new cover of a book which has become one of the most highly collected and widely acclaimed photo-books of recent times.
Author: Tim Ellison Publisher: Tim Ellison ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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Nick Web carries something around inside him that is older than time. An ex- sniper, he lives in a world depopulated to the point of extinction. For seventeen years, he has survived alone, off the grid. Rowan belongs to a small tribe of hunter gatherers, subsisting on the residue of a long-dead civilization. They carry secrets with them. Marcus Gantt leads a growing army of religious fanatics. Heavily armed, their convoy roams the deserted countryside looking to forcibly swell their numbers. Gantt has been chosen for a great purpose, and needs defenseless civilians to complete his masterwork. In the rolling hills and meadows of England’s West Country, three fates are irrevocably entwined, and Nick starts to understand his true nature, his place in the world. As Midsummer’s Eve approaches, he must risk his life and sanity to release his dark burden upon the world and save the people he has come to love; the people who hold the key to his redemption. In The Green Man, the land is awake and the Old Gods are set free upon the world…...
Author: Alan Burt Akers Publisher: Mushroom Publishing ISBN: 1843192969 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1280
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Four hundred light years from Earth, Kregen is a marvelous world, peopled by wonderful beings, filled with light and clamor and furor of life lived to the hilt. But Kregen has its darker side, where horror and terror bind innocent people, where sorceries rend reason, where injustice denies light. Dray Prescot’s happiness with Delia, the Princess Majestrix of Vallia, is threatened as the notorious Wizard of Loh, Phu-si-Yantong, seeks to destroy Delia’s father and take control of the empire of Vallia. And Prescot is determined to seek the whereabouts of his daughters, alienated from him during his forced absence on Earth. But the brilliant world of Kregen under Antares will always challenge Prescot with new problems and adventures. Dray Prescot knows only too well that he must continue to struggle against himself as well as the malignant fates that pursue him in the mingled streaming lights of the Suns of Scorpio. Secret Scorpio: Courage and ingenuity has won Dray Prescot a high role in the Vallian Empire and a certain independence from the Star Lords. So when a mysterious monster cult begins to undermine the empire and when his own beloved princess becomes a victim of those secret schemers, Prescot has to go into action. Savage Scorpio: Somewhere in the unmapped regions of Kregen lies the hidden city of the Savanti. Dray has long sought the locale of his original landing and now the time has come when the search must be completed without delay, for the father of his beloved Delia is a victim of assassins. Only the Savanti can undo the evil that could shatter all that Dray holds dear in his second planetary homeland. Captive Scorpio: Prescot has risen high in the empire of Vallia, but luck cannot always sustain him. All the forces opposed to his lands, his princess, his emperor, and to him personally, converge to bring about the darkest hour of his long career. With his back to the wall, Dray Prescot faces that time of peril with unflinching will... until the cruelest blow of all is struck: his warrior daughter Dayra rode in the vanguard of his foes! Golden Scorpio: When you're down there's no place to go but up. That's the way the brave think and if there is anyone on two worlds braver than Dray Prescot, he has yet to appear. Prescot would never give up. Single-handedly, if need be, he would be a deadly threat to the enemies of Vallia. But as he sets out on a liberation mission incomparable in the history of two worlds he knows he will never be alone... This edition contains a glossary to the Vallian cycle.
Author: Crys Cross Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 3735732836 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 406
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Two women, strangely linked across time, a Pagan priestess, highly trained in the use of uncanny powers, looking for a new home for her people, and a young archaeologist, trying to chart a course for her life and drawn ever deeper into a strange land of visions. Following the priestess on her quest, she walks the path to her own future.
Author: Stella Gemmell Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101606525 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 562
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No one is safe, and no one is to be trusted as the bloody war that began in Stella Gemmell’s The City continues... The dreaded emperor is dead. The successor to the throne is his nemesis, Archange. Many hope her reign will usher in a new era of freedom and stability. Soon however, word arises of a massive army gathering in the shadows of the north. They are eager to lay waste to the City and annihilate anyone—man, woman, or child—within it. Yet just as the swords clang in fields wet with the blood of warriors, family feuds, ancient rivalries, and political battles rage on within the cold stone walls of the City. A hero must rise up and restore the peace before anything left to fight for is consumed by the madness.
Author: Darrell Malcolm Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1796023248 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 360
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The verses in this collection are of my thoughts as I see things in God’s creation. I have been writing these down for maybe five to six years. Something will inspire me and away the pen and keyboard begin to generate the verse, God inspired. These are all random thoughts that come in no particular order. I need to thank all those things and God has who inspired my writings and especially my editor in chief, my wife Ann. Others have assisted me in helping me edit my verses and I thank them greatly. I hope you enjoy these verses and they can stir a deeper appreciation of the world around us. Living here in the foothill of the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the west side, has inspired many of my verses Seasonal events have inspired me as well as items in nature and everyday life.
Author: Peter Thomson Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198038119 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 335
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Siberia's Lake Baikal is one of nature's most magnificent creations, the largest and deepest body of fresh water in the world. And yet it is nearly unknown outside of Russia. In Sacred Sea--the first major journalistic examination of Baikal in English--veteran environmental writer Peter Thomson and his younger brother undertake a kind of pilgrimage, journeying 25,000 miles by land and sea to reach this extraordinary lake. At Baikal they find a place of sublime beauty, deep history, and immense natural power. But they also find ominous signs that this perfect eco-system--containing one-fifth of earth's fresh water and said to possess a mythical ability to cleanse itself--could yet succumb to the even more powerful forces of human hubris, carelessness, and ignorance. Ultimately, they help us see that despite its isolation, Baikal is connected to everything else on Earth, and that it will need the love and devotion of people around the world to protect it.
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