Author: Keith Braun
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460251865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The assembled crew from Napoleon's Gold is called to an encore performance. While the fragile Peace of Amiens still holds, it is become clear that the French and Dutch in the East Indies are using the great Dutch base at Batavia to supply and encourage pirates and privateers to molest and sink British shipping in the North Java Sea and Straits of Singapore. Once again Sir Phillip Hollis is entreated to embark his private warships on a covert mission to accomplish what the Government fears to do using the Royal Navy, lest Napoleon exploit it as a cause to resume the war. Phillip, engaged in preparations for his wedding, is at first less than enthused, yet the lure of an epic adventure, along with the prospect of financial advantage, is hard to resist. Accosted from the start by assassins, vandals, French frigates and pirates on the high seas, not to mention the Burmese navy, and most pressing of all, a determined young wife, Phillip is beset on all sides in trying to satisfy both military, political, financial, and domestic agendas. Adventure, humour, and romance mingle to the sound of naval cannon and whispered intrigue.
Poseidon's Gambit
Author: Keith Braun
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460251865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The assembled crew from Napoleon's Gold is called to an encore performance. While the fragile Peace of Amiens still holds, it is become clear that the French and Dutch in the East Indies are using the great Dutch base at Batavia to supply and encourage pirates and privateers to molest and sink British shipping in the North Java Sea and Straits of Singapore. Once again Sir Phillip Hollis is entreated to embark his private warships on a covert mission to accomplish what the Government fears to do using the Royal Navy, lest Napoleon exploit it as a cause to resume the war. Phillip, engaged in preparations for his wedding, is at first less than enthused, yet the lure of an epic adventure, along with the prospect of financial advantage, is hard to resist. Accosted from the start by assassins, vandals, French frigates and pirates on the high seas, not to mention the Burmese navy, and most pressing of all, a determined young wife, Phillip is beset on all sides in trying to satisfy both military, political, financial, and domestic agendas. Adventure, humour, and romance mingle to the sound of naval cannon and whispered intrigue.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460251865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The assembled crew from Napoleon's Gold is called to an encore performance. While the fragile Peace of Amiens still holds, it is become clear that the French and Dutch in the East Indies are using the great Dutch base at Batavia to supply and encourage pirates and privateers to molest and sink British shipping in the North Java Sea and Straits of Singapore. Once again Sir Phillip Hollis is entreated to embark his private warships on a covert mission to accomplish what the Government fears to do using the Royal Navy, lest Napoleon exploit it as a cause to resume the war. Phillip, engaged in preparations for his wedding, is at first less than enthused, yet the lure of an epic adventure, along with the prospect of financial advantage, is hard to resist. Accosted from the start by assassins, vandals, French frigates and pirates on the high seas, not to mention the Burmese navy, and most pressing of all, a determined young wife, Phillip is beset on all sides in trying to satisfy both military, political, financial, and domestic agendas. Adventure, humour, and romance mingle to the sound of naval cannon and whispered intrigue.
The Wizard of Starship Poseidon
Author: Kenneth Bulmer
Publisher:
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Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Gods and Goddesses
Author:
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A series of stories about gods and goddesses based on myths, legends, and folk tales.
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A series of stories about gods and goddesses based on myths, legends, and folk tales.
The Japan Daily Mail
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1746
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1746
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TV Guide
Author:
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Category : Television programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Television programs
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
The Odyssey
Author: Homer
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Iliad. It was originally written in ancient Greek, utilizing a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme. Although this rhyme scheme sounds beautiful in its native language, in modern English it can sound awkward and, as Eric McMillan humorously describes it, resembles “pumpkins rolling on a barn floor.” William Cullen Bryant avoided this problem by composing his translation in blank verse, a rhyme scheme that sounds natural in English. This epic poem follows Ulysses, one of the Greek leaders that brought an end to the ten-year-long Trojan war. Longing for home, he travels across the Mediterranean Sea to return to his kingdom in Ithaca; unfortunately, our hero manages to anger Neptune, the god of the sea, making his trip home agonizingly slow and extremely dangerous. While Ulysses is trying to return home, his family in Ithaca is also in danger. Suitors have traveled to the home of Ulysses to marry his wife, Penelope, believing that her husband did not survive the war. These men are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes the Iliad. It was originally written in ancient Greek, utilizing a dactylic hexameter rhyme scheme. Although this rhyme scheme sounds beautiful in its native language, in modern English it can sound awkward and, as Eric McMillan humorously describes it, resembles “pumpkins rolling on a barn floor.” William Cullen Bryant avoided this problem by composing his translation in blank verse, a rhyme scheme that sounds natural in English. This epic poem follows Ulysses, one of the Greek leaders that brought an end to the ten-year-long Trojan war. Longing for home, he travels across the Mediterranean Sea to return to his kingdom in Ithaca; unfortunately, our hero manages to anger Neptune, the god of the sea, making his trip home agonizingly slow and extremely dangerous. While Ulysses is trying to return home, his family in Ithaca is also in danger. Suitors have traveled to the home of Ulysses to marry his wife, Penelope, believing that her husband did not survive the war. These men are willing to kill anyone who stands in their way. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Arctic Gambit
Author: Larry Bond
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 0765334925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"The idea for this story came from Chris [Carlson]"--From author's note (page 7).
Publisher: Forge Books
ISBN: 0765334925
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"The idea for this story came from Chris [Carlson]"--From author's note (page 7).
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
Book Description
Whitaker's Cumulative Book List
Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Kissinger on the Couch
Author: Phyllis Schlafly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where her father is involved in a secret government project in the final months of World War II, thirteen-year-old Mattie carries on a constant debate with her twelve-year-old cousin Virgil about the relative merits of boys versus girls.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where her father is involved in a secret government project in the final months of World War II, thirteen-year-old Mattie carries on a constant debate with her twelve-year-old cousin Virgil about the relative merits of boys versus girls.