Author: Rod Duncan
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857668498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Ladies and gentlemen, for the very final time, Elizabeth and Edwin Barnabus will perform the grand illusion of the Vanishing Man. Elizabeth Barnabus is a mutineer and a murderer. So they say. The noose awaits in Liverpool as punishment for her crimes. But they’ll have to catch her first. Disguised as a labourer, Elizabeth flees west across America, following a rumour of her long-lost family. Crossing the border into the wilds of the Oregon Territory, she discovers a mustering army, a king who believes he is destined to conquer the world, and a weapon so powerful that it could bring the age of reason crashing down. In a land where politics and prophecy are one and the same, the fate of the Gas-Lit Empire may come to rest on the perfect execution of a conjuring trick…
The Fugitive and the Vanishing Man
Author: Rod Duncan
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857668498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Ladies and gentlemen, for the very final time, Elizabeth and Edwin Barnabus will perform the grand illusion of the Vanishing Man. Elizabeth Barnabus is a mutineer and a murderer. So they say. The noose awaits in Liverpool as punishment for her crimes. But they’ll have to catch her first. Disguised as a labourer, Elizabeth flees west across America, following a rumour of her long-lost family. Crossing the border into the wilds of the Oregon Territory, she discovers a mustering army, a king who believes he is destined to conquer the world, and a weapon so powerful that it could bring the age of reason crashing down. In a land where politics and prophecy are one and the same, the fate of the Gas-Lit Empire may come to rest on the perfect execution of a conjuring trick…
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857668498
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Ladies and gentlemen, for the very final time, Elizabeth and Edwin Barnabus will perform the grand illusion of the Vanishing Man. Elizabeth Barnabus is a mutineer and a murderer. So they say. The noose awaits in Liverpool as punishment for her crimes. But they’ll have to catch her first. Disguised as a labourer, Elizabeth flees west across America, following a rumour of her long-lost family. Crossing the border into the wilds of the Oregon Territory, she discovers a mustering army, a king who believes he is destined to conquer the world, and a weapon so powerful that it could bring the age of reason crashing down. In a land where politics and prophecy are one and the same, the fate of the Gas-Lit Empire may come to rest on the perfect execution of a conjuring trick…
Valley of Vanishing Men
Author: Max Brand
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Valley of Vanishing Men by Max Brand is about Ben Trainer, who finds out that his brother is imperiled. Ben leaves his job punching cows to go rescue him from certain death. Excerpt: "IT WAS one of those gorges which seem to have been plowed through the mountains with some vast mechanical instrument that cuts with equal ease through hard and soft. Granite had yielded like butter to the edge of that imagined tool. And Trainor, looking up from the edge of the creek, could see the steep and polished cliffs rising on either hand, beyond the climbing of man or beast. At the top, there was occasional fringing of trees, which leaned over the gorge as though peering curiously down into its depths."
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Valley of Vanishing Men by Max Brand is about Ben Trainer, who finds out that his brother is imperiled. Ben leaves his job punching cows to go rescue him from certain death. Excerpt: "IT WAS one of those gorges which seem to have been plowed through the mountains with some vast mechanical instrument that cuts with equal ease through hard and soft. Granite had yielded like butter to the edge of that imagined tool. And Trainor, looking up from the edge of the creek, could see the steep and polished cliffs rising on either hand, beyond the climbing of man or beast. At the top, there was occasional fringing of trees, which leaned over the gorge as though peering curiously down into its depths."
The Point of Vanishing
Author: Howard Axelrod
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807075477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Into the Wild meets Walden—a lyrical memoir for nature lovers and for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to disconnect from our hyper-connected culture and seek more meaningful connections After losing vision in one eye and becoming estranged from his family and friends, a young man spent two years searching for identity in self-imposed solitude in the backwoods of northern Vermont, where he embarked on a project of stripping away facades and all social ties--and learned to face himself. On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy’s finger hooked behind Axelrod’s eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find a more lasting sense of meaning away from society’s pressures and rush. Named one of the best books of the year by Slate, Chicago Tribune, Entropy Magazine, and named one of the top 10 memoirs by Library Journal
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807075477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Into the Wild meets Walden—a lyrical memoir for nature lovers and for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to disconnect from our hyper-connected culture and seek more meaningful connections After losing vision in one eye and becoming estranged from his family and friends, a young man spent two years searching for identity in self-imposed solitude in the backwoods of northern Vermont, where he embarked on a project of stripping away facades and all social ties--and learned to face himself. On a clear May afternoon at the end of his junior year at Harvard, Howard Axelrod played a pick-up game of basketball. In a skirmish for a loose ball, a boy’s finger hooked behind Axelrod’s eyeball and left him permanently blinded in his right eye. A week later, he returned to the same dorm room, but to a different world. A world where nothing looked solid, where the distance between how people saw him and how he saw had widened into a gulf. Desperate for a sense of orientation he could trust, he retreated to a jerry-rigged house in the Vermont woods, where he lived without a computer or television, and largely without human contact, for two years. He needed to find a more lasting sense of meaning away from society’s pressures and rush. Named one of the best books of the year by Slate, Chicago Tribune, Entropy Magazine, and named one of the top 10 memoirs by Library Journal
The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States
Author: American Film Institute
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520079083
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
Book Description
"The entire field of film historians awaits the AFI volumes with eagerness."--Eileen Bowser, Museum of Modern Art Film Department Comments on previous volumes: "The source of last resort for finding socially valuable . . . films that received such scant attention that they seem 'lost' until discovered in the AFI Catalog."--Thomas Cripps "Endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
The Vanishing Woman
Author: Doug Peterson
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781628998283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781628998283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Based on the true story of Ellen Craft, a light-skinned slave who escaped from Georgia in 1848. By posing as an ailing white man while her husband pretended to be her slave, Ellen and William Craft traveled over one thousand to freedom"--
When Ghost Meets Ghot
Author: William de Morgan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375232273X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: When Ghost Meets Ghot by William de Morgan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375232273X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: When Ghost Meets Ghot by William de Morgan
The Vanishing Viscountess
Author: Diane Gaston
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426811365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
When a marquess helps a beautiful prisoner escape death, the pair set off on a perilous and passionate adventure in this sexy Regency romance. The prisoner stood with an expression of defiance, leather shackles on her wrists. Adam Vickery, Marquess of Tannerton, was drawn to this woman, so dignified in her plight. He didn’t recognize her as the once innocent, hopeful debutante he had danced with years ago. Marlena Parronley, the notorious Vanishing Viscountess, was a fugitive. Seeing the dashing, carefree marquess of her dreams gave her a desire for life she thought she’d lost forever. But she couldn’t risk letting anyone, especially Tanner, get caught up in helping her escape. He would face the same punishment she did. The hangman’s noose.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426811365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
When a marquess helps a beautiful prisoner escape death, the pair set off on a perilous and passionate adventure in this sexy Regency romance. The prisoner stood with an expression of defiance, leather shackles on her wrists. Adam Vickery, Marquess of Tannerton, was drawn to this woman, so dignified in her plight. He didn’t recognize her as the once innocent, hopeful debutante he had danced with years ago. Marlena Parronley, the notorious Vanishing Viscountess, was a fugitive. Seeing the dashing, carefree marquess of her dreams gave her a desire for life she thought she’d lost forever. But she couldn’t risk letting anyone, especially Tanner, get caught up in helping her escape. He would face the same punishment she did. The hangman’s noose.
When Ghost Meets Ghost
Author: William De Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Moral Evolution
Author: George Harris
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
"The purpose of this book ... is to establish the harmony of personal and social morality with the facts of evolution."--Preface.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Ethics
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
"The purpose of this book ... is to establish the harmony of personal and social morality with the facts of evolution."--Preface.
Leavenworth Train
Author: Joe Jackson
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 9780786710607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s. Reprint.
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN: 9780786710607
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A gripping account of a twenty-four-year manhunt chronicles the exploits of Frank Grigware, an innocent man convicted of a train robbery and sentenced to life imprisonment, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth and fled to Canada, where he built a new life for himself in Alberta, until the FBI found him in the 1930s. Reprint.