Author: Gustave Aimard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9362201089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"The Smuggler Chief: A Novel" by Gustave Aimard is an action-packed adventure novel that immerses readers in the wild and lawless frontier of the Wild West. Set against the backdrop of the untamed wilderness and rugged landscapes of Mexico, Aimard's storytelling transports readers on a thrilling journey filled with intrigue, romance, and danger. At the heart of the narrative is the enigmatic Smuggler Chief, a charismatic figure leading a band of outlaws through the treacherous terrain of the frontier. As the story unfolds, readers are drawn into a world of crime and pursuit, where lawmen and bandits clash in a battle for survival and dominance. Aimard's vivid descriptions bring the frontier to life, capturing the essence of frontier life with authenticity and depth. Amidst the challenges of the wilderness, romance blooms and secrets unravel, adding layers of intrigue to the fast-paced plot. With its blend of action-packed scenes, romantic entanglements, and thrilling pursuits, "The Smuggler Chief" is a gripping tale that keeps readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. It is a must-read for fans of adventure novels and those fascinated by the allure of the Wild West and frontier life.
The Smuggler Chief A Novel
Author: Gustave Aimard
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9362201089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"The Smuggler Chief: A Novel" by Gustave Aimard is an action-packed adventure novel that immerses readers in the wild and lawless frontier of the Wild West. Set against the backdrop of the untamed wilderness and rugged landscapes of Mexico, Aimard's storytelling transports readers on a thrilling journey filled with intrigue, romance, and danger. At the heart of the narrative is the enigmatic Smuggler Chief, a charismatic figure leading a band of outlaws through the treacherous terrain of the frontier. As the story unfolds, readers are drawn into a world of crime and pursuit, where lawmen and bandits clash in a battle for survival and dominance. Aimard's vivid descriptions bring the frontier to life, capturing the essence of frontier life with authenticity and depth. Amidst the challenges of the wilderness, romance blooms and secrets unravel, adding layers of intrigue to the fast-paced plot. With its blend of action-packed scenes, romantic entanglements, and thrilling pursuits, "The Smuggler Chief" is a gripping tale that keeps readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. It is a must-read for fans of adventure novels and those fascinated by the allure of the Wild West and frontier life.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9362201089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"The Smuggler Chief: A Novel" by Gustave Aimard is an action-packed adventure novel that immerses readers in the wild and lawless frontier of the Wild West. Set against the backdrop of the untamed wilderness and rugged landscapes of Mexico, Aimard's storytelling transports readers on a thrilling journey filled with intrigue, romance, and danger. At the heart of the narrative is the enigmatic Smuggler Chief, a charismatic figure leading a band of outlaws through the treacherous terrain of the frontier. As the story unfolds, readers are drawn into a world of crime and pursuit, where lawmen and bandits clash in a battle for survival and dominance. Aimard's vivid descriptions bring the frontier to life, capturing the essence of frontier life with authenticity and depth. Amidst the challenges of the wilderness, romance blooms and secrets unravel, adding layers of intrigue to the fast-paced plot. With its blend of action-packed scenes, romantic entanglements, and thrilling pursuits, "The Smuggler Chief" is a gripping tale that keeps readers on the edge of their seats from beginning to end. It is a must-read for fans of adventure novels and those fascinated by the allure of the Wild West and frontier life.
The Smuggler Chief a Novel
Author: Aimard Gustave
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318077175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318077175
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Book Smugglers
Author: David E. Fishman
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1512601268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion-including the readiness to risk one's life-to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl, a Nazi "expert" on the Jews, who had been dispatched to Vilna by the Nazi looting agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, to organize the seizure of the city's great collections of Jewish books. Pohl and his Einsatzstab staff planned to ship the most valuable materials to Germany and incinerate the rest. The Germans used forty ghetto inmates as slave-laborers to sort, select, pack, and transport the materials, either to Germany or to nearby paper mills. This group, nicknamed "the Paper Brigade," and informally led by poet Shmerke Kaczerginski, a garrulous, street-smart adventurer and master of deception, smuggled thousands of books and manuscripts past German guards. If caught, the men would have faced death by firing squad at Ponar, the mass-murder site outside of Vilna. To store the rescued manuscripts, poet Abraham Sutzkever helped build an underground book-bunker sixty feet beneath the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski smuggled weapons as well, using the group's worksite, the former building of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, to purchase arms for the ghetto's secret partisan organization. All the while, both men wrote poetry that was recited and sung by the fast-dwindling population of ghetto inhabitants. With the Soviet "liberation" of Vilna (now known as Vilnius), the Paper Brigade thought themselves and their precious cultural treasures saved-only to learn that their new masters were no more welcoming toward Jewish culture than the old, and the books must now be smuggled out of the USSR. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto-a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach-The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1512601268
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books and manuscripts-first from the Nazis and then from the Soviets-by hiding them on their bodies, burying them in bunkers, and smuggling them across borders. It is a tale of heroism and resistance, of friendship and romance, and of unwavering devotion-including the readiness to risk one's life-to literature and art. And it is entirely true. Based on Jewish, German, and Soviet documents, including diaries, letters, memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's participants, The Book Smugglers chronicles the daring activities of a group of poets turned partisans and scholars turned smugglers in Vilna, "The Jerusalem of Lithuania." The rescuers were pitted against Johannes Pohl, a Nazi "expert" on the Jews, who had been dispatched to Vilna by the Nazi looting agency, Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg, to organize the seizure of the city's great collections of Jewish books. Pohl and his Einsatzstab staff planned to ship the most valuable materials to Germany and incinerate the rest. The Germans used forty ghetto inmates as slave-laborers to sort, select, pack, and transport the materials, either to Germany or to nearby paper mills. This group, nicknamed "the Paper Brigade," and informally led by poet Shmerke Kaczerginski, a garrulous, street-smart adventurer and master of deception, smuggled thousands of books and manuscripts past German guards. If caught, the men would have faced death by firing squad at Ponar, the mass-murder site outside of Vilna. To store the rescued manuscripts, poet Abraham Sutzkever helped build an underground book-bunker sixty feet beneath the Vilna ghetto. Kaczerginski smuggled weapons as well, using the group's worksite, the former building of the Yiddish Scientific Institute, to purchase arms for the ghetto's secret partisan organization. All the while, both men wrote poetry that was recited and sung by the fast-dwindling population of ghetto inhabitants. With the Soviet "liberation" of Vilna (now known as Vilnius), the Paper Brigade thought themselves and their precious cultural treasures saved-only to learn that their new masters were no more welcoming toward Jewish culture than the old, and the books must now be smuggled out of the USSR. Thoroughly researched by the foremost scholar of the Vilna Ghetto-a writer of exceptional daring, style, and reach-The Book Smugglers is an epic story of human heroism, a little-known tale from the blackest days of the war.
XIX Century Fiction, Volume Two
Author: M. Sadleir
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349741
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
The Book Smuggler
Author: Omaima Al-Khamis
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649030592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
A magical story of a Crusade-era bookseller who embarks on a journey through the Islamic world’s great medieval cities, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature In the epic fashion of the great Arab explorers and travel writers of the Middle Ages, scribe and bookworm Mazid al-Hanafi narrates this journey from his remote village in the Arabian Desert. Dreaming of grand libraries, his passion for the written word draws him into a secret society of book smugglers and into the famed cultural capitals of the period—Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada, and Cordoba. He discovers a dangerous new world of ideas and experiences the cultural diversity of the Islamic Golden Age, its sects, philosophical schools, wars, and ways of life. Omaima Al-Khamis’s magical storytelling and her vivid descriptions of time and place trace a route through ancient cities and cultures and immerse us in a distant era, uncovering the intellectual debates and struggles which continue to rage today.
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1649030592
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
A magical story of a Crusade-era bookseller who embarks on a journey through the Islamic world’s great medieval cities, winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature In the epic fashion of the great Arab explorers and travel writers of the Middle Ages, scribe and bookworm Mazid al-Hanafi narrates this journey from his remote village in the Arabian Desert. Dreaming of grand libraries, his passion for the written word draws him into a secret society of book smugglers and into the famed cultural capitals of the period—Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Granada, and Cordoba. He discovers a dangerous new world of ideas and experiences the cultural diversity of the Islamic Golden Age, its sects, philosophical schools, wars, and ways of life. Omaima Al-Khamis’s magical storytelling and her vivid descriptions of time and place trace a route through ancient cities and cultures and immerse us in a distant era, uncovering the intellectual debates and struggles which continue to rage today.
The Smuggler Chief
Author: Gustave Aimard
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Languages : en
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Gaspar Trenchard, a Novel
Author: Bracebridge Hemyng
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Catalogue of the Whole of the Books in the Library
Author: Richmond (England). Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Pages : 364
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The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Three-Volume Novel
Author: Troy J. Bassett
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030319261
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030319261
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Utilizing recent developments in book history and digital humanities, this book offers a cultural, economic, and literary history of the Victorian three-volume novel, the prestige format for the British novel during much of the nineteenth century. With the publication of Walter Scott’s popular novels in the 1820s, the three-volume novel became the standard format for new fiction aimed at middle-class audiences through the support of circulating libraries. Following a quantitative analysis examining who wrote and published these novels, the book investigates the success of publisher Richard Bentley in producing three-volume novels, the experiences of the W. H. Smith circulating library in distributing them, the difficulties of authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson and George Moore in writing them, and the resistance of new publishers such as Arrowsmith and Unwin to publishing them. Rather than faltering, the three-volume novel stubbornly endured until its abandonment in the 1890s.