Author: William Cleve Davidson
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1604943173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Looking around, Avez whispered, "Spiders. Giant spiders that'll chase you down like a dog. Spiders that can jump higher than a man's head. I saw a huge boar running through their area and two of those killers jumped on him. He was dead in seconds. And you know what they did next? They wrapped him up in this cocoon. Gonna eat him later I guessed. Know what else? The cocoon they wrapped him up in was all kinds of colors."" A genetic experiment gone awry in the Amazonian rainforest leads to the creation of a deadly new species of spider called the Armadea. The events that follow create a mysterious worldwide plague that causes chaos around the globe. Scientists and doctors are baffled over what this disease is and how it's being spread, while tension and suspicion between countries intensifies. Fear of an unknown pathogen has the world in panic as agencies on every continent try to unravel the mystery. "The Armadea Event" is a suspenseful tale of deadly spiders, colorful spider webs, beautifully colored cotton, and international espionage. About the Author William Cleve Davidson, a graduate of Louisiana Tech University, currently lives in Benton, Louisiana, with his wife, Tina, four papillon dogs, two cats, and a bird. Cleve is an avid fiction reader and author.
The Armadea Event
Author: William Cleve Davidson
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1604943173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Looking around, Avez whispered, "Spiders. Giant spiders that'll chase you down like a dog. Spiders that can jump higher than a man's head. I saw a huge boar running through their area and two of those killers jumped on him. He was dead in seconds. And you know what they did next? They wrapped him up in this cocoon. Gonna eat him later I guessed. Know what else? The cocoon they wrapped him up in was all kinds of colors."" A genetic experiment gone awry in the Amazonian rainforest leads to the creation of a deadly new species of spider called the Armadea. The events that follow create a mysterious worldwide plague that causes chaos around the globe. Scientists and doctors are baffled over what this disease is and how it's being spread, while tension and suspicion between countries intensifies. Fear of an unknown pathogen has the world in panic as agencies on every continent try to unravel the mystery. "The Armadea Event" is a suspenseful tale of deadly spiders, colorful spider webs, beautifully colored cotton, and international espionage. About the Author William Cleve Davidson, a graduate of Louisiana Tech University, currently lives in Benton, Louisiana, with his wife, Tina, four papillon dogs, two cats, and a bird. Cleve is an avid fiction reader and author.
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN: 1604943173
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"Looking around, Avez whispered, "Spiders. Giant spiders that'll chase you down like a dog. Spiders that can jump higher than a man's head. I saw a huge boar running through their area and two of those killers jumped on him. He was dead in seconds. And you know what they did next? They wrapped him up in this cocoon. Gonna eat him later I guessed. Know what else? The cocoon they wrapped him up in was all kinds of colors."" A genetic experiment gone awry in the Amazonian rainforest leads to the creation of a deadly new species of spider called the Armadea. The events that follow create a mysterious worldwide plague that causes chaos around the globe. Scientists and doctors are baffled over what this disease is and how it's being spread, while tension and suspicion between countries intensifies. Fear of an unknown pathogen has the world in panic as agencies on every continent try to unravel the mystery. "The Armadea Event" is a suspenseful tale of deadly spiders, colorful spider webs, beautifully colored cotton, and international espionage. About the Author William Cleve Davidson, a graduate of Louisiana Tech University, currently lives in Benton, Louisiana, with his wife, Tina, four papillon dogs, two cats, and a bird. Cleve is an avid fiction reader and author.
Armada
Author: Ernest Cline
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0804137269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could. Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure. So when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness. Especially because the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of his favorite videogame, a flight simulator callled Armada--in which gamers just happen to be protecting Earth from alien invaders. As impossible as it seems, what Zack's seeing is all too real. And it's just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earth's history, its future, even his own life--and to play the hero for real, with humanity's life in the balance. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit like...well...fiction? At once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics as only Ernest Cline can, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0804137269
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could. Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure. So when he sees the flying saucer, he's sure his years of escapism have finally tipped over into madness. Especially because the alien ship he's staring at is straight out of his favorite videogame, a flight simulator callled Armada--in which gamers just happen to be protecting Earth from alien invaders. As impossible as it seems, what Zack's seeing is all too real. And it's just the first in a blur of revlations that will force him to question everything he thought he knew about Earth's history, its future, even his own life--and to play the hero for real, with humanity's life in the balance. But even through the terror and exhilaration, he can't help thinking: Doesn't something about this scenario feel a little bit like...well...fiction? At once reinventing and paying homage to science-fiction classics as only Ernest Cline can, Armada is a rollicking, surprising thriller, a coming-of-age adventure, and an alien invasion tale like nothing you've ever read before.
The Last Armada
Author: Des Ekin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The story of the last great naval battle between England and Spain, evoking a number of colorful and dangerous personalities who fought in the climactic conclusion to these two countries’ great rivalry on the sea. Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601. As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Águila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish armada. His mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen Elizabeth's England and hold it. Facing him is Charles Blount, a brilliant English strategist whose career is also under a cloud. His affair with a married woman edged him into a treasonous conspiracy—and brought him to within a hair’s breadth of the gallows. Meanwhile, Irish insurgent Hugh O’Neill knows that this is his final chance to drive the English out of Ireland. For each man, this is the last throw of the dice. Tomorrow they will be either heroes or failures. These colorful commanders come alive in this true story of courage and endurance, of bitterness and betrayal, and of drama and intrigue at the highest levels in the courts of England and Spain.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The story of the last great naval battle between England and Spain, evoking a number of colorful and dangerous personalities who fought in the climactic conclusion to these two countries’ great rivalry on the sea. Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601. As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Águila has been sprung from a prison cell to command the last great Spanish armada. His mission: to seize a bridgehead in Queen Elizabeth's England and hold it. Facing him is Charles Blount, a brilliant English strategist whose career is also under a cloud. His affair with a married woman edged him into a treasonous conspiracy—and brought him to within a hair’s breadth of the gallows. Meanwhile, Irish insurgent Hugh O’Neill knows that this is his final chance to drive the English out of Ireland. For each man, this is the last throw of the dice. Tomorrow they will be either heroes or failures. These colorful commanders come alive in this true story of courage and endurance, of bitterness and betrayal, and of drama and intrigue at the highest levels in the courts of England and Spain.
Events That Formed the Modern World [5 volumes]
Author: Frank W. Thackeray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598849026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1908
Book Description
This comprehensive five-volume set contains readable essays that describe and interpret the most important global events since the European Renaissance, some accompanied by related document excerpts and primary source materials. What were the effects of the Age of Exploration on today's ethnic groups and social structure? How did the development of moveable type pave the way for Facebook and Twitter? Why is the Reformation so critical for understanding today's religious controversies? This set will help readers answer these questions by exploring the most significant historical events of the modern world. This five-volume set covers times from the Renaissance to the present. Each volume focuses on a specific historic period and examines 12 events within those time frames that changed the world. Each entry provides an introduction that lays out factual material in a chronological manner, an in-depth essay interpreting the event's significance, and an annotated bibliography of the most important current works on the topic. Select entries are followed by primary sources pertaining to the event under consideration, such as diary entries. Targeted to both general readers as well as entry-level university students, this book also directly supports high school and undergraduate curricula, allowing students to identify and contextualize events in order to think critically about their causes, aftermath, and legacy.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598849026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1908
Book Description
This comprehensive five-volume set contains readable essays that describe and interpret the most important global events since the European Renaissance, some accompanied by related document excerpts and primary source materials. What were the effects of the Age of Exploration on today's ethnic groups and social structure? How did the development of moveable type pave the way for Facebook and Twitter? Why is the Reformation so critical for understanding today's religious controversies? This set will help readers answer these questions by exploring the most significant historical events of the modern world. This five-volume set covers times from the Renaissance to the present. Each volume focuses on a specific historic period and examines 12 events within those time frames that changed the world. Each entry provides an introduction that lays out factual material in a chronological manner, an in-depth essay interpreting the event's significance, and an annotated bibliography of the most important current works on the topic. Select entries are followed by primary sources pertaining to the event under consideration, such as diary entries. Targeted to both general readers as well as entry-level university students, this book also directly supports high school and undergraduate curricula, allowing students to identify and contextualize events in order to think critically about their causes, aftermath, and legacy.
The Spanish Armada
Author: Colin Martin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9781901341140
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Spanish Aramda is a radical interpretation of why Philip II's Armada of 1588 failed so disastrously. This new edition is based on a fresh examination of archival sources across Europe, combined with the archaeological investigation of some of its wrecked ships off the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. The new edition has been extensively revised to incorporate ten further years of research by the authors and others, and is likely to remain the standard account for years to come.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9781901341140
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Spanish Aramda is a radical interpretation of why Philip II's Armada of 1588 failed so disastrously. This new edition is based on a fresh examination of archival sources across Europe, combined with the archaeological investigation of some of its wrecked ships off the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. The new edition has been extensively revised to incorporate ten further years of research by the authors and others, and is likely to remain the standard account for years to come.
Great Events of the World in Poetry and Prose
Author: Rebecca Warren Brown
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Spanish Armada
Author: Gillian Clements
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
ISBN: 9781445131603
Category : Armada, 1588
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brings alive some of the major events in British history.
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group
ISBN: 9781445131603
Category : Armada, 1588
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Brings alive some of the major events in British history.
The Spanish Armada
Author: Robert Hutchinson
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466847484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
In this dramatic hour-by-hour, blow-by-blow account of the Spanish Armada's attempt to destroy Elizabeth's England, Robert Hutchinson spins a compelling and unbelievable narrative. After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe, including Spain. In October 1585, King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war between the two countries and culminating in the dramatic sea battles of 1588. Popular history dictates that the defeat of the Spanish Armada was a David versus Goliath victory, snatched by plucky and outnumbered English forces. In this tightly written and fascinating new history, Robert Hutchinson explodes this myth, revealing the true destroyers of the Spanish Armada—inclement weather and bad luck. Of the 125 Spanish ships that set sail against England, only 60 limped home, the rest wrecked or sank with barely a shot fired from their main armament. Using everything from contemporary eyewitness accounts to papers held by the national archives in Spain and the United Kingdom, Hutchinson re-creates one of history's most famous episodes in an entirely new way.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466847484
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
In this dramatic hour-by-hour, blow-by-blow account of the Spanish Armada's attempt to destroy Elizabeth's England, Robert Hutchinson spins a compelling and unbelievable narrative. After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe, including Spain. In October 1585, King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war between the two countries and culminating in the dramatic sea battles of 1588. Popular history dictates that the defeat of the Spanish Armada was a David versus Goliath victory, snatched by plucky and outnumbered English forces. In this tightly written and fascinating new history, Robert Hutchinson explodes this myth, revealing the true destroyers of the Spanish Armada—inclement weather and bad luck. Of the 125 Spanish ships that set sail against England, only 60 limped home, the rest wrecked or sank with barely a shot fired from their main armament. Using everything from contemporary eyewitness accounts to papers held by the national archives in Spain and the United Kingdom, Hutchinson re-creates one of history's most famous episodes in an entirely new way.
Pictorial records of remarkable events in the history of the world
Author: World
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Lays of Ancient Rome, with Ivry and the Armada
Author: Thomas Babington baron Macaulay
Publisher: New York : Lovell, Adam, Wesson
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Lovell, Adam, Wesson
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description