Lost in the Devil's Desert
Title | Lost in the Devil's Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Gloria Skurzynski |
Publisher | HarperTrophy |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Deserts |
ISBN | 9780688045937 |
Eleven-year-old Kevin finds himself alone and lost in the Utah desert, with only his wits to help him survive.
The Devil's Highway
Title | The Devil's Highway PDF eBook |
Author | Luis Alberto Urrea |
Publisher | Back Bay Books |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2008-11-16 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 031604928X |
This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
The Devils in the Desert
Title | The Devils in the Desert PDF eBook |
Author | John Byrne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Dinosaurs |
ISBN | 9781600109232 |
The legendary John Byrne brings his talents to the world of Jurassic Park -- and the results have never been more terrifying! Is the dinos' escape from the island the worst thing that could happen? Think again!
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
Title | Foreign Devils on the Silk Road PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hopkirk |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Archaeology |
ISBN | 9780192802118 |
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold, and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left, and finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasurees and guarded by demons. In the early years of the 20th century, foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, and very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures, and priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the ton, and are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. Peter Hopkirk tells the story of the intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archaeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese.
The White Heart of Mojave
Title | The White Heart of Mojave PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. Edna Brush Perkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.) |
ISBN |
Lost Legion Rediscovered
Title | Lost Legion Rediscovered PDF eBook |
Author | Donald O'Reilly |
Publisher | Pen and Sword |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2014-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1526779900 |
In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a massed grave of thousands of bodies. Eucherius identified these as a legion recruited for the Roman army from the Christians of the Theban district in Egypt, whom he claimed had been massacred nearly a century previously (near the modern village of St Maurice-en-Valais in southwestern Switzerland) for refusing to obey orders they considered immoral. This incident, asserted by Eucherius as matter of fact, is unrecorded elsewhere. Even the existence of this Theban legion is unclear.
The Devil's Triangle
Title | The Devil's Triangle PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Coulter |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2017-03-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501150359 |
The New York Times bestselling Brit in the FBI series returns with a highly anticipated thriller, featuring special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine in their new roles as heads of the Covert Eyes team—but will their first case be their last when the Fox, the enigmatic and dangerous thief, reappears? “He who controls the weather, will control the world. He who controls time, will never be around.” —Thomas Frey FBI Special Agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine are the government’s Covert Eyes—leading a top-notch handpicked team of agents to tackle crimes and criminals both international and deadly. But their first case threatens their fledgling team when the Fox calls from Venice asking for help. Kitsune has stolen an incredible artifact from the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, and now the client wants her dead. She has a warning for Nick and Mike: she’s overheard talk that a devastating Gobi desert sandstorm that’s killed thousands in Beijing isn’t a natural phenomenon, rather is produced by man. The Covert Eyes team heads to Venice, Italy, to find out the truth. From New York to Venice and from Rome to the Bermuda Triangle, Nicholas and Mike and their team are in a race against time, and nature herself, to stop an obsessed family from devastating Washington, DC.