Divergent times. Distant lands. Different missions. One gambit. In Austro-Hungary, 1898: a sickly girl discovers a bundle of instructions addressed to her by a legendary nobleman, who lived centuries ago. He entrusts her with a powerful ring and mission to protect the world from the ambitions of both factions of a mystical power struggle. It will require her to embark on a quest that will cause her own culture to reject her; the girl knows she has to accept. Now an outcast, she must outwit the Society's and the Urumi's evil designs as she attempts to alter a series of magical devices that can give anyone the power to control the world. In Thailand, 2004: Mei Hua and Mark, two unvalued interns, are swept out to sea by a giant wall of water. They are rescued by a space-folding sailing ship, crewed by a gang of pirates. To survive, Mark and Mei are required to join forces with the mercenaries and fight to retrieve another powerful object that -- known only to the ship's enigmatic captain -- can make the world descend into chaos. Trapped on the strange ship, Mei and Mark must find it within themselves to keep this artifact from falling into the wrong hands - assuming they can determine whose hands those are. In Russia, 1889: Natalia, the untested heir of her gypsy camp, finds herself in charge when her grandmother is abducted by an enemy her troop is not prepared to fight. The situation seems hopeless; from a secret buried deep in her past, Natalia knows it is her fault. Then a mysterious note from a sender she does not know offers an impossible way out - one that will doom her troop to slavery, or worse, if it fails. Natalia must find her inner courage and overcome the demons of her past if she is to lead her troop to salvation. These are the Voyagers. Each believes they are working for their own ends. They are dead wrong. They have unknowingly become pawns in a centuries-spanning gambit to control time and the world itself. Their paths are about to cross. All that remains to be seen is: who is really about to take over? The Voyages of Fortune trilogy is an eons-spanning, time travel adventure, set in the Keepers of the Stone historical fantasy universe. Its expansive story connects the royalty of the European Middle Ages with a pirate ship, sailing the high seas of the twenty-first century Indian Ocean. A thrilling adventure of self-discovery where nothing is as it seems. When nothing is certain, the only one you can rely on is yourself. Tags for Voyages of Fortune Book One: Hidden Truths: -young adult time travel fantasy adventure series -shapeshifters & demons -magic and mystery - pirate ship -high seas quest

An enslaved angel. A forsaken demon. A Key with the power to wreak ultimate vengeance.Malka's epic quest to protect the Fragment and fight the demonic forces of the Urumi has ended. But life goes on for her and her band as they set off on different paths, linked by time and destiny in this novella of eight short stories, set in the Keepers of the Stone universe:August 1887 – Malka awakens believing she is in the afterlife. She learns the shocking truth about her Goddess's identity and the cruel fate that now awaits her.October 1887 – Alone in a dark cave, a scarred Bozhena is about to end it all. She receives a mysterious note from a total stranger. One that gives her new hope – to begin her final revenge on the Urumi's demonic Order and the world.November 1887 – Henry discovers the tragic tale of Natalia's parents. But it's what he doesn't know that could have frightening implications for the fate of Golden Fingers' camp.January 1898 – An mysterious girl is playing in a ruined castle. She discovers a new supernatural artifact. One entrusted to her by a nobleman caught in a mystic political struggle centuries in the past. Her life is changed forever.December 1989 – Liza betrays her true nature as a shapeshifter to play a pivotal role in a watershed event of European history. Will she be able to find the courage to confront the horrible consequences and trust again in the human race?November 2002 – The marooned son of a drug smuggler discovers a supernatural tall ship on a deserted tropical island. A mysterious girl is living on board. Six months later, a shapeshifting cheetah, disgruntled with the realities of urban life, agrees to join their crew of pirates. But can they trust the ship's enigmatic master?Their paths will cross in Voyages of Fortune: an action-packed, time-travel adventure of self-discovery, as they search for their place in life, while caught in the throes of a thrilling supernatural political gambit that links a castle in the European Middle Ages with a pirate ship on the high seas of 21st century Asia.Sometimes our closest allies turn out to be our most threatening enemies.Voyages of Fortune is the sequel trilogy to the Keepers of the Stone fantasy adventure series. It tells the story of an unlikely group of travelers that spans the ages as they are caught in the supernatural thrills and temptations of a power-play that began centuries ago. They must come to terms with the hidden truths of their own pasts as they attempt to come of age in a world where no one's intentions are as they seem, and where time is not always on their side. An enthralling tale that pushes the boundaries of what we can accomplish.Tags for Discoveries: Voyages of Fortune Book Zero-Young adult historical fantasy adventure series-Time travel- fantasy short stories-Shapeshifters & Demons-Magic and Mystery-Fantasy trilogy prequel-Pirates

Every one of us has a destiny. Writing this book is part of my destiny that places knowledge among the priorities of my work. This text is dedicated to what the Masters of Light of high level have been transmitting to me for around three years. Its main feature is to make man understand that we are at a moment in our history in which we need to return to true knowledge, or more so, to a way of seeing and interpreting the reality of creation which does not start solely from mans point of view, but from a wider vision which comes from the spirit world. This book talks about a re-opening to a different way of knowing and begins to retrieve some aspects of this true knowledge. Among them, certain tools of knowledge shall be rediscovered such as the voyages of the mind in a non-rational setting or intuition or the recognition and interpretation of signs which a wider reality continually shows us. The main features of human knowledge will be analyzed, its limits, its openings and the urgings it is subjected to in order to continuously exceed itself (miracles, the sense of mystery). It attains the understanding of what should be true knowledge, the use of the symbol and the possibility of fitting into a time which is beyond the linear time we are so used to. Some aspects of this knowledge such as the mental and energetic dynamics of thought, a new concept of truth, a new concept of the relationship between good and evil, love, death, union and path, will be introduced. This book should entice us to intuit the existence of a much vaster Creation than the one we are used to and to lay the basis for a more correct interpretation of it.

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Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the lands they encountered. Efforts to portray unfamiliar peoples and cultures are shown to give rise to rich and complex works, in which individual psychic investments frequently subvert an inherited cultural discourse. In exploring the various uses and pleasures of travel, Porter interprets it as a transgressive activity animated by desire and haunted by different forms of guilt. Broad in its historical scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, the book draws on literary theory, psychoanalysis, gender criticism, and the social history of ideas. Texts analyzed include works by Boswell, Diderot, Bougainville, Cook, Stendhal, Darwin, Flaubert, Freud, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Gide, Lvi-Strauss, Barthes, and V. S. Naipaul. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The literary qualities of humanists’ writings convey how play and illusion helped form their ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics. Timothy Kircher argues for new ways of appreciating Renaissance humanist philosophy.