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Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0553817019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Moore’s wicked sense of humour and eye for the bizarre add to the pleasure of this cautionary tale for anyone planning to cross a continent with their significant other. From Mexico to Jamaica, Honduras to ancient Mayan sites and golden beaches, follow the highs and lows of one couple’s journey.
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Egmont Books Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781405233385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharts the adventures of a farmyard cat.
Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 0553814524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQuestion: What do you do when you're dumped by the Girl Next Door? Answer: Throw yourself into another madcap adventure and travel from Cape Town to Cairo... A week after breaking up with the GND (his travelling companion through Central America) Peter Moore heads off to Africa to lose himself for a while. In the grand tradition of 19th-century scoundrelas, explorers and romantics, Africa strikes him as the ideal place to find solitude and anonymity in the face of a personal crisis. What follows is Peter's journey from one end of the Dark Continent to the other. Travelling the fabled Cape Town to Cairo route by any means of transport he can blag (or if he must, pay) his way onto, it's an epic trek that sees our intrepid Antipodean experience everything from the southernmost city in Africa to the Pyramids, vast game parks and thundering falls, cosmopolitan cities and tiny villages as he journeys through the very heart of Africa. And travelling on his own, it's inevitable that Peter falls in with a motley cast of characters and has a myriad misadventures: including coming face to face with a wild Hyena with very bad breath, crossing the treacherous Sani Pass, the highest in Africa, narrowly escaping a riot by hiding in a coffin shop, saving oil-covered Penguins in South Africa, acting as an extra in a WW2 epic, not to mention dodging 20,000 single woman trying to catch the eye of the king of Swaziland during the annual Reed Dance. And then there was the time when he was kicked out of Robert Mugabe's birthday bash at gunpoint...
Author: Jon Bowman
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Montezuma Castle near Las Vegas, New Mexico ranks among the undisputed architectural gems of the state. Built in the 1880s as arguably the most opulent and fashionable resort west of the Mississippi, the Montezuma hosted US presidents and titans of industry as well as European and Japanese nobility and the outlaw Jesse James. Patrons enjoyed the first bowling alley in the West, the first electric lighting in New Mexico, celebrated hot springs and spas, and exquisite cuisine, including fresh fish and sea turtles hauled by rail from the West Coast and Mexico. In spite of its illustrious past, the Montezuma stood empty for much of the last century -- the structure vandalised and falling into ruin. Chances for its resurrection looked dim until 1997 when the National Trust for Historic Preservation designated the former hotel as one of America's eleven Most Endangered Historic Places. It was the first property west of the Mississippi to gain that attention, and a committed preservation effort followed.Here is the story of the castle's heritage, its architectural grandeur and its rebirth as an educational complex serving the diverse, global population of students attending the United World College of the American West, founded by Armand Hammer with help from Prince Charles.
Author: Peter Iverson
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780826306418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic biography of one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth century.
Author: Seth Mallios
Publisher: Montezuma Publishing
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780744251067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An archaeological history of SDSU told through artifacts"--Book jacket.
Author: Maurice Collis
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780811214230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe convergence of Cortés and Montezuma is the most emblematic event in the birth of what would come to be called "America."
Author: Peter Moore
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0553816373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders will fall for a side of Italy rarely seen with the just-turned-forty Peter Moore rattling around the country on the back of an ageing Vespa scooter — like himself, a little rough around the edges, and a bit slow in the mornings perhaps, but basically still OK.
Author: Peter Moore
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780553813357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of No Shitting in the Toilet, this book chronicles the trials and delights of travelling across Central America and the Caribbean as a couple. They battle hurricanes, mosquitoes and over-sexed Mexican commuters to reach breathtaking Mayan sites and idyllic golden beaches.
Author: Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Published: 2014-05-27
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1612340652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlaces Aztec civilization and history in the context of world history Montezuma (ca. 1466-1520), who had been educated as a priest and had served well as a military commander, ascended to the Aztec throne in about 1502 on the basis of his military record and reputation for piety. As Peter G. Tsouras demonstrates, almost immediately Montezuma transformed himself from a man of good judgment to a pitiless autocrat. He killed indiscriminately at home and waged wars of conquest against his neighbors, adding territory in contemporary Honduras and Nicaragua to his empire. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico at the head of a Spanish expedition. Montezuma believed the invaders to be gods fulfilling the prophecy that the god Quetzalcoatl would return. He failed to resist and cautiously offered gifts. As a result, Cortés and the conquistadors marched on the capital and seized Montezuma. The monarch fell, surrendering his power, wealth, and even the sovereignty of his people, almost gladly. He became a puppet of the Spaniards and finally allied himself in battle against his own people. When the emperor's brother at last led an uprising, the ungrateful Spaniards killed Montezuma. Against the backdrop of ancient Mexico's rich cultural heritage, Tsouras captures the tragedy that befell Mexico during Montezuma's reign.
