Lands that Hold One Spellbound

Lands that Hold One Spellbound

Author: Spencer Apollonio

Publisher: University of Calgary Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1552382400

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Offers an history of East Greenland. This book summarises indigenous settlements over four millennia and describes European explorations since the Norse. It recounts each of the European and American expeditions, relying on the explorers' original accounts, as well as on the author's narration.


The Country of the Blind / Das Land der Blinden (mit Audio)

The Country of the Blind / Das Land der Blinden (mit Audio)

Author: Herbert George Wells

Publisher: EasyOriginal Verlag

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 399112033X

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Entdecken Sie die Welt der Fremdsprachen auf eine ganz neue Weise mit der Lesemethode von Ilya Frank, perfekt für alle ab dem Sprachniveau A2. Diese innovative Methode kombiniert Originaltexte mit klaren, direkten Übersetzungen und bietet zusätzliche Erläuterungen direkt im Lesefluss, um ein tiefes Verständnis und schnelles Lernen zu fördern. Ob Sie Ihre Sprachkenntnisse verbessern oder in eine neue Sprache eintauchen möchten, diese Methode bietet ein einzigartiges und effektives Leseerlebnis. Dank der integrierten Hörbücher wird auch das Hörverständnis trainiert. Lesemethode von Ilya Frank ist ideal für alle, die ihre Sprachkenntnisse effektiv erweitern wollen, ohne den natürlichen Lesefluss zu unterbrechen. Entdecken Sie das packende Meisterwerk "The Country of the Blind" – eine Geschichte, die Sie in eine verborgene Welt entführt. In den abgelegenen Anden Ecuadors liegt das mysteriöse Tal des Blindenlandes, abgeschnitten von der Außenwelt durch eine katastrophale Naturkatastrophe. Hier hat sich eine Gemeinschaft von Blinden gebildet, die über Generationen hinweg in völliger Isolation lebt. Als Nuñez, ein Sehender, in ihr Tal stürzt, wird er mit einer Welt konfrontiert, in der Sehen nicht nur wertlos, sondern sogar ein Hindernis ist. Diese fesselnde Erzählung von H.G. Wells stellt grundlegende Fragen über Wahrnehmung, Anpassung und was es wirklich bedeutet, "zu sehen". Entdecken Sie die Spannungen zwischen Nuñez' Welt des Sehens und der einzigartigen Kultur der Blinden, in einem Tal, wo der Spruch "Im Land der Blinden ist der Einäugige König" auf die Probe gestellt wird. Ein Muss für jeden Literaturliebhaber, der sich nach einer Geschichte sehnt, die den Geist herausfordert und das Herz berührt. Ungekürzter Originaltext. Zweisprachiges Buch Englisch-Deutsch.


Half the Terrible Things

Half the Terrible Things

Author: Paul Legler

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 9781946163189

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Half the Terrible Things is an intimate, and sometimes violent, novel portraying three interconnected lives. Based on true events, the life of Martin Tabert is short and tragic. Martin Tabert is a young farm boy from Munich, North Dakota. While traveling around the country in 1922, he is pulled off a train near Tallahassee, Florida, charged with vagrancy, sentenced to a convict work camp, and whipped to death by the camp "Whipping Boss." His body is buried in an unknown location in wild swamp country. Eighty years later, his girlfriend Edna, ailing in a nursing home in Devils Lakes, North Dakota, asks her granddaughter Nicole to find his grave. Nicole is a young attorney with the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. She searches the Florida swamps while struggling with her own guilt stemming from her work at the Justice Department post 9/11. A young Arab man, wrongly suspected of being a terrorist, has died a brutal death while in U.S. custody and Nicole has been implicated.


The Archons of the Stars

The Archons of the Stars

Author: Alison Baird

Publisher: Aspect

Published: 2007-09-03

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0446510424

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- The first book in the Dragon Throne series, The Stone of the Stars (0-446-69098-8), was published in Aspect trade paperback in 2/04 and has already gone back to press for a second printing. The mass market edition will be published by Aspect in 7/05 and will tie in with this novel. The second novel in the series, The Empire of the Stars, will be published in Aspect trade paperback in 11/04. - Alison Baird, a highly decorated Canadian writer, is the author of The Witches of Willowmere (Penguin, 2002). The Wolves of Woden (Penguin, 2001), and The Hidden World (Penguin, 1999). She is a Silver Birch Award regional winner for The Dragon's Egg (Scholastic, 1994), received an Honorable Mention for the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror for Dragon Pearl (St. Martin's Press, 1996), and was a finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award for White as the Waves (Creative, 1999). - Dragons remain one of fantasy fiction's most popular creatures. The illustrated dragon cover will clearly position. The Archons of The Stars as fantasy, which outpaces science fiction in genre sales.


The Story of Earth

The Story of Earth

Author: Robert M. Hazen

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-04-26

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1101580682

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Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth’s many iterations in vivid detail—from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order. "A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." -Science "A fascinating story." -Bill McKibben


The Eye of the Queen

The Eye of the Queen

Author: Phillip Mann

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2011-09-29

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0575114878

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An extra-terrestrial way of death. When legendary linguist Marius Thorndyke visits the bizarre planet of Pe-Ellia, he is inexorably sucked into the local way of life, of sex, of death. Nearly twice our size, powerful, intelligent, skin-changing yet roughly humanoid, the alien Pe-Ellians are vulnerable - and deadly.