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Author: Ilse Zandstra
Publisher: Llumina Press
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781605945699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the hardships a family endures as they flee from war-torn Latvia to settle in Montreal, Quebec. In 1990 they have the opportunity to visit their homeland and witness the changes that have occurred since they left.
Author: Jacey Bedford
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-01-11
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0756417708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccused of murdering the king, Valdas, Captain of the High Guard, goes on the run, while Mirza, a healer-witch, is given a task by Valdas' dead king, and Lind, the clever assassin responsible for the king's death, faces a traumatic past to have a future.
Author: Bruce Sutherland
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Published: 2008-09-26
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780953984077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStormrider Guides are the ultimate surf travel guide books, providing essential surfing information from around the world. Generally acknowledged as the finest surf travel books available, they are often referred to as The Surfers Bible. Now in one book, the Stormrider Surf Guide to Europe is the most comprehensive guide to where to surf in Europe available. All the heavyweight European countries are covered as well as the North Atlantic island chain plus Scandinavia. Containing detailed seasonal water temperatures and wetsuit recommendations, wave type, and wind and tide information, as well as tourist and cultural information, this book will be appreciated by surfers and non-surfers alike. Includes France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Italy, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Wales, England, Scotland, Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands.
Author: C. J. Schüler
Publisher: Sandstone Press Ltd
Published: 2020-02-27
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1912240920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Timely and powerful.' Financial Times Portable and expensive, amber has always been a desirable commodity. C.J. Schüler follows the historic Amber Route from St Petersburg to Venice through three millennia of history. Throughout his journey, current politics and his own family's experience of persecution and flight are never far from his mind.As he traces the greatest fault lines of European geopolitics and explores lands contested by Romans and Vandals, Teutons and Slavs, empires and the former Iron Curtain, Schüler must also confront his family history, Nazism and the Holocaust.
Author: Adrian Levy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-05-26
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 0802718094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of art has produced few works as ambitious and as valuable as the Amber Room. Famous throughout Europe as "the eighth wonder of the world," its vast and intricately worked amber panels were sent in 1717 by Frederick I of Prussia as a gift to Peter the Great of Russia. Erected some years later, they quickly became a symbol of Russia's imperial might. For more than two hundred years the Amber Room remained in its Russian palace outside St. Petersburg (Leningrad), but when the Nazi army invaded Russia and swept towards Leningrad in 1941, the panels were wrenched from the walls, packed into crates, and disappeared from view, never to be seen again. Dozens of people have tried to trace the whereabouts of the Amber Room, and several of them have died in mysterious circumstances. Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark have gone further along the trail of this great lost treasure than anyone before them, and have unraveled the jumble of evidence surrounding its fate. Their search catapulted them across eastern Europe and into the menacing world of espionage and counterespionage that still surrounds Russia and the former Soviet bloc. In archives in St. Petersburg and Berlin, amid boxes of hitherto unseen diaries, letters, and classified reports, they have uncovered for the first time an astounding conspiracy to hide the truth. In a gripping climax that is a triumph of detection and narrative journalism, The Amber Room shows incontrovertibly what really happened to the most valuable lost artwork in the world, and why the truth has been withheld for so long.
Author: Paolo Guccione
Publisher: Cubicle 7 Entertainment
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781907204630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the year 1206 AD. In the city of Riga, a Christian outpost in the pagan lands of the frozen North, Prince-Bishop Albert founds the Brotherhood of the Sword to subjugate the pagans and convert them to the True Faith. Twenty years later, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, the Stupor Mundi, decrees in his Golden Bull of Rimini that the lands conquered by the Teutonic Order in Prussia will belong to the warrior monks. Knights, friars and colonists from all over the Empire move towards the Baltic Sea to find forgiveness for their sins and commodities for their trade, as the Baltic coast is home to the strangest of the precious stones: Amber. The age of the Northern Crusades has begun. This book contains all the information required to run your Northern Crusade game with the Basic Roleplaying game system, including magic rules for the Christian crusaders and the pagan druids and witches, as well as game statistics for creatures of the Baltic folklore. Create your own scenarios, with your heroes siding either with the Crusading invaders or with the Baltic natives, or play through the included campaign that spans over several years of game time and takes you through the most important events of the Baltic epic.
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 1082
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan E. Haberle
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2003-07
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780736821773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the geography, history, economy, and culture of the Dominican Republic.
Author: Richard S. Prather
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1480499234
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