Sacagawea - Girl of the Shining Mountains (Unabridged)
Автор: Peter Roop
Год издания: 0000
When Sacagawea's son asks her about her life, she isn't sure where to begin. Does she start with her birth as a Shoshoni? Her kidnapping by an enemy tribe at age eleven? Or her role as the famous guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition? She's seen and experienced more in her young life than most people ever will. Told from Sacagawea's point of view, this historical novel shares the ordeals of her youth along with the memory of her long, arduous journey west with Lewis and Clark. She shares her love of nature and explains how her loyalties have changed over time.
At the Mountains of Madness
Автор: Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless – or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures and the carved stones tens of millions of years old.
Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piemont
Автор: William Gilly
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piemont, in the year 1823, and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses, protestant inhabitants of the Cottian Alps : with maps, plates, and an appendix, containing copies of ancient manuscripts, and other interesting documents in illustration of the history and manners of that extraordinary people / by William Stephen Gilly».
At the Mountains of Madness
Автор: Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms. The extremely early date in the geological strata is surprising because of the highly-evolved features found in these previously unknown life-forms. Through a series of dark revelations, violent episodes, and misunderstandings, the group learns of Earth's secret history and legacy.<br>At the Mountains of Madness is a very good introduction to Lovecraft's mythology of the Old Ones and the glories and horrors that preceded humankind and that still linger in places. It is a good novella on it's own, and helpful to understanding events and creatures in his other works.<br><br>This new edition of Lovecraft's masterpiece includes two essays "Notes On Writing Weird Fiction" and "Supernatural Horror in Literature". <br><br>This book has been specially formatted for devices that support EPUB3.
Among the Red-skins: or, Over the Rocky Mountains
Автор: Kingston William Henry Giles
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