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First published serially and then into a book in 1879, “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains” is one of the many accounts of Isabella L. Bird’s amazing travels and adventures. Born in Yorkshire, England in 1831, Bird was never formally educated and was often sickly as a child, but she was an avid reader and loved the outdoors. In 1854, at the age of twenty-two, she left a comfortable life in England for her first trip abroad to America. She fell in love with discovering new places and defied tradition while undertaking grand adventures as an unmarried woman. Bird went onto travel to Australia and Hawaii, while publishing several accounts of her experiences, before finding her way to Colorado. “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, her fourth publication and her most famous, contains the account of six months of her travels in 1873 through the rugged terrain of the Colorado Rockies. The book is based upon her colorful letters sent back home to her sister and the account relates the many hardships of the great western frontier, the unique characters she meets, and the incredible natural world she found in the newly settled western territories. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

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.

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».

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&#39;s secret history and legacy.<br>At the Mountains of Madness is a very good introduction to Lovecraft&#39;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&#39;s own, and helpful to understanding events and creatures in his other works.<br><br>This new edition of Lovecraft&#39;s masterpiece includes two essays &quot;Notes On Writing Weird Fiction&quot; and &quot;Supernatural Horror in Literature&quot;.&Acirc; <br><br>This book has been specially formatted for devices that support EPUB3.