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Nepal Himalaya
The most mountainous of a singularly mountainous country.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Throughout 1949 and 1950 H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal and its Himalayan mountains, taking advantage of some of the first access to the country for Western travellers in the 20th century. Tilman and his party—including a certain Tenzing Norgay—trekked into the...
by Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Seabury Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Weird Tales' launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, 'Weird Tales' was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. 'Weird Tales' single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer...
by H. W. Collingwood, Golden Deer Classics, Hans Christian Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
CONTENTS H. W. COLLINGWOOD 1. Indian Pete's Christmas Gift HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 2. The Fir-Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 3. The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN 4. The Little Match Girl HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 5. Betty's Bright Idea HARRIET BEECHER STOWE 6. Christmas In Poganuc...
by Poonja, Sri H. W. L.
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
This 136-page introduction is a selection of poetry and prose from The Truth Is - a 560-page volume of "satsangs," or truths, from renowned Indian guru Sri H. W. L. Poonja- distills the essence of Poonja's teachings in a shorter, more portable collection.
Two Mountains and a River
I made a resolve not to begin climbing until assured by a plague of flies that summer had really come
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
H.W. Tilman’s Two Mountains and a River picks up where Mount Everest 1938 left off. In this instalment of adventures, Tilman and two Swiss mountaineers set off for the Gilgit region of the Himalaya with the formidable objective of an attempt on the giant Rakaposhi (25,550 feet). However, this project...
Don't Tread on Me
A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
• Did America win its independence because British generals were too busy canoodling with their mistresses?
• Should America have annexed Mexico—all of it—and Cuba too?
• Did 1776 justify Southern secession in the nineteenth century?
• Should Patton have been promoted...
The Age of Gold
The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
The California Gold Rush inspired a new American dream—the “dream of instant wealth, won by audacity and good luck.” The discovery of gold on the American River in 1848 triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. It drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth,...
The Devil We Knew
Americans and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1994
In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so low, writes H.W. Brands, that it could...
Mischief in Patagonia
An intolerable deal of sea, one halfpennyworth of mountain
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives’ heads steam when they eat marmalade.'
So responded H. W. ‘Bill’ Tilman to his own realisation...
by Rev. Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
The authors are: Billy Graham, Adrian Rogers, John A. Huffman, Jr., Thomas K. Tewell, James Kennedy, William Bouknight, Reverend Chuck Smith, Michael W. Foss, Robert Anthony Schuller, Robert H. Schuller, Dr. Roger Swearington. Why bad things happen to good people is a topic that has increasingly captured...
by H. W. Buzz Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
EPIC Award Winner
If you live in the Pacific Northwest, get ready to run for your life . . .
In the face of a massive earthquake and tsunami in the Pacific Northwest, a respected geologist must make two gut-wrenching decisions. One could cost him his reputation, the other, his life.
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by Poonja, H. W. L.
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2000
A collection of spontaneous "satsangs," or truths, spoken from Sri H. W. L. Poonja's experience of the highest and yet simplest truth: that we are pure love and consciousness, the totality of existence. Reveals thousands of ways to help us inquire into who we really are, to bring our awareness into the infinity of the moment, and surrender to the wisdom of our Truth.
by L. W. King, H. R. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
First published in 1906. Continuation of Maspero's History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria. Volume 13 of that series. The thirteen-book series includes over 1200 illustrations. This volume covers: Discovery of Prehistoric Egypt, Abydos and the First Three Dynasties, Memphis and the...
Ice with Everything
In climbing mountains or sailing the seas one often has to settle for less than one hoped.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
‘For most men, as Epicurus has remarked, rest is stagnation and activity madness. Mad or not, the activity that I have been pursuing for the last twenty years takes the form of voyages to remote, mountainous regions.’
H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s fourteenth book describes three more of those...