The Accursed Land; Or, First Steps on the Water-way of Edom
Author: Sir Henry Edward Colvile
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston ; Searle & Rivington
Published: 1884
Total Pages: 340
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Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston ; Searle & Rivington
Published: 1884
Total Pages: 340
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lennard Bickel
Publisher: Canelo + ORM
Published: 2021-09-23
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1800325487
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sir Edmund Hillary described Douglas Mawson’s epic and punishing journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland as ‘the greatest story of lone survival in polar exploration’. This Accursed Land tells that story; how Mawson declined to join Captain Robert Scott’s ill-fated British expedition and instead lead a three-man husky team to explore the far eastern coastline of the Antarctic continent. But the loss of one member and most of the supplies soon turned the hazardous trek into a nightmare. Mawson was trapped 320 miles from base with barely nine days’ food and nothing for the dogs. Eating poisoned meat, watching his body fall apart, crawling over chasms and crevices of deadly ice, his ultimate and lone struggle for survival, starving, poisoned, exhausted and indescribably cold, is an unforgettable story of human endurance. Grippingly told by Lennard Bickel, this is the most extraordinary journey from the brutal golden age of Antarctic exploration. Perfect for fans of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or Michael Palin’s Erebus.
Author: Henry Edward Colvile
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-22
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ISBN-13: 9781358608841
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Author: Roger Crowley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0300248857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immediacy, Roger Crowley chronicles the tumultuous and violent attack on Acre, the heaviest bombardment before the age of gunpowder, which left this once great Mediterranean city a crumbling ruin.The ‘Accursed Tower’ was the focal point of this siege. As the last garrison of the Crusader defences, it came to symbolise the disintegration of the old world and the rise of a new era of Islamic jihad. Crowley’s narrative is based on forensic research, drawing heavily on little known first hand sources, both Christian and Arabic. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of a pivotal moment in world history.
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2020-03-16
Total Pages: 29
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'An Accursed Race' is a non-fiction book written by the English author Elizabeth Gaskell, best-remembered today for writing the first biography of Charlotte Bronte. Here, she discusses a group of people called the Cagots, which were a persecuted minority found in the west of France and northern Spain: the Navarrese Pyrenees, Basque provinces, Béarn, Aragón, Gascony and Brittany. They were groups of people who didn't necessarily have shared ancestry or religion, yet they were shunned and hated. While restrictions varied by time and place, many discriminatory actions were codified into law in France in 1460 and they were typically required to live in separate quarters. Cagots were excluded from various political and social rights. Few consistent reasons were given as to why they were hated; accusations varied from Cagots being cretins, lepers, heretics, cannibals, sorcerers, werewolves, sexual deviants, to actions they were accused of such as poisoning wells, or for simply being intrinsically evil.
Author: Rae S. Vaughn
Publisher: Haughawout Company
Published: 2018-10-28
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780692150276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 1512
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Chicago Public Library
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Published: 1895
Total Pages: 800
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