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Product Description: Praise for David Roberts: “This is first-rate fun, informed by telling period detail.”—Publishers Weekly “I recommend this one heartily for history-mystery devotees.”—Booklist February, 1939. Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne are invited to Clivenden in Buckinghamshire, renowned as the headquarters for those prepared to go to any lengths to avert war...read more

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Amazon.com Review: Oh, fans of Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, are you ready for British author Philip Ardagh's Eddie Dickens Trilogy? Snicket-ites will find it impossible to ignore the similarities to their beloved series about three orphans who undergo much hardship with little hope of relief...read more

While visiting a distant town, the site of this year's Tap 'n' Type typing competition, the McNally family discover that many strange things are going on there--including the sudden and unexpected breakout of large holes in the area. Reprint.

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David Roberts, one of the most famous landscape artists of the nineteenth century, published 248 gorgeous lithographs in London between 1842 and 1849 taken from sketches done in Egypt, Nubia, and the Holy Land. In this album, some of the famous panels have been collected from those done by the great Scottish painter during his visits to Egypt.

An account of the lesser-known successful Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish in 1680 discusses the search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola that led to the oppression of Native Americans in the Southwest, recounting how a San Juan shaman united traditionally autonomous pueblos in the uprising. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Follows the author's reconstruction of the survival story of four eighteenth-century Russian sailors who were shipwrecked on the barren Arctic island of Svalbard for six years.

An archaeological examination of the disappearance of the Anasazi considers the various theories about their departure from the Southwest and probes their history, culture, and architecture

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Happening upon a restaurant that serves a strange selection of food, Paul Mouse gathers his friends, Sandra the Christmas tree ornament and Rowley Barker Hobbs the sheepdog, to put a campaign in motion to change their menu in order to make 'mouse noses on toast' a thing of the past.

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Product Description: When the Nazis seize Austria in March 1938, Verity Browne is deported as a well-known anti-Fascist. Before she leaves she is able to arrange for a young Jewish man to escape, but where he expects safety, he finds danger and sudden death...read more

Product Description: This third edition of Live & Work in Japan is essential reading for anyone planning to spend some time working in this fascinating country. The section on living in Japan describes everything from visa requirements and the health system to how to learn the language...read more

While listening to Uncle Montague's spooky tales, his young nephew Edward begins to wonder how he can remember frightful things in such detail as a series of strange events start to unfold around him.

Looking after the House of Fun can be a hard job, now the Spoonheads have sucked all the grown-ups into the space zoo. Stinky and Icky decide they need a holiday. But Stinky doesn't seem to have a spare pair of pants. And when Bryan and Icky shrink to the size of nits, they face a bizarre and dangerous journey.

It is December, and Stinky and friends hit on the idea of inviting everyone they know to the House of Fun for Christmas. They invite all their friends. At this point the Brain Drain arrives. Icky, Stinky and Bryan all give brains. Next day, replies start arriving from their invitations. They realize they no longer remember what Christmas is.

Every day is a holiday in the weird House of Fun, now that the grown-ups have been sucked up into the Spoonheads' space zoo. When three of Bryan's malted milk biscuits go missing, Stinky and Icky couldn't care less. But when Old Faithful, Stinky's favourite jumper disappears, they know there's a thief about. Surely, a thief with no sense of smell.

In 1937, Mount Lucania was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. Located deep within the Saint Elias mountain range, which straddles the border of Alaska and the Yukon, and surrounded by glacial peaks, Lucania was all but inaccessible. The leader of one failed expedition deemed it "impregnable." But in that year, a pair of daring young climbers would attempt a first ascent, not knowing that their quest would turn into a perilous struggle for survival. Escape from Lucania is their remarkable story. Classmates and fellow members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, Brad Washburn and Bob Bates were two talented young men -- handsome, intelligent, and filled with a zest for exploring. Both were ambitious climbers, part of a small group whose first ascents in the great mountain ranges during the 1930s and 1940s changed the face of American mountaineering. Setting their sights on summitting Lucania in the summer of 1937, Washburn and Bates put together a team of four climbers for the expedition. But when Bates and Washburn flew to the Walsh Glacier at the foot of Lucania, they discovered that freakish weather conditions had turned the ice to slush. Their pilot was barely able to take off again alone, and there was no question of returning with the other two climbers or more supplies. Washburn and Bates found themselves marooned on the glacier, more than a hundred miles from help, in forbidding and desolate territory. Eschewing a trek out to the nearest mining town -- eighty miles away by air -- they decided to press ahead with their expedition. Escape from Lucania recounts Washburn and Bates's determined drive toward Lucania's 17,150-foot summit under constant threat of avalanches, blinding snowstorms, and hidden crevasses. Against awesome odds they became the first to set foot on Lucania's peak, not realizing that their greatest challenge still lay beyond. Nearly a month after being stranded on the glacier and with their supplies running dangerously low, they would have to navigate their way out through uncharted Yukon territory, racing against time as the summer warmth caused rivers to swell and flood to unfordable depths. But even as their situation grew more and more desperate, they refused to give up. Escape from Lucania tells this amazing story in thrilling and vivid detail, from the climbers' exultation at reaching the summit to their darkest moments confronting seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It is a tale of awesome adventure and harrowing danger. But above all it is the story of two men of extraordinary spirit, inspiring comradeship, and great courage. Today Washburn and Bates, now in their nineties, are legends in climbing circles. Bates co-led 1938 and 1953 expeditions to K2, the world's second-highest mountain. Washburn, whose record of Alaskan first ascents is unmatched, became founding director of Boston's Museum of Science and is one of the premier mountain photographers in the world. Some of his remarkable images from the 1937 Lucania expedition are included in this book.

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Once a month--every week in the summer--Steve the electrician dons special gear and, with the help of youngsters who live in his building, dives into a dumpster seeking useful objects that they can transform into imaginative new ones.