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This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

Famous Cavalry Leaders is a collection of biographies of famous generals throughout the ages. Biographies include Genghis Khan, George Custer, Saladin, and more. The original illustrations are included.

Flanked on the east and west by the world’s two largest oceans, the United States has needed little more for its territorial defense. Nonetheless, the U.S. military had early expanded far beyond what was needed to insure security from external threats. Concomitant with the rapid growth of U.S. industry...

But if we return not from our adventure," ended Sir Mortimer, "if the sea claims us, and upon his sandy floor, amid his Armida gardens, the silver-singing mermaiden marvel at that wreckage which was once a tall ship and at those bones which once were animate,--if strange islands know our...

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A dramatic picturesque story of the time of the Steward uprising in Scotland. Two friends, sons of Scottish lairds, love each other as David and Jonathan. The one, handsome and brilliant, betrays his friends sweetheart, who drowns herself in the Kelpie pool. The remainder of the story is the pursuit of her love to find the now hated foe who has gone to fight for James Stewart.

A tale of romance and political intrigue at the dawn of the 19th century.

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A tale of adventure and romance set years ago, among tribesmen and then among church men. This is a strange tale of love, adventure, and religion.

The tobacco-roller and his son pitched their camp beneath a gum tree upon the edge of the wood. It was October, and the gum was the colour of blood. Behind it rolled the autumn forest; before it stretched a level of broom-sedge, bright ochre in the light of the setting sun. The road ran across this golden...

A Virginian story laid in the 18th century. Audrey is an orphan, a dreamy child of nature, the protege of Marmaduke Haward, a gallant young Virginia planter. She becomes the rival of the famous beauty, Evelyn Byrd, for Haward's love.

The speaker shaded her eyes with a great fan of carved ivory and painted silk. They were beautiful eyes; large, brown, perfect in shape and expression, and set in a lovely, imperious, laughing face. The divinity to whom they belonged was clad in a gown of green dimity, flowered with pink roses, and...

The town of Middle Forest had long since pushed the forest from all sides. Its streets, forked as lightning, ran up to the castle and down to the river. The river here was near its mouth, and wide. The bridge that crossed it had many arches. Below the bridge quite large craft, white and brown and...