A stirring and compelling story, full of adventure, set against the background of the move to freedom in Africa. In the face of opposition, hatred, violence and death, the gentler human feelings of friendship and love are nonetheless maintained. Joseph Mahoney is the last Colonial Commissioner in the Kariba Gorge, faced with easing the transition to new rule. To complicate matters, his servant Samson has been accused of murder, and he is drifting apart from Suzie, whom he loves very deeply...

For many years hunters had tried to kill Dhlulamiti, but he had survived. An elephant some thirteen and a half feet tall – his name translated to ‘Taller than trees’ – and weighing in at twelve tons he was a giant even amongst the largest species of mammal ever to have inhabited the earth. In his early days, he had roamed the savannah in Africa as a killer, attacking every man that came his way, but now wiser thoughts prevailed. Inevitably, one day Dhlulamiti met up with Jumbo McGuire, a h...

James McQuade, a young handsome marine biologist sails on a whaler into the Antarctic. On board is Victoria Rhodes, one of a number of nurses, and James falls hopelessly in love with her. However, other members of the crew, who range from ordinary as seamen go to very rough personalities, also lust after Victoria. Her origins become the centre of attention and an air of mystery surrounds her. Following a return to port in Cape Town drama ensues and startling facts emerge. The author depict...

In America it is a time of rebuilding on a devestated continent. There is an empire in the east allied with underground science cities that survived with technology. In the west there are growing villages and alliances working without technology. A teacher of the invisible side of life sends one of his students to help King Tabak of Shas a kingdom known commonly as California Mountain. Moorn comes as an educator and counselor yet is seen as an enemy of the ferocious military leader of Shas...

A Pope is dead; his successor has just survived an assassination attempt; death is meted out in the South Atlantic with the explosive fury of Exocet missiles; a disgraced banker is found hanging under a London bridge; a row of US servicemen’s coffins is lined up in the Caribbean heat of Grenada …The events at first seem unconnected, but are linked by their shocking violence. And it is these events that take Jack Morgan back to the Caribbean island where the woman he was to have mar...

A magnificent novel of ambition, love and adventureIt had not been easy for Joe Mahoney to leave his beloved Rhodesia. All he possessed by the time he reached England was a battered cargo plane and a dream. From this slender beginning, Mahoney and his partner built the Rainbow – the project that would revolutionise the face of commercial flying.Mahoney had everything to gain and little enough to lose – but there were some very interested parties who planned to make certain ...

Returning home through a bog late one night, sixteen-year-old Dick Dodds passes a trail that for some reason sends a chill up his spine. He feels the same inexplicable terror the next day when he explores the trail further and meets a girl, Helen Johnson, who saw something that looked like a man with no arms or legs moving and gliding across the landscape. The mystery deepens when a local widow, Mrs Knowles, becomes convinced that something evil has emerged from the river near her house. W...

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.This commentary series delivers the best in biblical scholarship from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation.It emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence, resulting in judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These wide...

Accidental Ukrainians is a description of living through the Russo-Ukrainian War by US citizens living in Kyiv as non-combatants from the Battle of Kyiv (February 2022) through the first year of the full-scale invasion (February 2023). Featuring personal accounts of events on the ground and other background on Ukraine.Accidental Ukrainians enables you to witness the Russo-Ukrainian War from the viewpoint of US civilians on the ground, who went to Ukraine without a...

A heart-stopping adventure … A chilling Nazi legacy in today’s Southern Africa.A month after the end of World War II, a U-boat with a mysterious cargo founders off South West Africa’s treacherous Skeleton Coast. Two German Officers reach the surface and battle their way to the shore, but the bloody struggle that follows leaves one man murdered and the other facing a perilous journey across the terrible, burning sands…Forty years later, trawler captain James McQuade stumbles...

This poem was not written to bring fame, nor to waft a fortune; for, fame and fortune are but small incidents when compared with the higher things in life. It was composed more for pleasure—the pleasure of meditating on, and the commemorating of, the splendid people who were among the many fine early settlers of this state; and likewise to impart this joy to the readers who may peruse this little story of pioneer days. Then the old “Spelling Down”—once so common in schools and so brilliant...

Accidental Ukrainians: Part Two - Missile Mania is the ongoing account of two US citizens who were on the ground in Kyiv and Chernivtsi from February 2023 through February 2024. It details the ongoing missile attacks, some of their volunteer efforts to assist the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF), and personal details about their lives.Accidental Ukrainians: Missile Mania enables you to experience firsthand the escalation of missile and drone attacks on Kyiv. The book ...