A MYSTERY NO ONE CAN SOLVEThe Vanishings started without warning. People disappearing into thin air - just piles of clothes left behind. Each day, thousands gone without a trace.A BABY NO ONE WANTEDMax was abandoned in a bookshop and grows up haunted by memories of his parents. Only he can solve the mystery of the Vanishings.A SECRET THAT COULD SAVE THE FUTURETo find the answers, Max must leave this world and enter the Beginning Woods. A realm of mag...

The artist's memoir on the making of Ah Pook is Here.Observed While Falling is the account of the creative interaction between author William S. Burroughs and artist Malcolm McNeill - a collaboration that began when McNeill was still in art school in London in 1970, and continued beyond the point when Burroughs himself was dead.The primary focus of their endeavors was Ah Pook is Here, a 'Word/Image Novel' concerning the Control of...

In Pursuit Of The "Mad" Mullah: Service And Sport In The Somali Protectorate is a compelling account by an officer who served in the Somali Protectorate. The book captures the excitement and challenges of war in an unfamiliar environment, focusing on the military campaign against the "Mad" Mullah and his forces. Interwoven with the military narrative are moments of personal reflection, including the author’s passion for sport, particularly hunting. The portrayal of the landscape, the fierc...

Photographer Mark Miller opened his studio in Fort Collins, Colorado, in 1914. The town he chose to live and work in sits in a river valley in northern Colorado, nestled between the Rocky Mountain foothills and the semiarid high plains, with Denver to the south and Cheyenne, Wyoming, to the north. Established as a Civil War'era army post, the town was a Wild West frontier outpost until it was tamed in the 1870s by the arrival of a land-grant college and the railroad. By the turn of the cen...

Carved eons ago by the Cache la Poudre River, the Poudre Canyon, north and west of Fort Collins, Colorado, has long been a favored recreation place, for fishing, hiking, camping, and more, of area residents and tourists. The canyon has many colorful tales to tell; this book takes readers on a drive through that history, milepost by milepost, stopping at historic places and taking some side trips along the way. Beginning with trappers and mountain men, the canyon has been traveled since the...

The river war: An account of the reconquest of the Sudan presents a reflection on conflict, power, and transformation within a region shaped by shifting political forces. The narrative traces the buildup to a major uprising, examining how social pressures, regional grievances, and competing authorities created conditions that sparked large-scale resistance. It describes the landscapes surrounding the Nile River, emphasizing how its fertile banks contrasted with the wider harsh terrain and ...

Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native peoples of East Africa and the Arabs and Europeans who variously fought, explored, and raided there in the course of the 19th century. The detailed text provides the dress, arms, organisation, and tactics of the protagonists, and includes sections on the foreign explorers and the forces of the British and German East African colonies. Illustrations include 124 drawings of warriors and soldiers.

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John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – Oxford, 16 February 1940) was a British traveller, scholar and journalist, 
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered chiefly for his travels in the Far East and Central Asia; especially the 1904 British exp...

I, Geronimo Stilton, traveled on the wings of the Dragon of Fortune back to the Kingdom of Fantasy! I was called there by my friend Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, who needed my help. The enchanted Winged Ring had gone missing! This was terrible news. The ring allows its owner to travel between the Kingdom of Fantasy and the real world-which would be a dangerous power if it fell into evil hands. Could I find the ring before it was too late?

In this gripping collection of first-hand accounts, Ian Knight presents the adventure of nineteenth-century warfare from the thrill of the cavalry charges at Balaklava and Omdurman, to the terror of battle against an overwhelming odds such as Rorke's Drift in the words of the men actually there.These eyewitness accounts provide a vivid and sometimes shocking insight into the brutal realities of warfare for the British imperial soldier, who fought against enemies from massed ranks of Russia...

The Nubian desert—The bitter well—Change of plans—An irascible dragoman—Pools of the Atbara—One secret of the Nile—At Cassala. In March, 1861, I commenced an expedition to discover the sources of the Nile, with the hope of meeting the East African expedition of Captains Speke and Grant, that had been sent by the English Government from the South via Zanzibar, for the same object. I had not the presumption to publish my intention, as the sources of the Nile had hitherto defied all explorers...

An interval of five years has elapsed since the termination of my engagement in the service of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, “to suppress the slave-hunters of Central Africa, and to annex the countries constituting the Nile Basin, with the object of opening those savage regions to legitimate commerce and establishing a permanent government.