A Far Horizon

Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006184070X
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Far Horizons written by Robert Silverberg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven science fiction stories from noted authors exploring some of their most popular worlds. The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single novel. Here, science fiction’s most beloved and highly honored writers revisit their best-known worlds in perhaps the greatest concentration of science fiction ever in one volume. Featuring stories by: Ursula K. Le Guin Joe Halderman Orson Scott Card David Brin Robert Silverberg Dan Simmons Nancy Kress Frederik Pohl Gregory Benford Anne McCaffrey Greg Bear Praise for Far Horizons “Editor Silverberg here does for science fiction series what he did for fantasy sagas in Legends: Stories by the Masters of Modern Fantasy by presenting eleven noted authors of famous series, each exploring some aspect of theirs that they did not find a way of dealing with in the books of the series proper. . . . The stories remain true to their universes and characters, so they deliver good first-contact experiences for series novices as well as happy reading for longtime fans.” —Booklist “A sampler of the best of the genre. Highly recommended for series fans and newcomers alike and a good choice for most sf collections.” —Library Journal “An ideal combination of the reassuringly familiar and the excitingly new: should prove as popular as its fantasy predecessor.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Charles Cleland
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514428644
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Far Horizon written by Charles Cleland and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Far Horizon is based upon the true life story of Alexander Henry, abrave and adventurous young man who, as a fur trader, dared to risk his life andfortune on the vast lakes and in dark forests of the Great Lakes frontier. Henryslife, far from the comforts of the American colonies he left behind, was so dangerousthat he was no stranger to the threat of death. As he pursued his fur trade venture duringthe years between 1760 and 1765, he nearly drowned, starved, and froze to death, andon several occasions, barely escaped being killed by hostile Indians. He was lost, alonein the winter forest, had escaped the charge of a great bear, and was taken prisoner inan Indian attack. Henry survived and prospered not only by his own strength and courage but also withthe love and support of his adopted Indian family. Not only did he share the risk andhardships of his family but also came to know and respect the enduring beauty andharmony of Ojibwe culture.

Author : Tony Park
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1509862749
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Far Horizon written by Tony Park and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far Horizon by Tony Park, the author of Red Earth, is a full-throttle international thriller that will engross fans of Clive Cussler. Mike Williams is leading a supposedly carefree life as an overland tour guide in Africa. But just a year ago, the former Australian Army officer had endured the brutal death of his girlfriend at the hands of ivory hunters in Mozambique. Now the South African Police are on the murderers' trail and need Mike's help. But he has a truckload of tourists who have no idea what has been asked of him . . . although one passenger has her suspicions. Following a chase through some of Africa's most spectacular locations, Mike gets his shot at revenge . . . but at what cost?

Author : Michael Prescott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786771452
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Far Horizon written by Michael Prescott and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century and a half, a wealth of evidence has emerged that is consistent, at least, with the hypothesis of life after death. -Near-death experiences -Deathbed visions -Mediumship -Apparitions -Past-life memories, and memories of a between-lives state Yet even those who are inclined to take this evidence seriously may struggle to make sense of it. How can the idea of an afterlife be integrated into our everyday experience? How can we connect the seemingly nebulous notion of postmortem survival with the hard, tangible reality of life on earth? Through metaphors, images, and analogies-illustrated with dozens of documented cases drawn from the literature of parapsychology-this book suggests ways of looking at life beyond death, not as a baffling anomaly, but as a logical extension of our experience of reality here and now. The hope is that we can learn to see reports of an afterlife as something more than mere ghost stories ... and to sharpen the focus of our gaze on "The Far Horizon."

Author : Pamela Sisman Bitterman
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299201937
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing to the Far Horizon written by Pamela Sisman Bitterman and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-08-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.

Author : Frank Gardner
Publisher : CCV Digital
ISBN 13 : 9781446421161
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Far Horizons written by Frank Gardner and published by CCV Digital. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yvonne Whittal
Publisher : Harlequin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780373115945
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Far Horizons written by Yvonne Whittal and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barry Lopez
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525656219
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horizon written by Barry Lopez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES • NPR • THE GUARDIAN From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica. Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780800074142
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Their Eyes Were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gretta Curran Browne
Publisher : Eighty-Eight Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780992737436
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Far Horizon written by Gretta Curran Browne and published by Eighty-Eight Publications. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two in THE MACQUARIE SERIES A stand-alone novel, and also the second novel in The Macquarie Series As a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing. A firm hand is needed, but when he arrives Lachlan surprises the population by showing them he is not only firm, he is also fair. George Jarvis, now grown to a young man, travels with him, and it is there George meets Mary Neely, a young, embittered English girl, who falls in love with George and learns from him about the goodness of life. Set in the early nineteenth century, The Far Horizon is a story about the genesis of a nation, and the man who turned a convict colony into a country, and named it Australia.