Burning Road

Author : Ann Benson
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 030777810X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Road written by Ann Benson and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Plague Tales comes a spellbinding new novel that sweeps from medieval France to America in the year 2007—interweaving two gripping stories and two extraordinary eras.... In fourteenth-century France, pockets of plague still bring death to peasants and noblemen alike. Amid the fury and the chaos, Dr. Alejandro Canches searches for a safe haven, accompanied by his foster child, Kate—the illegitimate daughter of Edward Plantagenet. But both disease and human enemies pursue them, and their only hope for survival is a rebel leader... and medical secrets that lie hidden in an ancient manuscript. Seven hundred years later, Dr. Janie Crowe is searching for the cure for a crippling disease in a world where genetic engineering has gone mad. A repressive government wants to stop her, unnamed benefactors want to help her, and time is running out to find answers linking two dark eras, two dedicated doctors, and one miraculous book....

Author : Harry Sidebottom
Publisher : Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1785769707
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Road written by Harry Sidebottom and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadow of Sicily's Mount Etna, a brutal rebellion is about to erupt . . . The scorching new historical thriller from Sunday Times bestseller and Ancient Rome expert, Harry Sidebottom. 'What Bernard Cornwell is to the Napoleonic Wars, Harry Sidebottom is to Roman legions: unassailable' - THE TIMES ______________________ AD265 - Sicily, Ancient Rome: In the shadow of Mount Etna, slaves are rising up. As the rebel leader declares Sicily the new land of the free, men and women are slaughtered, and cities across the island are sacked and burned. When a ship is wrecked off the island's west coast, all but two survivors are cut down in the surf by the rebel slaves. Ballista, an experienced Roman soldier, has always found a way to survive against the odds - but his son Marcus is still just a boy. With the burning road stretching out ahead of them, father and son must cross the war-ravaged island in a race against time to save the rest of his family, and somehow find a way to extinguish the brutal rebellion, before it all goes up in flames. THE BURNING ROAD is the scorching new thriller from one of the world's best historical novelists - for fans of Simon Scarrow, Conn Iggulden, Ben Kane and Bernard Cornwell. ____________________________ Praise for Harry Sidebottom's historical thrillers: 'A storming triumph' - DAILY TELEGRAPH 'An extraordinarily vivid take on the ancient world' - EVENING STANDARD 'Absorbing, rich in detail and brilliant' - THE TIMES 'Relentless, brutal, brilliant' - BEN KANE

Author : Nandini Sundar
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788731476
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning Forest written by Nandini Sundar and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burning Forest is an empathetic, moving account of what drives indigenous peasants to support armed struggle despite severe state repression, including lives lost, homes and communities destroyed. Over the past decade, the heavily forested,mineral-rich region of Bastar in central India has emerged as one of the most militarized sites in the country. The government calls the Maoist insurgency the "biggest security threat" to India. In 2005, a state-sponsored vigilante movement, the Salwa Judum, burnt hundreds of villages, driving their inhabitants into state-controlled camps, drawing on counterinsurgency techniques developed in Malaysia, Vietnam and elsewhere. Apart from rapes and killings, hundreds of 'surrendered' Maoist sympathisers were conscripted as auxiliaries. The conflict continues to this day, taking a toll on the lives of civilians, security forces and Maoist cadres. In 2007, Sundar and others took the Indian government to the Supreme Court over the human rights violations arising out ofthe conflict. In a landmark judgment, the Court in 2011 banned state supportfor vigilantism. The Burning Forest describes this brutal war in the heart of India, and what it tells us about the courts, media and politics of the country. The result is a granular and critical ethnography of Indian democracy over a decade.

Author : Stephanie Nikolopoulos
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781329179059
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burning Furiously Beautiful: The True Story of Jack Kerouac's on the Road written by Stephanie Nikolopoulos and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fueled by coffee and pea soup, Jack Kerouac speed-typed ""On the Road"" in just three weeks in April 1951. He'd been traveling America for the past ten years and now, at last, the furious energy of his experiences flowed through his fingertips in a mad rush, pealing forth on a makeshift scroll that he laboriously taped together. The ""On the Road scroll"" has since become literary legend, and now ""Burning Furiously Beautiful"" sets the record straight, uncovering, among other things, the true story behind one of America's greatest novels. ""Burning Furiously Beautiful"" explores the real lives of the key characters of the novel. Ride along on the real-life adventures through 1940s America that inspired ""On the Road."" By tracing the evolution of Kerouac's literary development and revealing his startlingly original writing style, this book explains how it took years-not weeks-to ultimately write the seemingly sporadic 1957 novel, ""On the Road.""

Author : Cary J. Griffith
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452956820
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gunflint Burning written by Cary J. Griffith and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 5, 2007, two days into his twenty-seventh trip to the Boundary Waters, Stephen Posniak found a perfect spot on Ham Lake and set about making a campfire. Over the next two weeks, the fire he set would consume 75,000 acres of forest and 144 build

Author : United States. Bureau of Public Lands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Work of the Public Roads Administration written by United States. Bureau of Public Lands and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Bureau of Public Roads written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brookline (Mass.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasurer's Report ... written by Brookline (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147383449X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burning of Moscow written by Alexander Mikaberidze and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As soon as Napoleon and his Grand Army entered Moscow, on 14 September 1812, the capital erupted in flames that eventually engulfed and destroyed two thirds of the city. The fiery devastation had a profound effect on the Grand Army, but for thirty-five days Napoleon stayed, making increasingly desperate efforts to achieve peace with Russia. Then, in October, almost surrounded by the Russians and with winter fast approaching, he abandoned the capital and embarked on the long, bitter retreat that destroyed his army. The month-long stay in Moscow was a pivotal moment in the war of 1812 the moment when the initiative swung towards the Tsar's armies and spelled doom for the invading Grand Army yet it has rarely been studied in the same depth as the other key events of the campaign.Alexander Mikaberidze, in this third volume of his in-depth reassessment of the war between the French and Russian empires, emphasizes the importance of the Moscow fire and shows how Russian intransigence sealed the fate of the French army. He uses a vast array of French, German, Polish and Russian memoirs, letters and diaries as well as archival material in order to tell the dramatic story of the Moscow fire. Not only does he provide a comprehensive account of events, looking at them from both the French and Russian points of view, but he explores the Russians' motives for leaving, then burning their capital. Using extensive eyewitness accounts, he paints a vivid picture of the harsh reality of life in the remains of the occupied city and describes military operations around Moscow at this turning point in the campaign.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416548718
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burning Tower written by Larry Niven and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the "vivid and unusual" (Kirkus Reviews) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Burning City, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected for the first time in their history. Unfortunately, a fiery fate isn't the only danger the town is facing. From out of the desert come monsters -- great birds with blades instead of wings, driven by some unknown force. Although they can be killed, the threat these terror birds pose is worse than death. Danger on the roads means no trade. No trade means that Tep's Town will be no more. Sent by the Lords of Lordshills to discover the source of the terror birds, Lord Sandry and his beloved, Burning Tower, must travel into a world where magic is still strong -- and where someone or something waits to destroy them! Filled with the sweeping adventure, memorable characters, and imaginative world-building that have defined the novels of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, Burning Tower is another triumph.