The Kingdom And The Cave

Author : Joan Aiken
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0349005885
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kingdom and the Cave written by Joan Aiken and published by Virago. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Under People. They live in a huge Cave. They are thought to be boring upwards. Giant worms and flying ants. Underground magic.' Mickle, the palace cat, knows something is wrong. He can feel it in his whiskers. Then he finds scribbled notes revealing that the kingdom in danger. (Yes, of course he can read. And speak - when he chooses to!) Mickle can't trust the King and Queen with his mission, so he approaches Prince Michael and together, with the wise old mare Minerva, they set out on a perilous search to find the sinister Under People before they can invade Astalon.

Author : José Saramago
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547537980
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cave written by José Saramago and published by HMH. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unassuming family struggles to keep up with the ruthless pace of progress in “a genuinely brilliant novel” from a Nobel Prize winner (Chicago Tribune). A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book Cipriano Algor, an elderly potter, lives with his daughter Marta and her husband Marçal in a small village on the outskirts of The Center, an imposing complex of shops, apartments, and offices. Marçal works there as a security guard, and Cipriano drives him to work each day before delivering his own humble pots and jugs. On one such trip, he is told not to make any more deliveries. People prefer plastic, apparently. Unwilling to give up his craft, Cipriano tries his hand at making ceramic dolls. Astonishingly, The Center places an order for hundreds, and Cipriano and Marta set to work—until the order is cancelled and the penniless trio must move from the village into The Center. When mysterious sounds of digging emerge from beneath their new apartment, Cipriano and Marçal investigate; what they find transforms the family’s life, in a novel that is both “irrepressibly funny” (The Christian Science Monitor) and a “triumph” (The Washington Post Book World). “The struggle of the individual against bureaucracy and anonymity is one of the great subjects of modern literature, and Saramago is often matched with Kafka as one of its premier exponents. Apt as the comparison is, it doesn’t convey the warmth and rueful human dimension of novels like Blindness and All the Names. Those qualities are particularly evident in his latest brilliant, dark allegory, which links the encroaching sterility of modern life to the parable of Plato’s cave . . . [a] remarkably generous and eloquent novel.” —Publishers Weekly Translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408839180
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bear in the Cave written by Michael Rosen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very happy bear hears the sounds of the city from his quiet home by the sea and decides to find out what city life is like. Buying the ticket and travelling on the train is all very exciting. And so is the city! But after a while the bear finds the city a little too noisy and a little too busy - and people are beginning to laugh at him. He feels very sad and alone, until four children find him and show him the way home, with much fun along the way. A perfect book for reading aloud, with just the right amount of excitement before a wonderfully calming ending - just right for reading before bedtime! Brilliantly read by Michael Rosen. Please note that audio is not supported by all devices, please consult your user manual for confirmation.

Author : Edward Packard
Publisher : Skylark
ISBN 13 : 9780553269659
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cave of Time written by Edward Packard and published by Skylark. This book was released on 1982-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader, lost in a strange cave, decides how the story comes out.

Author : William Stone
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446561273
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Deep written by William Stone and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Huautla in Mexico is the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere, possibly the world. Shafts reach skyscraper-depths, caverns are stadium-sized, and sudden floods can drown divers in an instant. With a two-decade obsession, William Stone and his 44-member team entered the sinkhole at Sotano de San Augustin. The first camp settled 2,328 feet below ground in a cavern where headlamps couldn't even illuminate the walls and ceiling. The second camp teetered precariously above an underground canyon where two subterranean rivers collided. But beyond that lay the unknown territory -- a flooded corridor that had blocked all previous comers, claimed a diver's life, and drove the rest of the team back. Except for William Stone and Barbara am Ende, who forged on for 18 more days, with no hope of rescue, to set the record for the deepest cave dive in the Western Hemisphere.

Author : Michael Dahl
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434204898
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cave of the Bookworms written by Michael Dahl and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, after awakening from a terrible dream, a young boy heads out on his bike. The boy does not know where he is going, but he feels pushed in one direction. Soon he arrives at a mysterious cave, which he feels an urge to explore. Inside, a giant, deadly worm has trapped the Librarian! Now the boy is in danger as well.

Author : E. a. Budge Budge
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596053356
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Cave of Treasures written by E. a. Budge Budge and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And in the days of Nimrod, the mighty man (or giant), a fire appeared which ascended from the earth, and Nimrod went down, and looked at it, and worshipped it, and he established priests to minister there, and to cast incense from it. From that day the Persians began to worship fire...-from "The Fourth Thousand Years"One of the most prolific and respected Egyptologists of the Victorian era, Budge here offers his translation of the 4th-century A.D. Syrian text commonly known as "the Cave of Treasures," a history of the world from the Creation to the crucifixion of Christ and considered by some to be an apocryphal book of the Bible. Budge's extensive notes, linking the work to other ancient writings, as well as the numerous illustrations, make this unusual work, first published in 1927, an excellent resource for students of ancient civilizations and comparative mythology.SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was curator of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities at the British Museum from 1894 to 1924. Among his many works of translation and studies of ancient Egyptian religion and ritual is his best-known project, The Egyptian Book of the Dead.

Author : Jean Clottes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cave Beneath the Sea written by Jean Clottes and published by . This book was released on 1996-03-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An underwater cave containing Paleolithic paintings and engravings of animals, complex geomatric signs, stenciled human hands and innumerable finger tracing.

Author : Jeff Wilser
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062087258
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Man Cave Book written by Jeff Wilser and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man Cave Book by Mike Yost and Jeff Wilser is a tribute to great and glorious man spaces and the craftsmen behind them. Complete with instructions and insights into creating your own unique refuge and shrine to beer, sports, and everything else that's right with the world, The Man Cave Book is an essential manual for any man cave enthusiast.

Author : Júlia Sardà
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 153622054X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queen in the Cave written by Júlia Sardà and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there were three sisters: Franca, Carmela, and Tomasina. This is their story of adventure and discovery. A tale of hidden mysteries and new wonders, of finding a strange world beyond home and unlocking the secrets inside themselves.