The Sacred Vault

Author : Andy McDermott
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553593641
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Vault written by Andy McDermott and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DARING HEIST. A PRICELESS ARTIFACT. A SECRET LOCKED SAFELY AWAY—UNTIL NOW. When Michelangelo’s David is stolen from its museum in Florence, it’s only the latest in a series of audacious raids on the world’s greatest treasures. But American archaeologist Nina Wilde and her husband, ex-mercenary Eddie Chase, discover the raiders’ ultimate target when the Talonor Codex—a cryptic travel journal that Nina found in Atlantis—is snatched from a well-guarded exhibition right in front of their eyes. The codex holds clues to the location of the Vault of Shiva and its mythical contents: the chronicles of the ancient Hindu god of destruction himself. From a deadly shootout in San Francisco to a hidden valley in the snowbound Himalayas, Nina and Eddie must run a labyrinthine gauntlet of ruthless killers, corrupted faiths, and twisted ambitions to reach the sacred vault ahead of a cunning billionaire with a plot to remake the world—after he brings this one crashing down.

Author : Andy McDermott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780755354665
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred Vault written by Andy McDermott and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth brilliant book from Andy McDermott - Clive Cussler's heir apparent. The world is in shock when Michelangelo's David is stolen from a museum in Florence, Italy. The latest in a series of audacious thefts of historical treasures, it's only a matter of time before another priceless artefact is targeted. When the Talonor Codex - a great Atlantean explorer's account of his travels - is stolen, it becomes clear that the thefts form only part of the raiders' ultimate plan. The codex holds clues to the location of the Vault of Shiva and its fabled contents - the legendary Shiva-Vedas, the chronicles of the ancient Hindu god of destruction. Witnesses to the latest daring robbery, archaeologist Nina Wilde and former SAS soldier Eddie Chase are forced into a treacherous hunt across the world to discover the vault before its secrets fall into dangerous hands. The vault's prize is a treasure beyond price, but it may also be the catalyst for global annihilation...

Author : Ashwin Sanghi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 935629254X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vault of Vishnu written by Ashwin Sanghi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pallava prince travels to Cambodia to be crowned king, carrying with him secrets that will be the cause of great wars many centuries later. A Buddhist monk in ancient China treks south to India, searching for the missing pieces of a puzzle that could make his emperor all-powerful. A Neolithic tribe fights to preserve their sacred knowledge, oblivious to the war drums on the Indo-China border. Meanwhile, far away in the temple town of Kanchipuram, a reclusive scientist deciphers ancient texts even as a team of secret agents shadows his every move. Caught in the storm is a young investigator with a complex past of her own, who must race against time to maintain the balance of power in the new world. Welcome back to the exciting and shadowy world of Ashwin Sanghi, where myth and history blend into edge-of-the-seat action.

Author : Scott Chapman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291596194
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Templar Vault written by Scott Chapman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Stephenson
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568988405
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Vaults written by David Stephenson and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author documents photographically more than eighty Romanesque and Gothic vaults from medieval churches, cathedrals, and basilicas.

Author : Zoë Opačić
Publisher : AA Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diamond Vaults written by Zoë Opačić and published by AA Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Organised by themes in turn figurative and abstract, vital and mechanical, immaterial and ultra-material, this visual essay on the human body does not feature any predictable images of the body. Instead it uses diffracted views to conjure seven alternative visions of the flesh in the age of meta-mechanical reproduction."--Page 3.

Author : Whitman Publishing
Publisher : Whitman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780794832933
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Vault written by Whitman Publishing and published by Whitman Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the Civil War along with replicas and memorabilia of battlefield and strategic maps, letters and diaries, and newspaper and periodical clippings.

Author : Michael Taussig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226789993
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Color Is the Sacred? written by Michael Taussig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig has crafted a highly distinctive body of work. Playful, enthralling, and whip-smart, his writing makes ingenious connections between ideas, thinkers, and things. An extended meditation on the mysteries of color and the fascination they provoke, What Color Is the Sacred? is the next step on Taussig’s remarkable intellectual path. Following his interest in magic and surrealism, his earlier work on mimesis, and his recent discussion of heat, gold, and cocaine in My Cocaine Museum,this book uses color to explore further dimensions of what Taussig calls “the bodily unconscious” in an age of global warming. Drawing on classic ethnography as well as the work of Benjamin, Burroughs, and Proust, he takes up the notion that color invites the viewer into images and into the world. Yet, as Taussig makes clear, color has a history—a manifestly colonial history rooted in the West’s discomfort with color, especially bright color, and its associations with the so-called primitive. He begins by noting Goethe’s belief that Europeans are physically averse to vivid color while the uncivilized revel in it, which prompts Taussig to reconsider colonialism as a tension between chromophobes and chromophiliacs. And he ends with the strange story of coal, which, he argues, displaced colonial color by giving birth to synthetic colors, organic chemistry, and IG Farben, the giant chemical corporation behind the Third Reich. Nietzsche once wrote, “So far, all that has given colour to existence still lacks a history.” With What Color Is the Sacred? Taussig has taken up that challenge with all the radiant intelligence and inspiration we’ve come to expect from him.

Author : Andy McDermott
Publisher : Headline
ISBN 13 : 0755385934
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temple of the Gods (Wilde/Chase 8) written by Andy McDermott and published by Headline. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another brilliant Wilde/Chase thriller from one of the best in the business - Andy McDermott. Archaeologist Nina Wilde's life has fallen apart. Her husband, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase is on the run, falsely accused of murder, and her only distraction has been investigating the origin of three strange statues stolen from her just before Eddie's disappearance. When Nina discovers they may be relics from the lost civilisation of Atlantis, it's clear that she has to get her head back in the game, and fast. Eddie, meanwhile, tries to stay ahead of the authorities as he hunts the man responsible for his fugitive status across the globe. A mysterious benefactor offers the information he needs - but the price will put him in direct conflict with his wife. When Nina learns that a Japanese industrialist has obtained the statues on the black market she immediately heads to Tokyo meet him, unaware that Eddie is already on his way. Their arrival unleashes a chain of events that could have devastating consequences for the world, setting Nina and Eddie on their most dangerous quest ever - with the future of humanity itself at stake...

Author : Andy McDermott
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553592858
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hunt for Atlantis written by Andy McDermott and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A LOST CIVILIZATION. A DANGEROUS QUEST. A DEADLY SECRET. It’s one of history’s most enduring and controversial legends—the lost city of Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde is certain she’s solved the riddle of its whereabouts—and with the help of reclusive billionaire Kristian Frost, his beautiful daughter, Kari, and ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase, she’s about to make the most important discovery in centuries. But not everyone wants them to succeed: a powerful and mysterious organization will stop at nothing to ensure that a secret submerged for 11,000 years never resurfaces. More than one would-be discoverer has already died in pursuit of Atlantis’s secrets—including Nina’s own parents. Failure isn’t an option. From the streets of Manhattan to the Brazilian jungle, from a Tibetan mountaintop to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Nina and Eddie will race against time—and follow a trail of danger and death to a revelation so explosive, it could destroy civilization forever….