Книга «Ярость Севера – очень суровое сказание о викингах и наемниках с далекой северной Руси. Это удивительное приключение для тех, кому близки по духу традиции, славные битвы, набеги и огонь пылающих кузниц! Легко читается, кульминация на кульминации, множество поединков и суровые красоты северных морей. Драккары рассекают ледяные волны, бороды мужчин путает яростный ветер, а стальные клинки звенят и ломаются в кровавых битвах!

Henri Michaux (1899–1984), the great French poet and painter, set out as a young man to see the Far East. Traveling from India to the Himalayas, and on to China and Japan, Michaux voices his vivid impressions, cutting opinions, and curious insights: he has no trouble speaking his mind. Part fanciful travelogue and part exploration of culture, A Barbarian in Asia is presented here in its original translation by Sylvia Beach, the famous American-born bookseller in Paris.

An English language ‘tourist guide’ to life in the ‘caliphate’.The online book reads like a travel brochure, focussing on life “under the just shade of Islamic law in the Caliphate”. Al Britani describes the street food available and speculates that “in the near future we will be eating curries and chow meins on the streets of Raqqah and Mosul,” in reference to the worldwide recruitment that has been undertaken by Islamic State (IS).He describes the weather as “Mediterranean”, and writes approvingly of the “bright fluffy snow” in the winters. Although the guide doesn’t contain instructions on terrorism, or how to join IS, it meanders around topics such as global domination while explaining the transport system.The publication is peppered with British colloquialisms, with al-Britani claiming that IS is “dead serious about state building.” In a chapter regarding technology, the creation of anti-aircraft weaponry is raised, acknowledging that such a thing would be a “game changer”. The “real movers and shakers” are on the battlefield.It concludes with the threat, “When we descend on the streets of London, Paris and Washington the taste will be far bitterer [sic], because not only will we spill your blood, but we will also demolish your statues, erase your history and most painfully, convert your children who will then go on to champion our name and curse their forefathers.”

An English language ‘tourist guide’ to life in the ‘caliphate’.The online book reads like a travel brochure, focussing on life “under the just shade of Islamic law in the Caliphate”. Al Britani describes the street food available and speculates that “in the near future we will be eating curries and chow meins on the streets of Raqqah and Mosul,” in reference to the worldwide recruitment that has been undertaken by Islamic State (IS).He describes the weather as “Mediterranean”, and writes approvingly of the “bright fluffy snow” in the winters. Although the guide doesn’t contain instructions on terrorism, or how to join IS, it meanders around topics such as global domination while explaining the transport system.The publication is peppered with British colloquialisms, with al-Britani claiming that IS is “dead serious about state building.” In a chapter regarding technology, the creation of anti-aircraft weaponry is raised, acknowledging that such a thing would be a “game changer”. The “real movers and shakers” are on the battlefield.It concludes with the threat, “When we descend on the streets of London, Paris and Washington the taste will be far bitterer [sic], because not only will we spill your blood, but we will also demolish your statues, erase your history and most painfully, convert your children who will then go on to champion our name and curse their forefathers.”

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems “the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List.” Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train “poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers,” and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian coast of Spain, the crew is capable of staging five astonishing solo raids against the French. But the grisly prospect of defeat and capture looms for both captain and crew as the Sutherland single-handedly takes on four French ships.

Durrell’s remarkable memoir of his spiritual journey with famed Taoist philosopher Jolan Chang.Beginning with their first meeting over lunch at Lawrence Durrell’s Provencal home, Durrell and Jolan Chang — renowned Taoist philosopher and expert on Eastern sexuality — developed an enduring relationship based on mutual spiritual exploration. Durrell’s autobiographical rumination on their friendship and on Taoism recounts the author’s existential ponderings, starting with his introduction to the mystical and enigmatic “smile in the mind’s eye.” From parsimony, cooking, and yoga to poetry, Petrarch, and Nietzche, A Smile in the Mind’s Eye is a charming tale of a writer’s spiritual and philosophical awakening.

In this thrilling tale of danger and adventure, young Harry joins his father, the famous Alan Quatermain, on a hunt for lions deep in Africa. This publication from Boomer Books is specially designed and typeset for comfortable reading.

Allan and the Holy Flower is a 1915 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. It first appeared serialised in The Windsor Magazine. Brother John, who has been wandering in Africa for years, confides to Allan a huge and rare orchid, the largest ever found. Allan arrives to England with the flower and there he meets Mr. Somers, an orchid collector who is willing to finance an expedition to find the plant.

Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. In this sequel to King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain and his companions once more set out for Africa, this time in search of a white race reputed to live north of Mount Kenya. They survive fierce encounters with Masai warriors, undergo a terrifying subterranean journey, and discover a lost civilization before being caught up in a passionate love-triangle that engulfs the country in a ferocious civil war. Haggard not only narrates his story with wonderfully dramatic and poetic touches, but also reveals many Victorian preoccupations with evolution and race, sexuality, and the New Woman.

It may be remembered that in the last pages of his diary, written just before his death, Allan Quatermain makes allusion to his long dead wife, stating that he has written of her fully elsewhere. When his death was known, his papers were handed to myself as his literary executor. Among them I found two manuscripts, of which the following is one. The other is simply a record of events wherein Mr. Quatermain was not personally concerned - a Zulu novel, the story of which was told to him by the hero many years after the tragedy had occurred. But with this we have nothing to do at present.

In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda — once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro — and chaos.Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiers — from Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugal — fighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.

Современный человек даже не предполагает, что в его жизни могут произойти какие-то экстраординарные события. Он едет в отпуск, не подозревая, что буквально за стеклом его авиалайнера могут скрываться вселенские тайны. И уж точно не допускает мысли, что сам может стать участником захватывающего приключения.Роман «Aprositus» — это водоворот событий с первой до последней страницы, это хитроумная головоломка, разгадывать которую вы будете вместе с главными героями, это таинственная легенда, волнующая пытливые умы вот уже более пятисот лет и обретающая в романе неожиданное объяснение! И конечно, это увлекательный путеводитель по Тенерифе, после прочтения которого вам очень захочется отправиться на Канарские острова!

Astoņdesmit dienās ap ZemeslodiŽILS VERNSLATVIJAS VALSTS IZDevNIeciBA RĪĢĀ 1959TULKOJIS ANDREJS UPĪTS

Pīters KeldersAtdzimšanas acsHelēna BlavatskaZilgano kalnu maģijaVairums Rietumu cilvēku, tai skaitā  arī profesionāli filosofi zinātnieki un augsti attīstīti intelektuāļi ir pārliecināti par novecošanas procesa neatgriezeniskumu un ķermeņa restaurācijas neiespējamību. Taču Tibetas lamu prakse, kurā šī restaurācija ir tikai cilvēciskās būtnes attīstības sākumposms, pierāda pretejo: intelektuāļu pārliecībā nav nekas vairak kā vienkāršā ilūzija, viss ir atkarīgs vienīgi no prasmes pielietot mehānismus, kas ļauj cilvēkam  apzināti pārvaldīt savu personīgo gribu."Atdzimšanas acs" ir vēl nesenā pagātnē slepenās Tibetas lamu atjau­nošanās prakses apraksts. Grāmatā aplūkoti seši vienkāršie ievadvingrinājumi un sniegti padomi, kas ļauj apturēt un pavērst pretējā virzienā cilvēka iekšējā laika plūsmu, attīsta gara spēku, palīdz saglabāt veselību un atgūt jaunību. Šī grāmata ir speciāli sarakstīta Rietumu lasītājiem.Kas jums īsti zināms par Zilgano kalnu ciltīm? Par noslēpumaino Nilgīras milžu cilti - todiem, kuru parejie iezemieši uzskata par augstāku, gandrīz dievjšķu rasi, un briesmīgākajiem, kroplīgākajiem punduriem pasaule mullu-kurumbiem kuru skatiens nogalina nepieradušu un no viņa nobijušos cilvēku» … Todi ir izmirstoši, iespējams, pat neapzināti baltas maģijas sekotāji, mullu-kurumbi - pretīgas melnās maģijas piekritēji.Aizraujošā izcilās mistiķes Helēnas Blavatskas darbā "Zilgano kalnu maģija" savākti un analizēti pārsteidzoši fakti par Indijas kalnu cilšu burvestībām.Mākslinieks Harijs Brants Redaktore Līvija KļavaSatursP. Kelders Atdzimšanas acs(Tulkojis Heinrihs Jubels)H. Blavatska Zilgano kalnu maģija(Tulkojusi Solvita Akmeņlauka)Kelders P. Atdzimšanas acsBlavatska H. Zilgano kalnu maģija Rīga: apgāds "Smaile", 1999. — 184. lpp.Pfters Kelders Atdzimšanas acs Helēna Blavatska Zilgano kalnu maģijaParakstīta iespiešanai 14.07.99. Reģistrācijas apliecība Nr. 000344607. Formāts 84x108/32, 5,75 iespiedi. SIA "Apgāds Smaile" Iespiests A/s "Poligrāfists", Kr. Valdemāra ielā 6, Rīgā, LV-1010. Pas. Nr. 700.Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

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Les Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais (1872) mettent en scène six astronomes dont la tâche est de mesurer une portion de méridien terrestre. Il s'agit donc plus de géodésie que d'astronomie, mais historiquement, ce genre de travail a toujours échu aux astronomes. Les héros utilisent la méthode de triangulation exposée en détail dans l'Astronomie Populaire d'Arago. On retrouve le thème des grandes expéditions scientifiques des Picard, Lacaille, Maupertuis, Bouguer, Godin, La Condamine, Méchain, Delambre, Arago… commanditées par l'Académie des sciences, aux époques où le métier d'astronome était un métier dangereux.