The Gospels record Jesus age 12 in the temple, then age 30 at the river Jordan. Where was he in the interim? Ancient Buddhist manuscripts say Jesus left Palestine and traveled to India, Nepal, Ladakh and Tibet. For the first...

Many themes and regions are explored in this fascinating guide to different coastlines in Britain and what each area says about the history and way of life thereabouts. Included is a chapter on Ireland’s dramatic eastern edge, The Emerald Coast....

Exiled, displaced, tortured, and grieving--each of the five Iraqi women whose lives and losses come to us through Haifa Zangana's skillfully wrought novel is searching in her own way for peace with a past that continually threatens to swallow up...

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Marco Polo is perhaps the world s most famous and fascinating explorer, travelling though a still-mythical Asia for twenty-four years in the thirteenth century. This book retraces his journey with National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita, and provides the most comprehensive...

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As I pronounced the words great claims, he gave a slight glance with his eye downwards upon the sleeve of his tunic.-I felt the full force of the appeal.-I acknowledge it, said I-a coarse habit, and that but once in...

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures,...

Born on a ferry, orphaned two years later, Daniel Serraz free-floats into a career in insurance and marriage to Japanese interpreter Kozue. But ominous truths are resurfacing, bound up with the legend of his whale-hunting great grandfather and his parents'...