Quack's Red Boots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quack's Red Boots write by Michele Dufresne. This book was released on 2015-09-01. Quack's Red Boots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's only after Quack's red boots go missing that he realizes how special they are.
Red Shambhala
Red Shambhala - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Shambhala write by Andrei Znamenski. This book was released on 2012-12-19. Red Shambhala available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Shambhala played in Russian geopolitics in the early twentieth century. Perhaps the only one on the subject, Andrei Znamenski’s book presents a wholly different glimpse of early Soviet history both erudite and fascinating. Using archival sources and memoirs, he explores how spiritual adventurers, revolutionaries, and nationalists West and East exploited Shambhala to promote their fanatical schemes, focusing on the Bolshevik attempt to use Mongol-Tibetan prophecies to railroad Communism into inner Asia. We meet such characters as Gleb Bokii, the Bolshevik secret police commissar who tried to use Buddhist techniques to conjure the ideal human; and Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter who, driven by his otherworldly Master and blackmailed by the Bolshevik secret police, posed as a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama to unleash religious war in Tibet. We also learn of clandestine activities of the Bolsheviks from the Mongol-Tibetan Section of the Communist International who took over Mongolia and then, dressed as lama pilgrims, tried to set Tibet ablaze; and of their opponent, Ja-Lama, an “avenging lama” fond of spilling blood during his tantra rituals.
The Ballad of Abdul Wade
The Ballad of Abdul Wade - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ballad of Abdul Wade write by Ryan Butta. This book was released on 2022-07-26. The Ballad of Abdul Wade available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero. Horses couldn't access many remote settlements, especially those stricken by flood or drought, and camel trains rode to the rescue time and time again. But with success came fierce opposition fuelled by prejudice. The camel was not even classed as an animal under Australian law, and, in a climate of colonial misinformation, hyperbole and fear, camel drivers like Wade were shown almost as little respect. Yet all the while, for those in need, the ships of the desert continued to appear on the outback horizon. After his interest was piqued by a nineteenth-century photo of a camel train in a country town, Ryan Butta found himself on the trail of Australia's earliest Afghan camel drivers. Separating the bulldust from the bush poetry, he reveals the breadth and depth of white Australian protectionism and prejudice. Told with flair and authority, this gritty alternative history defies the standard horse-powered folklore to reveal the untold debt this country owes to the humble dromedary, its drivers and those who brought them here.
Waking Dragons
Waking Dragons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Waking Dragons write by Jane Yolen. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Waking Dragons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the morning, dragons wake up, tumble out of bed, and get ready to fly into the sky.
The Lightless Dome
The Lightless Dome - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lightless Dome write by Douglas Hill. This book was released on 2014-09-30. The Lightless Dome available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the shadowed swamps far from Prince Phaedran's fabulous city of Quamarr, a sorcerer tests the fabric of the universe. At his command something stirs in the emptiness beyond the stars. It is incalculably evil, immeasurably old. It is summoned by the promise of fresh human souls... Meanwhile in a 20th Century film studio, Red Cordell takes another cheap part in another cheap swords and sorcery movie. A beautiful neglected sword he finds in Props is his only satisfaction. But in Quamarr, the enchantress Aurilia is in mortal danger. When she calls on the sword of Corodel, Red finds himself at her side, fighting for her life in a land of waking dreams...
