The Sword and the Cross - 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 Sword and the Cross write by Fergus Fleming. This book was released on 2007-12-01. The Sword and the Cross available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “[A] searing story of France’s attempt to colonize the vast Sahara desert and of two unforgettable men who dedicated their lives to the effort.” —Rob Mitchell, The Boston Herald Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today’s most vivid and engaging historians of adventure and exploration. The Sword and the Cross takes us to the Sahara at the end of the nineteenth century, when France had designs on a hostile wilderness dominated by deadly Tuareg nomads. Two fanatical adventurers, Charles de Foucauld and Henri Laperrine, rose to the cause of their country’s national honor. Abandoning his decadent lifestyle as a sensualist and womanizer, Foucauld founded a monastic order so severe that during his lifetime it never had a membership of more than one. Yet he remained a committed imperialist and from his remote hermitage continued to assist the military. The stern career soldier Laperrine, meanwhile, founded a camel corps whose exploits became legendary. During World War I the Sahara’s fragile peace crumbled. In the desert mountains Foucauld paid a tragic price for his role as imperial pawn. Laperrine, by then recalled to the Western Front, returned to avenge his friend. “Fleming captures the hopelessness of the French efforts to conquer the Saharan expanse . . . Provides a vital lesson about the limits of power.” —Zachary Karabell, Los Angeles Times
Sword of Sand
Sword of Sand - 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 Sword of Sand write by Jon Oden. This book was released on 2011. Sword of Sand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Desert of Souls
The Desert of Souls - 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 Desert of Souls write by Howard Andrew Jones. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Desert of Souls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Acclaimed fantasy debut introducing a ripsnorting swords and sorcery adventure, inspired by the tales of One Thousand and One Nights. THE CHRONICLE OF SWORD & SAND: Baghdad, AD 790. Caliph Harun al-Rashid presides over the greatest metropolis on Earth, ruler of an empire stretches from China to Byzantium. His exploits will be recorded in Alf Layla or, as we know it, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. But The Thousand and One Nights are silent on the deeds and adventures that befell two of the Caliph's subjects: the renowned scholar Dabir ibn Kahlil, and his shield and right hand, Asim el Abbas. For their story, we must turn to the Chronicle of Sand and Sword... THE DESERT OF SOULS: Amid the trackless sands of ancient Arabia, two companions – a swordsman and a scholar – search for the ruins of the lost city of Ubar. Before their quest is over, they will battle necromancers and animated corpses, they will confront a creature that has traded wisdom for the souls of men since the dawn of time and they will fight to save a city's soul.
Sword of Fire and Sea
Sword of Fire and Sea - 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 Sword of Fire and Sea write by Erin Hoffman. This book was released on 2011-06-28. Sword of Fire and Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Captain Vidarian Rulorat's great-grandfather gave up an imperial commission to commit social catastrophe by marrying a fire priestess. For love, he unwittingly doomed his family to generations of a rare genetic disease that follows families who cross elemental boundaries. Now Vidarian, the last surviving member of the Rulorat family, struggles to uphold his family legacy, and finds himself chained to a task as a result of the bride price his great-grandfather paid: The priestess Endera has called upon Vidarian to fulfill his family's obligation by transporting a young fire priestess named Ariadel to a water temple far to the south, through dangerous pirate-controlled territory. Vidarian finds himself at the intersection not only of the world's most volatile elements, but of the ancient and alien powers that lurk between them...
Sword in the Sand
Sword in the Sand - 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 Sword in the Sand write by Tony Engelhart. This book was released on 1992. Sword in the Sand available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
