Valerio Massimo Manfredi:The Talisman of Troy
- Taschenbuch 2010, ISBN: 9781405040907
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Ace Books, 1919-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. . Pages tan/aged, clean and intact., Ace Books, 1919-01-01, 2.5, New York, NY: Delta, 2000. Trade paperback. Good. Rocket Boys (The… Mehr…
Ace Books, 1919-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. . Pages tan/aged, clean and intact., Ace Books, 1919-01-01, 2.5, New York, NY: Delta, 2000. Trade paperback. Good. Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-PUBLISHED BY DELTA-COPYRIGHT 2000, 368 PAGES) by Homer Hickam (Author) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American... Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-PUBLISHED BY DELTA-COPYRIGHT 2000, 368 PAGES) by Homer Hickam (Author) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir a Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1) (SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-PUBLISHED BY DELTA-COPYRIGHT 2000, 368 PAGES) by Homer Hickam (Author) The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that inspired the film October Sky, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir a powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the dawn of the 1960s, of a mother's love and a father's fears, of a group of young men who dreamed of launching rockets into outer space...and who made those dreams come true. With the grace of a natural storyteller, NASA engineer Homer Hickam paints a warm, vivid portrait of the harsh West Virginia mining town of his youth, evoking a time of innocence and promise, when anything was possible, even in a company town that swallowed its men alive. A story of romance and loss, of growing up and getting out, Homer Hickam's lush, lyrical memoir is a chronicle of triumph at once exquisitely written and marvelously entertaining. Now with 8 pages of photographs. A number-one New York Times bestseller in mass market, brought to the screen in the acclaimed film October Sky, Homer Hickam's memoir, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, comes to trade paperback with an all-new photo insert. One of the most beloved bestsellers in recent years, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir. A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, it is the story of a mother's love and a father's fears, of growing up and getting out. With the grace of a natural storyteller, Homer Hickam looks back after a distinguished NASA career to tell his own true story of growing up in a dying coal town and of how, against the odds, he made his dreams of launching rockets into outer space come true. A story of romance and loss and a keen portrait of life at an extraordinary point in American history, Rocket Boys is a chronicle of triumph., Delta, 2000, 2.5, Ace Books. Paperback, in Good condition, there are no stamps writing or marks, paper is tanning with age, covers have a few creases, straight spine, solid binding, unmarked pages, a good reading copy, Ace F-345, . Good. Paperback., Ace Books, 2.5, Senate, 1994. 293pp, and list of 323 b + w illustrations. Illustrated soft covers without creases. The page edges have browned with age, otherwise a very clean, probably unread, copy. Not only the great architecture of ancient Greece, but music, theatre, and everyday life, food, leisure, the role of women etc. First published as part of 'The Greeks and Romans'.. Soft Cover. Fine., Senate, 1994, 5, Bantam, September 2010. Paper Back. Used - Very Good. Very good condition. May show some signs of use/age/shelf wear/creasing. No writing, stains, or tears., Bantam, 3, England: Penguin Classics. Wear to cover. Browning to edges of pages through age. Few would dispute the claim of War and Peace to be regarded as the greatest novel in any language. This massive chronicle, to which Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) devoted five whole years shortly after his marriage, portrays Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic War. Tolstoy's faith in life and his piercing insight lend universality to a work which hold the mirror up to Nature as truly as that of Shakespeare or Homer. The first volume of Rosemary Edmonds's modern translation takes the story as far as the appearance of the celebrated comet before Napoleon's crossing of the Nieman. The cover shows Alan Dobie as Andrei in the television version of War and Peace.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 1957., Penguin Classics, 1957, 2.5, US: Broadway Books, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. When NPR contributor Scott Huler made one more attempt to get through James Joyce's Ulysses, he had no idea it would launch an obsession with the book 's inspiration: the ancient Greek epic The Odyssey and the lonely homebound journey of its Everyman hero, Odysseus. No-Man's Lands is Huler's funny and touching exploration of the life lesson s embedded within The Odyssey, a legendary tale of wandering and longing th at could be read as a veritable guidebook for middle-aged men everywhere. A t age forty-four, with his first child on the way, Huler felt an instant bo nd with Odysseus, who fought for some twenty years against formidable diffi culties to return home to his beloved wife and son. In reading The Odyssey, Huler saw the chance to experience a great vicarious adventure as well as the opportunity to assess the man he had become and embrace the imminent ar rival of both middle age and parenthood. But Huler realized that it wasn't enough to simply read the words on the pa ge-he needed to live Odysseus's odyssey, to visit the exotic destinations t hat make Homer's story so timeless. And so an ambitious pilgrimage was born . . . traveling the entire length of Odysseus's two-decade journey. In six months. Huler doggedly retraced Odysseus's every step, from the ancient ruins of Troy to his ultimate destination in Ithaca. On the way, he discovers the Cyclops's Sicilian cave, visits the land of the dead in Italy, ponders the lotus from a Tunisian resort, and paddles a rented kayak between., Broadway Books, 2010, 3, Ace Books. Paperback. VERY_GOOD VERY_GOOD. Some light wear. Note rubbing wear along top edge of front cover. Normal page toning for age. Otherwise an unmarked, clean, and solid copy in VG condition. See photos. Some light wear. Note rubbing wear along top edge of front cover. Normal page toning for age. Otherwise an unmarked, clean, and solid copy in VG condition. See photos. Vintage Paperback, Ace Books, 0, Duckworth. Very Good. 1972. Softcover. 0715609025 . Minor edgewear to extremities. Minor shelfwear. ; Covers in detail the special requirements of oral composition and atmosphere of the Greek Heroic Age, and devotes a chapter each to the Iliad and to the Odyssey. Also discusses epic formulae, similes and the 'poetry of action'. ; Classical life and letters; 192 pages ., Duckworth, 1972, 3, Time Life, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/No Dj. Large quarto, hardcover, fine in darkbrown cloth spine, pictorial brown and tan pictorial boards. No dj. 160 pages, including index; copious illustrations. Begins with long before Homer, the bronze age Cyclades; Crete and the Minoans, lost Atlantis, the rise of the Mycenaeans., Time Life, 1976, 5, Macmillan, Australia, 2004. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 276 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Macmillan, Australia, 2004. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Spine is uncreased. . Remainder mark on page edges. Pages are reasonably tanned. Previous owner's name in ink. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Another grandiose and brutal epic of the ancient world from the bestselling author of the Alexander trilogy, Spartan and The Last Legion A castaway tossed onto a deserted beach is the last survivor of a world that no longer exists. He has a terrible, fascinating story to tell - the true reason for which the Trojan War was fought. The protagonist of this tale is Diomedes, the last of the great ancient Greek Homeric heroes, who seeks to return to his beloved homeland after years of war against Troy. But destiny has other plans for him. Betrayed by his wife, who plots to murder him and persecuted by hostile gods, he has no choice but to turn his sails west, towards Hesperia, the mysterious mist-shrouded land that will one day be called Italy. He ventures boldly into this new world, for he carries with him the magic Talisman of Troy, a mysterious, powerful idol that can make the nation that possesses it invincible. The Talisman of Troy recreates the emotions of an epic age, at once grandiose and brutal. It breathes life into that tormented time when these ancient, mysterious peoples were first settling the land of ice and fire which over the centuries would become their home and the centre of a world destined to last for millennia. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Historical; ISBN: 1405040904. ISBN/EAN: 9781405040907. Inventory No: 13090238.. 9781405040907, Macmillan, 2004, 3<
