Historical
mobi |eng | 2011-02-10 | Author:Jean Auel

Spring followed close on the heels of a heavy snow. Flooding kept them all restricted, Whinney more than the others. Ayla could climb to the steppes above, and Baby could ...
( Category: Family Saga February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-18 | Author:John Wilcox

It was nearly nightfall before they came to King Umtasa’s kraal. It was set in clear land on a slight rise that took it away from the swamp and the ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1972-02-07 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER NINE The Polychrest left her convoy in 38° 30' N., ll°W., with the wind at south-west and the Rock of Lisbon bearing S87E., 47 leagues. She fired a gun, ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Alexander Kent

7 A Tragedy `There, sir! Fine on th' lee bow!' Figures moved about the decks, as if taking part in a well practised dance. Here and there a telescope squeaked ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

Scots, Welsh and Irish) referred to "the British". Anyway, once having got out of Cadiz on an east wind, where would the Combined Fleet go? If north-westward for the English ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1983-06-29 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SEVEN During the Niobe's return to Suez the usual northerly breezes blew with scarcely a pause; she had to beat up all the way, often tacking two or three ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1988-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX On the misty night of Thursday the Surprise kept a lookout aloft, and now from the foretopsail yard he called 'On deck, there. I think I see 'em.' ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Dudley Pope

stylized object. Anyway, it seemed that Southwick had told the master's mate, who'd told a quartermaster. Soon a request had come back from the ship's company: if they found a ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Alexander Kent

10 Night Action Bolitho entered the room at the top of the tower, where the former garrison commander had lived out his spartan days, and found Paget discussing a map ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:C. S. Forester

THE GUNS OF CARABOBO She was exactly like a British ship of war; naturally, perhaps, since she had been one most of her life until she was sold out of ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1995-07-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX In the afternoon of Saturday, with the Berlings in sight on the larboard bow, the topgallant-sail breeze that had been bowling the Ringle along so handsomely since Cape ...
( Category: Historical February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1986-05-30 | Author:Patrick O'brian

CHAPTER SIX The Portsmouth night coach was an almost entirely naval concern, apart from the horses and one of the inside passengers, an elderly lady; the coachman had been in ...
( Category: Crime February 9,2015 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-30 | Author:Conn Iggulden

Chapter 18 TEMUJIN WATCHED THE SUN pass overhead, its fire damped by heavy cloud, so that he was able to gaze on the orange disk with only a little discomfort. ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-27 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

CHAPTER 11 “Not a day for cricket, eh, Sharpe?” Lieutenant-Colonel Ford shouted the jocular greeting, though his expression was hardly welcoming. The Colonel, with Major Vine beside him, crouched in ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Alexander Kent

Bolitho ducked his head beneath the low beams and groped his way through the semi-darkness of the orlop deck. By comparison the air and light of the quarterdeck even at ...
( Category: Military February 9,2015 )