6/24/2023 0 Comments Kon tiki voyage![]() ![]() Some other people had been there before them. Much to their delight, they dug up 130 pieces of ceramics and a flute that were older than the Incas. Sponsored by the Norwegian Archaeological Society, his mission was to investigate pre-Columbian habitation sites on the islands. Undaunted, Heyerdahl continued his research, and in 1952 headed an archaeological expedition to the Galapagos Islands, 605 miles west of Ecuador. Noted anthropologist Robert Carl Suggs, Ph.D., from Boise who died just last April said, “Like most such theories, it makes exciting light reading, but as an example of scientific method it fares quite poorly.” ![]() He believed the success of Kon-Tiki proved that assumption, though the academics didn’t buy it. Heyerdahl would spend most of his life defending and proving his belief that ancient peoples had the ability to travel great distances by sea, using the primitive technology of those times. But his critics called it just a hypothesis, and that his “evidence” was shallow. Heyerdahl called his belief a theory - supported by evidence. Norwegian anthropologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl was showered with praise and honors after successfully sailing his primitive balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki from Peru to French Polynesia in 1947, giving evidence that ancestors of today’s Polynesians could have come from South America - but his critics were quick to pounce. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It became the highest-selling book of 2017. Sita: Warrior of Mithila, the sequel to The Scion of Ikshvaku, was released in May 2017. The Scion of Ikshvaku won the Crossword Book's "Best Popular Award". It follows the story of Ram and is a prequel to the Shiva Trilogy. It is the first book in the Ram Chandra series. The Scion of Ikshvaku was released in June 2015. ![]() The second book in the series, The Secret of the Nagas, was released in August 2011, and the third and final installment, titled The Oath of the Vayuputras, was released in February 2013. The Immortals of Meluha, Tripathi's first novel and first in the Shiva Trilogy, was published in February 2010. Xavier's College, Mumbai and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is an alumnus of Cathedral & John Connon School St. Early life and education Īmish Tripathi was born in Mumbai and grew up near Rourkela, Odisha. In addition, he is a host for TV documentaries, most recently for Discovery TV, in Legends of the Ramayan and also The Journey of India with co-host Amitabh Bachchan. ![]() He is also Minister (Culture & Education) at the High Commission of India in the UK and Director of the Nehru Centre, London. He is known best for his Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series.Īmish's books have sold over 6 million copies in the Indian subcontinent since 2010. Amish Tripathi (born 18 October 1974) is an Indian author and diplomat. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments The oddmire![]() ![]() ![]() In this first book in a new fantasy-adventure series, New York Times bestselling author William Ritter takes readers on a journey of monsters, magic, and discovery. Why did Candlebeard run away from Cole, Tinn, and Fable and leave them stranded on a little island in the middle of the Oddmire He was afraid of the Queen (the. The boys must leave their sleepy town and risk their lives in the Wild Wood, journeying through the Deep Dark to reach the goblin horde and uncover who they truly are. When they are thirteen years old, a mysterious message arrives, calling the brothers to be heroes and protectors of magic. Tinn and Cole are raised as human twins, neither knowing what secrets may be buried deep inside one of them. ![]() Too perfectly: Kull cannot tell them apart, so he leaves both babies behind. By the time he turns back, the changeling has already perfectly mimicked the human child. After laying the changeling in a human infant’s crib, the goblin Kull is briefly distracted. But when the night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. In this second book in the Oddmire series, the New York Times bestselling author of Jackaby takes readers on an adventure full of monsters, mayhem, and magic. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind - a newborn changeling. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is when the adventure begins.Įddie enters heaven and discovers it is not a garden but a place where he will meet five people whose lives intersected with his in some significant way on earth, some readily known to Eddie and some unknown to him. ![]() Eddie rescues a young girl from her death but in the effort, he is killed. One day a mechanical failure causes a fatal accident. Brief SynopsisĮddie lives an insignificant life as a maintenance man for the rides at the Ruby Pier amusement park. It misses the importance of being created in God’s image, being redeemed to be able to spend eternity with our Creator, and the fellowship with God and all the saints for eternity. Albom’s story presents some interesting ideas about the afterlife, but falls far short of expressing a complete understanding of God’s description of heaven. Zukeran presents a biblical worldview critique of the story by Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Garrett sawyer bennett![]() ![]() Though his athlete’s body is honed to perfection, he refuses to move on with his life-and besides, he’s her boss. Kate Francis usually keeps men like Zack at a distance. But while the nerdy new nanny wins his son’s heart, Zack isn’t sure he’s ready for a woman’s touch-even after getting a glimpse of the killer curves she’s hiding under those baggy clothes. Back on the road with the Carolina Cold Fury and still crippled by emotional baggage, he’s in need of some serious help with his son. Rising star Zack Grantham has been stuck in a downward spiral of grief ever since the car accident that left him a single dad and put his career on hold. New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett goes for a hat trick with the latest romance in a sexy series about cool-as-ice hockey players and the women heating up their lives. Posted on 9 June, 2015 by momsread in Review, Sawyer Bennett / 0 comments Zack by Sawyer Bennett ![]() Subscribe Review: Zack (Cold Fury Hockey #3) by Sawyer Bennett Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email. ![]() ![]() The present article questions the widely assumed disunity of Fortunes (itself an unfortunate outcome of the Germanist approach) and traces the poem's gruesome preoccupations to pastoral texts known to English audiences. Only a handful of articles and chapters have tried to make sense of the poem, and many of these, however meritorious, seem locked in old ways of thinking about early English verse, reliant as they often are on somewhat hazy notions of pan-Germanic prehistory. ![]() Where its assemblage of tortured and abused bodies comes from is a matter that seems to have evaded much systematic investigation. Aside from Soul and Body, with its lengthy and hideous account of worms ravaging a corpse, few yield to this distasteful tendency more than another poem preserved in the late tenth-century Exeter Book known variously as The Fortunes of Men, The Fates of Men, and The Fates of Mortals. (1) A handful of verse texts nearly make this theme their exclusive subject. Benedict's dictum to "have death always before our eyes," the Old English poetic tradition seems unusually given to depictions of the indignities suffered by dead bodies. Whether it is an effect of what was once called the "somber cast of the Teutonic mind" or of St. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments The lost diary of samuel pepys![]() ![]() Or did he? This action-packed historical thriller, described as “Bridgerton meets Sherlock” imagines what might have happened next. The diaries of Samuel Pepys have enthralled readers for centuries with their audacious wit, gripping detail, and racy assignations. ![]() And if the mystery isn’t solved in time, then England could be thrown into a war that would have devastating consequences. But has he got the right person? The truth may be much more sinister. Loathe to leave the pleasures of London, Samuel Pepys is sent dragging his feet to Portsmouth to find the truth about what happened.Īided by his faithful assistant, Will Hewer, he soon exposes the killer. And now, an investigator sent by the King to look into corruption at the Royal Navy has been brutally murdered. The treasury’s coffers are bare and tensions with the powerful Dutch Republic are boiling over. ![]() It is the summer of 1669 and England is in dire straits. ![]() The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys will be published on 4th August in hardcover, eBook and audiobook by Moonflower Publishing. My thanks to Femi Lijadu from Midas PR for providing the digital proof from which I took the extract. Today I’m delighted to be sharing an extract from The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys by Jack Jewers. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Twist me book 2![]() ![]() My name is Nora Leston, and this is my story. ![]() There is a darkness inside him-a darkness that scares me even as it draws me in. Ex wife of a billionaire chapter 4webcomics The Unwanted Ex wife Is A Billionaire Novel Claire and. ![]() I don’t know who he is or why he took me. A TWIST TO THE NORMAL BILLIONAIRES EX WIFE STORIES. A man whose tenderness I find more devastating than his cruelty. To a man who is as ruthless as he is beautiful-a man whose touch makes me burn. I never imagined one chance meeting on the eve of my eighteenth birthday could change my life so completely. It’s really dark and a bit disturbing, but I am obsessed with it! Jamie: One series that I absolutely adored this year was Twist Me/Keep Me by Anna Zaires. Rori: …I am usually not a fan of dark reads but I enjoyed it. See all of the Twist Me books in order and find cheap used copies - used books as low as 3.94 with free shipping at. Trisha: Twist Me! WOW~ I am not a big dark fan but I loved this, twist me is the perfect title for this book, because it did in all kinds of ways…
6/22/2023 0 Comments Mirror mirror by gregory maguire![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the elements of the original tale remain-the mirror, the dwarves, the hunter, the poisoned apple-but this is no cutesy movie version. Jealous of the lascivious attentions her brother pays to the girl and consumed by her own vanity, Lucrezia decides to murder Bianca. When Lucrezia’s brother Cesare sends Bianca’s devoted father on a dangerous errand to bring back a holy relic, motherless Bianca is left in Lucrezia’s care. The setting is Renaissance Italy, and Bianca de Nevada’s tormentor is no mere witch-she’s the redoubtable Lucrezia Borgia herself, daughter of a debauched pope and scion of a powerful family of infamous poisoners and murderers. In this impressionistic version of the classic Snow White story, Maguire continues his unique retelling of well-known fairy tales that began with Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Nadine matheson the jigsaw man![]() They wonder why she's chosen the job she has, and what it might say about her as a person. As Henley tries to do her job, investigating serial murders that hit a little too close to home, she's constantly reminded that her community doesn't trust her profession or her colleagues. Henley's identity certainly isn't the focus of The Jigsaw Man, but it permeates the novel. ![]() ![]() Why should I read this first in a series, as opposed to the many others that have come and gone? Nadine Matheson, a criminal defense lawyer based in London, answers that question with her main character in her debut The Jigsaw Man: Detective Inspector Anjelica Henley, a Black woman whose position is highly mistrusted by her family and larger community. ![]() Police procedurals are a tried-and-true genre, so whenever a new series comes along, I always want to know what sets it apart. ![]() |