A showdown ensues between a bird of prey and a barnyard rooster in this masterpiece of nature fiction from the author of The Fox and the Hound. Whitehackle comes from a long line of fighting cocks, but exceeds expectations as he...Loe edasi...
The award-winning author of The Way of the Gladiator shares his experiences hunting with strange devices—and animals—in this classic book. Falcons, boomerangs, spears. . . In the mid-twentieth century, hunters of all shapes and...Loe edasi...
The award-winning author of The Way of the Gladiator brings to life medieval Paris and the wolves who held it hostage, in a novel based on real events. Praised as “nature writing at its best,” The Wolves of Paris takes r...Loe edasi...
The author of The Way of the Gladiator turns from the arenas of ancient Rome to the center of debauchery and impiety in eighteenth-century England. “Stranger, refuse, if you can, what we have to offer.” These words, engraved in...Loe edasi...
The book that inspired the stories of Gladiator & Gladiator II: Step into the ring with this classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans’ obsession with the bloody and brutal games.“( The Way of the Gladia...Loe edasi...
The basis for the new Peacock television series: The classic, in-depth account of the ancient Romans’ obsession with the bloody and brutal gladiatorial games. “If you can imagine a superior American sports writer suddenly being transpo...Loe edasi...
A Brief History of the Gladiators tells of how strapping war prisoners, fugitives, or criminals learned the techniques of fighting in the Ludi (gladiator schools), wrapped themselves in samnite, secutor, retiarius, or thracian armament, and jumped...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Feb-2003, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750932714)
Morality is nothing more than an expression of expediency a notorious torturer reportedly once replied to objections about his profession. From the primitive snake pit to sophisticated methods of brainwashing, literally thousands of techniques have...Loe edasi...
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A general history of the Atlantic slave trade, this volume tells how nearly 40 million Africans died between the 17th and 19th centuries by explaining how they were captured, purchased and sold. It also looks at the anti-slavery movements and the ab...Loe edasi...
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The author of The Way of the Gladiator describes the perverse actions and rituals of Englands notorious Hellfire Club, the late eighteenth-century secret society whose membership included some of the eras most prominent men and whose repulsive acti...Loe edasi...
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Hail Caesar, we who are about to die salute you! And die the gladiators did. In a vast marble Colosseum larger than Yankee Stadium, the people of Rome, patrician and commoner, flocked to see gladiators mangled beneath the hoofs and wheels of horses a...Loe edasi...
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An account of the gladiatorial spectacles mounted in the Colosseum to satisfy the decadent tastes of Ancient Rome, patrician and plebeian alike. The torture and butchery took place on a prodigious scale; the emperor Trajan gave one set of games that...Loe edasi...
Meet the strangest people who ever lived!Read all about:&; the notorious love affairs of midgets&; the strange sex lives of Siamese twins&; the dwarf clowns wife whose feet grew directly from her body&; th...Loe edasi...
