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The Cruise of the Dazzler – ebook
Jack London
This is an early Jack London novel set in his hometown of San Francisco. It is considered the novel of a boy’s adventure. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the sloop team, he sees in San Francisco Bay. He finds that the captain is involved in criminal activity. Navigational actions on board a sailing boat are genuinely described, and there are...Data dostępności:
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The Cruise of the Dazzler – ebook
Jack London
“The Cruise of the Dazzler” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school,...Data dostępności:
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The Wrath to Come – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The mystery by E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) starts out in the Sierra Nevada mountains, 500 miles from San Francisco, at a gold mining camp. Bryan came to America from England, chasing a man who may have papers which explain Bryan’s mysterious origins. Enter heroine, the beautiful orphan Myra Mercier who is arriving to the camp where women are not allowed. Murder and mayhem ensue before the pair...Data dostępności:
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Tales of the Fish Patrol – ebook
Jack London
This is a collection of short stories by Jack London. The action of the stories takes place in the bay of San Francisco, in the center of the plot is the activity of the local „fish surveillance”. The narration is conducted in the first person, the narrator is the owner of the reindeer sloop, chartered by a fishing company to patrol the bay in order to prevent illegal fishing methods. Another main...Data dostępności:
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Behind That Curtain – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers
Biggers’ third book in the Charlie Chan series involves the detective in a case that spans decades and continents, culminating in the city of San Francisco. This time Charlie pulls aside the curtain that conceals a mystery far in the past. The plot links a present day murder with another murder some year previously, combined with a series of disappearances of young women. Charlie Chan is still trying...Data dostępności:
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The Sea-Wolf – ebook
Jack London
“The Sea-Wolf” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. The Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. It tells the story of a soft, domesticated protagonist — an intellectual man named Humphrey Van Weyden — forced to become tough and self-reliant...Data dostępności:
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The Mucker – ebook
Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The Mucker“ is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. This is the first book in the Mucker series. Billy Byrne is a low-class American born in Chicago's ghetto. He grows up a thief and a mugger. "Billy was a mucker, a hoodlum, a gangster, a thug, a tough." He is not chivalrous nor kind and has only meager...Data dostępności:
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Seibert of the Island – ebook
Gordon Young
South Seas Adventure Novel, written in 1925 by Gordon Ray Young (1886-1948) a journalist in Chicago and San Francisco, literary editor of the Los Angeles times, and author of over forty novels. During his time in Los Angeles, Young befriended the writer Paul Jordan-Smith and the painter Edward Middleton Manigault. As such, this book was dedicated to the memory of the painter Middleton Manigault who...Data dostępności:
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The Million Dollar Suitcase – ebook
Alice MacGowan Perry Newberry
Present-day San Francisco in a good detective story „The Million Dollar Suitcase” (1922). Jeremiah „Jerry” Boyne, head of the Bankers’ Security Agency is hired to investigate the mysterious theft – from inside a bank – of a suitcase filled with nearly a million dollars in cash. Turns out to be a high spirited man with extraordinary powers of observation and logical deduction from observed facts. The...Data dostępności:
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The Black Box – ebook
E. Phillips Oppenheim
„The Black Box” is a series of loosely connected short stories detailing the adventures of Sanford Quest, world’s greatest criminologist. The story starts off in New York City, travels to England, Egypt, and around the world to San Francisco, then into the wild west of New Mexico. There are two main plot lines which merge into one along with romance mixed in with the ever present danger. Melodramatic,...Data dostępności:
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The Gringos – ebook
B.M. Bower
„The Gringos” recounts the massive clash of cultures that arose when European-American prospectors streamed into California in pursuit of gold and other natural resources. Dade Hunter and Jack Allen are two cowboys who got caught up in the 1849 California Gold Rush, and had a good fortune in the gold fields. They decide to spend a winter in San Francisco, where Jack gets hooked on gambling, while Dade...Data dostępności:
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Fifty Candles – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers
Just as in Biggers’ first Charlie Chan mystery, „The House Without a Key,” that romantic link between the Hawaii of a different era and the city of San Francisco is explored and holds the key to the mystery. Henry Drew has cheated young Winthrop out of a partnership in a Hunan mine. Other shady deeds abound in the past of this rich and outwardly respectable old man. Despite his antagonism to Drew,...Data dostępności:
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Charlie Chan Carries On – ebook
Earl Derr Biggers
The fifth of the Earl Derr Biggers Charlie Chan books books involves the Honolulu detective in a case of murder that stretches around the world, as members of a tour group are dying, one by one. Charlie’s old friend Chief Inspector Duff from Scotland Yard comes to his rescue in this book. Duff is investigating the murder of Hugh Morris Drake, a sweet old man strangled in London’s famous and exclusive...Data dostępności:
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La vida bajo el cielo estrellado: la arqueoastronomía y etnoastronomía en Latinoamérica – ebook
Katarzyna Bielawska-Drzewek Anna Gogolewska Dariusz Górski Stanislaw Iwaniszewski Ricardo Moyano Vasconcellos Michał Gilewski
La vida bajo el cielo estrellado es el resultado de un esfuerzo de reflexión colectiva realizada por entusiastas investigadores en torno a la importancia del cielo, tanto diurno como nocturno, en la vida cotidiana del los pueblos autóctonos de América. Este libro es de especial interés tanto para astrónomos, historiadores, antropólogos y arqueólogos como para los amantes del cielo, buscadores de tradiciones...Data dostępności:
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