The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
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A true story of a trailblazing woman who found freedom in the faraway world of the Middle East. Gertrude Bell chafes against the stifling rigidity of life in turn-of-the-century England, leaving it behind for a chance to travel to Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across t...
The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
Since the skeleton could not tell its story, the four young people who had stumbled on it were presented with a puzzle which was not easily solved. But it was what lay beneath the skeleton that was the most intriguing.
Refugees fleeing China in 1937 include an American missionary and his wife, a British engineer, and Madame Ninette with some of her girls. As the Orient Queen negotiates the 40 miles of river to the sea, one disaster follows another.
Sam Grant was none too keen on the job the Syrian client wanted him to do, but the sizeable deposit in ready money meant Grant really had no choice in the matter. Of course there were certain attractions in working for someone as lovely as Miss Yasmin Rasheed, but he had never be...
Mrs. Craydon started to dig up the history of her family, and her husband George developed an interest in an ancient photograph of a most attractive, yet unknown, girl. Would the mystery of the vanished Isabella ever be solved?
Operation Zenith, designed as a propaganda exercise, appeals to Dr Goebbels who sells it to Hitler. Ten of the German navy's most highly trained men are required, and command of this task force falls to Captain Hans Brant, son of a naval hero, who longs to honour the name both of...
According to Winston Blake it was to be as simple as meeting someone off a train. All Paul Wyatt had to do was go to Murmansk and bring out a Polish biologist named Mickiewicz. To Wyatt it sounded crazy and scared him sick, but he needed the money. Besides, as Blake pointed out, ...