«Золотой вулкан» – авантюрный роман французского писателя Жюля Верна. В поисках золота герои преодолевают не только ловушки суровой природы, но и коварство врагов, предательство и измену. freepd.comAlexander Nakarada / The CrownKevin MacLeod / EnergizingRafael Krux / Black KnightRafael Krux / Emotional Blockbuster 2Rafael Krux / Epic Blockbuster 2Rafael Krux / Expedition © ИДДК
«Золотой вулкан» – авантюрный роман французского писателя Жюля Верна. В поисках золота герои преодолевают не только ловушки суровой природы, но и коварство врагов, предательство и измену. freepd.comAlexander Nakarada / The CrownKevin MacLeod / EnergizingRafael Krux / Black KnightRafael Krux / Emotional Blockbuster 2Rafael Krux / Epic Blockbuster 2Rafael Krux / Expedition © ИДДК
Тайна, перевернувшая жизнь Александра Дюма.. 1850 год. Весь Париж не может оторваться от «Трех мушкетеров» и «Графа Монте-Кристо» Александра Дюма. Мало кто знает, что в доме писателя семьдесят «литературных рабов» пишут новые главы его шедевров. Успехи Дюма не могут не вызывать зависть. Последняя работа Александра провоцирует масштабные политические волнения по всей стране. Репутация и жизнь писат…
НЕЗАКОННОЕ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ, ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ ВЕЩЕСТВ, ИХ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИЧИНЯЕТ ВРЕД ЗДОРОВЬЮ, ИХ НЕЗАКОННЫЙ ОБОРОТ ЗАПРЕЩЕН И ВЛЕЧЕТ УСТАНОВЛЕННУЮ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВОМ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ Мальта, XVI век. Мальчика Нико похищают работорговцы и увозят в Северную Африку. У его сестры Марии две мечты. Во-первых, сбежать с острова, где никто и пальцем не шевельнул, чтобы спасти ее брата. Однако вто…
Жан Грандье, шестнадцатилетний француз, сказочно разбогатевший в свои 15 лет на Аляске, отправляется добровольцем на Англо-бурскую войну – вступает в трансваальскую армию, которая борется за независимость южноафриканской республики от Британской Империи. Создав отряд добровольцев, состоящий из таких же отважных мальчишек, как и он сам, Жан Грандье отправляется в Южную Африку сражаться против англи…
BBC2’s major TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling novels on the making of England and the fate of his great hero, Uhtred of Bebbanburg. THE LORDS OF THE NORTH is the third book in the series. Season 2 of the epic TV series premiers this March. Uhtred wants revenge. He wants the land and castle that is his. He wants his treacherous uncle to pay for taking them. Head…
A classic tale of nautical adventure from the author of the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, now published in eBook for the very first time to commemorate the Patrick O’Brian centenary.When Sullivan and Ross decide to go shark fishing among the atolls of the Great Barrier Reef little do they know what awaits them. With their schooner beached for cleaning they take a small whaler out to sea, but wh…
Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick O’Brian – made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged.On the indigo waters of the South Sea, the crew of a schooner are attacked by a man-eating tiger-shark. In the humid depths of the African jungle, a thirty-foot python plots to rid himself of his rival, a wily old crocodile. Amid the heat and dust of the…
A classic tale of nautical adventure from the author of the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, now published in eBook for the very first time to commemorate the Patrick O’Brian centenary.As their schooner inches through the dense yellow fog of the northern Pacific, Ross is beginning to regret agreeing to Sullivan's latest plan. Their search for the island of Sakhalien, to hunt for precious sea-otter…
A classic tale of nautical adventure from the author of the acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series, now published in eBook for the very first time to commemorate the Patrick O’Brian centenary.The lighthouse was one of the most lonely in the world, guarding a dangerous reef in the cold northern seas. It therefore seemed a good idea to Sullivan and Ross that they both be its keepers; after all, two's compa…
A detective no one believes in. A killer with nothing to lose…Gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.Beware of the dark…Welcome to the Misfit Mob – where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can’t get rid of, but wants to. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy is foun…
A detective no one believes in. A killer with nothing to lose…A gripping standalone thriller from the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of the Logan McRae series.Beware of the dark…Welcome to the Misfit Mob – where Police Scotland dumps the officers it can’t get rid of, but wants to. Officers like DC Callum MacGregor, lumbered with all the boring go-nowhere cases. So when an ancient mummy is fo…
A glittering adventure set in India at the height of the British Raj. The New York Times compared Patrick O’Brian’s early novel to Kipling's Kim and called it «a gorgeous entertainment.»Hussein is a young mahout—or elephant handler—who falls in love with a beautiful and elusive girl, Sashiya, and arranges for another of her suitors to be murdered with a fakir's curse. The dead man's relatives vow …
The first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea – and the precursor to the famous Aubrey/Maturin series – is now available in ebook format for the first time.The Golden Ocean is the first novel Patrick O’Brian ever wrote about the sea. The novel shares the same sense of excitement and the rich humour of the Aubrey/Maturin novels, invoking the eloquent style and attention to historical det…
From the inimitable brilliance of O’Brian comes the tale of an ill-fated ship on Anson’s expedition around the world and the ensuing adventures of her survivors…After being parted from her squadron in the fearful storms off Cape Horn, the Wager struggles on alone up the ironbound coast of Chile, before she is driven onto rocks and sinks. The survivors include Jack Byron, a midshipman, and his ecce…