Stunned by the Japanese invasion of their island the colonists of Borneo have only one chance of escape - to reach the sea and hope a friendly passing vessel picks them up.  For the fifty-odd survivors of the trek across the mountains, their savious appears in the form of an embittered atheist who is captain of the HENNY, a veteran salvage vessel.  Captain Krasser agrees to help the desperate group on one condition - that the clergymen and nuns among them forsake their religion.

The trail of the serpent

De Hartog, Jan

Harper&Row

An idealistic Quaker ambulance driver stationed in Europe marries a young Dutch girl recently liberated from a Nazi concentration camp and returns with her to America, where they take up the cause of the American Indians

The Lamb's War: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Harpercollins

The Trail of the Serpent

Captain Kuiper and his Dutch freighter, "Star of Peace," carry a human cargo of 250 Jews from Nazi Germany to South America in 1939

Star of Peace

Called back from retirement to undertake a mysterious and dangerous assignment, the Commodore finds himself aboard a huge new tug transporting an oil rig the size of a small island to the Far East

The Commodore: A Novel of the Sea

Combining the elements of modern mysticism with a riveting tale of Roman times, de Hartog takes the reader on a magical journey between two times. Martin Harinxma finds a door to Roman times that delves into an understanding of life's deepest mysteries.

The Centurion: A Novel

The internationally best-selling novelist, playwright Jan de Hartog, author of The Captain and The Peaceable Kingdom, moves and inspires us with this simple, elegant story of his mother and himself. She was a quiet, unassuming woman married to a giant of a man, a famous Protestant theologian and pastor, simple, bighearted and big-muscled, who moved through life with gusto and the commotion of a wagon train and who, but for God, might have become a pirate or a general. He adored his wife and didn’t like anyone else around to claim her attention. Their sons saw him as a monster of egocentricity, a tyrant, a blustering bully; to her he was a sensitive, shy, helpless man with a mission. She believed in him from the moment they met, and under the wings of her faith in him as a philosopher, he became one. During their thirty years of marriage this woman’s only concern was to enable her husband to hearken to “the voice of God.” After his death she discovered somewhere deep inside a core of drop-forged steel. She rose to the challenge of widowhood and, continuing his work, took his place in the world. The full splendor of this tiny, frail woman’s character, intelligence, and courage became evident during her World War II internment in a Japanese camp in the Dutch East Indies, when she managed to arrange a cease-fire between the Dutch Army and Indonesian guerillas. After her release from prison camp, she returned to Amsterdam, and resumed her simple life, offering spiritual advice to those seeking solace. Finally, she was faced with the ultimate test of her spirit: a diagnosis of a cancer too far advanced for treatment. De Hartog tells us how his mother’s blazing courage through it all inspired his own spiritual awakening as he found, in her final months, the strength, the power, and the acceptance to see her through to the end.

A View of the Ocean

Religion & Spirituality

Pantheon

An idealistic Quaker ambulance driver stationed in Europe marries a young Dutch girl recently liberated from a Nazi concentration camp and returns with her to America, where they take up the cause of the American Indians

The Lamb's War

Fawcett

Peaceable Kingdom

Drawing from the history of the Quakers, the author creates an epic tale about the struggles of these people as they searched for religious freedom

Item is in GOOD condition. With average wear to cover, pages and binding. May have underlining, highlighting, or writing inside, but none noticed. May or may not include supplemental data.

Fawcett Books

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The trail of the serpent

The Lamb's War: A Novel

The Trail of the Serpent

Star of Peace

The Commodore: A Novel of the Sea

The Centurion: A Novel

A View of the Ocean

The Lamb's War

Peaceable Kingdom

Peaceable Kingdom