A nineteenth century circus troupe, including a beautiful aerialist, a lion tamer, a strongman, a gypsy fortune-teller, and a sideshow, tours the post Civil War South and the courts of Europe."Of the things I might expect to see coming along on the heels of a war, a circus sure ain't high on the list..."So spoke Zachary Edge, a colonel in the cavalry of the Confederacy, who was there when the South surrendered at Appomattox.But there it Florian's Flourishing Florilegium of Wonders - a Southern show for Southern people - and he was offered a living as sharpshooter star of the circus.From post-war Southlands through the Russia of the Tsars and the Austria of the Hapsburgs to the Paris of Napoleon III under siege from the guns of Bismark's Prussia, Colonel Zack is a man riding through a world on the brink of history...

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Literature & Fiction

GARY JENNINGS

British & Irish

Frederick Muller

London. 18 cm. 1104 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Gary Jennings .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 0099251418; 0099251418

Raptor

Contemporary

Arrow

Legendary trader and explorer Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied, "I have not told the half of what I saw and did." Now Gary Jennings has imagined the half left unsaid as even more elaborate and adventurous than Polo's tall tales. From the palazzi and back streets of medieval Venice to the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan, Marco meets all manner of people, survives all manner of danger, and becomes an almost compulsive collector of customs, languages, and women.

The Journeyer

Arrow Books, Ltd.

"From the post-war Southlands through the Russia of the Tsars and the Austria of the Hapsburgs to the Paris of Mapoleon III under siege from the guns of Bismarck's Prussia, Colonel Zack is a man riding through a world on the brink of history..." - from the back cover.

Aztec Blood

The Aztec people have been conquered and a bloody revolt of the Indians put down. The former Aztec Empire is now a colony called New Spain in which the Indians are enslaved to great estates that are actually feudal domains. The Spanish lords rule as kings, treating Indian men as work animals and Indian women as their personal property. In this colourful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood runs that of both Spanish and Aztec royalty, must claim his birthright. From the torrid streets of the City of the Dead along the Veracruz Coast to the ageless glory of Seville in Old Spain, Cristo the Bastard connives, fights, and loves as he seeks the truthwithout knowing that he will be the founder of a proud new people. As we follow the loves and adventures of Cristo and experience the colorful splendor and barbarism of the era, a vanished culture is brought to life in all its magnificence.

United States

Forge Books

From review - "This is a true story about all the rumors and stories of the Lost Dutchman's Gold mine in Arizona."

The Treasure of the Superstition Mountains

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Norton

World of Words: The Personalities of Language

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Atheneum

Dust jacket art by the Etheredges. Drawings by Dan Culhane.

March of the Gods

Association Press

Aztec

Here is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America, at the height of its magnificent. It is a story told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction. His name is Mixtil--Dark Cloud. Rising above his lowly station, Mixtil distinguishes himself as a scribe and later a warrior. He earns a fortune as a traveling merchant, exploring every part of what the Aztecs called The One World--the far lands of mountains, jungles, deserts, seacoasts.

Buccaneer Books

Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied "I have not told the half of what I saw and did." Now Gary Jennings has imagined the half that Marco left unsaid as even more elaborate and adventurous than the tall tales thought to be lies. From the palazzi and back streets of medieval Venice to the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan, from the perfumed sexuality of the Levant to the dangers and rigors of travel along the Silk Road, Marco meets all manner of people, survives all manner of danger, and, insatiably curious, becomes an almost compulsive collector of customs, languages and women. In more than two decades of travel, Marco was variously a merchant, a warrior, a lover, a spy, even a tax collector - but always a journeyer, unflagging in his appetite for new experiences, regretting only what he missed. Here - recreated and reimagined with all the splendor, the love of adventure, the zest for the rare and curious that are Jennings's hallmarks - is the epic account, at once magnificent and delightful, of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history.

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Raptor

The Journeyer

Spangle

Aztec Blood

The Treasure of the Superstition Mountains

World of Words: The Personalities of Language

March of the Gods

Aztec

The Journeyer