Nueva York. Siglo XX. Un hombre singular contrata los servicios de una periodista en paro con la intención de que narre su vida. No será un trabajo breve. El hombre tiene un millón y medio de años. Y conoce el secreto de los viajes en el tiempo. Entre otras muchas habilidades...
En abril de 1800, Gran Bretaña, aún imbatida, sigue luchando con denuedo contra el expansionismo de Napoleón. Una noche, durante una velada musical en casa del gobernador inglés en Puerto Mahón, un irlandés de origen catalán asesta un codazo a un teniente de navío que, junto a él, transportado por el primer movimiento triunfal del Cuarteto en do mayor de Locatelli, se empeña en marcar el compás a destiempo. Harán las paces, aunque a regañadientes. Al día siguiente, y por sorpesa, el teniente de navío Jack Aubrey será ascendido y recibirá el mando de la Sophie, corbeta de su majestad de la flota del almirante Nelson. Y decide enseguida reclutar al soberbio irlandés y médico, Stephen Maturin, como cirujano a bordo. A partir de ese momento, comienza una amistad que perdurará a través de diferentes éxitos y calamidades por todos los océanos, en las selvas tropicales, en las calles de Boston y en las mazmorras de París. Y, además, Maturin se revelará como una espía extremadamente eficaz para demostrar los planes de Napoleón... Patrick O'Brian reconstruye toda una civilización y nos presenta los arcanos de un mundo terriblemente hostil, cruel pero valiente....
Relying on primary sources— oral history interviews, personal memoirs, newspaper articles, official records, diaries, and letters— E. R. Milner cuts through myth and legend to create this startling portrait of the real Bonnie and Clyde. In his prologue, Milner introduces Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, showing them as they drive along a rural Louisiana lane toward the ambush that would put a dramatic end to their turbulent lives of crime. Milner then traces their backgrounds, noting the events that bring the two outlaws together. The ensuing adventures of Bonnie and Clyde featured gun battles, narrow escapes and captures, frequent moves, and, of necessity, several shifts in personnel over a short period of time. It was a life of wild action, betrayal, and sometimes even gallantry. In the abstract, an aura of romance surrounded this violent pair. Although the mythology surrounding Bonnie and Clyde is charged with drama and fascination, Milner reveals the truth behind the bloody legend, carefully gleaning materials from obscure locally published accounts, previously untapped court records, and archived but unpublished oral history accounts from some sixty victims, neighbors,...
In Elseworlds, heroes are taken from their usual settings and put into strange times and places-some that have existed, or might have existed, and others that can’t, couldn’t or shouldn’t exist. The result: stories that make characters who are as familiar as yesterday seem as fresh as tomorrow. Featuring the League of Justice battling the insane sorcerer Luithorr, Diana Prince and the Justice Riders against the evil robber baron Maxwell Lord, Batman and Superman as pulp heroes, a gender reversed World’s Finest teaming up to save Lex Luthor and other tales! Now, for the first time, the Justice League’s prestige format Elseworlds tales are featured in a new graphic novel collection. Collects ELSEWORLD’S FINEST #1-2, ELSEWORLD’S FINEST: SUPERGIRL & BATGIRL, JUSTICE RIDERS, LEAGUE OF JUSTICE #1-2, TITANS: SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE, and WONDER WOMAN: AMAZONIA!
The 1984 Detroit tigers roared out of the gate, winning their first nine games of the season and compiling an eye-popping 35-5 record after the campaign’s first 40 games--still the best start ever for any team in major league history. The tigers led wire-to-wire in 1984, becoming only the third team in the modern era of the majors to have done so. And Detroit’s determination and tenacity resulted in a sweep of the Kansas City Royals in the AL playoffs and a five-game triumph over the San Diego Padres in the World Series. And Tigers fans will tell you that the bottom of the eighth inning in Game Five was the first time Kirk Gibson hit an iconic home run in the Fall Classic. Detroit Tigers 1984: What a Start! What a Finish!, an effort by the society of American Baseball research’s BioProject Committee, brings together biographical profiles of every Tiger from that magical season, plus those of field management, top executives, the broadcasters--even venerable Tiger Stadium and the city itself.
"In this, the fourth volume of the second series of Church History series, a more familiar period is brought before our readers. The rise of the Puritans was the necessary outcome of the attempt to limit the growth and expansion of the Reformation in the Church of England." -- Preface (p. [5]).