Winged Bull: The Extraordinary Life of Henry Layard, the Adventurer Who Discovered the Lost City of Nineveh 9781633887008, 2020048528, 2020048529, 9781633886995, 1633887006

Nineveh and Its Palaces: The Discoveries of Botta and Layard, Applied to the Elucidation of Holy Writ 9781463209223

The author presents the discoveries of Botta and Layard and applies them to the writings of the Bible. This third editio

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The Woman Who Raised the Buddha: The Extraordinary Life of Mahaprajapati 9780834843530, 9781611806694, 9780834843479

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Desert queen: the extraordinary life of Gertrude Bell, adventurer, adviser to kings, ally of Lawrence of Arabia 9780753802472, 0753802473

Amazon.com Review A biography of the woman who, indirectly, was the catalyst for many of the troubles in the Middle East

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The Lost Cyclist: The Epic Tale of an American Adventurer and His Mysterious Disappearance 0547195575, 9780547195575

In the late 1880s, Frank Lenz of Pittsburgh, a renowned high-wheel racer and long-distance tourist, dreamed of cycling a

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A Raindrop in the Ocean: The Extraordinary Life of a Global Adventurer [Hardcover ed.] 1785630326, 9781785630323

A unique memoir in which a young adventurer from colonial Rhodesia charms his way around the world, sleeping in stately

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The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward: Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life 9780226541556

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909–93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkel

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Edmund Hillary - a Biography: The Extraordinary Life of the Beekeeper Who Climbed Everest 9781911342977

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Life of the Rev. Henry Harbaugh, D.D.

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Nineveh, the Great City [1 ed.] 9789088904981, 9789088904967

‘Well, as for Nineveh, skipper, it was wiped out long ago. There’s not a trace of it left, and one can’t even guess wher

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The Life and Character of King Henry the Fifth

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