Ian Duncan
1) Kidnapped
Author
Language
English
Description
Orphaned and penniless, David Balfour sets out to find his last living relative, miserly and reclusive Uncle Ebenezer. But Ebenezer is far from welcoming, and David narrowly escapes being murdered before he is kidnapped and imprisoned on a ship bound for the Carolinas. When the ship is wrecked, David, along with the fiery rebel Alan Breck, makes his way back across the treacherous Highland terrain on a quest for justice. Through his powerful depiction...
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Series
Language
English
Description
In The Lost World, the first in a series of books to feature the bold Professor Challenger - a character many critics consider one of the most finely drawn in science fiction - Challenger and his party embark on an expedition to a remote Amazonian plateau where, as the good professor puts it, "the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended" and numerous prehistoric creatures and ape-men have survived. "Just as Sherlock Holmes set the standard - and in...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In 1943 a squadron of Lancaster bombers staged one of the most audacious raids in history, destroying two gigantic dams in Germany's industrial heartland with a revolutionary bouncing bomb invented by British engineer Barnes Wallis. Now, with no blue-prints left behind, Hugh Hunt and a team of expert dam engineers, explosive experts and pilots try to re-create the extreme engineering challenges faced by Wallis and the pilots.
