Résultats pour "The Steppe" dans Action et aventure

Through this timeless novel, Henry Biernacki carves images of the steppe (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan), an area often overlooked by travelers. Once Emperio changed his habitual routine, in Paris, of importing art, for one of exploration, he began to alter his life rather than accept destiny. Emperio’s appreciative outlook to experiences, without definite outcomes, arises in the novel, and his passion shapes his future.

It's been years since the Earthling Lansius awoke in a medieval fantasy world. Since then, he's learned the lay of the land, and after joining the army as a foot soldier, he witnessed the war against the thousand-year Imperium roll to its violent end. Now, Lord Lansius finds himself elevated to a reluctant warlord. With the emperor dead and famine threatening, he'll do all he can to keep bloodshed from breaking out at every turn.

Gegen übermächtige Kräfte kämpft sie für die Freiheit. Hippolyte ist die junge Herrscherin über die Skythen. Sie führt das Erbe ihrer Mutter Otrere fort und versucht, ihr Volk der Amazonen zu einen und seine ursprüngliche Lebensweise zu bewahren. Doch als der griechische Held Theseus sie entführt und sie zwingen will, ihm den Waffengürtel zu überlassen, den ihr einst ihr Vater, der Kriegsgott Ares, schenkte, muss sie den Kampf gegen die Achaier wieder aufnehmen ... Die große Saga über die stärksten Frauen, die es in der Antike gab: die Amazonen.

Russia, 1945: For Petka, a rambunctious 12-year-old boy with dreams too big for his tiny village, the prospect of invasion is dangerously thrilling. He watches the Red Army troops march off to engage the enemy, and wages his own war - against boredom, bullies, and his lot in life as a bastard in a backwoods world. Secretly raising a wolf in his grandmother’s goat barn, happily raising hell with the local troops, stowing away in a shipment of bootleg booze destined for the combat zone, and defying death by the noose, Petka eagerly takes all he can from life.