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The prince with a plan! Prince Nadir's brief liaison with virginal Moulin Rouge dancer Imogen Reid was over almost before it began. And Imogen fled...carrying something very precious to Nadir. Now he's found her again and he has a plan: Step 1: Take Imogen and their daughter back to Bakaan. Step 2: Ignore his body's betraying desire for the woman he's never forgotten. Step 3: Marry Imogen, securing his heir and stabilising his desert kingdom. ...

Excerpt from Outlines of the Life of Christ: A Guide to the Study of the Chronology, Harmony, and Purpose of the Gospels This book is included in the R. T. S. Library in the hope that a clear and scholarly outline of the Life of the Saviour, by such a competent writer as Dr. Conder, will prove a boon to many who cannot afford to buy expensive works. Sunday School Teachers especially will find here very much to help them in their study of the ...

Excerpt from Dictionary of Geography: Ancient and Modern: Comprising a Succinct Description of All the Countries of the Globe, Their Physical and Political Geography, the Several Races of Their Inhabitants, and Their Ancient as Well as Modern Denominations, Together With a Brief Notice of All Agua (spanish), water. This word often occurs in the names of places in Spain and Spanish America as Aguas Bellas (fine waters), Aguas Calientes (hot sp...

Excerpt from The Seal of Silence: A NovelWill's life had been so separate from the lives of the two other inmates of the house that his departure made little difference. Old Tawny went calmly upon his downward way: chipped seals, drew corks, and lined his grave with empty bottles. The fact that his verses about this time became less musical and spark ling marked a distinct stage in the journey, but as the impairment of his critical faculties p...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 29 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical of the Various Countries of the GlobeTar. Following works have supplied our materials for the description of Brazil and Buenos Ayres.Southey's History' of Brazil. 3 vols. 4to. 1817-22. Henderson's History of the Brazil. 4to. 1821. Luccock's Notes on Rio de J aneiro and Southern Brazil. 1820. Maria Graham's Journal of a Voyage to Brazil....

Excerpt from Syrian Stone-Lore: Or the Monumental History of Palestine The limits of the country under consideration are the peninsula of Sinai on the south, and the Taurus Chain on the north, the Mediterranean on the west, and the desert on the east. It is clear, however, that the in¿uence of surrounding nations in Egypt, Chaldea, and Asia Minor must always have been strongly felt in the long narrow line of sea-coast, generally known by the ...

Excerpt from Tent Work in Palestine, Vol. 2 of 2: A Record of Discovery and Adventure The view from the tents on every Side was very fine. To the south we looked out over the long thorn-groves, towards the open plain stretching for eight miles to the Dead Sea, which appeared as a gleaming thread, shut in by long dim ridges of mountain, while the square tower of the modern Eriha or Jericho appeared in mid distance. In the early morning I looke...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 13 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe We now enter upon one of the most important provinces of Brazil, the auriferous regions of Minas Geraes (General Mines), in the heart of which the Marquis Pombal would have placed the new capital of the Portuguese empire, which he projected to transfer to the western hemisphere. In some respects, ...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 19 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe Hispalis, the capital of Hispania Bætica, of which Seville is the representative, is mentioned by Strabo, Pomponius Mela, Pliny, and Ptolemy, as being ancient even in their time. It is supposed to have been founded by the Phenicians, - according to the popular tradition, by Hercules. By the Romans...

Excerpt from The Hittites and Their Language In 1887 I published a small volume on 'Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscriptions, ' now sold out. In this I explained the reasons for supposing this script to be decipherable by aid of Mongol speech, and added tentative renderings of some of the shorter texts, while the reader was duly warned that much time would elapse before final results, on the lines laid down, could be expected. I received k...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 17 of 30 [An empire in Europe and Asia, lying between lat. 38 N. and 78 N.: bounded on the N. by the Arctic Sea, on the S. by Turkey, the Black Sea, the territory of the Kirguiss Cossacks, and the Chinese dominions, on the E. by the Pacific Ocean, and on the W. by Swedish Lapland, the Gulf of Bothnia, Prussia, and Poland.] About the middle of the ninth century, am embassy was sent from Theophilus, Empe...

Excerpt from The Survey of Western Palestine, Vol. 2: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archæology The Memoirs for Sheets VII. Which are contained in this volume are entirely the work of Lieutenant (now Captain) Conder. The method of division is the same as that adopted for the first. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This ...

Excerpt from Altaic Hieroglyphs and Hittite Inscription Complete decipherment. In this, as in all their publications, the Committee beg it to be understood that they put forward this memoir as the responsible work of Captain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses stat...

Excerpt from Palestine Many things here said will be found at greater length in previous works which I have written, scattered through several volumes amid more special subjects. I hope, however, that the reader will discover also a good deal that is not noticed in those volumes, for the sources of information concerning ancient Palestine are constantly increasing, and, among others, I may men tion, that the series of Palestine Pilgrim Texts,...

Excerpt from Wages or the Whip: An Essay on the Comparative Cost and Productiveness of Free and Slave Labour Sea? Unless this can be Shewn to be precluded by some physical impossibility, some local cause of mysterious force, sufficient to counteract the natural elasticity of the mind relieved from the pressure of the iron yoke, nothing, to use the words of the American Professor, will justify slave la bour in point of economy. About the Publ...

Excerpt from Judas Maccabaeus, and the Jewish War of Independence In the following pages, I have attempted not only to narrate the bare facts of the short career of Judas, but also to give a sketch of the gradual development of the nation during the period of independence, from Ezra to the Herodian age, with some account of their habits of life, their manners, and their religious contests and tendencies, and with an estimate of the true value...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 2 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe Dr. Pococke conjectures, that Syria might possibly receive its name from Sur, the ancient name of Tyre, the chief city of the whole country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduct...

Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 9 of 30: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe While these important transactions were taking place at Poonah and Nagpoor, so confounding to all who had either openly or secretly taken part in the hostile confederacy, the Pindarries had been completely driven out of their haunts in Malwah, by the three divisions under Brigadier-generals Malcolm...

Excerpt from Psalms, Hymns, and Passages of Scripture Forchristian Worship: Appendix About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged...

Excerpt from The Rise of Man Tm: subject of this volume is the Social History of mankind, studied by aid of the results of science and research which have accumulated so rapidly during the lifetime of the present generation. The customs and beliefs of men form the basis of such inquiry, and the ideas of natural growth, and of guidance, lead us to look forward to the far-off divine event, by showing us the purpose which we can discern in the p...