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Captain RP Laxman and Oliver Cape sail to the Olympus Islands on the giant wind ferry Charon. Their mission is to administer the World Authority's peace at the end of the long anarchist war... Expecting to make a useful contribution in an outpost of empire, they instead become enmeshed in local intrigue and incompetence. The Resident Commissioner is a pompous alcoholic, with a Treasurer scheming to replace him. The Secretary, James Darling, is...

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Excerpt from Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture, Vol. 2 of 2The building (fig. 6 3) was something of an exotic in the kingdom of the Austrasian Franks in the 8th century.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, ...

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Dalmatia - The Quarnero and Istria, with Cettigne in Montenegro and the island of Grado is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists ar...

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Excerpt from Dalmatia, the Quarnero and Istria, Vol. 3 of 3: With Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of GradoUpper town of Cattaro most likely escaped and afforded shelter to the inhabitants of the lower town, till the danger was past, and they were able to return and rebuild their ruined homes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a repr...

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Excerpt from A Holiday in Umbria: With an Account of Urbino and the Cortegiano of CastiglioneThis book is the result of two visits, in 1881 and 1888, made in happier days to a part of Italy little known to travelling Britons, but not inferior to any in historical associations and in beauty of nature and art. There are important Roman remains at Rimini, Fano, Ancona, andin the Passo del Furlo, near the scene of Hasdrubal's defeat which saved th...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from Gothic Architecture in France, England, and Italy, Vol. 1 of 2Gothic architecture attained its perfect development in France and England. The styles of the two countries, like yet unlike, overlapped and in¿uenced one another, though they diverged ever more and more widely as time went on.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a r...

Excerpt from The Renaissance of Roman Architecture, Vol. 1: ItalyPatriotic feeling too came in to play its part. The same national pride with which the Italian, when he came to know them, remembered that Virgil and Cicero had been his fellow-countrymen reminded him also that the arts Of ancient Rome were the work Of his ancestors.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forg...

Excerpt from The Renaissance of Roman Architecture, Vol. 2: EnglandIn England, as in Italy, the Revival of learning, the literary Renaissance, preceded the artistic Renaissance and paved the way for it, and it was from Italy that England like the rest of Europe received the impulse towards classical studies which led ultimately to the revival of Roman architecture.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...