The following is a list of recently released ebooks from various Gutenberg projects, including Project Gutenberg US, PG Australia, Faded Page, and Standard Ebooks.
Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) is a travel book by Charles Montagu Doughty (1843—1926), an English poet, writer, and traveller. Doughty had travelled in the Middle East and spent some time living with the Bedouins during the 1870s.
An abridged version was arranged and introduced in 1908 by Edward Garnett. This book, ‘Passages from Arabia Deserta’, is the 1931 edition of that publication.
The story is based on the first ascent of the Matterhorn and follows a young boy, Rudi Matt, who is determined to climb a mountain called the Citadel. The book was a runner-up for a Newbery Award in 1955 and was later adapted into the Disney film Third Man on the Mountain.—Wikipedia
A young doctor attempts to turn a mysterious death to his romantic advatage.
The allies are losing planes, however this time it is the route between India and China and this is causing problems for the Chinese attempting to hold off the Japanese invasion. As can be expected, when the R.A.F. has a problem there is only one person that they can call in to help: Biggles.
In Biggles’ Second Case, Biggles, Algy, Ginger, and Bertie hunt down a rogue German submarine, <i>U-517</i>, captained by the ruthless von Schonbeck, carrying a cargo of gold stolen from Allied ships during the Second World War. On their way to recovering the gold they have to depth charge a submarine and escape a firing squad.
Deep in the jungle heartland of Japanese-occupied Malaya, Biggles and his team operate a secret command base during the Second World War. It’s deadly, dangerous work, risking enemy capture—can Biggles bring all his men out alive?
If Biggles had not taken a quiet holiday on the Cornish coast, a highly professional gang of smugglers might never have been brought to book.
As it was, a slight suspicion about a shark-fishing expedition led Biggles, helped by Ginger, Bertie and Algy, to make discreet inquiries in the area, expecially about Julius Brunner, the owner of an expensive Daimler, and his activities in shark-fishing and hotel ownership. Although the crooks were skilful and ruthless, they found only disaster waiting for them on one of the smaller islands in the Channel, where they had fled with Biggles in hot pursuit.—Dustcover.
Defending the vital Second World War air-route across Africa from a secret oasis base, Biggles and his team are at the mercy of the desert and all its dangers. But fighting an enemy as wily as the German ace Von Zoyton, there’s always a risk of being shot down in the waterless wasteland. . .—Back Cover.
The final Horatio Hornblower story tells of Napoleon’s plans to invade England. Horatio is still married to Maria and pursuing Napoleon. This book was unfinished when Forester died, but he had outlined the plot so we know how it ends. This book also includes two short stories related to characters in the series.
Set in 1805, Hornblower and the Crisis finds Horatio Hornblower in possession of confidential dispatches from Bonaparte after a vicious hand-to-hand encounter with a French brig. The admiralty rewards Hornblower by sending him on a dangerous espionage mission that will light the powder trail leading to the battle of Trafalgar.
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