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Loot: A novel
by Tania JamesLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero&’s quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty years.&“Addictively absorbing.&” —The New York Times Book Review This wildly inventive, irresistible feat of storytelling from a writer at the height of her powers is "an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel about war, displacement, emigration, and an elusive mechanical tiger" (Maggie O&’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait). Abbas is just seventeen years old when his gifts as a woodcarver come to the attention of Tipu Sultan, and he is drawn into service at the palace in order to build a giant tiger automaton for Tipu&’s sons, a gift to commemorate their return from British captivity. His fate—and the fate of the wooden tiger he helps create—will mirror the vicissitudes of nations and dynasties ravaged by war across India and Europe.Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Lucien du Leze, Abbas hones his craft, learns French, and meets Jehanne, the daughter of a French expatriate. When Du Leze is finally permitted to return home to Rouen, he invites Abbas to come along as his apprentice. But by the time Abbas travels to Europe, Tipu&’s palace has been looted by British forces, and the tiger automaton has disappeared. To prove himself, Abbas must retrieve the tiger from an estate in the English countryside, where it is displayed in a collection of plundered art.
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes (Modern Classics Ser.)
by Barnaby Phillips&‘A fascinating and timely book.&’ William Boyd &‘Gripping…a must read.&’ FT In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men had been travelling to the ancient Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, when they were ambushed and killed by local soldiers. Just six weeks later, the British had exacted their revenge, set Benin aflame, exiled the king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa&’s greatest works of art.This is the story of the &‘Benin Bronzes&’, their creation, removal, and what should happen to them now. When first exhibited in London they caused a sensation and helped reshape European attitudes towards Africa, challenging the prevailing view of the continent as &‘backward&’ and without culture. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like &‘visiting relatives behind bars&’. In a time of fevered debate about the legacies of empire, loot, museums and history, what does the future hold for the Bronzes themselves?
Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property
by Adam RazExiled in 1948, Palestinians were robbed of their private property when looting became weaponizedDuring the 1948 War, Israeli fighters and residents alike plundered Palestinian homes, shops, businesses, and farms. This bitter truth was then suppressed or forgotten over the coming years.Tens of thousands took part in the pillage of Palestinian property, stealing the belongings of their former neighbours. The implications of this mass looting go far beyond the personality or moral fibre of those who took part. Plundering served a political agenda by helping to empty the country of its Palestinian residents. In this context, it was part of the prevailing policy during the war – one designed to crush the Palestinian economy, destroy villages, and to confiscate and sometimes destroy crops and harvests remaining in the depopulated zones.The participating Jewish public became a stakeholder, motivated to prevent Palestinian residents from returning to the villages and cities they had left. These ordinary people were mobilized in the push for the segregation of Jews and Arabs in the early years of statehood.With painstaking original research into primary sources, Adam Raz has brought to light a tragic moment in the history of a conflict that roils the region and the wider world. As the details of the Nakba are understood and documented, redress for Palestinian grievances comes closer to reality.
Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
by Sharon WaxmanA journey across four continents to the heart of the conflict over who should own the great works of ancient artWhy are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? Why do there seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many Etruscan masterworks in America? For the past two centuries, the West has been plundering the treasures of the ancient world to fill its great museums, but in recent years, the countries where ancient civilizations originated have begun to push back, taking museums to court, prosecuting curators, and threatening to force the return of these priceless objects.Where do these treasures rightly belong? Sharon Waxman, a former culture reporter for The New York Times and a longtime foreign correspondent, brings us inside this high-stakes conflict, examining the implications for the preservation of the objects themselves and for how we understand our shared cultural heritage. Her journey takes readers from the great cities of Europe and America to Egypt, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, as these countries face down the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. She also introduces a cast of determined and implacable characters whose battles may strip these museums of some of their most cherished treasures.For readers who are fascinated by antiquity, who love to frequent museums, and who believe in the value of cultural exchange, Loot opens a new window on an enduring conflict.
Looting Spiro Mounds: An American King Tut's Tomb
by David La VereVere (history, U. of North Carolina, Wilmington) recounts the looting of the Spiro Mounds in eastern Oklahoma in 1935, which contained a large amount of pre-Columbian art. He describes the founding and settlement of the area from 800 A.D., the culture and life of the people, and the decline of the chiefdom by 1450 A.D. These chapters are interwoven with the story of how the Pocola Mining Company found the Mounds in the 1930s and looted the objects, the fight with them by U. of Oklahoma's anthropologist Forrest Clements over who had property rights, Works Progress Administration excavation, and past and present theories about Spiro and its people. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Lopez Island
by Lopez Island Historical Society and Museum Susan Lehne FergusonThe story of Lopez Island is a story of community. Skilled, brave, generous people like Sampson Chadwick, Mother Brown, Captain Barlow, and Amelia Davis carved a spirited, nurturing community out of seaside wilderness. Homesteaders cleared forests, built farms, grew food, and raised large families, surviving then thriving together. The hamlets of Port Stanley, Richardson, and Lopez emerged, creating hubs with stores, post offices, and schools as well as thriving fishing, canning, and shipping industries. The community fostered education, music, writing, dances, chivarees, baseball, quilting, a birthday club, and grand Fourth of July celebrations. Living self-reliant lives while helping friends, neighbors, and newcomers, Lopezians created a unique community character that abides today.
Loquela
by Will Vanderhyden Carlos Labbé"Begins to fuck with your head from its very first word."--Toby Litt"Navidad & Matanza could be the hallucinogenic amalgamation of a César Aira plot with setting and characters conceived by Bolaño--if written using Oulipo-style constraints. . . . With ample imagination and commanding style, Navidad & Matanza certainly marks Labbé as a young author from whom we ought to anticipate great, fascinating things to come."--Jeremy Garber, Powell's BooksLoquela, Carlos Labbé's fourth novel and second to be translated into English, is a narrative chameleon, a shape-shifting exploration of fiction's possibilities.At a basic level, this is a distorted detective novel mixed with a love story and a radical statement about narrative art. Beyond the silence that unites and separates Carlos and Elisa, beyond the game that estranges the albino girls, Alicia and Violeta, from pleasant summer evenings, beyond the destiny of Neutria--a city that disappears with childhood--and beyond a Chilean literary movement that could be the last vanguard, while at the same time the greatest falsification, questions arise concerning who truly writes for whom in a novel--the author or the reader.Through an array of voices, overlapping storylines, a kaleidoscope of literary references, and a delirious, precise prose, Labbé carves out a space for himself among such great form-defying Latin American writers as Juan Carlos Onetti and Jorge Luis Borges.Carlos Labbé, one of Granta's "Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists," was born in Chile and is the author of a collection of short stories and six novels, one of which, Navidad & Matanza, is available in English from Open Letter. In addition to his writings, he is a musician, and has released three albums. Will Vanderhyden received an MA in literary translation from the University of Rochester.
Lorain (Images of America)
by The Black River Historical SocietyThe City of Lorain was incorporated in 1874 by the town council. It was named after the county, which had been named by Heman Ely, who thought the area looked very much like the Province of Lorraine in France. Lorainâ TMs location next to Lake Erie and theearly arrival of the B&O Railroad in 1871 made thecity a hotbed for industry. The Hayden Brass Worksbuilt a large plant on Elyria Avenue. Captain Thew, aship captain on the lakes, developed an improved gearsystem for a steam shovel, and that started the Lorain Thew Shovel Co., which became known worldwide.Lorain grew tremendously in the 1890s. Constructionof the Johnson Steel Rail Company started in 1894, and in just ten years, the population of the City of Lorain tripled. In 1894, the American Stove Works built a plant in Lorain, where they made heaters and furnaces. Three years later, the American Shipbuilding Company built a yard and launched hundreds of ships before it closed in 1984. Lorain, Ohio, certainly did its part during World War II; many men went into service, and Lorain produced its own share of heroes. The shipyard was also put to work by the government to build the USS Lorain, a frigate.
Lorca's Experimental Theater: Breaking the Guardrails of Convention (New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies)
by Andrew A. AndersonCritical and historical discussions of the life and work of Federico García Lorca, Spain’s foremost poet and playwright of the twentieth century, often obscure the author’s more avant-garde dramatic works. In Lorca’s Experimental Theater, Andrew A. Anderson focuses on four of Lorca’s most challenging plays—Amor de don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, El público, Así que pasen cinco años, and El sueño de la vida (previously known as Comedia sin título)—and on the surrounding context in which they came to be written and in only one case performed during his lifetime. While none of Lorca’s plays can be considered conventional, these four works stand out in his corpus for challenging theatrical conventions most forcefully, both thematically and technically.With discussions of stagecraft, artistic modernism, and the historical avant-garde, Lorca’s Experimental Theater provides detailed interpretive readings of the four plays, surveys their textual and performative history, and examines the most important contemporary influences on Lorca’s creation of these expressive, innovative works.
Lord Abberley's Nemesis
by Amanda ScottWinner of the Romance Writers of America&’s Golden Medallion Award: Can a desperate young lady return a rakish earl to respectability? When Miss Margaret Caldecourt returns to her ancestral English country manor from Vienna to care for her late brother&’s six-year-old son and heir, Timothy, she learns that unscrupulous relatives threaten his birthright. Immediately she seeks help from her childhood friend and Timothy&’s newly named guardian, the handsome Adam Fortescue, sixth Earl of Abberley. But Abberley, through reckless pleasure-seeking, has brought scandal to his name, let his estate fall to ruin, and is in no condition to help. Determined nevertheless to enlist his aid and protect her nephew, Margaret decides to reform Abberley&’s heedless ways whether he likes it or not. She knows that beneath his dissolute demeanor lies a noble heart, but never does she suspect that her own heart may be vulnerable to London&’s most notorious rake.
Lord Acton for Our Time (People for Our Time)
by Christopher LazarskiLord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty—how Acton understood it, what he thought was its foundation and necessary ingredients, and the history of its development in Western Civilization. Acton is known as a historian, or even the historian, of liberty and as an ardent liberal, but there is confusion as to how he understood liberty and what kind of liberalism he professed. Lord Acton for Our Time provides an introduction that presents essentials about Acton's life and recovers his theory of liberalism. Lazarski analyzes Acton's type of liberalism, probing whether it can offer a solution to the crisis of liberal democracy in our own era. For Acton, liberty is the freedom to do what we ought to do, both as individuals and as citizens, and his writings contain valuable lessons for today.
Lord Bramble quiere una aventura (The Rosegarden Family Tree #Volumen 2)
by Bethany BellsUn lord, una actriz y una puesta en escena única en la que el amor es el auténtico protagonista. Lord Bramble Rosegarden ha recibido un ultimátum de su abuelo: o sienta la cabeza, comprometiéndose de inmediato con una joven de buena familia, o le retirará la asignación con la que mantiene buena parte de sus muchos vicios. Para solucionar el problema, dado que el matrimonio le parece una maldición y no desea todavía atarse a nadie, Bram decide afrontarel problema del modo más astuto que se le ocurre, y contrata a una actriz. Una joven hermosa de la que espera que simule de día ser la más delicada y recatada lady; y que, de noche, caliente su cama en la más ardiente de las aventuras. Tess Newhill adora a Shakespeare y siempre ha soñado con ser actriz, aunque solo la tragedia lo hizo posible. Ahora, a sus veintiséis años, ya ha aprendido que vive rodeada de lobos, y que una joven sola en la vida tiene que estar muy atenta para esquivarlos. Por eso, cuando un joven lord de fama terrible le propone un plan absolutamente descabellado, intenta evitarlo, pero resulta imposible, porque los Rosegarden siempre se salen con la suya. Y Tess se ve obligada a aceptar, claro. Incluso sabiendo que, al hacerlo, va a tener que luchar contra los deseos de su propio corazón.
Lord Braybrook's Penniless Bride
by Elizabeth RollsMiss Christiana Daventry will do whatever it takes to keep from being thrown out on the streets--even accept the insufferably attractive Lord Braybrook's proposition! Julian Trentham, Viscount Braybrook, urgently needs to hire a governess and companion, and Christy is conveniently available. Headstrong, with charmingly mismatched eyes and soft tawny hair, Christy is unlike any woman he has ever encountered. But there is something so deliciously endearing about her that Julian quickly forgets how scandalous it would be to give in to the mounting attraction for his penniless governess. . . .
Lord Bredon and the Bachelor’s Bible (The House of Lovell #2)
by Mia MarloweWith the dowries of all the season’s debutantes exposed in its scandalous pages, The Bachelor’s Bible is a handy tool for an earl in need of an heiress . . . Edward Lovell, newly minted earl, bears a weighty responsibility: to restore his family’s estate to its former grandeur. The task requires not simply a wife, but a wealthy one. Thanks to The Bachelor’s Bible, he already has a particular lady in mind. He has only to convince her sponsor that he will make a suitable husband. There’s just one complication: the sponsor is none other than the only woman he’s ever loved—and inexplicably lost. Now a young widow, Lady Anne Howard is more beautiful than ever . . . Anne is not about to be taken for a fool a second time. When they last met, Edward was Lord Bredon, the man she adored—the man who destroyed her dreams of a happy future. Now he is pursuing the hand of the young lady Anne must keep safe from unscrupulous suitors. But who will protect Anne from the earl who still possesses her heart?. . . “Mia Marlowe is the mistress of saucy historical romances.”—Books Monthly “Mia Marlowe is a rising star!” —New York Times Bestseller Connie Mason “Mia Marlowe proves she has the ‘touch’ for strong heroines, wickedly sexy heroes!”—Jennifer Ashley, USA Today bestselling author of Lady Isabella’s Scandalous Marriage “Her three-dimensional characters truly steal readers’ hearts and keep the pages flying.” —Kathe Robin “A delightful Regency romance, full of passion, humor, and love.”—Ella Quinn, USA Today bestselling author
Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
by Brett UsherLord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 examines the selection and promotion of bishops within the shifting sands of ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court, drawing on the copious correspondence of leading politicians and clerical candidates as well as the Exchequer records of the financial arrangements accompanying each appointment. Beginning in 1577, the book picks up the narrative where Brett Usher's previous book (William Cecil and Episcopacy, 1559-1577) left off, following the fall of Archbishop Grindal, which brought the Elizabethan church to the brink of disaster. The book begins with an outline of the period under review, challenging the traditional view of corruption and decline. Instead Usher provides a more complex picture, emphasizing the importance of court rivalries over patronage and place, and a broadly more benign attitude from the Exchequer, which distinguishes the period from the first half of the reign. Within this milieu the book situates the dominance of the Cecils - father and son - in ecclesiastical affairs as the key continuity between the two halves of Elizabeth's reign. Providing a fresh analysis of the Burghley's long and influential role within Elizabethan government, Usher both illuminates court politics and the workings of the Exchequer, as well as the practical operation of Elizabeth's supremacy. Specifically he demonstrates how Elizabeth learnt a valuable lesson from the debacle over the fall of Grindal, and from the late 1570s, rather than taking the lead, customarily she looked to her councillors and courtiers to come to some accommodation with each other before she would authorize appointments and promotions. Note: Brett Usher died in 2013 before the publication of this book. Final editing of the typescript was undertaken by Professor Kenneth Fincham of the University of Kent, who also guided the book through the publication process.
Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
by Brett UsherLord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 examines the selection and promotion of bishops within the shifting sands of ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court, drawing on the copious correspondence of leading politicians and clerical candidates as well as the Exchequer records of the financial arrangements accompanying each appointment. Beginning in 1577, the book picks up the narrative where Brett Usher's previous book (William Cecil and Episcopacy, 1559-1577) left off, following the fall of Archbishop Grindal, which brought the Elizabethan church to the brink of disaster. The book begins with an outline of the period under review, challenging the traditional view of corruption and decline. Instead Usher provides a more complex picture, emphasizing the importance of court rivalries over patronage and place, and a broadly more benign attitude from the Exchequer, which distinguishes the period from the first half of the reign. Within this milieu the book situates the dominance of the Cecils - father and son - in ecclesiastical affairs as the key continuity between the two halves of Elizabeth's reign. Providing a fresh analysis of the Burghley's long and influential role within Elizabethan government, Usher both illuminates court politics and the workings of the Exchequer, as well as the practical operation of Elizabeth's supremacy. Specifically he demonstrates how Elizabeth learnt a valuable lesson from the debacle over the fall of Grindal, and from the late 1570s, rather than taking the lead, customarily she looked to her councillors and courtiers to come to some accommodation with each other before she would authorize appointments and promotions. Note: Brett Usher died in 2013 before the publication of this book. Final editing of the typescript was undertaken by Professor Kenneth Fincham of the University of Kent, who also guided the book through the publication process.
Lord Bush ansía una amiga (The Rosegarden Family Tree #Volumen 3)
by Bethany BellsCuando los sentimientos entran en conflicto, el amor siempre sabe encontrar el camino. Lord Bush Rosegarden nunca ha sentido que encajase en su familia. Aunque se sabe atractivo, carece de la belleza oscura de sus hermanos y de su sentido perverso de afrontar la vida. A diferencia de ellos, es serio, formal, no concibe la idea de perder el tiempo con diversiones vacías y solo cuenta con un amigo de verdad, Henry Claredon. Bush y Claredon siempre han querido ser médicos, una profesión que los hace sentir bien, porque les resulta grato ayudar a otros y procurarles un poco de alivio y alegría en los malos momentos. Han estudiado juntos y ahora trabajan con un médico, adquiriendo práctica. Pero, todos los proyectos de vida de Bush, tan claros, ordenados y perfectos se rompen en mil pedazos cuando sus ojos se encuentran con los de la señorita Caroline Mildmay, la prometida de su amigo.Caroline Mildmay llega a Londres acompañada de su tía para casarse con el hombre al que ha estado siempre prometida. Es feliz, quiere a Henry, siempre lo ha querido, pero todo se complica cuando conoce a lord Bush y se da cuenta de que ese amor que sentía no era más que una sombra de lo que solo ahora empieza a experimentar.
Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity
by Clara TuiteThe Regency period in general, and the aristocrat-poet Lord Byron in particular, were notorious for scandal, but the historical circumstances of this phenomenon have yet to be properly analysed. Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity explores Byron's celebrity persona in the literary, social, political and historical contexts of Regency Britain and post-Napoleonic Europe that produced it. Clara Tuite argues that the Byronic enigma that so compelled contemporary audiences - and provoked such controversy with its spectacular Romantic Satanism - can be understood by means of 'scandalous celebrity', a new form of ambivalent fame that mediates between notoriety and traditional forms of heroic renown. Examining Byron alongside contemporary figures including Caroline Lamb, Stendhal, Napoleon Bonaparte and Lord Castlereagh, Tuite illuminates the central role played by Byron in the literary, political and sexual scandals that mark the Regency as a vital period of social transition and emergent celebrity culture.
Lord Byron's Marriage: The Evidence of Asterisks (Routledge Library Editions: Lord Byron #6)
by G. Wilson KnightFirst published in 1957. This title explores the brief marriage of Lord Byron and his wife Annabella Millbanke, and the scandal that surrounded their relationship. The exact reason for their separation and eventual divorce was never confirmed, but G. Wilson Knight uses Byron’s poetry, letters and other published works to develop and expand the theories of other literary critics. This title will be of interest to students of literature.
Lord Calthorpe's Promise
by Sylvia AndrewAn Honorable PromiseLord Adam Calthorpe had been rash in his promise to look out for a fellow soldier’s sister before the soldier was killed at the battle of Waterloo. For Miss Katherine Payne was a golden-eyed shrew who took genuine delight in flouting Adam’s authority at every turn.Surely bringing her to stay with his mother for the Season would absolve him of his responsibilities-though he sincerely doubted such a headstrong young woman would ever find herself a husband in the marriage mart. But when an unscrupulous man starts pursuing Katherine, Adam comes to realize that fulfilling his promise might actually involve marrying her himself....
Lord Carlton's Courtship
by Alexandra IvyDear Reader, Long before I wrote my sexy paranormal romances, I wrote traditional Regency romances as Debbie Raleigh. I’m thrilled that one of my favorites is now available again, brimming with adventure and romance . . . Miss Roma Allendyle detested behaving like a proper lady, and all the accompanying nonsense. After all, she could outride and outshoot any gentleman. If finding her vanished brother, an agent of the Crown, required her to disguise herself as a grubby lad, so be it. She expected to face challenges, but not to be waylaid by a mysterious ambush, wounded by a bullet—and rescued by the darkly handsome Lord Giles Carlton, the Season’s prime catch. Worse, in return for his aid, Giles has taken an imperious interest in her affairs and insists on helping with her search. But that is not the last surprise. For in Giles, Roma just may find a will to match her own, a passion to rival her fierce pride—and an outlandish ploy that could lead to true love . . . I’ve fallen for this thrilling tale all over again, and believe you will too.Alexandra Ivy
Lord Chatham and the Whig Opposition (Routledge Revivals)
by D. A. WinstanleyOriginally published in 1966, this book examines the struggle between the whig factions and the crown during a period of George III's reign. During the short period, the destinites of the nation were determined and the work of the Revolution nullified; never before had the opponents of personal government been given such a favourable opportunity to thwart the execution of the royal schemes, and yet they failed hopeleslly. Lord Chatham and the Whig Opposition includes chapters covering the formation of Chatham's administration, the rise and fall of the opposition, and its downfall.
Lord Churchill's Coup: The Anglo-American Empire and the Glorious Revolution Reconsidered
by Stephen S. WebbIn LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American empire was classic in its form, administered by an army, committed to territorial expansion, and motivated by crusading religion, Webb now argues that both England and its American social experiments were the underdeveloped elements of an empire emerging on both sides of the Atlantic and that the pivotal moment of that empire, the so-called “Glorious Revolution,” was in fact a military coup driven by religious fears. <P><P> In a vigorous narrative, Webb populates this formative period of the Anglo-American past with colorful and commanding characters. At the center is John Churchill. We see him rise from page boy to earl of Marlborough, winning battlefield glory, influence, and promotion; and his corresponding rise from ensign of the English army taking control of the destiny of the later Stuart monarchs of Britain and America. <P> Webb shows us Churchill increasingly alarmed by the Catholicizing course of his patron, James II, and becoming instrumental in the organization of a successful coup to protect Anglicanism and the constitution. We see the resulting alliance with William of Orange, the Protestant champion of Europe, quickly turn sour as William makes himself king; and we see Churchill, now transformed into imperial politician, once again in power—able to secure the succession of Queen Anne and negotiate the terms of resumption of war against France. <P> Throughout, Webb makes it clear that at the heart of Churchill’s ascent and actions is his vision of America as a decisive factor in the world war between England and France for impersonal supremacy. As the book ends, Churchill’s American agenda thus becomes central to the war aims of the Grand Alliance.
Lord Cochrane en las montañas
by GILBERTO VILLARROELEl audaz marino encuentra un mundo subterráneo bajo las tierras del sur de Chile. Las coordenadas del corsario Selkirk llevan a Lord Cochrane y sus acompañantes hasta una cadena montañosa, los Cuernos del Diablo, ubicada al norte del Estrecho de Magallanes. Esta resulta ser la entrada a un monumental túnel que conduce, bajo el Mar de Drake, hasta Deception Island, en territorio antártico. El audaz marino ensambla su prototipo de locomotora, The Rocket, y a bordo de ella inicia el descenso hacia aquel mundo subterráneo, que fue el primer hogar en la Tierra del dios Cthulhu. Pero las Montañas de la Locura no están desiertas. Bajo ellas vive todavía una raza ancestral de científicos: los Antiguos. Y un puñado de piratas, encabezados por el capitán Corrochano, un viejo enemigo de Cochrane, amenaza la vida de The Sea Wolf y los suyos. ¡Lord Cochrane, Maria Graham y el capitán Eonet enfrentarán peligros mortales en este arriesgado viaje a través de terra incognita!
Lord Cochrane y la hermandad de las catacumbas
by Gilberto Villarroel¡El marino más audaz de todos los tiempos vivirá una nueva aventura! Francia, 1826. Lord Cochrane recibe un mensaje de auxilio del profesor Jean-François Champollion, jefe de la Sección de Antigüedades Egipcias del Museo del Louvre. Él ha descubierto un testimonio escrito por Julio César en el 52 a.C., que podría ser la clave sobre la primera aparición del dios extraterrestre, Cthulhu. Pero alguien más está detrás de ese manuscrito; una misteriosa hermandad secreta, encabezada por una alta figura de la Iglesia. Y está dispuesta a todo por conseguirlo. Cochrane deberá luchar entonces contra este nuevo enemigo: los poderosos seguidores de un culto siniestro. ¿Qué peligros encontrará en los cementerios,catedrales y catacumbas de París? Reseña: "La novela tiene una profunda investigación, privilegiando los detalles históricos, la ambientación y una muy cuidada atmósfera." Jorge Baradit