Steven Pressfield:Tides of War: A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War
- Paperback 2016, ISBN: 9780385492522
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New York: Thomas y. Crowell Company, 1970. No D/J. The book is in good used condition. Calico Palace is a story of men and women who lived in California at the time of the gold rush. But … More...
New York: Thomas y. Crowell Company, 1970. No D/J. The book is in good used condition. Calico Palace is a story of men and women who lived in California at the time of the gold rush. But they were not the forty-niners. They were the people who were there when it all began. They were the forty-eighters. The gold of California was discovered in the early part of 1848; it took nearly a year for the news to reach the states on the Atlantic side of the continent. But the forty-eighters were in California already. They heard -- and doubted -- the first rumors of gold that drifted into the village of San Francisco (population, 900 persons). When they could no longer doubt the rumors, they went up to the hills and came back staggering under the weight of the treasure they carried. They began the transformation of San Francisco from a frontier shanty-town into one of the most brilliant cities in the world. They created the legends of the golden days. The forty-eighters had not come to California looking for gold. Why, then, were they here? Why had they left their own civilized communities to make a dangerous journey five or six months long, with nothing at the end of it but a mud-caked settlement out at the end of the world? Every one of them had a different reason. Often they were reasons they did not talk about. There was Kendra, who came to California because her stepfather was an army officer assigned to duty in San Francisco, and Kendra had to come along with her mother, because while she knew they did not want her, nobody else wanted her either. There was Ted, who said he had come West because he was bored with working in a law office in New York; Hiram, who had worked his way out as a sailor but did not say why; a pleasant fellow named Pocket, who had left a rich farm in Kentucky to join a wagon train, but did not say why either; Captain Pollack of the Cynthia, who had never loved a woman but was in love with his ship. And Marny, an audacious redheard with a talent for card games, who went to the mining camp called Shiny Gulch to set up a gambling tent called the Calico Palace. This story tells about these people and many others, people who left home and walked right into one of the most spectacular adventures in the world's history. They saw the first samples of gold brought to the office of the army quartermaster, who officially said they were flakes of yellow mica. They were there when men who said they had seen gold in the creeks were laughed at and called "crackbrains." They were part of it all from the beginning. and they laid the foundation of the golden empire before the first forty-niners got there. Some of them could not meet the demands of this strange new world, and crumpled up before it; others grew stronger, and shared the greatness of the country they had helped to build. Calico Palace tells about them all. ,You will receive the book seen in the image.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No D/J., Thomas y. Crowell Company, 1970, 2.5, New York USA: Pinnacle, 1981. An incredible time-space journey to Dimension X!. Landing in a dimension of small cities and kingdoms ruled by a tyrannicl emperor, Richard Blade finds himself involved in a plan to despose the bloody ruler. Tiny mark on front cover.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . Fourth Printing. Softcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback., Pinnacle, 1981, 2.5, Pantheon, 2016-03-22. Hardcover. Good. 1.9000 in x 9.3000 in x 5.9000 in. ** ADVANCE READER'S EDITION PAPERBACK!! Marketing Campaign info on back! Great Collectible! ** 'Nt Fr Sle' marking on cover. Good Condition. Reasonable wear. Still very usable. Clean, mark-free interior!, Pantheon, 2016-03-22, 2.5, Garden City, NY., USA: Doubleday Publishing. Very Good Ex-Library/Very Good. 1965. Ex-Library Hard Cover. Ex-Library 346 pages. An Ex-Library edition. Pages are clean and tight. ., Doubleday Publishing, 1965, 2.75, John Phillip Santos won immense acclaim for his book Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, a finalist for the National Book Award. In this beautifully written new book, Santos tells of how a familyhis mother'serased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain. Blending genres brilliantly, Santos raises profound questions about whether we can ever find our true homeland and what we can learn from our treasured, shared cultural legacies.A family's epic origins in the hinterlands of Mexico that became Texas-and earlier, in IberiaIn his acclaimed 1999 memoir Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation, John Phillip Santos told the story of one Mexican family- his father's-set within the larger story of Mexico itself. In this beautifully written new book, he tells of how another family-this time, his mother's-erased and forgot over time their ancient origins in Spain.Every family has a forgotten tale of where it came from. Who is driven to tell it and why? Weaving together a highly original mix of autobiography, conquest history, elegy, travel, family remembrance, and time travelling narration, Santos offers an unforgettable testimony to this calling and describes a lifelong quest to find the missing chronicle of his mother's family, one that takes him to various locations in South Texas and Mexico, to New York City, to Spain, and ultimately to the Middle East. Blending genres brilliantly, Santos raises profound questions about whether we can ever find our true homeland and what we can learn from our treasured, shared cultural legacies., Viking Adult, 2010-04, 4.5, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Baen Books, 2003. Book. Illus. by .. New. Soft cover. First Printing. Sciebce Fiction paperback, 1st printing. Condition is new with light shelf wear.. Please note that this is a heavy papervback weighing about 15 oz, shipping cost may be higher depending on destination...........*We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, please contact us for more info.**.......WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK........Summary - It is the year 1537. The great winged Lion stares over a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is a bastion of independence and tolerance. Perhaps for that reason, it is also corrupt, and rotten with intrigue. But for the young brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thief, Venice is simply home. They have no idea that they stand at the center of the city s coming struggle for its very life. They know nothing of the powerful forces moving in the background. They have barely heard of Chernobog, demonlord of the North, who is shifting his pawns to attack Venice in order to cut into the underbelly of the Holy Roman Empire. All Marco and Benito know is that they re hungry and in dangerous company: Katerina the smuggler, Caesare the sell-sword, Montagnard assassins, church inquisitors, militant Knights of the Holy Trinity, Dottore Marina the Strega mage .and Maria. Maria might be an honest canaler, but she had the hottest temper a boy could find. Yet among the dark waters of the canals lurk far worse dangers than a hot-tempered girl. Chernobog has set a monster loose to wreak havoc on the city. Magic, murder and evil are all at work to pull Venice down. Fanatical monks seek to root out true witchcraft with fire and sword. Steel-clad Teutonic knights, wealth traders, church dignitaries and great Princes fight and plot for control of the jewel of the Mediterranean. And somehow all of these, from thieves to mages to princes, must gather around Marco and his brother Benito, under the shadow of the great winged lion of Venice...., Baen Books, 2003, 6, pb. Fair. Obviously worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC., 2, Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens' favorite son and the city's greatest general. A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory. But like the heroes in a great Greek tragedy, he was a victim of his own pride, arrogance, excess, and ambition. Accused of crimes against the state, he was banished from his beloved Athens, only to take up arms in the service of his former enemies. For nearly three decades, Greece burned with war and Alcibiades helped bring victories to both sides - and ended up trusted by neither. Narrated from death row by Alcibiades' bodyguard and assassin, a man whose own love and loathing for his former commander mirrors the mixed emotions felt by all Athens, Tides of War tells an epic saga of an extraordinary century, a war that changed history, and a complex leader who seduced a nation. In Tides of War, Steven Pressfield brings the historical precision and heartbreaking human scale that made his previous novel Gates of Fire an international bestseller to an even more epic saga of Greek strife and conflict.One man.Two armies.The fate of the ancient world in the balance.If history is the biography of extraordinary men, the life of Alcibiades (451-404 B.C.) comprises an indispensable chapter in the chronicle of the Western world. Kinsman of Pericles, protégé of Socrates, Alcibiades was acknowledged the most brilliant and charismatic personality of his day. Plutarch, Plato, and Thucydides have all immortalized him. As the pride of Achilles drove the course of the Trojan War, so Alcibiades' will and ambition set their stamp upon the Peloponnesian War--the twenty-seven-year civil conflagration between the Athenian empires, Sparta, and the Peloponnesian league.As a commander on land and sea, Alcibiades was never defeated. The destinies of Athens and her favored son were inextricably intertwined. Man and city mirrored each other in boldness, ambition, and vulnerability. Allied, they swept from victory to victory. Apart, he guided her foes to glory. Of the spell Alcibiades cast over his contemporaries, Aristophanes wrote that Athens "loves, and hates, and cannot do without him." To the end, their renown and ruin were indissoluble.Recounted by Alcibiades' captain of marines in a mesmerizing death-row confession, Tides of War is historical fiction at its finest--a multidimensional, flesh-and-blood renarration of one of history's pivotal conflicts., Doubleday, 2000, 6<