When Professor Robert Langdons mentor is brutally kidnapped he realises the only hope of saving his friend is to follow the clues hidden in an ancient invitation. He is then plunged into a deadly race against time as he battles through a clandestine world of Masonic secrets codes & hidden truths all leading towards a shocking & unthinkable finale. This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the authors work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed. ...

A boy discovers a bizarre-looking creature while out collecting bottle-tops at a beach. Having guessed that it is lost he tries to find out who owns it or where it belongs but the problem is met with indifference by everyone else who barely notices its presence. Each is unhelpful in their own way; strangers friends parents are all unwilling to entertain this uninvited interruption to day-to-day life. In spite of his better judgement the boy feels sorry for this hapless creature & attempts to find out where it belongs. ...

Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece the Meteora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the most isolated its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten secret. In the dead of night the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors carrying ancient weapons. One by one they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top
- the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves. Halfway across Europe a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders
- the statue of Zeus & his mighty throne. But Byrds search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy & there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda...

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The publication commanded four reprints & inspired two major street reunions. A hugely popular history course based on the title led to the formation of an Everton Historic Society. It is not surprising that author Ken Rogers has responded to the clamour for a second book by collating the memories sent to him by an army of ' Lost Tribe' members who were part of a remarkable exodus in the 1960's when a controversial slum clearance programme forced over 125 000 people to leave their spiritual home for new towns & sink estates on the outer limits of Liverpool. Those families never forgot the open door heartland they left behind & their personal stories form the basis of the author's new book entitled ' Lost Tribe: The People's Memories'. You will read about the sights sounds & smells of the original & world famous Scotland Road with a pub on every street corner; the romantic world of the old inner city cinemas; the local seaside paradise that drew hundreds of thousands to the far banks of the River Mersey; & the bomb sites that held deadly Second World War secrets. You will meet a highly respected doctor who drove a Morris 8 car down a Liverpool hospital corridor & find out who had the longest name ever given on a Liverpool birth certificate. The book also reveals what happened when a circus elephant & a lion were kept overnight in an inner city stable block. You couldn't make it up but that is what inspired so many people to buy the original ' Lost Tribe of Everton & Scottie Road' publication. ' Lost Tribe: The People's Memories' will be published behind a major community series in the Liverpool Echo newspaper that will spark huge interest in the title across Merseyside. ...

These days it seems obvious that stupendous constructions like St Pancras Station should be preserved & restored. But as recently as the 1970s Glasgows superb St Enochs Hotel made way for a shopping centre & in the 1960s St Pancras itself was also earmarked for demolition. Victorian was a term of abuse. Add in wartime bombing by the Luftwaffe & town planners eager for ring roads & multi-storeys & the destruction is shocking. This poignant angry book full of stunning images chronicles the catastrophic swathe cut through our architectural heritage by the twentieth centurys sustained antipathy to the nineteenth entirely through buildings that have disappeared. Of the 200 notable examples of Victorian architecture illustrated in this book from the magnificent Imperial Institute in Kensington to the vast country house of Eaton Hall not one still exists. A photograph is all we have left. As well as architectural causes celebres like the Euston Arch & Londons Coal Exchange Gavin Stamp turns up many lesser-known Victorian buildings like the extraordinary Gothic battlements of Columbia Market in East London or Chatsworths soaring glasshouse streamlined like a spaceship. Surprising chastening but also uplifting Lost Victorian Britain is a memorable journey back into a world we should never have lost. ...

Philip Howards legendary Lost Words column has been appearing weekly in The Times newspaper for many years regularly & wittily illuminating for readers on the meanings of some of the obscurer more esoteric words the English language has to offer. This unique collection finally brings together the very best of Howards columns. Only here can we learn the significance of words such as maritality; charientism; sardonian; janiform & faticidal
- words which enrich the English language & which would otherwise have been lost to it forever.
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The notorious Professor Challenger claims that dinosaurs still walk the earth. When the press & the scientific community ridicule him Challenger vows to show them proof. & so he sets off for South America accompanied by a big game hunter a scientist & a young reporter eager to impress the woman he loves. On a remote plateau in the middle of impenetrable jungle they discover the impossible truth but must battle monsters & men before they can bring their testimony home. ...

Dorothy Hartley (1893
- 1985) is an author revered by enthusiasts for old English food & cookery & English country life. Her many
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the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended. The various checks with influence the struggle for existence in the world at large are all neutralized or altered. Creatures survive which would otherwise disappear. Headed by the larger than life figure of Professor Challenger a scientific expedition sets out to explore a plateau in South America that remains frozen in time from the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Seemingly impossible to penetrate this lost word holds great danger for the four men whether from fiendish ape-men or terrifying prehistoric creatures. Arthur Conan Doyles classic tale of adventure & discovery still excites the reader today just as dinosaurs continue to grip the popular imagination. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

From outer space the 115 islands that make up the Seychelles archipelago are little more than specks of rock & coral spread in a fan across the western Indian Ocean. This magnificent book is a visual journey into the aquatic world of this remote archipelago & a celebration of its underwater world & spectacular marine wildlife. The Seychelles coral reefs are among the most extensive in the Indian Ocean & Sir David Attenborough described the south-western atoll of Aldabra is one of the wonders of the world. Mangrove forests & sea grass beds are also well represented. With a high level of marine biodiversity
- the Seychelles hosts one of one of the worlds most important hawksbill turtle populations & are a globally important sanctuary for whale sharks. This title is published in association with the Save our Seas Foundation.
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