Never had there been as close a bonding as the one that existed between the young Lord Jaxom & his extraordinary white dragon Ruth. Pure white & incredibly agile Ruth possessed remarkable qualities. Not only could he communicate with the iridescent fluttering fire lizards but he could fly. Back in time to any WHEN with unfailing accuracy. Nearly everyone else on Pern thought Ruth was a runt who would never amount to anything but Jaxom knew his dragon was special. In secret they trained to fight against the burning threads from the Red Planet to fly Back in time as well as Between & finally their close & special union was to result in the most startling & breathtaking discovery of all...THE WHITE DRAGON is one of the most unforgettable episodes in Anne Mc Caffrey's world-famous Chronicles of Pern. ...

Surprisingly little known the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-20 was to change the course of twentieth-century history. In White Eagle Red Star Norman Davies gives a full account of the War with its dramatic climax in August 1920 when the Red Army
- sure of victory & pledged to carry the Revolution across Europe to water our horses on the Rhine
- was crushed by a devastating Polish attack. Since known as the miracle on the Vistula it remains one of the most decisive battles of the Western world. Drawing on both Polish & Russian sources Norman Davies illustrates the narrative with documentary material which hitherto has not been readily available & shows how the War was far more an episode in East European affairs but largely determined the course of European history for the next twenty years or more.

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Intuition is a much talked about concept with implications in business as well as daily life but virtually none of the books on the subject gives a full account of where we derive such an extraordinary power from or how as part of a sound spiritual practice we can develop it & learn to trust & use our sixth sense. The path of opening up intuitive gifts is also one of progressive initiation into the awareness of our higher & more subtle bodies right through to the celestial. Read this book to gain an understanding of the subtle bodies the chakras the Seven Rays of Unfoldment & of the spiritual path that we all walk some more consciously than others. This book by an enormously influential spiritual teacher will make that path more walkable. ...

White Fang by Jack London was published in 1906. It tells the story of White Fang part-dog & part-wolf as he fights for survival in the harsh landscapes of northwest Canada. Essential Classics is a wonderful new series that offers a quick way into a range of exciting stories. Fast-moving & accessible each story is a shortened dramatically illustrated version of the classic novel which loses none of the strength & flavour of the original. ...

In order to save his reputation & the honour of his house at school after he shames himself by running away from a fight between fellow pupils & toughs from the local town a studious schoolboy takes up the study of boxing. This charming early novel by P. G. Wodehouse plays a series of witty variations on the standard school story of the period balancing the minor heroics of the action against a humorously ironic commentary. The simple tale is given sparkle by vivid character drawing & the authors sharp ear for schoolboy dialogue. ...

When she is eleven years old Martine is orphaned & sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. Her grandmother seems strangely unwelcoming & Martine has a difficult time settling in at her new school where she is conspicuously an outsider. But she has an ally in Tendai
- one of the keepers on the reserve from whom she learns the lore & survival techniques of the bush & in Grace
- who instantly senses there is something special about Martine. There are secrets about Sawubona (the reserve) just waiting to be revealed & rumours too about a fabled white giraffe
- a trophy for hunters everywhere. One night Martine lonely & feeling slightly rebellious too looks out of her window & see a young albino giraffe
- silver tinged with cinnamon in the moonlight. This is the beginning of her mysterious & magical adventures
- her discovery of her gift of healing & a secret valley that she travels to with the giraffe where shell find clues about her past & future. Above all its is a heart-warming story full of charm & atmosphere & Martines sheer delight in her giraffe friend & the fantastic landscape which is theirs to explore.




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Martine is eleven when she goes to live on a game reserve in South Africa. One night she looks out of her window & sees a giraffe
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A work first published in 1948 in which Graves argues that the language of poetic myth current in the Mediterranean & Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess or Muse
- some dating from the Old Stone Age.
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This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans snatched from their homes & taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments & forced to endure the harshest of conditions very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale & grandeur built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of he imperial court as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping immaculately researched & brilliantly realised WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history told with all the pace & verve of one of our finest historians. ...

Drawing closely on Bulgakovs personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor The White Guard" takes place in Kiev 1918 a time of turmoil & suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks Socialists & Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins a once-wealthy Russian family as they are forced to come to terms with revolution & a new regime." ...