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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The classic lost world adventure from the author of Sherlock Holmes.No one believed Professor Challenger's claims.that dinosaurs existed in the Amazon jungle.Critics ridiculed and mocked him, but he was as stubborn as he was intelligent. He was willing to venture into the jungles with nothing but a crude map, a skeptical professor, a big game hunter, and a reporter. Their adventure took them across an ocean, up the Amazon river, and deep into lands barely explored by adventurers in the early 20th century.When they finally reached the plateau on their map, they encountered their first big challenge--ascending the cliffs onto the plateau. To be so close to proving his claims with no way to ascend left the party frustrated. Professor Challenger however believed in determined ingenuity and did not give up easily.Would they find what they expected.or would they find more than they could handle You'll love this classic adventure from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, because of the lost world of dinosaurs, lost tribes, ape-men, and a scientist determined to prove he is right.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Return to a beautifully wrought and immersive world where intelligent magical creatures fight for their right to be free.Revolution.Riot.Enslaved magical creatures and an exiled, reluctant hero.Bella Kanto finds herself aboard a hostile ship bound for a frontier town. When she encounters an old lover along the way, she has a chance to escape-but does she really want to take it Meanwhile apprentice Lucy and her friend Maz have been kidnapped from Tabat and taken to the Southern Isles in search of ancient magic. They fear what will happen when they get there, particularly when their kidnapper realizes he's wrong about Lucy's identity.Return to a world where magical creatures fight for their right to be free in a system that makes use of their work and sometimes their very bodies in a city full of revolution and riot, ready for the return of its lost champion: the reluctant Bella Kanto. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mythical beasts. Legendary gladiators. The fate of a boy entwined with epic revolution. When countryboy Teo arrives in the coastal city of Tabat, he finds it a hostile place, particularly to a boy hiding an enormous secret. It's also a city in turmoil, thanks to an ancient accord to change governments and the rising demands of Beasts, the Unicorns, Dryads, Minotaurs and other magical creature on whose labor and bodies Tabat depends. And worst of all, it's a city dedicated to killing Shifters, the race whose blood Teo bears. When his fate becomes woven with that of Tabat's most famous gladiator, Bella Kanto, his existence becomes even more imperiled. Kanto's magical battle determines the weather each year, and the wealthy merchants are tired of the long winters she's brought. Can Teo and Bella save each other from the plots that are closing in on them from all sides.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One man's hell is another man's heaven.In these two classic stories from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells reveals two sides of the same coin: dystopia and utopia.The Sleeper AwakesWhat if you took a sleeping pill and awoke two centuries years later to find yourself the wealthiest man in the world Everyone and everything you know is long gone . but you are simultaneously the most exciting and most unfortunate thing to happen in centuries Are you the Messiah or the Antichrist Men Like GodsWhat if you took a mental health day, ready for some rest and relaxation, and suddenly found yourself in a different world Journey with Mr. Barnstaple to Utopia to see what millennia of advancement can bring to the future.Here together in one volume are two seminal works that inspired George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and others.Afterword by Eric Flint.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - n the second book of The Tabat Quartet, Nebula award-winning author Cat Rambo expands the breathtaking story from Beasts of Tabat with new points of view as Adelina, Sebastiano, and others add their voices. Tabat is a world, a society, and a cast of characters unlike any you have read before.Fireworks.Riots.Rousing speeches. All markers of the vast societal upheavals taking place in the city of Tabat.But personal upheavals reflect the chaos. Adelina Nettlepurse, noted historian and secret owner of Spinner Press, watches the politics and intrigue with interest, only to find herself drawn into its heart by a dangerous text and a wholly unsuitable love affair with a man well below her station.The match offered by Merchant Mage Sebastiano Silvercloth would be much more acceptable, but Sebastiano is hampered by his own troubles at the College of Mages, where the dwindling of magical resources threatens Tabat itself. And worse, his father demands he marry as soon as possible.When Adelina's best friend, glamorous and charming gladiator Bella Kanto, is convicted of sorcery and exiled, the city of Tabat undergoes increasing turmoil as even the weather changes to reflect the confusion and loss of one of its most beloved heroes.Meanwhile the Beasts of Tabat-magical creatures such as dryads, minotaurs, and centaurs-are experiencing a revolution of their own, questioning a social order that holds them at its lowest level. But who is helping the Beasts in their subversive uprising ¿.…