The Boys' And Girls' Adventure Book

Cussler, Clive: Trojan Odyssey, Berkley November 30, 2004 ISBN: 0425199320
,,EX LIB\nAdventure tales for boys (and girls) of all ages have no more vigorous champion today than Cussler, who has kept the spirit of Joe and Frank Hardy alive, albeit on a grander scale, in numerous bestsellers. This 17th Dirk Pitt extravaganza finds Cussler (literally, as he makes a cameo at book's end) and his entourage of paint-by-number characters in fine fettle, foiling a dastardly plot by outlandish villains to launch a new ice age, and at the same time demonstrating that the Achaeans were not Greeks but Celts, and that Troy was a town in what's now England. After a prelude set during the Trojan War, the novel proper starts with a roar, as a monstrous hurricane sweeps toward the Caribbean, endangering not only Pitt's twin son and daughter, engaged in undersea exploration, but also the Ocean Wanderer, a luxury floating hotel owned by a mysterious billionaire known as Specter. In a manly manner, Pitt and his longtime sidekick, Al Giordino, both of NUMA (the National Underwater and Marine Agency), save the hotel and Pitt's grown kids, but not before those kids discover a trove of underwater relics that indicate that the Celts, aka Achaeans, reached the New World millennia ago. And the Celts are still here, in the guise of a female Druidic cult linked to Specter and aiming for world domination by altering ocean currents via a vast underground mechanism in Nicaragua, which will plunge the earth into cold, then selling a new type of cheap fuel cell to supply needed heat. The action never flags, the heroics never halt and the bodies pile up as Pitt and Co. take on the villains; some big changes in Pitt's personal life close the book.

Condition;Good ,Paperback ,EX LIB\nAdventure tales for boys (and girls) of all ages have no more vigorous champion today than Cussler, who has kept the spirit of Joe and Frank Hardy alive, albeit on a grander scale, in numerous bestsellers. This 17th Dirk Pitt extravaganza finds Cussler (literally, as he makes a cameo at book's end) and his entourage of paint-by-number characters in fine fettle, foiling a dastardly plot by outlandish villains to launch a new ice age, and at the same time demonstrating that the Achaeans were not Greeks but Celts, and that Troy was a town in what's now England. After a prelude set during the Trojan War, the novel proper starts with a roar, as a monstrous hurricane sweeps toward the Caribbean, endangering not only Pitt's twin son and daughter, engaged in undersea exploration, but also the Ocean Wanderer, a luxury floating hotel owned by a mysterious billionaire known as Specter. In a manly manner, Pitt and his longtime sidekick, Al Giordino, both of NUMA (the National Underwater and Marine Agency), save the hotel and Pitt's grown kids, but not before those kids discover a trove of underwater relics that indicate that the Celts, aka Achaeans, reached the New World millennia ago. And the Celts are still here, in the guise of a female Druidic cult linked to Specter and aiming for world domination by altering ocean currents via a vast underground mechanism in Nicaragua, which will plunge the earth into cold, then selling a new type of cheap fuel cell to supply needed heat. The action never flags, the heroics never halt and the bodies pile up as Pitt and Co. take on the villains; some big changes in Pitt's personal life close the book.

[SW: Dirk Pitt Adventure Series]

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Capek, Josef; Koreis, Voyen (ed. & transl.): The Tales of Doggie and Moggie, Brisbane Booksplendour Publishing 2008 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 9780980382532
9780980382532 New Book Capek, Josef

New book. Nine adventure stories about a little dog and a cat, with illustrations by author. 82 pages - for children of primary school age (approx. 6-9 years): Doggie and Moggie: How They Washed the Floor; How Doggie Tore His Trousers; What Happened at Christmas; How They Wrote a Letter to the Girls in Newcastle; The Proud Nightie; The Boys From Ipswich; How Doggie and Moggie Made a Birthday Cake; How They Found a Doll That Cried Very Softly; How They Played Theatre & About Father Christmas ...There was a time when Doggie and Moggie had lived together; they had their own little cottage on the edge of the forest, where they resided, and they wanted to do everything the way the grown-up people do. But they couldn't always manage to do this, because they have only small and clumsy paws, and on these paws they have no fingers like people have, only those little pads and on them the claws. So they couldn't do things like people do, and they never went to school either, because school isn't for little animals, of course it isn't! ... New Edition Binding - Pictorial Softcover *Medium Octavo -230mm (9") tall; New Edition

[SW: CHILD CHILDRENS BOOK ANIMAL CHARACTERS ANIMALS DOGS CATS CHILDREN BOOKS ADVENTURE BOOKS PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN 6-9 YEARS CHILDREN'S BOOKS CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS CHILDREN'S STORY BOOKS PICTURE BOOKS STORY BOOKS BOYS AND GIRLS YOUNG READERSDogs Cats]

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Burtis, Thomson, Illustrated by Frank Dobias: Haunted Airways, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930

Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Adventure Library For Boys and Girls, With a Foreword by Alexander Klemin, Director of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, New York University; For the Home and School Book Service. Good/No dust jacket; moderate wear & light bumping to green cloth boards w/Pictoral paste down drawing of Aviator's "Dogfight" scene. Decorated endpapers, offsetting to pastedown, frontispiece print,WONDERFULLY illustrated by Frank Dobias, contents are very clean & tight. Jules Verne type story about adventures of a Twenty-Eight Thousand Ton Touraplane over the Mohave. Wonderful Book! Hardcover

[SW: JUVENILE-FICTION, BOY'S ADVENTURE, COLLECTIBLES, AVIATION, MOHAVE DESERT, STOWAWAYS, ESCAPE, SURVIVAL, TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND TON PLANE, COLLEGE BOYS, ROCKET TOURAPLANE. SERIES: "ADVENTURE LIBRARY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS" (1930). DOBIAS, FRANK-ILLUSTRATOR. BURT]

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Jeffries, Jeff: 7th Cavalry - All-Action Adventure on the Indian Frontier!: The Boys' and Girls' Library, London The Children's Press ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover
Good

186 pages. Undated. Meet General Custer and the troopers of his Fighting Seventh Cavalry as they match their strength and wits against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Contents well-yellowed. Average wear to book. Dust jacket well-worn with several small tears but remains quite functional. Fair+ Hard Cover 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

[SW: 7th Cavalry - All-Action Adventure on the Indian Frontier!: The Boys' and Girls' Library 186 pages. Undated. Meet General Custer and the troopers of his Fighting Seventh Cavalry as they match their strength and wits against Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Gift greetings upon front endpaper. Contents well-yellowed. Average wear to book. Dust jacket well-worn with several small tears but remains quite functional.]

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