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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 0754113507 pgs:272. 2000, bright clean copy, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A forgotten manuscript, buried for centuries in the crypt of a remote and isolated monastery in the island of Kithira, brings to light the bloodstained 'course' of the pirates, brothers Barbarossa. From a small and insignificant fishermen's village in Lesvos to the Sultan's courts in Constantinople and from the dark and humid dungeons of the Venetian castles to the luxurious palaces in Algiers and northern Africa, this story - of the most unrelenting pirates of the Mediterranean - spins forcefully like a tornado and carries the reader away. It transports him to a historical era where he can breathlessly watch ruthless but gallant fortune - hunters, conspirator leaders and insidious representatives of the Church. Arouz and Hayredin Barbarossa, Andrea Doria, Suleiman the Magnificent and a few others are some of the characters of the book which having been dispossessed of their historical 'attributes' are metamorphosed into active and vigorous personalities. With their rivalry, antagonism, hatred, passion for power and authority, corruption, assassinations, and criminal acts but also with their sagacity and military wisdom carve the material which makes this last work of the writer stand out as an exciting and irresistible novel. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In un antico manoscritto, ritrovato dopo secoli di oblio nella cripta di un monastero di Citera, e narrata la storia dei due fratelli Barbarossa, i piu temuti corsari del sedicesimo secolo. Istigati al crimine dalla distruzione del loro villaggio di pescatori a Mitilene, i fratelli Aruj e Khair ad-Din seminarono il terrore in tutto il Mediterraneo, tenendo in scacco le flotte dei potenti d'Europa. Carlo V di Spagna come Francesco I di Francia, gli oligarchi di Genova e della Serenissima, despoti e sultani come celebrati ammiragli, le galere corsare nemiche come quelle papali: nessuno si sottrasse ai loro assalti e razzie, ai baratti di passeggeri facoltosi con lauti riscatti. Avventurieri spietati ma leali, non erano peggiori dei loro avversari, governanti corrotti e malvagi. Greci e turchi, cristiani e musulmani, spagnoli e francesi, veneti e genovesi, tutti indistintamente praticarono come i Barbarossa l'orgia sfrenata del saccheggio, del contrabbando e della violenza. Intrecciando la realta storica con la leggenda, Ghiorgos Leonardos dipinge un quadro avvincente sulla sete di avventura e di gloria dei Barbarossa. Un affresco che ha i colori tenebrosi del delitto e della ferocia, ma soprattutto quelli abbaglianti della passione, del coraggio e dell'intelligenza. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Grandma's Red Sofa is the story of a . sofa. The sofa of a journalist, who demystified each experience he encountered. . Andreas Andreou is a handyman. A restless fortune hunter, a researcher for his own satisfaction. Flighty and emotional, lazy and monster for what it stings him. He is the decathlon champion who cannot claim a separate victory in any of the ten sports in decathlon, but he can win it as a whole. In other words, he will be the perfect journalist. .He was not drowned. He was recycled. He had been eaten by the fish and lived in their cells until these fishes have been eaten by a larger fish, which has been eaten by a larger, and then a larger., in order to complete the cycle, as Heaven orders . The grandmother's Red Sofa" is the only witness, which "lived" events that many people would have liked to live. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The enchanting Alexandria of Farouk's years and its cosmopolitan and multinational personality. A mosaic of events, developments, personal stories, risk and success, happiness and misery. Tragically ending the return to a Greece ill, poor but with dynamism and prospects. From New York, to Alexandria and from Beirut to Belgrade, the Emirates and Athens, George Leonardos travels us to a world next to us, creates, fights, falls in love and mourns. A tour of Alexandria at the time of war, but also after that, with the ephemeral love and the adventures, from the description of which emerges a multiracial, multicultural and cosmopolitan state, that nothing had be jealous of the major European and American centers. And through this dreamy state emerges a true love between two children, that the luck gave them many joys and more sorrows. The "Alexandrian Rhapsody" composes an exciting novel that combines the writing of the experienced historiographer with the penetrating glance of a novelist, the analyst of social situations and personal deeds. An album of bitter memories by a Hellenism that no longer exists from perceptions and mindsets of a society with high goals and an internationalism freedom from national prejudices. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A forgotten manuscript, buried for centuries in the crypt of a remote and isolated monastery in the island of Kithira, brings to light the bloodstained 'course' of the pirates, brothers Barbarossa. From a small and insignificant fishermen's village in Lesvos to the Sultan's courts in Constantinople and from the dark and humid dungeons of the Venetian castles to the luxurious palaces in Algiers and northern Africa, this story - of the most unrelenting pirates of the Mediterranean - spins forcefully like a tornado and carries the reader away. It transports him to a historical era where he can breathlessly watch ruthless but gallant fortune - hunters, conspirator leaders and insidious representatives of the Church. Arouz and Hayredin Barbarossa, Andrea Doria, Suleiman the Magnificent and a few others are some of the characters of the book which having been dispossessed of their historical 'attributes' are metamorphosed into active and vigorous personalities. With their rivalry, antagonism, hatred, passion for power and authority, corruption, assassinations, and criminal acts but also with their sagacity and military wisdom carve the material which makes this last work of the writer stand out as an exciting and irresistible novel. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A crime and a curse. One life and six deaths, were they all planned beforehand.? In an unjustified struggle, the hero in this novel, Leonidas, endeavors to unveil the mystery that covers his life, he tries to reach the end of Ariadne's string that would lead him to the mysterious passages of the labyrinth that his past life had revealed to him, a labyrinth that centuries ago united Alexandria with the holy city of Jerusalem. Leonidas, or rather the eleven cousins who shared the same name and who "when standing counted eleven" are inseparable. They lead parallel lives, filled with incredible, extraordinary and tragic incidents throughout the dramatic "adventure" or history of their family. One Leonidas departs and the second erases his past altogether to enjoy the present in every possible way. Nevertheless . Startling himself as well as the reader, the remaining Leonidas is confronted with his own story, written in a book as if "the generals" who planned his route in this world refuse to let him forget. However, he perseveres, because life for this fortunate seventh tenant of the house that is built over the catacombs of Alexandria goes on. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "My name is Hector Menelaou and I am an accountant." At least that is how I had been introducing myself until I met 'her'. Because afterwards, I was sucked into the whirl of the fate she destined for me, and I got lost in the complexity of its endless maze. When I was near her, I was peaceful and serene and whenever I lost her, I tried to regenerate her in my fantasy so that I could regain my peace of mind once more. Thus, I always had her near me. As you may have conjectured, Eva was not an ordinary woman. She appeared in my life incidentally- on a 'plain' public bus- and I fell madly, desperately in love with her. And it was a kind of love that knew no limits and no bounds. I loved her so much, that I am not sure anymore if she really existed in real life or inside my wildest dreams. In love both conditions coexist, and the love-stricken person cannot discern the dividing line between them. For one thing I am quite certain, though. that the story I am about to narrate in this book will entice and captivate you, not because it is about an extraordinary love affair but because you will be granted the peerless, unrivaled chance to meet Eva, a woman whom you may have also met on your way, or you would wish to have met her." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In Greek and Roman mythology, Castor and Pollux or Polydeuces, were twin brothers, together known as the Dioscuri, the "Boys of the Deus or Zeus" in a free translation. Their father was Zeus who seduced Leda in the guise of a swan. She was the mother of Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, ruler of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos, the femme fatale who murdered her husband. Castor was the mortal son of Tyndareus, the king of Sparta, and Pollux the divine son of Zeus, born from an egg, along with their twin sisters Helen and Clytemnestra. In our days, the story developed somewhat dissimilar from the Greek myth. Two entirely different people meet to conjoin their powers and ascend the echelons of social standing. Incompatible, antithetical characters with different backgrounds each, like the poles of the magnet; they struggle to achieve their target, starting out from a humid basement in a poor and underprivileged neighborhood of Athens, to reach luxurious apartments in the Greek capital In every page of this book, the reader encounters a war of emotions, clashing interests, treacherous desires and scandalous love affairs. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. "The Earthlings" is a narration, with protagonist Odysseus (Ulysses), a person with particular talents and terrible abilities that often break loose from the human perception. However Odysseus, having conscience of his abilities, knew from the beginning that although his abilities, he could not exceed the bonds with the earthy gravity. A romantic narration with "innocents" and "guilties," with "crimes" and "punishments," a story with a lot of pain and a lot of nostalgia. The story begins from the moment where the narrator does meet itself in a central street of Athens with his old schoolmate, Odysseus. This drifts him in an excursion with his "borrowed" car in a village of Mani. In the way to Mani, Odysseus reveals him, that they go to the "nekrodeipno," an ancient Greek custom, during which the relatives and the friends, drinking and eating, they remember the deeds of the dead man and narrate his guests and his heroic feasts. There, the narrator meets also his first love, Elizabeth, the twin sister of Odysseus, who was also present for the after funeral dinner. He always feels a deep love for her. But the events are derailing from his original plans. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From the shiny Greek Cyclades to the frowning, but magical Venice. And from there to the end of the world. To the "Ultima Thule." A historic novel and at the same time a travel adventure. In the middle of 17th century, Greek navigators with primitive means explore unfamiliar seas and confront fearful conditions. From North Pole ices to the weird storms of the Atlantic. And from the unexplored seas of Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland to the dangerous passes of North Pacific, the "Anian Straight," and British Columbia. George Leonardos travels us, not only through history's pathways, but he takes us with him, with a quick and at the same time exciting way to the most inaccessible and dangerous parts of earth. From the Ultima Thule, which inspired the classical antiquity but it was also used as a secrete symbol by the Nazis, up to the most difficult sea ways of the big oceans, like the mythical channel Anian and the Strait of the Greek Ioannis Fokas or Juan de Fouka. We travel together with the heroes of the book into a seductive adventure, which will be engraved in the reader's memory. A historic novel and at the same time a charming and seductive narration for the funs of seafarers and Explorations, but even for those who would like to know the religious beliefs and cosmogony theories of the People of the 15th century. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The search for the real truth about the world, the bold exploration of the darker coast in the most inhospitable seas on earth, composes the adventure of Magellan in the endless struggle of man to explore the unknown and unlock the secret world. In today's age of convenience the new novel, by the winner of the Greek State Literature Award 2008, George Leonardos, sheds light on the titanic battle for human knowledge and discovery of the world as we now know it. In the pages of this book, the reader is navigating with Magellan's boats, taste the sea salt, conscious of the risks involved and the uncertainty of each day dawns. And a book for navigators could not omit the Greek sailors, who accompanied Magellan in the struggle to conquer the unknown. Magellan's expedition was the first to circumnavigate the globe and the first to navigate the strait in South America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Magellan's crew observed several animals that were entirely new to European science, including a "camel without humps." A black "goose" that had to be skinned instead of plucked was a penguin. Two of the closest galaxies, the named after him "Magellanic Clouds," were discovered by crew members in the southern hemisphere. The full extent of the Earth was also realized, since their voyage was 14,460 leagues (69,800 km or 43,400mi). The need for an International Date Line was established. Upon returning they found their calendars were a day behind, even though they had faithfully maintained the ship's log. However, they did not have clocks accurate enough to observe the very slight lengthening of each day during which they were underway on the journey (and since they traveled west, after circumnavigation they had rotated about the Earth's axis exactly one time less, hence experiencing one less night, than if they had remained in Spain). This caused great excitement at the time and a special delegation was sent to the Pope to explain the oddity to him. The course that Magellan charted was followed by other navigators: Garcia Jofre de Loaisa, Andres de Urdaneta, Sir Francis Drake and the Manila Galleon. The Magellan probe, which mapped the planet Venus from 1990 to 1994, was named after Ferdinand Magellan. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.