John Fenner
Author
Language
English
Description
Remember that guy, in school, who loved to challenge himself both, physically and mentally, the guy, who always went a little further than anyone else. The fellow who was 'into' knights in medieval times, or Indians, or the Old West, or... the one who seemed to have born 100 years after his time? Bryan MacKay is a man who should have lived before his time. A martial artist, survivalist and student of military tactics, Bryan is, out-of-sync with modern...
Series
Criterion collection volume 953
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
White schoolteacher Ben Du Toit lives in Johannesburg and remains blissfully incurious about the lives of his black countrymen until a wave of brutal repression comes crashing down on his gardener, bringing Du Toit face-to-face with harsh political realities.
Author
Series
Great Adventurers volume 3
Language
English
Description
Navigator, poet, and a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter's meteoric rise was followed by a slow and tragic fall from grace that eventually ended with the farcical Orinoco disaster, and subsequent death on the executioner's block.