Bernard Baker In Cairo To Khartoum - Ian Pauley - Audio Book

Bernard Baker In Cairo To Khartoum - Ian Pauley : Looking for something that is something between Young Winston, Indiana Jones with a splash of Monty Python? Look no further!

Cairo to Khartoum is the first in the Bernard Baker series. Here we meet our heroes, Bernard and his batman Sam on their first foray with the British army in 1898. They are bound for Khartoum to do battle with the Dervish horde but, even before they have left England, Bernard stumbles across a plan being hatched by the evil Jeremy Blasford-Smythe apparantly to kidnap the American jounalist Maximillian Perchinsky. Can Bernard and Sam thwart the plan?

Join Bernard and Sam as they battle against the desert heat, smugglers and army regulations in this captivating story.

In this story he will embark on an army career with Sam Johnston which will take them in every corners of the Empire. They are off up the Nile with Kitchner to the Sudan to beat the Dervish Horde in Khartoum. And they decided to break orders to foil the kidnapp attent. Well this book has everything in it to make it a real pleasure to read and to be captivated.

Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded - Simon Winchester - Audio Book

Krakatoa - The Day the World Exploded - Simon Winchester : The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa -- the name has since become a by-word for a cataclysmic disaster -- was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly 40,000 people.

Beyond the purely physical horrors of an event which has only very recently become properly understood, the eruption changed the world in more ways than could possibly be imagined. Dust swirled round the world for years, causing temperatures to plummet and sunsets to turn vivid with lurid and unsettling displays of light. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogota and Washington went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar.

The sound of island's destruction was heard in Australia and India and on islands thousands of miles away. Most significantly of all -- in view of today's new political climate -- the eruption helped to trigger a wave of murderous anti-western militancy by fundamentalist Muslims in Java: one of the first eruptions of Islamic killings anywhere.

This story is based on lots of scientific and historical sources, among them eyewitness accounts of events.There's one chapter which is, I think not, very convincing, i,e that the 1883 disaster started the revolt of the Islamic native population against the Christian Dutsch, whom we know have to leave indonisia in 1949. But this book is worth to read and let us wonder when "Anak Krakatoa" (the Child of Krakatoa) will erupt....again !

The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough - Audio Book

The Path Between the Seas - David McCullough : The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. McCullough expertly weaves the many strands of this momentous event into a captivating tale.

The Path Between the Seas has the sweep and vitality of a great novel. This audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested in American history, international intrigue, and human drama.

In December 31, 1999, after nearly ruling it for a century, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. In the mid-19th century that nation did not exist. First the Europeans began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow isthmus; Panama was then just a part of Colombia.M cCullough's book pays homage to an immense undertaking.Its as well the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing a passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Its a very captivating tale.