Aventura

ADVENTURE

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum.A beautfiul version with the first edition cover. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. In his short 20-year career, he produced more than 50 books. The text and illustrations in this collection are taken from his early publications and the covers are replicas of the first edition covers. Fonts common 100 years ago are used--Century for the text and Bembo on the cover. The book's original format is matched as much as possible.Set in the Solomon Islands, Adventure is a penetrating portrayal of colonialism and slavery on a copra plantation at the end of the nineteenth century. Fighting local cannibals as well as unforgiving nature, the main character runs the plantation with an iron will. A strong and independent woman arrives to further add to the problems. The book has many racial undertones resulting in scholarly debate as to whether the author approved it, or was just accurately recording what went on.

BEFORE ADAM

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum.A beautfiul version with the first edition cover and 60 original illustrations. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. In his short 20-year career, he produced more than 50 books. The text and illustrations in this collection are taken from his early publications and the covers are replicas of the first edition covers. Fonts common 100 years ago are used--Century for the text and Bembo on the cover. The book's original format is matched as much as possible.OVER 60 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS: The narrator has visions of an earlier, primitive life. His story as one of the Cave People in these ancient times mirrors the story of evolution as he deals with the advanced Fire People and the less advanced Tree People. He also has to protect himself from the fierce Red-Eye and a hungry Saber-Tooth tiger.

ON THE MAKALOA MAT

Jack London books by SeaWolf Press were selected for sale by the Jack London Museum.A beautfiul version with the first edition cover. This edition is part of the 100th Anniversary Collection honoring the 100th anniversary of Jack London's death in 1916. In his short 20-year career, he produced more than 50 books. The text and illustrations in this collection are taken from his early publications and the covers are replicas of the first edition covers. Fonts common 100 years ago are used--Century for the text and Bembo on the cover. The book's original format is matched as much as possible.A collection of seven short stories set in Hawaii around the start of the twentieth century. It was published after his death and contains some of his last stories. Jack London had spent a fair amount of time in Hawaii and used that experience to add realism to his tales. They follow various characters that represent 'old' Hawaii versus the 'new' Hawaii. Hawaii was moving from her isolated history to becoming a territorial possession of the United States.

DREAM THE DAWN

Devastated by the death of both his father and a lover, New York photographer, Channey Moran, accepts an easy assignment in Ireland. He soon becomes accidentally enmeshed in a bizarre ship hijacking by eco-mercenaries led by an eccentric ex-CIA operative who fascinates the world's news media while horrifying Big Energy. Local photographer, Glennie MacDonald, searches the high seas for Channey and finds him moments from drowning. Seeing in him a kindred soul - one she now loves - Glennie nurses him back to life as Ireland erupts in chaos trying to find the allusive leader and his men.

EL MAR DE JADE

En esta apasionante y divertida novela, Vázquez-Figueroa demuestra una vez más hasta qué punto conoce África. Juvenal y César han crecido a la sombra de su tío Feliciano, ex militar del ejército español que estuvo destacado en el desierto del Sahara. Poco antes de morir, su tío les habla de su amor por Shereem, una joven saharaui que le hizo creer que había tenido una hija suya; pese a haber invertido treinta años en la búsqueda de ambas, Feliciano nunca logró localizarlas. Juvenal y César, deseosos de salir de la monótona vida de Cuenca, emprenden un viaje que les deparará múltiples aventuras. Se verán en la tesitura de ayudar a unos inmigrantes subsaharianos abandonados en el desierto y descubrirán que su tío formó parte del ejército irregular de los Grupos Nómadas del Sahara. Pero averiguar el paradero de su posible prima resultará más peligroso de lo que esperaban.

SAUD, EL LEOPARDO

Una historia de aventuras y emboscadas en el corazón del desierto exigía que quien la escribiera demostrase, como ya ha ocurrido con Ébano o Tuareg, que conocía muy bien dónde se desarrollaban tales acontecimientos. «A lomos de camellos, a lomos de caballos, saliendo de la nada, con nada entre las manos, así llegaron.Con la fe como espada, con la verde bandera, y la limpia mirada, así llegaron.¿De dónde habían salido? Del lejano pasado, de la triste derrota, de la muerte y el llanto.Y van de nuevo camino de más muerte y más llanto pues apenas son treinta y ellos son demasiados.» De este modo, con las primeras estrofas de un viejo romance, comienza la historia novelada de uno de los mayores héroes conocidos, Abdull-Aziz Ibn Saud, quien al frente de treinta hombres se lanzó, en la primavera de 1901, a la reconquista del reino que el omnipotente imperio otomano había arrebatado a su familia. Sus hazañas resultarían increíbles de no ser porque se encuentran documentadas, ya que algunas de sus batallas fueron de las primeras que aparecieron en los noticieros cinematográficos de la época. El presidente Roosewelt dijo de este increíble personaje que «de todos los políticos que he conocido, incluidos Churchill o Stalin, y de todos los grandes hombres con los que he tratado a lo largo de mi vida, ninguno me ha impresionado más que Saud de Arabia».

RENDIRSE NO ES UNA OPCIÓN

Joan es un adolescente que desde muy pequeño ha pasado su vida de un terapeuta a otro en Barcelona debido a sus problemas de relación con el resto de niños. Todo cambia cuando un día, después de la terapia, acompaña a su madre al banco y unos atracadores le obligan a subir a un coche. Desde ese momento, Joan tendrá que luchar por salvar su vida huyendo de sus raptores; unos verdaderos psicópatas que guardan un terrible secreto. En el camino se encontrará con Ceres, una chica fugada de un centro de menores, y con Esperanza, una perra que se convertirá en fiel compañera y que los acompañará hasta el último momento.