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The Golden Ocean is a historical novel written by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1956. It tells the story of a novice midshipman, Peter Palafox, who joins George Anson's voyage around the world beginning in 1740. The story is written much in the language and spelling of the mid-18th century.
The book was the inspiration for the 1982-1983 French cartoon TV series Les Mystérieuses Cités d'or (The Mysterious Cities of Gold).A few of the central characters take their names from the book, the high-level quest (searching for the Cities of Gold) is the same, and the "golden lake" scene from the book is also present in the cartoon, but the similarities end there (the cartoon has motifs ...
Sure, we have one book left, and a year to bask in the light from the City of Gold, but I'll never be ready to say farewell to Aru, Kristina, Yashika, Fop, and the others (yes, even Bolly)." [ 3 ] The Laughing Place stated, "Ratcheting up the tension and suspense throughout the book, author Roshani Chokshi has a difficult task with Aru Shah and ...
Webster was a journalist for the Los Angeles Daily News, The Saturday Evening Post and a World War II veteran with "Easy" Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (the subject of the book and miniseries Band of Brothers). He disappeared while shark fishing near the Santa Monica coast and is presumed to have drowned.
A further annoyance is the diction, clumsily erudite as ever [...] If only some editor had cleaned out this nonsense and trimmed the book to liftable size." [1] Dave Pringle reviewed White Gold Wielder for Imagine magazine, and stated that "White Gold Wielder is a stronger work than the preceding tome (The One Tree)." [2] Ruth Campbell noted ...
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The Many Worlds of Andre Norton (1974), collection, edited by Roger Elwood; also issued as The Book of Andre Norton; Iron Cage (1974) Outside (Walker & Co., 1974), chapterbook, illus. Bernard Colonna; The Day of the Ness (Walker, 1975), chapterbook by Norton and Michael Gilbert, illus. Michael Gilbert; The White Jade Fox (1975) Merlin's Mirror ...
The Mirror of Alchimy appeared at a time when there was an explosion of interest in Bacon, magic and alchemy in England. The evidence of this is seen in popular plays of the time such as Marlowe's Dr. Faustus (c. 1588), Greene's Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay (1589), and Jonson's The Alchemist (1610). [ 7 ]