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In the book's final form, Nemo says to professor Aronnax, "That Indian, sir, is an inhabitant of an oppressed country; and I am still, and shall be, to my last breath, one of them!" [ 10 ] In the novel's initial drafts, the mysterious captain was a Polish nobleman , whose family and homeland were slaughtered by Russian forces during the Polish ...
Tom Holt, Walled Orchard series Goatsong: A Novel of Ancient Athens (1989) The Walled Orchard (1991) John Galen Howard, Pheidias (1929) Noel Langley, Nymph in Clover (1948) Edward Leatham, Charmione: A Tale of the Great Athenian Revolution (1859) Jon Edward Martin, Shades of Artemis (2004) Iona McGregor, The Snake and the Olive (1974)
The series's initial publisher, Bridge Publications, coined the word dekalogy, meaning "a series of ten books", to describe and promote the novel. Made up of about 1.2 million words, the epic is a "satirical science fiction adventure set in the far future". Each volume in the series topped numerous bestseller lists. [1]
Drive-in advertisement from 1957 for 20 Million Miles to Earth and co-feature, The 27th Day.. The film was based on a concept by Ray Harryhausen called The Giant Ymir. [1]20 Million Miles to Earth began production in Rome, Italy in September 1956, using only William Hopper of the main cast, and moved to the U.S. from October 30 to November 9 of that year. [2]
Mega Channel Greece produced a 26-episode television series called To Nisi (The Island), based on the book; the series premiered on 11 October 2010. [3] With a €4 million budget, the series is the most expensive in Greek television history. [4]
The book also deals with the effects of the explosion of available space on the people of Datum Earth and the new colonies and political movements that are spreading throughout the Long Earth. A young girl, Helen Green, and her family (with the exception of her brother, Rod, who is unable to step) trek across the long earth to form a new ...
Route of Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (red line) in the Achaemenid Empire.The satrapy of Cyrus the Younger is delineated in green.. The Ten Thousand (Ancient Greek: οἱ Μύριοι, hoi Myrioi) were a force of mercenary units, mainly Greeks, employed by Cyrus the Younger to attempt to wrest the throne of the Persian Empire from his brother, Artaxerxes II.
What to Expect When You're Expecting is a pregnancy guide, now in its fifth edition, authored by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel and published by Workman Publishing. [1] Its first edition, authored by Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, and Sandee Hathaway, was originally published in 1984. [ 2 ]