Mutant pigs, evolving in a wild, forested area cause havoc on a tropical island in the South China Sea. The pigs were originally meant for organ transplants performed on older Americans who will pay anything for a new life. As the main characters become involved in deadly and very bloody experiences, they uncover the perverse secrets of the head of the Piper family, a wealthy old Bostonian driven by greed, and the Krian family, native to the island, driven by revenge, who suffers a band of headhunters to roam the area taking trophy heads at will. A thriller with an interweaving of a romantic...
Mutant pigs, evolving in a wild, forested area cause havoc on a tropical island in the South China Sea. The pigs were originally meant for organ trans...
From ancient Pharaohs to twenty-first century water wars, papyrus is a unique plant that is still one of the fastest growing plant species on earth. It produces its own soil a peaty, matrix that floats on water and its stems inspired the fluted columns of the ancient Greeks. In ancient Egypt, the papyrus bounty from the Nile delta provided not just paper for record keeping instrumental to the development of civilization but food, fuel and boats.
Disastrous weather in the sixth century caused famines and plagues that almost wiped out civilization in the west, but it was papyrus paper...
From ancient Pharaohs to twenty-first century water wars, papyrus is a unique plant that is still one of the fastest growing plant species on earth...