John has never known his father; in fact, he always thought he was dead. So why did his mother hide an old newspaper cutting about a Colonel Jeff McGuires disappearance in South Africa? And why the sudden interest from the British War Office in Johns desire to find him?
Things get even more mysterious when he reaches the United States: shadowy figures seem intent on following him; men in suits are asking questions. Luckily, Dan, a truck driver, takes him under his wing, and the two begin a cat-and-mouse chase across the American mid-west with the aid of the...
Who is Colonel Jeff McGuire?
John has never known his father; in fact, he always thought he was dead. So why did his mother hide an old newsp...
This secret history of the Cairngorms is a series of journeys exploring little-known stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery-- a unique British landscape and its last great wilderness. There have been rare human incursions into the Cairngorm plateau, and Patrick Baker tracks them down. He traces elusive wildlife and relives ghostly sightings on the summit of Ben Macdui. From the search for a long-forgotten climbing shelter and the locating of ancient gem mines, to the discovery of skeletal aircraft remains and the hunt...
This secret history of the Cairngorms is a series of journeys exploring little-known stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. History combines with travelo...
Salvatore I. Camporeale, Patrick Baker, Christopher S. Celenza
The work of Lorenzo Valla (1406-57) has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, as have new critical editions of his texts. One of the most interesting interpreters of Valla, Salvatore I. Camporeale, O.P., had a following among scholars who read Italian, but very little of his work saw the light in English before his death in 2002. This book presents two of Camporeale's studies on Valla in English, which examine in detail two of Valla's works: his treatise on the Donation of Constantine (undoubtedly the work for which Valla is best known) and his Encomium of Saint Thomas Aquinas, delivered...
The work of Lorenzo Valla (1406-57) has enjoyed renewed attention in recent years, as have new critical editions of his texts. One of the most interes...
By way of essays and a selection of primary sources in parallel text, Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing provides an introduction to a vast, significant, but neglected corpus of early modern literature: collective biography. It focuses especially on the various related strands of political, philosophical, and intellectual and cultural biography as well as on the intersection between biography, historiography, and philosophy. Individual texts from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century are presented as examples of how the ancient collective biographical tradition – as...
By way of essays and a selection of primary sources in parallel text, Biography, Historiography, and Modes of Philosophizing provides an introduction ...
The Unremembered Places is a poignant and enthralling take on some of Scotland's most fascinating, yet overlooked, places of interest. Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Awards - Outdoor Book of the Year 2020 and the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature 2020.
The Unremembered Places is a poignant and enthralling take on some of Scotland's most fascinating, yet overlooked, places of interest. Shortlisted for...
