Investigative Journalist George Webb unearths the secret bioweapons program with key members of the US Congress and the Pakistan Intelligence Services in conjuction with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Four years of reporting on Capitol Hill led to the discover of the covert communications devices used to communicate with Pakistani Intelligence and the safe houses they used to traffic operatives in the Washington, DC area.

"A flavorsome re-creation of things past in the life of a generous, friendly people." —New York Times Book Review"George Webb's gentle recollections of his childhood and Pima Indian lifeways will doubtless endure forever. This deeply moving autobiography is the perfect introduction for younger Pimas to their culture and history." —Arizona Highways

This is a collection of Norse folktales selected as being appropriate for children. They range from short pieces such as, "How One Went Out to Woo" to the longer stories such as, "The Blue Belt" and "Shortshanks," and include such favorites as, "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff" and "The Lad Who Went to the North Wind."

This collection presents a wide-ranging anthology of Scandinavian folk narratives gathered by George Webbe Dasent, showcasing the rich storytelling traditions that flourished across the Norse world. Drawing on material reminiscent of the Grimm Brothers and other foundational folklore collectors, it features tales filled with giants, trolls, witches, enchanted tasks, and talking animals.Dasent's extensive introduction situates recurring motifs within the beliefs and cultural pattern...

Ananzi is a small spider. One day he buys fat and a very big frying pan, then he goes to the bay and calls the Head-fish to him. He says to the fish that it must bring all fish on shore and they will get new life. When the fish come out of the water he catches them and puts them in the frying pan. Then Ananzi puts fried fish into the sack and goes to the mountains. On the way, he meets the lion and the lion asks him, where he goes. Ananzi answers that he carries his mother's bones to the m...

Sir George Webbe Dasent (1817-1896), Doctor of Civil Law, was a British lawyer, translator of folk tales and contributor to The Times.He was educated at Westminster School, King's College London, and Oxford University, where he befriended classmate John Thadeus Delane, future editor of The Times. After graduating from university in 1840 with a degree in Classical literature, he was appointed secretary to Thomas Cartwright on a diplomatic post in Stockholm, Sweden. ...

This is a Slovenian fairy tale. Today children around the world love Eastern Slavonians' fairy tales because they are full of wonders and miracles, kind and brave heroes. Once upon a time was a great famine all over the world. Nowhere in the world was even a grain of corn and what people sowed was failed. For three years there wasn't any rain. During this time all reserves of corn were emptied and if anybody still had any grain, it had been sowed. They didn't obtain the love of God. When t...

THE events described in the Saga of Gisli the Soursop reach from the end of Harold Fairhair's reign to the middle of the reign of Earl Hacon the Bad, or from about the year 930 to 980. Nothing can be livelier or more truthful than the account contained in it of Norwegian and Icelandic life and manners during those fifty years. In Norway itself, about the beginning of that period, Harold Fairhair, now grown old, had shared the kingdom which he had won with so much toil and blood among his s...

Once upon a time was an old widow who had a son. She was weak and feeble and she asked a son to go to the storehouse and bring some meal for cooking. But on his return from storehouse there came the North Wind, caught up the meal and carried out the meal away through the air. A son went back into the storehouse for more but when he came out again the North Wind robbed him one more time. The guy was very angry - he thought he should go to search the North Wind and ask him to give up his mea...

Remarkable collection — the only complete edition of these wonderful tales — contains scores of classic Norwegian tales made even more attractive by 77 illustrations by famed children's artists. Second only to Grimm.

Ten stories from great Asbjørnsen and Moe collection include title story plus "Shortshanks" — the tale of a wee lad who manages to defeat giant ogres — "Princess on the Glass Hill," "Why the Sea Is Salt," "The Twelve Wild Ducks," "The Mastermaid," "Dapplegrim," "Tatterhood," and 2 other stories.

Embodying the fears, fantasies, and forebodings of the people who lived in northern Europe when the world was a darker and more frightening place, these 42 authentic folktales were culled from the rich legacy of Norse and German mythology by noted folklorist George Webbe Dasent. They include stories of princes and princesses who have been transformed into animals, trolls, and maneating giants who possess magical powers, and good-hearted, clever young men and women, often poor and ridiculed...