A high adventure that immerses Tarzan and his offspring in a herculean-battle for their family’s survival. Set in the 1980s, it introduces the great-grandson of Tarzan, Jonathan, a young man struggling to seek his place in an adult world, and unveils the inner workings of Tarzan’s massive family wealth—the Greystoke Trust, a London-based financial estate whose global influence reaches into the highest levels of business and government. This nonstop adventure travels from Africa to London t...

The sound of helicopter blades chopping through the air as they swiftly fly away into the distance, the eerie quietness before the buzzing of bullets zipping past the protective helmets, and the blasts of heavy shelling disturbing the ground. These were the familiar sounds heard once a drop was made leaving American soldiers in unfamiliar terrain to fight and fend off the enemy.The Vietnam War took place between 1955 and 1975. This war saw the communist government of North Vietnam ...

In the Days of the Red River Rebellion is a first-hand reminiscence of the turbulent events surrounding the 1869–70 Red River Resistance, when Métis political assertion, Canadian expansion, and imperial uncertainty converged in the North-West. Written in a plain yet vivid memoiristic style, the book combines frontier travel narrative, Protestant moral reflection, and historical testimony. Its literary context is the late nineteenth-century Canadian documentary tradition, in which missionar...

This book challenges readers to consider whether archaeology explains the Bible.Archaeology and the Bible examines new developments in archaeological finds in the Near East, particularly Palestine, that are related to the Bible. New methodologies, regional surveys and creative syntheses have all had an impact on traditional approaches to looking at these discoveries.John Laughlin examines these new developments and discusses what they imply for biblical studies.

From the ruins of the ancient seaside city of Acco, to the small but archaeologically important town of Yokneam, Fifty Major Cities of the Bible provides readers with a comprehensive guide to the ancient cities that played a vital role in the world from which the Bible originated.Not only covering renowned cities such as Jerusalem and Jericho, the book also includes lesser known towns like Aroer, Beth-Zur and Gibeah, which have all provided their own valuable contributions...

The Complete Works of John McDougall gathers a body of frontier memoir, missionary narrative, travel writing, and historical recollection that records the transformation of western Canada in the nineteenth century. Written in a direct, observant, and often sermon-inflected prose, these works combine adventure, ethnographic description, religious reflection, and settler history. Read today, they belong to the literature of empire and expansion, invaluable both for their vivid immediacy and ...

Pathfinding on Plain and Prairie is a vivid frontier memoir of travel, mission work, and cultural encounter in the nineteenth-century Canadian North-West. Written in a direct, episodic prose shaped by oral reminiscence and Protestant testimony, it records arduous journeys, prairie landscapes, buffalo-era life, Indigenous communities, and the unsettling advance of colonial settlement. The book belongs to the literature of western expansion, combining adventure narrative, missionary record, ...

"An expert guide and teacher . . . delves into difficult topics with humor and ease. . . . Well worth reading." — Biblical ArcheologyFor many, the names Bethlehem, Babylon, and Jerusalem are known as the setting for epic stories from the Bible. What often gets missed is that these cities are far more than just the setting for the Bible and its characters—they were instrumental to the creation of the Bible as we know it today.Robert Cargill, archeolog...

In this impressive volume, leading scholars offer compelling glimpses into the biblical world, the world in which prophets, poets, sages, and historians created one of our most important texts--the Bible. For more than a century, archaeologists have been unearthing the tombs, temples, texts, and artifacts of the ancient Near East and the Mediterranean world. Using new approaches, contemporary scholars have begun to synthesize this material with the biblical traditions. The Oxford Histo...

Experience a photographic search for the Bible’s Exodus. Join two authors and television broadcasters on their four year quest to investigate the mystery of the Hebrew exodus out of Egypt. Witness in full colour pictures, scenes of Semitic people with multi-coloured coats entering ancient Egypt, find Semitic settlements in the Bible’s land of Goshen and discover how archaeological finds combined with new computer technology can help reveal the face of Joseph and the exodus pharaoh!...

This new edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with full-colour maps and illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with regard both to biblical scholarship and to archaeology and topography. The Atlas will help readers of the Bible understand the contexts in which its stories are set and to appreciate the world from which it emerged and which formed its background. Maps show the geographical setting of the Bible's stories and reflect thesuccessive stages of the Bib...

An array of new archaeological finds and revealing discoveries in the ancient city hidden beneath Jerusalem lead to a stunning conclusion: The generation alive today will witness the return of Christ.The evidence–uncovered by prophecy expert Grant R. Jeffrey–is breathtaking: Jewish authorities are preparing to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. Quietly they have recovered lost artifacts from the ancient Temple and have recreated sacred worship vessels. The new Sanhedrin, now...