When young Red Magill sets sail from Portugal in the early 16th century, he carries more than just dreams of adventure—he bears the weight of a dangerous mission that could reshape the spice trade forever. The treacherous waters around the Cape of Good Hope, known ominously as the Devil's Cave, have claimed countless ships and brave souls. But Red must navigate these deadly seas to reach the fabled Spice Islands, where fortunes are made and empires are built on precious cargoes of pepper, ...

Spice and the Devil's Cave is a book by Agnes Hewes that was published in 1930. This piece of historical fiction is a retroactive winner of the Newbery Honor award. The setting is Lisbon, Portugal in the late 1490s, as Vasco de Gama, Bartholomew Diaz, and Ferdinand Magellan discuss their plans to find the elusive sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, which would enable Portugal to access the spice-rich countries of the Far East.Agnes Danforth Hewes (March 30, 1874 – September 30,...

Spice and the Devil's Cave, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and other fifteenth-century adventurers spring to life in this thrilling tale of the competition between Portugal and the Venetian Republic to discover an all-sea trade route leading to the spices of India. In the Lisbon workshop of banker and navigation enthusiast Abel Zakuto, a group of intrepid explorers gather to discuss the possibility of finding a way around the stormy tip of Africa — the Devil's Cave.

"Lively and colorful overall, and allows readers to enter into a fascinating, highly volatile era." — The Emerald City Book ReviewFerdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and other fifteenth-century adventurers spring to life in this thrilling tale of the competition between Portugal and the Venetian Republic to discover an all-sea trade route leading to the spices of India. In the Lisbon workshop of banker and navigation enthusiast Abel Zakuto, a group of intrepid explorers gather to dis...

A collection of eleven Newbery Award winning books with an active table of contents to help you easily find the book you are looking for."The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived" by Padraic Colum"The Great Quest" by Charles Boardman Hawes"It's Like This, Cat" Emily Neville"The Old Tobacco Shop" by William Bowen"The Quaint and Curious Quest of Johnny Longfoot, the Shoe King's Son" by Catherine Besterman"Runner of the Mountain Tops" by Mabel Louise Robinson"Spice and the Devil&apos...

Giant collection of all of Mark Twain beloved stories. This edition has an easy to navigate table of contents to help you find the book you are looking for.Included in this edition:Novels:The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Adventures of Tom SawyerThe American ClaimantA Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's CourtA Dog's TaleA Double Barrelled Detective StoryThe Gilded AgeA Horse's TaleThe Mysterious StrangerPersonal Recollections of Joan of ArcThe Prince and the PauperThose Extraordinary T...

The character of American humor, and its want of resemblance to the humor of Kamtschatka and Patagonia,—will the reader forgive us if we fail to set down here the thoughts suggested by these fresh and apposite topics? Will he credit us with a self-denial proportioned to the vastness of Mr. Clements's very amusing book, if we spare to state why he is so droll, or—which is as much to the purpose—why we do not know? This reticence will leave us very little to say by way of analysis; and, inde...

This book-collection file includes: The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, and Chapters from My Autobiography. It also includes the short pieces: A Burlesque Autobiography, Rambling Idle Excursions, and The Stolen White Elephant.

This is Patrick Leigh Fermor's spellbinding part-travelogue, part inspired evocation of a part of Greece's past. Joining him in the Mani, one of Europe's wildest and most isolated regions, cut off from the rest of Greece by the towering Taygettus mountain range and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, we discover a rocky central prong of the Peleponnese at the southernmost point in Europe.Bad communications only heightening the remoteness, this Greece - south of ancient Sparta ...

This book contains the works and novels of Mark Twain: - The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - The Prince and the Pauper - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - The American Claimant - Tom Sawyer Abroad - The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson - Tom Sawyer, Detective - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - A Double Barrelled Detective Story - A Horse's Tale - The Mysterious Stranger

The Complete Mark Twain in one volume with linking table of content to navigate through 6000 pages of his works.

At the beginning of the book about the wanderings on the ship. The way Melville describes everything is indescribably delightful. With amazingly alluring tongue, he knows all readers life on board the ship, the relationship between the crew. Later, when the main character and his friend appeared in Tahiti, he describes the life of the islanders, how they spend their daily lives, and how modern civilization comes to them, trying to adjust them to themselves, to remove them from their centur...