Fergus: 350 books
The Sporting Road
Travels Across America in an Airstream Trailer--with Fly Rod, Shotgun, and a Yellow Lab Named Sweetzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2000
More than just a "man and his dog" hunting adventure, The Sporting Road is a book about the land and man's place in it. It is also, in many ways, a book about relationships; with nature, animals, and the people with who live around us. As Rick Bass says in his introduction, Jim Fergus is...
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
Congress and the People’s Contest
The Conduct of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The American Civil War was the first military conflict in history to be fought with railroads moving troops and the telegraph connecting civilian leadership to commanders in the field. New developments arose at a moment’s notice. As a result, the young nation’s political structure and culture...
The First Congress
How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This “fascinating” (Chicago Tribune), “lively” (The New York Times) history tells how the First Congress and the Washington administration created one of the most productive and far-reaching governments in American history—“gracefully written…and well worth reading” (The Wall Street...
by Fergus Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“[A] searing story of France’s attempt to colonize the vast Sahara desert and of two unforgettable men who dedicated their lives to the effort.” —Rob Mitchell, The Boston Herald
Whether writing of the Alps, the high seas, or the North Pole, Fergus Fleming has won acclaim as one of today’s...
Killing Dragons
The Conquest of the Alps
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “dramatic and masterful” account of early alpine explorers and the challenges they faced to scale the summits (Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure).
In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history’s greatest...
by Fergus Kerr
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Catholic priest in the early thirteeth century, is considered to be one of the great Christian thinkers who had, and who still has, a profound influence on Western thought. He was a controversial figure who was exposed and engaged in conflict. This Very Short Introduction...
Off the Map
Tales of Endurance and Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
“A fine and lively collection of exploration stories” from the author of Barrow’s Boys (Kirkus Reviews).
On John Franklin’s 1820 expedition to find the Northwest Passage, Michel Teroahaute cannibalized two team members and was preparing a third when he was caught and killed. When Rene...
I Let Him Go
The heartbreaking book from the mother of James Bulger
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, with an updated chapter from Denise.
'I was crying so much I couldn't breathe. The thought of leaving the shopping centre without him was crushing. I knew that walking away from the place where he had gone missing, without any idea where he now was, meant that things...
by Charles Fergus
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
When award-winning outdoor and nature writer Charles Fergus decided to leave his longtime home in Pennsylvania, he wrote a memoir of his last season hunting upland birds—grouse, woodcock, and pheasant— in his favorite coverts, some of which he had visited every autumn for almost thirty years....
by Jim FERGUS
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: French
Release Date: October 13, 2011
NOUVELLE ÉDITION DE L'UN DES PLUS GRANDS BEST SELLERS DE LA DERNIERE DECENNIE
En 1875, un chef cheyenne demanda au président Grant de lui faire présent de 1000 femmes blanches à marier à 1000 de ses guerriers afin de favoriser l'intégration.
Prenant pour point de départ ce fait...
Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants...
Rome, the Greek World, and the East
Volume 2: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume...
Land of the Fee
Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of the Fee, a not-insignificant portion of that debt comes in the form of predatory hidden fees attached to everyday transactions. Beginning in the 1980s,...