The Devil of Great Island
Title | The Devil of Great Island PDF eBook |
Author | Emerson W. Baker |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | 219 |
Release | 2007-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0230606830 |
In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents blamed what they called "Lithobolia" or "the stone-throwing devil." In this lively account, Emerson Baker shows how witchcraft hysteria overtook one town and spawned copycat incidents elsewhere in New England, prefiguring the horrors of Salem. In the process, he illuminates a cross-section of colonial society and overturns many popular assumptions about witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
A Storm of Witchcraft
Title | A Storm of Witchcraft PDF eBook |
Author | Emerson W. Baker |
Publisher | Pivotal Moments in American Hi |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019989034X |
Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of ergot poisoning, a frontier war in Maine, and local political rivalries.
The Devil's Teeth
Title | The Devil's Teeth PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Casey |
Publisher | Henry Holt and Company |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2006-05-30 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1466800518 |
A journalist's obsession brings her to a remote island off the California coast, home to the world's most mysterious and fearsome predators--and the strange band of surfer-scientists who follow them Susan Casey was in her living room when she first saw the great white sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary. These sharks were the alphas among alphas, some longer than twenty feet, and there were too many to count; even more incredible, this congregation was taking place just twenty-seven miles off the coast of San Francisco. In a matter of months, Casey was being hoisted out of the early-winter swells on a crane, up a cliff face to the barren surface of Southeast Farallon Island-dubbed by sailors in the 1850s the "devil's teeth." There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135-year-old house spackled with lichen and gull guano. Two days later, she got her first glimpse of the famous, terrifying jaws up close and she was instantly hooked; her fascination soon yielded to obsession-and an invitation to return for a full season. But as Casey readied herself for the eight-week stint, she had no way of preparing for what she would find among the dangerous, forgotten islands that have banished every campaign for civilization in the past two hundred years. The Devil's Teeth is a vivid dispatch from an otherworldly outpost, a story of crossing the boundary between society and an untamed place where humans are neither wanted nor needed.
Devil's Island
Title | Devil's Island PDF eBook |
Author | Alexander Miles |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Condemned to Devil's Island
Title | Condemned to Devil's Island PDF eBook |
Author | Blair Niles |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Exiles |
ISBN |
Fragment
Title | Fragment PDF eBook |
Author | Warren Fahy |
Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Total Pages | 386 |
Release | 2009-06-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0440338573 |
Aboard a long-range research vessel, in the vast reaches of the South Pacific, the cast and crew of the reality show Sealife believe they have found a ratings bonanza. For a director dying for drama, a distress call from Henders Island—a mere blip on any radar—might be just the ticket. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders—and the ultimate test of survival begins. For when they reach the island’s shores, the scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find—creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time; this is Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years—a fragment of a lost continent, with an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.
Dry guillotine
Title | Dry guillotine PDF eBook |
Author | R. Belbenoit |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | 355 |
Release | 1938 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 587278113X |
Illustration by a fellow prisoner. The text in this volume is based on the original translation from the French by Preston Rambo.