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"In 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson escaped from his numerous troubles - poor health, tormented love, inadequate funds - by embarking on a journey through the Cevennes in France, accompanied by Modestine, a rather single-minded donkey. The notebook Stevenson kept during this time became Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, a highly entertaining account of the French people and their country. The Amateur Emigrant is a journal of his travels to and in...
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The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook? This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were incredible feats of seamanship and navigation. Leading a crew of men...
484) A la caza de Houdini
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Al emprender un viaje de una semana po el océano Atlántico a bordo del opulento RMS Etruria, Audrey Rose Wadsworth y su compañero de investigaciones, Thomas Cresswell, se ven deslumbrados por una compañĩa itinerante de artistas de circo, videntes y un carismático escapista que entretienen a los pasajeros de primera clase durante la noche. Cuando algunas jóvenes de alta cuna comienzan a desaparecer sin ninguna explicación, y una serie de asesinatos...
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Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Blackmail: Alice White is having dinner in a fancy restaurant with her fiancé when an artist sitting at the next table invites her to come see his paintings upstairs. Alice's trip...
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