Bartle Bull's Books

Land Between the Rivers

A 5,000-Year History of Iraq

By: Bartle Bull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Land Between the Rivers

A 5,000-Year History of Iraq

By: Bartle Bull

The epic, five millennia history of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that was the birthplace of civilization and remains today the essential crossroads between East and West At the start of the fourth millennium BC, at the edge of historical time, civilization first arrived with the advent of cities and the invention of writing that began to replace legend with history. This occurred on the floodplains of southern Iraq where the great rivers Tigris and Euphrates meet the Persian Gulf. By 3000 BC, a city called Uruk (from which “Iraq” is derived) had 80,000 residents. Indeed, as Bartle Bull reveals in his magisterial history, “if one divides the 5,000 years of human civilization into ten periods of five centuries each, during the first nine of these the world’s leading city was in one of the three regions of current day Iraq”—or to use its Greek name, Mesopotamia. Inspired by extensive reporting from the region to spend a decade delving deep into its history, Bull chronicles the story of Iraq from the exploits of Gilgamesh (almost certainly an historical figure) to the fall of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958 that ushered in its familiar modern era. The land between the rivers has been the melting pot and battleground of countless outsiders, from the Akkadians of Hammurabi and the Greeks of Alexander to the Ottomans of Suleiman the Magnificent. Here, by the waters of Babylon, Judaism was born and the Sunni-Shia schism took its bloody shape. Central themes play out over the millennia: humanity’s need for freedom versus the co-eternal urge of tyranny; the ever-present conflict and cross-fertilization of East and West with Iraq so often the hinge. We tend to view today’s tensions in the Middle East through the prism of the last hundred years since the Treaty of Versailles imposed a controversial realignment of its borders. Bartle Bull’s remarkable, sweeping achievement reminds us that the region defined by the land between the rivers has for five millennia played a uniquely central role on the global stage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

414

Publisher

Grove Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0802162517

ISBN 13

9780802162519

A Café on the Nile

By: Bartle Bull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Café on the Nile

By: Bartle Bull

A grand historical novel of romance and high adventure that roils in cosmopolitan Cairo and sprawls across the highlands of East Africa. A Café on the Nile It is 1935 in East Africa. Mussolini's armies are streaming by the hundreds of thousands through Suez on a march to Ethiopia. In the desert the Italian Air Force, equipped with bombs and poison gas, prepares for invasion. Abyssinia sits on the edge of a nightmare that will alter modern history, while safaris in the African highlands cater to the excesses of the wealthy and disenchanted. And in Cairo, on the Nile, the cosmopolitan crowd gathers at the Cataract Café to gamble with destiny. All paths cross at the Cataract Café. There, with a single word, a simple gesture, an extravagant gift, alliances are drawn, deals made, and fates unwittingly determined for the memorable cast of characters that people this tale of high adventure. There professional hunter Anton Rider's Gypsy blood runs cold when he spies his estranged wife, Gwenn, with her lover, the Italian count and aviator Lorenzo Grimaldi. There the spoiled, rich American twins from Lexington, Bernadette and Harriet Mills, contract Rider for an ill-fated safari across East Africa with Ernst von Decken, a German freebooter who has stolen a fortune in silver from the Italian army. There Olivio Alavedo, the Goan proprietor of the Cataract Café, celebrates the fifty years that have blessed him with the friendship of the down-at-the-heel English lord Adam Penfold, with a good wife, six daughters, an exotic mistress, and useful political connections. A dwarf, Olivio also suffers his age and knows he won’t see fifty-five. But no one knows just how dangerously the days are numbered at the Cataract Café. Praise for Bartle Bull “You finish this book almost out of breath . . . appreciative of Mr. Bull’s spirited, sensuous, hot-blooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world.” —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “A rip-roaring yarn . . . chock-full of fine ingredients: a cupful of Casablanca, a dollop of Isak Dinesen, a pinch of Indiana Jones and a touch of Tender Is the Night. Bull enriches the mix with a white-hot plot and genuinely dashing descriptive writing.” —USA Today

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

756

Publisher

Speaking Volumes

ISBN 10

162815764X

ISBN 13

9781628157642

Land Between the Rivers

A 5000-Year History of Iraq

By: Bartle Bull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Land Between the Rivers

A 5000-Year History of Iraq

By: Bartle Bull

Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience.' Rory Stewart 'A work of great ambition... an account that is informed, filled with insights and a cracking read too.' Peter Frankopan Land Between the Rivers is the result of ten years of research, writing, and thinking about the subject. It is an enormous topic: five thousand years, beginning with Gilgamesh at the edge of historical time. It is a big topic in another way. More than anywhere else, the famous Land Between the Rivers, where civilization was born, where East and West have mixed and clashed since long before Alexander, has led an existence that could be called, from a certain perspective, a history of the world. We begin the story with ancient Sumer, and Gilgamesh building the walls of Uruk ('Iraq') to make a great name for himself around the turn of the third millennium BC. We end it in 1958, as the last royal family of Iraq is slaughtered on the steps of a small royal palace in Baghdad, the most effervescent, free, and promising capital in the Middle East. Above all, the story of Iraq, the world's hinge country, is that of the great clash pitting humanism against the outlooks of power and fate.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

744

Publisher

Atlantic Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1838957863

ISBN 13

9781838957865

Safari

A Chronicle of Adventure

By: Bartle Bull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Safari

A Chronicle of Adventure

By: Bartle Bull

Traces the history of the African safari in fact and fiction, and tells the stories of Europeans who made Africa their home

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

384

Publisher

Penguin Mass Market

Published Date

ISBN 10

0140168850

ISBN 13

9780140168853

Land Between the Rivers

A 5,000-Year History of Iraq

By: Bartle Bull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Land Between the Rivers

A 5,000-Year History of Iraq

By: Bartle Bull

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

414

Publisher

Grove Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0802162517

ISBN 13

9780802162519

A Café on the Nile

By: Bartle Bull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Café on the Nile

By: Bartle Bull

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

756

Publisher

Speaking Volumes

ISBN 10

162815764X

ISBN 13

9781628157642

The Telephone Murder

The Mysterious Death of Julia Wallace

By: Ronald Bartle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Telephone Murder

The Mysterious Death of Julia Wallace

By: Ronald Bartle

One of a number of real life cases from an era when juries listened with rapt attention to evidence of exact times, distances, estimates of speed and even in some cases whether a clock was fast or slow—from witnesses whose recollections might be first-rate, mildly inaccurate, mistaken or wholly unreliable. A reading of Old Bailey and other Assize court cases from the time suggests there may have been an entire industry centring on the creation of ambiguity, smokescreens and sometimes false alibis. Advocates demonstrated skill, ingenuity and persistence in constructing explanations, favourable or unfavourable, according to whether they acted for prosecution or defence. The Telephone Murder of 1931 in Liverpool, when William Wallace was acquitted on appeal of his wife’s murder, is a poignant reminder of those days. The story is further spiced because prosecuting counsel was a man fighting to restore his professional reputation. This second edition contains a new Preface as well as a number of textual explanations, enhancement and a fresh index. It complements the author’s series of books on famous cases. Describes how a man narrowly escaped the gallows in one of the UK’s most famous murder acquittals. Peppered with snapshots of the times. Analyses competing views on Wallace’s story. A key case in the annals of UK legal history. Review ‘Mr Bartle has done a careful job in examining the evidence with his evident criminal expertise. He takes apart a number of previous theories… an interesting introduction to the case for first time readers and some stimulating material which aficionados…may ponder’—Criminal Law & Justice Weekly

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

271

Publisher

Waterside Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1909976563

ISBN 13

9781909976566

The Works of John Hookham Frere

Vol. I

By: Bartle Frere

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Works of John Hookham Frere

Vol. I

By: Bartle Frere

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

622

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3382167158

ISBN 13

9783382167158

Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids: Thermal Characterization and Analysis

By: Rafael Kandiyoti,Alan Herod,Keith Bartle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids: Thermal Characterization and Analysis

By: Rafael Kandiyoti,Alan Herod,Keith Bartle

The first strand involves a critical overview of the design of experimental methods used for examining the thermal behaviour of solid fuels [pyrolysis, liquefaction and gasification], while the second will emphasise chemical structures and molecular mass distributions of coal derived tars, extracts and pitches, petroleum-derived asphaltenes, and biomass derived heavy hydrocarbon liquids.Two major, interdependent strands in the study of fossil and renewable fuel utilisation are focused on within this text:(i) Thermal characterisation of solid fuels including various ranks of coals, biomass and waste, and, (ii) The analytical characterisation of heavy hydrocarbon liquids, covering coal, petroleum and biomass derived heavy fractions.Two major, interdependent strands in the study of fossil and renewable fuel utilisation are focused on within this text: (i) Thermal characterisation of solid fuels including various ranks of coals, biomass and waste, and, (ii) The analytical characterisation of heavy hydrocarbon liquids, covering coal, petroleum and biomass derived heavy fractions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

365

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

0080463606

ISBN 13

9780080463605

Multidimensional Chromatography

By: Luigi Mondello,Alastair C. Lewis,Keith D. Bartle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Multidimensional Chromatography

By: Luigi Mondello,Alastair C. Lewis,Keith D. Bartle

Mehrdimensionale Chromatographie im analytischen Labor: Dieses Buch bespricht erstmals alle gängigen Verfahren sowie Anwendungen auf verschiedensten Gebieten, von der Pharmazie, Biologie und Chemie bis hin zur Umwelttechnik und erdölverarbeitender Industrie. Die Autoren sind selbst aktiv in der einschlägigen Forschung tätig.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

464

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0471988693

ISBN 13

9780471988694

Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids

Thermal Characterization and Analysis

By: Rafael Kandiyoti,Alan Herod,Keith D Bartle,Trevor J Morgan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids

Thermal Characterization and Analysis

By: Rafael Kandiyoti,Alan Herod,Keith D Bartle,Trevor J Morgan

Solid Fuels and Heavy Hydrocarbon Liquids: Thermal Characterisation and Analysis, Second Edition integrates the developments that have taken place since publication of the first edition in 2006. This updated material includes new insights that help unify the thermochemical reactions of biomass and coal, as well as new developments in analytical techniques, including new applications in size exclusion chromatography, several mass spectrometric techniques, and new applications of nuclear magnetic spectroscopy to the characterization of heavy hydrocarbon liquids The topics covered are essential for the energy and fuels research community, including academics, students, and research engineers working in the power, oil and gas, and renewable energy industries. - Includes a description of the principles and design of experiments used for assessing the reactivities, reactions, and reaction products of coal and lignocellulosic biomass - Features an outline of recent advances in the analytical methodology for characterizing heavy petroleum derived fractions and products from the thermochemical reactions of coal and biomass - Provides a link between samples, reaction conditions, and product characteristics to help in the search for upgrading methods for heavy hydrocarbon liquids

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

473

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

0081007965

ISBN 13

9780081007969

MMOs from the Inside Out

The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-multiplayer Online Role-playing Games

By: Richard A. Bartle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

MMOs from the Inside Out

The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-multiplayer Online Role-playing Games

By: Richard A. Bartle

This is an astonishing collection of ideas, information, and instruction from one of the true pioneers of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. MMOs from the Inside Out: The History, Design, Fun, and Art of Massively-Multiplayer Role-playing Games speaks to the designers and players of MMOs, taking it as axiomatic that such games are inspirational and boundless forces for good. The aim of this book is to enthuse an up-coming generation of designers, to inspire and educate players and designers-to-be, and to reinvigorate those already working in the field who might be wondering if it’s still all worthwhile. Playing MMOs is about fun, immersion, and identity. Creating MMOs is about imagination, expression, and art. MMOs are so packed with potential that today's examples are little more than small, pioneering colonies on the shore of a vast, uncharted continent. What wonders wait beyond the horizon? What treasures will explorers bring back to amaze us? MMOs from the Inside Out is for people with a spark of creativity: it pours gasoline on that spark. It: Explains what MMOs are, what they once were, and what they could – and should – become. Delves into why players play, and why designers design. Encourages, enthuses, enrages, engages, enlightens, envisions, and enchants. Doesn't tell you what to think, it tells you to think. What You Will Learn: Myriad ways to improve MMOs – and to decide for yourself whether these are improvements. What MMOs are; who plays them, and why. How MMOs became what they are, and what this means for what they will become. That you have it in you to make MMOs yourself. Whom This Book is For:MMOs from the Inside Out is a book for those who wish to know more about game design in general and MMO design in particular. It's for people who play MMOs, for people who design MMOs, and for people who study MMOs. It's for people with a yearning to see beyond the world around them and to make manifest the worlds of their imagination.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

742

Publisher

Apress

Published Date

ISBN 10

1484217241

ISBN 13

9781484217245

MMOs from the Outside In

The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life

By: Richard A. Bartle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

MMOs from the Outside In

The Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games of Psychology, Law, Government, and Real Life

By: Richard A. Bartle

This follow-up volume to MMOs from the Inside Out is a further collection of bold ideas, information, and instruction from one of the true pioneers of Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games. Whereas its predecessor looked at how MMOs can change the world, MMOs from the Outside In: How Psychology, Law, Culture and Real Life see Massively-Multiplayer Role-playing Games looks at how the world can change MMOs – and not always for the better. The aim of this book is to inform an up-coming generation of designers, to alert and educate players and designers-to-be, and to caution those already working in the field who might be growing complacent about society’s acceptance of their chosen career. Playing and creating MMOs does not happen in a bubble. MMOs are so packed with potential that those who don’t understand them can be afraid, and those who do understand them can neglect their wider impact. Today's examples are little more than small, pioneering colonies on the shore of a vast, uncharted continent. What monsters lurk beyond the horizon? What horrors will explorers bring back to torment us? MMOs from the Outside In is for people with a spark of curiosity: it pours gasoline on that spark. It:• Explains how MMOs are perceived, how they could – and perhaps should – be perceived, and how the can contribute to wider society.• Delves into what researchers think about why players play.• Encourages, enthuses, enrages, engages, enlightens, envisions, and enchants.• Doesn't tell you what to think, it tells you to think. What You Will Learn:• The myriad challenges facing MMOs – and to decide for yourself how to address these challenges.• What MMOs bring to the world that it didn’t have before.• How MMOs are regarded, and what this means for how they will be regarded in future.• That playing and designing MMOs has implications for those who don’t play or design them. Whom This Book is For:MMOs from the Outside In is a book for those who wish to know more about the wider influence of game design in general and MMO design in particular. It's for people who play MMOs, for people who design MMOs, and for people who study MMOs. It's for people with a yearning to see beyond the worlds of their imagination and to change the world around them.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

518

Publisher

Apress

Published Date

ISBN 10

1484217810

ISBN 13

9781484217818

We'll Meet Again

By: Bartle Bull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

We'll Meet Again

By: Bartle Bull

Written with what the New York Times has called, “Mr. Bull’s spirited, sensuous, hotblooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world,” Bartle Bull’s We’ll Meet Again is a powerful romantic novel set in Egypt and Jugoslavia during World War II. It is 1942, and the American and British armies are landing in North Africa to fight the German army led by General Erwin Rommel. Underground resistance to German occupation is rising across Europe. In Jugoslavia, Communist and royalist resistance movements are fighting both the Germans and each other. American and British agents are parachuting into Jugoslavia from Egypt to assist them. Anton Rider, the safari hunter featured in Bull’s celebrated novels The White Rhino Hotel, A Café on the Nile and The Devil’s Oasis, is dispatched to Jugoslavia to kill a brutal fascist commander and attack a Nazi concentration camp where Gypsies and others are being murdered. Raised as a boy by Gypsies in England, Anton is injured while parachuting into the mountains of Jugoslavia with an American agent who becomes his mortal enemy. Meanwhile, Rider’s son is wounded fighting Rommel’s forces in North Africa, and Anton’s beloved wife Gwenn, from whom he is separated, is having an affair in Cairo with a treacherous English officer. There the mysterious dwarf, Olivio Alavedo, is at the center of intrigue and fights to protect his absent friend, Anton Rider. After romantic and military adventures in Jugoslavia, Anton returns to Egypt, where he confronts his enemies and seeks to recover the lady he loves. As Forbes magazine wrote about The White Rhino Hotel, “A genuine epic centered in Africa by a writer who knows how to write, who knows his terrain intimately, who knows his characters and who knows how to spin a good yarn.” Praise for Bartle Bull's Anton Rider Series The White Rhino Hotel “The truest picture of colonial Kenya, circa 1918-1921, that you’re likely to find…. Compared with Ernest Hemingway and Robert Ruark…Bull’s knowledge of East Africa… is profound.” —Washington Post “A wing-ding adventure story…. The kind of book that creates one of the elemental delights of fiction- a complete other world where, unlike our own, all the parts add up to something…. Everything comes together with a satisfying bang.” —Boston Globe “A genuine epic centered in Africa by a writer who knows how to write, who knows his terrain intimately, who knows how to paint his characters convincingly and who knows how to spin a good yarn.” —Forbes Magazine “Adventure, suspense, love…. Rich with action, good guys, bad guys, betrayal, revenge, and a vast knowledge of East Africa.” —San Antonio Express News A Café on the Nile “You finish this book appreciative of Mr. Bull’s spirited, sensuous, hot-blooded evocation of a rich and eventful historical world.” —Richard Bernstein, The New York Times, regarding A Cafe on the Nile “Bartle Bull’s novel is chock full of fine ingredients: a cupful of Casablanca, a dollop of Isak Dinesen, a pinch of Indiana Jones and a touch of Tender is the Night. Bull enriches the mix with a white-hot plot and genuinely dashing writing. In short, A Café on the Nile is one truly excellent adventure.” —USA Today “Bull writes with the confidence of a man who knows his territory and portrays a time and place that will soon be lost from memory…. Compelling…epic adventure.” —Denver Rocky Mountain News The Devil’s Oasis “Romantic and eventful…a satisfying dose of wartime action, private revenge, and seething passion. The Devil’s Oasis bears the imaginative stamp of Mr. Bull’s previous novels… Their intricate plotting, their lusty sense of character and their geographic and linguistic authenticity… Nonstop action, eroticism and intrigue.” —Richard Bernstein, New York Times “A World War II page turner that’s part Masterpiece Theatre, part Raiders of the Lost Ark, part Casablanca.” —Washington Post “This smoky, boozy, café society buzzes with the intrigues of complex personal alliances as World War II comes to North Africa… scrupulously researched.” —Philadelphia Enquirer

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

427

Publisher

Speaking Volumes

ISBN 10

1645407861

ISBN 13

9781645407867

Sound Advice

Becoming a Better Children's Choir Conductor

By: Jean Ashworth Bartle

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sound Advice

Becoming a Better Children's Choir Conductor

By: Jean Ashworth Bartle

Sound Advice is a valuable resource for college students, beginning teachers, and experienced conductors of children's choirs. It covers the vast array of skills needed by today's conductor and will benefit all choir directors who want their choirs to reach a higher level of artistry. This book will be useful on many levels: for the college student studying the child voice and elementary teaching methods; for the teacher beginning to direct choirs in schools, synagogues, churches and communities; for experienced children's choir directors who wish to know more about orchestral repertoire for treble voices, conducting an orchestra, and preparing a children's choir to sing a major work with a professional orchestra. The underlying educational philosophy is sound; the author sees development of musicianship through singing as the primary goal of a children's choir program. This philosophy differs dramatically from the traditional concept of the conductor as all-knowing and the singers as receptacles. An outstanding aspect of the book is how the author leads the reader to an understanding of how to teach musicianship. Developing literacy in the choral setting is a mysterious, amorphous process to many conductors, but the author clearly outlines this important process with practical suggestions, well-documented examples, and a clear reading style which will reach readers on many levels. The comprehensive repertoire, skill-building sheets, and programs for all types of children's choirs will provide teachers with immediate and highly valuable resources.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

288

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

019803248X

ISBN 13

9780198032489

The Devil's Oasis

By: Bartle Bull

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Devil's Oasis

By: Bartle Bull

BARTLE BULL Author of the White Rhino Hote land A Café on the Nile Continuing the epic African adventures of the characters memorably cast in The White Rhino Hotel and A Cafe on the Nile. All the treacherous intrigue of cosmopolitan Cairo and fiery drama of Rommel's desert war in Africa come vibrantly to life in this novel of historical adventure and romance. It is 1942, and civilization as the world knows it teeters on its edge. Nazi Germany stands at the height of its power. In North Africa the brilliant General Rommel's panzers threaten the Suez Canal, the oil fields of the Middle East, and the trade route to Asia. To win Egypt, though, Rommel must first take the port of Tobruk and destroy the British fortress of Bir Hakeim. There, against the massive force of Rommel's Afrika Korps, a young English hussar named Wellington Rider fights beside the French Foreign Legion. Rider's father, Anton—the professional hunter who strides so dynamically through A Cafe on the Nile—is now a desert commando engaged in obliterating Nazi air bases and petrol dumps. Not only has Anton's old friend Ernst von Decken, a German soldier of fortune, meanwhile become the enemy, but also Anton's estranged wife has entered into an affair with a Frenchman who supports Rommel's campaign. Alliances shift, loyalties deceive, espionage thrives, and danger lies as much in the dark corners of Cairo as it does in the desert night. And at a barge on the Nile, at the Cataract Cafe, under the watchful eye of its proprietor, the enigmatic Goan dwarf Olivio Alavedo, Egypt frames its destiny. “Romantic and eventful . . . a satisfying dose of wartime action, private revenge, and seething passion.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “A World War II page-turner that’s part Masterpiece Theater, part Raiders of the Lost Ark, part Casablanca.”—The Washington Post

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

501

Publisher

Speaking Volumes

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628158069

ISBN 13

9781628158069

The White Rhino Hotel

By: Bartle Bull,Bryon Johnsen,British Columbia. Library Services Branch

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The White Rhino Hotel

By: Bartle Bull,Bryon Johnsen,British Columbia. Library Services Branch

The White Rhino Hotel is a sweeping saga of love and revenge, of greed and loyalty, of pioneers struggling for a new life amidst the beauty and wildness of the African bush in the years immediately after World War I. Desperate to win estates of virgin land, thousands of World War I veterans draw lots, with the winners and their families sailing for Kenya, not knowing what they will find. Like other Europeans and Africans before them, their fates often cross at Lord Penfold's White Rhino Hotel, where guests can gamble away their plantations or satisfy other desires. It is in this setting that Bartle Bull's powerful and wonderfully evocative novel of the driving forces of nature and man's spirit of adventure takes place. At the White Rhino Hotel travelers meet the scheming dwarf Olivio Alavedo, a man obsessed by lust and vengeance. To his enemies, Olivio is a cunning adversary. To the needy Lady Penfold, he is something more personal. To young Anton Rider and the courageous pioneer Gwenn Llewelyn, the dwarf is a subtle friend. Trained by gypsies to hunt, gamble and read fortunes, Rider comes to Africa seeking gold, freedom and adventure, but finds violence and the passions of older women. Hardened by war, herself the victim of violation and loss, Gwenn Llewelyn seeks love as she struggles to build a future in Africa. Set against a background of colonial and natural history, The White Rhino Hotel could only be written by someone who knows and loves Africa and who can tell a stunning tale. Praise for Bartle Bull "Compared with Hemingway or Ruark ... Bull's knowledge of East Africa is profound."—Washington Post Book World "A wing-ding adventure story that I sat down to read on a Saturday night and finished on Sunday morning.... Everything comes together with a satisfying bang."—Boston Globe

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

533

Publisher

Speaking Volumes

Published Date

ISBN 10

1628157283

ISBN 13

9781628157284

Book's by Bartle Bull

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email