Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 21 January 2010
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Stranger Things Happen
This first collection by award-winning author Kelly Link, takes fairy tales and cautionary tales, dictators and extraterrestrials, amnesiacs and honeymooners, revenants and readers alike, on a voyage into new, strange, and wonderful territory.
A gorgeous follow-up to our innovative Mission: Space, Voyage: Ocean brings us back down to Earth and into the abyss of the deep, blue sea. Spectacular images take center stage as we explore the incredible ocean and the animals and plants that live there.
It is the dawn of the Eighteenth Century. At the farthest edges of the known world, the mighty East India Trading Company suffers catastrophic losses from pirates on the high seas. After four years away from service, master mariner Sir Hal Courtney prepares for his latest and most dangerous voyage – a death or glory mission in the name of Empire and the crown.