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The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives by Allan Pinkerton, Fiction, Action & Adventure, Mystery & Detective
Allan Pinkerton
Aegypan
2009
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A deeply researched account of the life and legacy of the man who defined the profession of private eyeAllan Pinkerton, the world's most famous private detective, has been an enduring source of fascination since the nineteenth century. But the details of his impact, business empire, and private life have been incomplete.Drawing on overlooked primary sources, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones provides an authoritative account of the man and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency (PNDA). It is the story of how PNDA's founder and its successive generations of heirs put it at the center of American history for decades. A small sampling of Pinkerton's activities includes providing intelligence in the Civil War, pursuing high-profile outlaws like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and protecting scabs in the Homestead lockout, for which they became notorious. The book continues telling PNDA's history into the twentieth century and analyzes the legacies of Pinkertonism up to the present.General readers as well as scholars of American history will be fascinated by this rich new portrait of Pinkerton's accomplishments, controversies, and contradictions.
Allan R. Brewer-Carías. Una Personalidad Multifacética
Centro Para la Integracion y Derecho Publico
2020
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Este libro editado por la Asociaci n Venezolana de Derecho Administrativo (AVEDA), con el apoyo del Centro para la Integraci n y el Derecho P blico (CIDEP), y coordinado por los profesores Carlos Garc a Soto y Antonio Silva Aranguren, se publica con motivo de celebrar que el principal impulsor y primer secretario general de AVEDA, el profesor Allan R. Brewer-Car as, cumpliera 80 a os el pasado 13 de noviembre de 2019.Brewer-Car as siempre nos ha pedido a todos escribir, y no se ha ahorrado jam s predicar con el ejemplo, por lo que nos pareci que la mejor manera de celebrar la ocasi n de su cumplea os, fuera convocando a sus amigos, colegas y alumnos en Venezuela para que escribieran sobre alg n aspecto de su obra o de su personalidad.El resultado ha sido un conjunto de breves notas que resaltan rasgos de su polifac tica labor, las cuales son precisamente las que se recogen en este libro, y escritas por sus amigos, los profesores Freddy Orlando, Rafael Chavero, Gernardo Fern ndez, Daniela Urosa, Bel n Ram rez Landaeta, Rafael Badell, Manuel Rojas P rez, Humberto Romero Muci, Rogelio P rez Perdomo, Jos Ignacio Hern ndez, Maria Candelaria Dom nguez, Naybe Chac n, Alberto Arteaga S nchez, Jos Gregorio Torrealba, Eugenio Hern ndez-Bret n, Faustino Flamerique, Jorge Luis Su rez, Jorge Castro Bernieri, Carlos Garc a Soto, Luis A. Herrera Orellana, Miguel A. Torrealba S nchez, Gustavo Urdaneta Troconis, Irene Loreto, Mar a Amparo Grau, Miguel M naco, Claudia Nikken, Margarita Escudero Le n, Pedro Nikken, Carlos Eduardo Herrera, Cipriano Heredia S., Juan Miguel Matheus, Carlos L. Carrillo Art les, Gabriela Oquendo, Antonio Silva Aranguren, Gariel Sira Santana, Juan Domingo Alfonso Paradisi, Jos Antonio Muci, V ctor Her nmdez Mendible, Flavia Pesci Feltrri, Mar a Alejandra Correa Mart n, Armando Rodr guez Garc a, Humberto Brice o Le n, Julio C sar fern ndez T., y Manuel Rachadell.Todos estos ensayos fueron adem s divulgados, originalmente, en la p gina web de la Aenezolana de Derecho Administrativo (AVEDA): www.aveda.org.ve. Se publican ahora en este libro, con apoyo del Centro para la Integraci n y el Derecho P blico (CIDEP), para que quede testimonio impreso del impacto y estima que Allan R. Brewer-Car as ha originado en estos 80 a os de fruct fera vida
Allan's Wife (1889). By: H. Rider Haggard: Adventure fiction
H. Rider Haggard
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2018
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Allan's Wife and Other Tales is a collection of Allan Quatermain stories by H. Rider Haggard, first published in London by Spencer Blackett in December 1889. The title story was new, with its first publication intended for the collection, but two unauthorized editions appeared earlier in New York, based on pirated galley proofs. The other three stories first appeared in an anthology and periodicals in 1885, 1887, and 1886. The significance of the collection was recognized by its republication (as Allan's Wife, With Hunter Quartermain's Story, a Tale of Three Lions, and Long Odds) by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the twenty-fourth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in October, 1980. Contents Allan's Wife - the story of Quartermain's early life, and his marriage to childhood sweetheart, Stella, mother of his son Harry. Hunter Quatermain's Story A Tale of Three Lions Long Odds.... Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE, Kt ( 22 June 1856 - 14 May 1925), known as H. Rider Haggard, was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.He was also involved in agricultural reform throughout the British Empire. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. Early years: Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. His father was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to British parents. Haggard was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under Reverend H. J. Graham, but unlike his elder brothers who graduated from various private schools, he attended Ipswich Grammar School. This was because his father, who perhaps regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much, could no longer afford to maintain his expensive private education. After failing his army entrance exam, he was sent to a private crammer in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, for which he never sat. During his two years in London he came into contact with people interested in the study of psychical phenomena. In 1875, Haggard's father sent him to what is now South Africa to take up an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal. 8] In 1876 he was transferred to the staff of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, Special Commissioner for the Transvaal. It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria in April 1877 for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. Indeed, Haggard raised the Union flag and read out much of the proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty. South Africa, 1875-1882: At about that time, Haggard fell in love with Mary Elizabeth "Lilly" Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employment in Africa. In 1878 he became Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal, and wrote to his father informing him that he intended to return to England and marry her. His father forbade it until Haggard had made a career for himself, and by 1879 Jackson had married Frank Archer, a well-to-do banker. When Haggard eventually returned to England, he married a friend of his sister, Marianna Louisa Margitson (1859-1943) in 1880, and the couple travelled to Africa together. They had a son named Jack (who died of measles at age 10) and three daughters, Angela, Dorothy and Lilias. Lilias Rider Haggard became an author, edited The Rabbit Skin Cap and I Walked By Night, and wrote a biography of her father entitled The Cloak That I Left (published in 1951).
A quest for a rare orchid may not seem like the most exciting premise for an action-adventure tale, but in Allan and the Holy Flower, master of the genre H. Rider Haggard works his unique magic once again. Filled with the trademark touches that have made gentleman explorer Allan Quatermain a fan favorite for nearly a century, this novel is a must-read for thrill-seeking readers. Allan and the Holy Flower H. Rider Haggard
A quest for a rare orchid may not seem like the most exciting premise for an action-adventure tale, but in Allan and the Holy Flower, master of the genre H. Rider Haggard works his unique magic once again. Filled with the trademark touches that have made gentleman explorer Allan Quatermain a fan favorite for nearly a century, this novel is a must-read for thrill-seeking readers. Allan and the Holy Flower H. Rider Haggard
The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines. In this adventure novel named after him, Quatermain longs for a return to the wilderness after losing his son. He talks a number of companions into joining him and they journey inland from Africa's east coast, where they are attacked by Masai warriors. Allan Quatermain H. Rider Haggard
William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (24 October 1856 - 31 March 1914), sometimes using the pen name Oliphant Smeaton, was a Scottish writer, journalist, editor, historian and educator. He was popularly known for his writing on Australian life and literature for various British publications as well as for his adventure and children's fiction novels during the 1890s. Later in his career, Smeaton also published books on Scottish antiquities and edited English literary text, ballads and collections of verse and prose. His best known work, The Life and Works of William Shakespeare (1911), was especially successful and enjoyed several reprints. He also contributed several biographies for the "Famous Scots Series" published by Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier.
This sequel to King Solomon's Mines is based on Rider Haggard's own experiences in Africa. During their search for a white race reputed to live near Mount Kenya, Allan Quatermain and his companions undergo a series of dangerous and thrilling adventures. The dramatic and often poetic story reveals Victorian preoccupations with evolution, race, sexuality, and the "New Woman."
Elephants, lions, baboons, and other fauna of the African wilds abound on these pages, and we have a Zulu impi and the resulting carnage described with the author's usual vivid power of narration. Our old friend, Allan Quatermain, figures as the hero throughout, and the most substantial part of the volume is occupied with the story of his wooing, and the brief episode of his married life. The romance, however, is subsidiary to the sauce piquante of livelier incidents.