An unforgettable account of one young man's struggle for freedom tells of his harrowing experiences as an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean. Reprint.
An unforgettable account of one young man's struggle for freedom tells of his harrowing experiences as an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the ...
His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time. Cameron has modernized and shortened it while remaining true to the spirit of the original. It's a gripping story of adventure, betrayal, cruelty, and courage.
True story of the John O'Connell kidnapping of 1933 in Albany NY.
K is for KIDNAPPED... The king and queen of Socotra have been kidnapped! For his protection, the prince is sent to Green Lawn -- to hide out with Dink's family.
'Cut iron with iron, What makes iron valuable, Big kuku tree and big silk-cotton tree, Fari and Kaunju -' Told and retold since the fourteenth century, this West African epic chronicles the story of the mighty warrior who saves his people ...
Torn between duty and desire, and on the brink of civil war, Zak only has one shot to get it right for all of Ishtaan and the woman who stole his heart.
With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is both modern and readable.
Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Alexander T. Stewart had been born in Ireland in the early years of the nineteenth century and arrived in Gotham barely out of his teens. As he crossed the Atlantic, Stewart carried with him a parcel of linens, Irish-made lace, ...
Twain began telling them the tale of Johnny, a poor boy in possession of some magical seeds. Later, Twain would jot down some rough notes about the story, but the tale was left unfinished . . . until now.