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Twelve Against

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The Story of Adventure

WILLIAM BOLITHO

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Twelve Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure

1929

The 1929 collection of short and exquisitely written biographical essays on the lives of such famed adventurers as Alexander the Great, Casanova, Christopher Columbus, Napoleon, and Isadora Duncan. The author, William Bolitho, celebrates the contradictions and bipolar tensions that live inside...

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The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas

On the 24th of February, 1815, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.

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