When mysterious black obsidian skulls and other artifacts of an exceedingly ancient culture begin to turn up in odd places, Pitt jumps in with both feet. It soon becomes dangerously apparent that a powerful, amoral group of fanatics calling itself the Fourth Empire wants the strange discoveries to remain underground. Pitt teams up with a beautiful red-haired expert in ancient languages to decipher the meaning of the artifacts.
Brutal murders linked to an ancient betrayal send late 17th-century Tokyo into a panic. They also spell big trouble for the Shogun's special investigator, Sano Ichiro, in this sequel to Rowland's well-received first novel, Shinju. The killings are made known when the severed heads of the victims are put on public display, in the manner of an ancient custom known as bundori, or war trophy. The victims are descendants of warriors who, more than a century earlier, were involved in the murder of a powerful warlord.
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City of Dreams
There is a city, that spreads from the edge of the Java Sea, and has grown through the ages to become one of Asia’s great mega cities- Jakarta. European adventurers once dreamt of visiting the fabled far flung city of Batavia- the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The few who turned these dreams into reality entered Batavia through the ancient seaport of Sunda Kelapa- often after a journey of several months. New visitors half a millennium later, continue this ancient dream- from the far flung islands of Indonesia to the distant foreign lands beyond its sea borders.
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Here is a stimulating introduction to the world of the Renaissance - from the achievements of Leonardo da Vinci to everyday life in an Italian city-state. Filled with full-color photographs of works of art and artifacts, Leonardo brings the Renaissance to life, offering an eyewitness view of this period of history. See Leonardo's design for exploding cannonballs, and one of the first pocket watches. Learn how one family dominated a city for more than two centuries, and why the ancient world was an inspiration for the modern one. Discover how the invention of the printing press changed the world, why Leonardo studied a bird's wing to make a flying machine, and much, much more.
On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a shocking revelation of his own. His search to untangle the mystery leads him, first, to that small island and its secret, and then much farther back, to an ancient Chinese expedition-and a curse that seems to have survived for more than five hundred years. If Cabrillo's team is successful in its quest, the reward could be incalculable. If not . . . the only reward is death.
