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Jeremy Logan novels volume 3
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English
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Professor Jeremy Logan is brought onto famed explorer Porter Stone's archaeological team to investigate a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences that are causing people on the expedition to fear a centuries-old curse behind Pharoah Narmer's elusive "double" crown of the two Egypts. As paranoia and fear run rampant, Logan must delve into the mysteries of ancient Egyptology and near death experience in order to understand what might be plaguing...
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English
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In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to "penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America." And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century. Then, in 1984, Owen Beattie and his team exhumed two crew members from a burial site in the North for forensic evidence, to shocking results. But the most startling discovery didn't...
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English
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"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
Author
Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
A group of scientists sponsored by a major media conglomerate are sent on an expedition to Alaska's Federal Wilderness Zone, one of the most remote places on Earth. When the group makes an astonishing find, an ancient animal encased in solid ice that appears to a giant cat, the parent company quickly plans the ultimate spectacle - the animal will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed on live television. Ignoring the dire warnings of a local Eskimo...
5) Ragnarok
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Norwegian
Description
Convinced the Viking ship Oseberg contains the answer to the mystery of Ragnarok, the end of days in Norse mythology, an expedition group sets out to follow the ship's treasure map and discovers a secret more terrifying than they could possibly imagine.
Publisher
SP Releasing, LLC; distributed by Echo Bridge Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Young archaeologist Jack Hunter planned only to take a picture of a cuneiform tablet from once unsurpassed Mesopotmian metropolis Ugarit in present Syria, but is caught and has to steal it from a private museum in France. He refuses to join his mentor, professor Frederic 'Freddie' Shaffer, who believes the poem is a coded treasure map, on a relic hunt, until his friend is murdered to steal it. Obvious suspect is Syrian artifact trader Ali, so Jack...
Publisher
SP Releasing, LLC; distributed by Echo Bridge Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Young archaeologist Jack Hunter planned only to take a picture of a cuneiform tablet from once unsurpassed Mesopotmian metropolis Ugarit in present Syria, but is caught and has to steal it from a private museum in France. He refuses to join his mentor, professor Frederic 'Freddie' Shaffer, who believes the poem is a coded treasure map, on a relic hunt, until his friend is murdered to steal it. Obvious suspect is Syrian artifact trader Ali, so Jack...
8) The mummy
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A mummy is accidentally revived after 3,700 years by a British archaeology team. Dressed in the garb of a modern-day Egyptian, he sets out to find his lost love, terrorizing the members of the expedition who must find a way to stop him.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
After barely escaping a Shanghai nightclub brawl, Indiana Jones crash-lands into the wilds of India where he uncovers a scheme that has enslaved a remote village's children. Indy must save the children and avoid becoming a slave to the evil Thuggee cult himself.
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Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"This book allows you to travel with Indiana Jones from his early escapades as a young boy to his adventures as an eminent archaeologist and daredevil hero. Uncover information about the characters Indy meets along the way, join him on his thrilling chases and close escapes, and dig deep for fabled treasures. Packed with full-color photos, original artworks, and maps plus fascinating facts and features"- -P. [2] of cover.
13) Missing Brendan
Publisher
Triumph Marketing
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Three generations of the Calden family, including grandson Patrick, his father Bob and grandfather George, embark on a very difficult expedition across the world to Vietnam to fulfill a longtime wish of finding George's other son, Brendan, who has been MIA since the end of the war. Accompanied on their incredible journey by archeologist Julie Conroy, the family encounters much more than they ever expected.