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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Looks like Schutt and Finch are filling the void left by the passing of Michael Crichton."--James Cameron, director/writer/explorer In the wake of World War II, zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready is sent to the frozen mountain valleys of Tibet to find a creature of legend that may hold the secret to humankind's evolutionary future -- or the key to its extinction -- in this explosive follow-up to Hell's Gate. It is 1946, and the world...
Author
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 26
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler"--
5) Lost horizon
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English
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Following a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, a lost group of Englishmen and Americans stumble upon the dream-like, utopian world of Shangri-La, where life is eternal and civilization refined.
Author
Series
Course of empire volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the high mountains of Tibet, rumors are spreading. People whisper of an outbreak, of thousands of dead, of bodies pushed into mass graves. It is some strange new disease... a disease, they say, that can kill in minutes. An exciting globe-trotting thriller with unforgettable characters that depict a haunting vision of the future of warfare. From book flap.
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Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd been sentenced, Shan has been living in remote mountains of Tibet with a group of outlawed Buddhist monks. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in Beijing, Shan...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Shan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator, on parole from a Tibetan gulag. One day, he is ferrying a corpse on mule back over the slopes of Chomolungma-Mount Everest-at the request of a local wise woman who says the gods have appointed this task to him, when he encounters what looks like a traffic accident. A government bus filled with imprisoned Tibetan monks has overturned. Then Shan hears gunfire. Two women in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Murders and mysteries abound in a remote Tibetan village in this novel in the Edgar Award–winning series. Shan Tao Yun, formerly an investigator in Beijing, has been asked to help save a comatose man. The man is believed to be guilty of two murders in which the victims' arms were removed-but when the detective arrives, he discovers that the suspect is not actually Tibetan, but Navajo. The man has come here with his niece, seeking the ancestral ties...
13) Bone mountain
Author
Series
Shan Tao Yun mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
17) The dragon kite
Author
Pub. Date
[1973]
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
When he visits the city on his eighth birthday to see the huge dragon kite, a Tibetan boy decides to stay and become a monk.
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