Butcher’s Crossing is a fiercely intelligent and beautifully written western novel. Set in the 1870s, it follows the journey of Will Andrews, a young man inspired by Emerson to seek an original relation to nature. Leaving Harvard, he ventures west, finding himself in the small Kansas town of Butcher’s Crossing, a place filled with restless men eager to make and waste money.

Andrews befriends a man who speaks of immense herds of buffalo hidden in a beautiful Colorado Rockies valley. Enticed by the promise, Andrews joins an expedition to hunt the buffalo. The journey is grueling, but the valley's richness is worth the struggle. However, as they indulge in an orgy of slaughter, the men lose track of time, and winter traps them in snow.

The following spring, driven to madness by cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they return to Butcher’s Crossing, only to find a world as irrevocably changed as they are.

The Lusiads is one of the greatest epic poems of the Renaissance, immortalizing Portugal's voyages of discovery with an unrivalled freshness of observation. This new translation marks the quincentenary of Vasco da Gama's voyage via southern Africa to India.

At the center of The Lusiads is Vasco da Gama's pioneering voyage in 1497-98. Camoes, the first major European artist to cross the equator, captures the novelty and fascination of that original encounter with Africa, India, and the Far East.

The poem's twin symbols are the Cross and the Astrolabe, celebrating a turning point in mankind's knowledge of the world. It speaks powerfully of the precariousness of power and the rise and decline of nationhood, threatened from without by enemies and from within by loss of integrity and vision.

This edition is complemented by an illuminating introduction and extensive notes.

Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is.

In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock embarks on a worldwide quest to put together all the pieces of the vast and fascinating jigsaw of mankind’s hidden past. In ancient monuments as far apart as Egypt’s Great Sphinx, the strange Andean ruins of Tihuanaco, and Mexico’s awe-inspiring Temples of the Sun and Moon, he reveals not only the clear fingerprints of an as-yet-unidentified civilization of remote antiquity, but also startling evidence of its vast sophistication, technological advancement, and evolved scientific knowledge.

Fingerprints of the Gods contains the makings of an intellectual revolution, a dramatic and irreversible change in the way that we understand our past—and so our future. As we recover the truth about prehistory, and discover the real meaning of ancient myths and monuments, it becomes apparent that a warning has been handed down to us, a warning of terrible cataclysm that afflicts the Earth in great cycles at irregular intervals of time—a cataclysm that may be about to recur.

Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit ist auf den ersten Blick zugleich ein Seefahrerroman, ein Roman über das Abenteuer und die Sehnsucht danach und ein Entwicklungsroman. Doch hat Sten Nadolny die Biographie des englischen Seefahrers und Nordpolforschers John Franklin (1786-1847) zu einer subtilen Studie über die Zeit umgeschrieben: die Langsamkeit als eine Kunst, dem Rhythmus des Lebens Sinn zu verleihen.

Wie bei einem Palimpsest erscheint hinter den Sätzen eine andere Schrift, hinter der Prägnanz und Redlichkeit der Aufklärung verbergen sich Humor und Traurigkeit der Romantik. Von Kindheit an träumt John Franklin davon, zur See zu fahren, obwohl er dafür denkbar ungeeignet ist: Langsam im Sprechen und Denken, langsam in seinen Reaktionen mißt er die Zeit nach eigenen Maßstäben.

Zunächst erkennt nur sein Lehrer, daß Johns eigenartige Behinderung auch Vorzüge hat - was er einmal erfaßt hat, das behält er, das Einzigartige, das Detail begreift er besser als andere. John Franklin geht zur Marine, erlebt den Krieg und das Sterben. Beides trifft ihn um so furchtbarer, als er innerhalb des von ihm kaum begriffenen, chaotisch schnellen Geschehens einzelne Vorgänge wie in Zeitlupe ablaufen sieht. Er träumt von friedlicher Entdeckung, will die legendäre Nordwestpassage finden.