Bøger af Derek Adie Flower

THE MAGIC ISLAND OF TIPPETI-TOO A fable in three parts that recounts the visits of seven year old David with his two pets, Tod the Tortoise and Bleep the Canary, to a magic island where he meets extraordinary and pleasure loving animals like a purple kangaroo, a crimson feathery mouse, a lavender blue crocodile that speaks only in rhymes, a wise and gentle dragon, not forgetting Nam, the only human on the island, nor the Lake Lady, who imbues David with wisdom, but a wisdom which lasts only while he is on Tippeti-too. Each year, on his birthday, David returns there and has other adventures, but on his last he has to outwit the dreaded Xemians that threaten to invade Tippeti-too, and save the magic island and its very special inhabitants from a terrible fate.

TWERP'S WEIRD AND WONDERFUL ADVENTURES Here are recounted Twerp's next three adventures, the first of which takes place in Egypt in the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, where he meets the Egyptian gods Thoth and Isis and experiences the secrets of the Djed, the fabled time/space machine. Then comes his adventure at Stonehenge, involving the mysteries of how it was built, and his meeting with the wizard Merlin and the Knights of King Arthur. The sixth is about a magic statue of a Black Madonna found in a lakeside mansion in Italy. Amongst others taking part too in these three latest adventures are the Knights Templar, the great English statesman and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon, a famous Italian war lord, and even the Presidents of the USA and Egypt, together with certain of those who appear in Twerp's first three adventures.

La première grande bibliotèque et centre culturel du monde étaient créés par le pharaon Ptolémée I Soter il y a deux mille trios cents ans. Les Rivages de la Connaissance racontent l'histoire de l'ancienne Bibliothèque et du Mouseion d'Alexandrie, et l'influence qu'ils eurent sur la pensée occidentale, autant si ce n'est plus que lAcadémie de Platon et le Lycée d'Aristote à Athenes. Les portraits des homm es et des femmes responsables de la renomée de la Bibliothèque y sont esquissés: Euclide et Archimède. Des astronomes tels qu'Aristarque et Claude Ptolémée, Eratosthène le mathématicien et géographe grec, le philosophe Philo, sans oublier les premiers docteurs chrétiens Clément et Origène mais aussi les artisans des calamités et de la destruction finale. Les Rivages de la Connaissance décrit aussi la nouvelle Bibliothèque Alexandrine et comment un rêve ambitieux a été transformé en une brillante réalité, digne succeesseur de l'ancienne Bibliothèque durant le prochain millénaire.

Two thousand three hundred years ago the world's first great Library and international Culture Centre was created by the Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter. The Shores of Wisdom tells the story of this ancient Library and Mouseion of Alexandria and how it influenced Western thought as much as, if not more than, Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum at Athens. It sketches the portraits of the men and women responsible for the Library's fame, such as Euclid and Archimedes, the astronomers Aristarchus and Claude Ptolemy, the polymath Eratosthenes, the philosopher Philo, not forgetting the early Christian Fathers, Clement and Origen, but also of those involved in its calamities and final destruction. The Shores of Wisdom describes, too, the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina and how it has developed from an ambitious dream into a brilliant reality which will be a worthy successor to the Ancient Library during the coming millennium.

The Twilight Years is the third book of The Tuscan Trilogy, and in it is recounted what happens during the last years of Dame Rosa Lonsdale's life at her Tuscan home, the Castello di Bacchiano, and to those near and dear to her.

This three generation saga begins in June 1944 when a young British officer, Robert Lonsdale, heir to banker sir George Lonsadale, is wounded as Allied forces are chasing a retreating enemy across Tuscany, near the Castello of his aunt, English born Contessa Lydia San Germano, and helped to safety by attractive 18 year old Rosa, an orphaned peasant girl from Southern Italy who works for her. Robert and she fall in love and plan to marry but, due to the war and a series of events and mishaps, that will only take place 30 years later when this first part of the saga ends. The action moves between Tuscany, London, Warwickshire, New York and Rome, and tells of the joys and tragedies of a woman whom fate both cuddles and flays, of the men who love her, of her sons, of the castello in the Chianti hills where everything started, and which finally becomes hers.

As the sun rises over the Egyptian coastline, one of the world's largest private yachts steams towards Alexandria. Standing on its upper deck is Julius Caspar, billionaire oil tycoon and philanthropist, who is returning to the city on his 80th. birthday. And as he gazes at the approaching waterfront, he recalls his youth as an impecunious Armenian bank clerk in what was then the most glittering centre of the Mediterranean and his frustrated love but ever haunting love for an 18 year old heiress before his subsequent escalade to riches and worldwide recognition. Set against a changing backdrop of prewar Egypt, of Paris, London and New York in the sixties and seventies, of terrorism in the Middle East and famine in Ethiopia, all the aspects of human strengths and frailties are brought to life in this international three-generation saga where a dramtic climax redimensions a man's destiny.