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SAT-OKS

SĀĻO KLINŠU ZEME

IZDEVNIECĪBA «LIESMA» RĪGA 1967

No krievu valodas tulkojusi A. OZOLA-SAKSE Vāku un titulu zīmējis Z. KAMPARS Ilustrējis V. ANDREJENKOVS

«Sāļo Klinšu zeme» ir autobiogrāfisks stāsts, ko uzrakstījis Sat-Oks, indiāņu ševanēzu cilts virsaiša un poļu revolucionāres dēls.

«Sat-Oks» ir indiāņu vārds un nozīmē «Garā Spalva». So vārdu mazais indiāņu zēns — uti — ieguvis niknā sadursmē ar varenu ērgli.

Aizraujoši un poētiski Sat-Oks stāsta par savu neparasto bērnību, ko pavadījis Kanādas mūža­mežos, par mednieku cilts dzīvi, tikumiem un pa­ražām, par lieliskiem indiāņu jaunekļiem karotā­jiem, drosmīgiem un vīrišķīgiem, kas ir lepni uz savu brīvību, pazīst skaudros meža likumus, ir hu­māni nepieciešamajā cīņā ar varenajiem biezokņu iemītniekiem. Bet biezoknis — tas ir ševanēzu cilts mājas, viņu tēvu un vectēvu mājas, viņu dzimtene.

SKALPU MEDNIEKI

«AVOTS»; RĪGA; 1993

RĪGA «AVOTS»

TULKOJIS Ē. VALDIS MAKSL1MIEKS I. KREFICS .

© Imants Krepcs. māksl. noformējums,

Bēgšana un pakaļdzīšanās, cīniņi uz dzīvību un nāvi ar indiāņiem, dzīve prērijā — šādu eksotisku ainu T. Mains Rīds piedāvā romānā «Skalpu mednieki». Grāmata mūsu lasītājam var likties neparasta, jo autors attaisno indiāņu kā īpaši ne­žēlīgu un morāli mežonīgu cilvēku iznīcināšanas iespējamību.

An unspeakable evil is stalking the territory. Civil war veteran and bounty hunter Tyler Cabe, who is tracking a merciless murderer, must find a way to battle something beyond the imagination of living man.

“Tim Curran goes hell-bent for leather in this supernatural thriller set in the Wild West, and he scores a big, bloody bullseye. Writing in the rich language of a Dark Angel on hell brewed whiskey, Curran gives us the scariest beasts ever to fork legs over a horse. Skin Medicine is a wild ride into the Dark Frontier.”

—Randy Chandler, author of Bad Juju

They were called the Gang of Ten. Masked night riders that rustled cattle and imposed vigilante justice on any who stood in their way. They were powerful, above the law.

But then they lynched the son of a Blackfoot medicine man who threatened to tell their terrible secret.

Now something is hunting them. One by one they die in the most horrible ways, victims of an ancient evil straight out of Blackfeet folklore. Deputy Marshal Joe Longtree is a man used to getting the truth. But in Wolf Creek, the truth can kill you. For when the sun sets behind the mountains and the shadows grow long, an unspeakable horror rises with a taste for human flesh and suffering…

A.KAMĪ

Svešinieks

No visiem mūsdienu rakstniekiem viņam laikam gan ir vispārsteidzošākais liktenis. Gluži jauns viņš kļuva nevis par «domu valdnieku» (par šo izteicienu viņš smējās), bet gan par veselas paaudzes dzīvo spoguli

A.KAMĪ

Svešinieks

No franču valodas tulkojušas MILDA GRlNFELDE

RĪGA «ZVAIGZNE» 1989

Redakcijas kolēģija

Voldtmārs Bāls, Nora Bērziņa, Skaidrīte Bikova, Jānis Brodelis, Aldonis Bullis, Imants Daudišs, Uldis Norietis, Mārīte Romāne, Zigmunds Skujiņš, Uldis Tīrons, Ina Vaitmane, Guntis Valujevs, Ingrīda Vāverniece

Mākslinieks Andris Lamsters

In the spring of 1802 Richard Bolitho is summoned to the Admiralty in London and given his orders for a difficult and, to him, distasteful task. Even an advanced promotion to vice-admiral to make him one of the youngest ever appointed does not compensate for his sudden and thankless mission. Bolitho and his wife are expecting their first child, and for once he is loath to quit the land for the demands of duty. The Peace of Amiens, signed a few weeks earlier, is already showing signs of strain as the old enemies wrangle over the return of colonial possessions won and lost during the war. In the little sixty-four-gun Achates Bolitho sails West for Boston, and thence to the Caribbean where he must hand over the island of San Felipe to the French. Bolitho discovers that to be a man of diplomacy is not enough, and as threat and counter-threat weave a web of intrigue around his lonely command he balances success against the danger to the men who must follow him even to the cannon's mouth.

Shogun is one of those rare books that you wish would go on forever. Indeed, I know people who re-read it every year. The story follows the adventures of marooned English sailor John Blackthorne in late medieval Japan during the tumultuous years when Tokugawa Ieyasu (here called Toranaga) was uniting all of Japan under his rule by any means necessary. It's truly an epic tale of war, honor, trechery, masterful manipulations, tragic heroism, and star-crossed love.

Francja czasów Wielkiej Rewolucji. Szaleje terror. Diabelski wynalazek – gilotyna – pozbawia życia tysiące arystokratów. Lecz oto pojawia się Szkarłatny Pimpernel. Szlachetny śmiałek ratuje od śmierci niewinnych ludzi, organizując ich brawurowe ucieczki do Anglii.

Wkrótce jednak nad jego głową zbierają się czarne chmury. Piękna Małgorzata St. Just zostaje zmuszona do zdemaskowania tajemniczego bohatera albo… zginie jej brat.

To oznacza zdradę ukochanego. Jak postąpi Małgorzata? Czy misterny plan agenta rządu francuskiego zakończy się sukcesem?

It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her.

This was the tip of a rapier.

Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.

The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate's life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home — one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain.

Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.

In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops.

The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn him over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners — or, worse — his man-eating tigers. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo's well-set trap.

In a battery of events that will make a hero out of an illiterate private, a young Richard Sharpe poses as the enemy to bring down a ruthless Indian dictator backed by fearsome French troops.

The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthless Tippoo of Mysore from his throne and drive out his French allies. To penetrate the Tippoo's city and make contact with a Scottish spy being held prisoner there, Sharpe has to pose as a deserter. Success will make him a sergeant, but failure will turn him over to the Tippoo's brutal executioners — or, worse — his man-eating tigers. Picking his way through an exotic and alien world. Sharpe realizes that one slip will mean disaster. And when the furious British assault on the city finally begins, Sharpe must take up arms against his true comrades to preserve his false identity, risking death at their hands in order to avoid detection and thus to foil the Tippoo's well-set trap.

Kurzbeschreibung

Portugal, 1809. Frankreich ist auf dem Vormarsch, die portugiesische Armee gnadenlos unterlegen. Auch die britischen Einheiten scheinen nicht mehr viel tun zu können, um die französische Invasion zu stoppen. Abgeschnitten vom Hauptfeld, schlägt sich Richard Sharpe durch ein Land, das kurz vor dem Kollaps steht. Seine Mission: die schöne Britin Kate Savage zu beschützen. Dabei wird er gejagt, von einem Feind, der alles daran setzt, ihm den Garaus zu machen. Sharpe kennt nur eine Antwort darauf: Widerstand leisten. Mit allen Mitteln und bis zum Tod.

Über den Autor

Bernard Cornwell wurde 1944 in London geboren. Er arbeitete lange für die BBC, unter anderem in Nordirland, wo er seine Frau kennenlernte. Heute lebt er die meiste Zeit in den USA. Er ist Autor zahlreicher international erfolgreicher historischer Romane und Thriller. Die Sharpe-Serie, die er in den 80er-Jahren zu schreiben begann, hat Kultstatus erreicht und wurde von der BBC mit Sean Bean in der Hauptrolle verfilmt.

Titel der englischen Originalausgabe: »Sharpe's Havoc«

Aus dem Englischen von Joachim Honnef

Kurzbeschreibung.

1809. Bitterer Winter beherrscht den Norden Spaniens. Die britischen Truppen ziehen sich nach La Coruña zurück. Lieutenant Richard Sharpe und eine versprengte Abteilung Schützen sind auf sich allein gestellt, eingekreist von der siegreichen Armee Napoleons. Sie haben nur eine Chance: Wenn sie sich Major Blas Vivar und seinen spanischen Aufständischen anschließen. Doch das hat seinen Preis, denn Vivar will die heilige Stadt Santiago de Compostela befreien, die von französischen Truppen besetzt ist. Sharpe und seinen Männern bleibt nichts anderes übrig, als einmal mehr ihren unbeugsamen Willen zu beweisen, um sich gegen die feindliche Übermacht durchzusetzen.

 Über den Autor.

Bernard Cornwell, 1944 in London geboren und in Wessex aufgewachsen, arbeitete lange Jahre erfolgreich als Reporter für das BBC-Fernsehen. 1980 folgte er seiner amerikanischen Frau nach Cape Cod, wo er bis heute lebt und schreibt. In den USA und England feierte Cornwell bereits Triumphe mit einer Romanserie über die napoleonischen Kriege. In Deutschland wurde er bekannt durch seine Artus-Trilogie.

Titel der englischen Originalausgabe:  

»Sharpe's Rifles«

Aus dem Englischen von Bernd Müller.

Sharpe's Tiger: Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799

Sharpe's Fortress is the third (historically) of the Richard Sharpe series, and last of the Sharpe India trilogy.

Sharpe's Trafalgar is a nautical adventure that finds ensign Richard Sharpe in the middle of one of history's most historically significant naval engagements: the battle at Cape Trafalgar off the coast of Spain, in 1805.