Favourite adventures through Time
Discover the best adventure books through time! Explore our curated list of favorite timeless tales that will transport you to thrilling worlds and epic journeys.
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To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Connie Willis
“Willis effortlessly juggles comedy of manners, chaos theory and a wide range of literary allusions [with a] near flawlessness of plot, character and prose.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel. Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the twenty-first century and the 1940s in search of a hideous Victorian vase called “the bishop’s bird stump” as part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but also to prevent altering history itself.
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Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
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Mendoza in Hollywood
by Kage Baker
"In the sad-funny vein of Grand Hotel, we get to know the lives of these operatives from the twenty-fourth century. We watch their reactions as they screen, for relaxation, D. W. Griffith's Intolerance; we root for Oscar as he tries repeatedly to sell the Criterion Patented Brassbound Pie Safe; we duck as bullets fly overhead; and we learn that Mendoza is being haunted in her dreams by the man she loved and lost three centuries ago. Then his ghost is unexpectedly reincarnated with the arrival of a very large, very smooth, and very handsome British spy: Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax."--BOOK JACKET.
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