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Ernest K. Gann

    Ernest K. Gann čerpal inšpiráciu zo svojich rozsiahlych ciest a dobrodružstiev ako pilot aj námorník. Tieto skúsenosti formovali jeho literárne dielo, často sa zameriavajúc na témy odvahy, osudu a ľudského ducha tvárou v tvár živlom. Jeho štýl sa vyznačuje pútavým rozprávaním a detailnými opismi leteckých aj námorných scén, ktoré vtiahnu čitateľa do deja. Gann majstrovsky prepája svoje osobné zážitky s fiktívnymi príbehmi, čím vytvára pútavé diela oslavujúce dobrodružného ducha.

    In the Company of Eagles
    The Aviator
    Blaze of Noon
    The Antagonists
    The Bad Angel
    Fate is the Hunter
    • Blaze of Noon

      • 263 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania

      The four MacDonald brothers were born to fly. Right after World War I they took to stunt flying at county fairs, barnstorming their way around the U.S.A., selling joy rides and confounding the populace with an assortment of highly skilled aerobatics in the unlikely aircraft of the time. They graduated to a steadier way of making a living, but the dangers were just as acute - if not more so. For now they had a contract to deliver he mails, and this had to be done on time, in all kinds of weather, under all kinds of conditions. But neither the conditions nor the tragedies they inevitably suffered would stop them.

      Blaze of Noon1991
      3,5
    • The Bad Angel

      • 275 stránok
      • 10 hodin čítania

      When cocaine claims the life of his eldest son, Montana cattle rancher Lee Rogers runs for Congress and wages an all-out war on drugs, but at the height of his campaign, he mysteriously disappears

      The Bad Angel1987
      4,4
    • Fate is the Hunter

      • 416 stránok
      • 15 hodin čítania

      "This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of (the author's) nearly 10,000 hours aloft in peace and in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck-- that the pattern of anyone's fate is only partly contrived by the individual".--The New Yorker.

      Fate is the Hunter1986
      4,6
    • Massada

      Het heldhaftig verzet van het Joodse volk

      • 317 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      Relaas van het laatste verzet van de Joden tegen de Romeinen in het begin van de jaartelling, gezien door de ogen van de twee aanvoerders.

      Massada1985
    • The Aviator

      • 160 stránok
      • 6 hodin čítania

      In 1928, a lonely, guilt-ridden U.S. mail pilot and his passenger survive a devastating crash and begin a journey of survival in the Rocky Mountains

      The Aviator1985
      3,2