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Author : Russell D. Wallace
Release : 2015-11-14
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Book Synopsis Zenobia - Challenging a Legend by : Russell D. Wallace
Download or read book Zenobia - Challenging a Legend written by Russell D. Wallace. This book was released on 2015-11-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russ Wallace
Release : 2011-06-15
Genre : Queens
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Book Rating : 809/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Zenobia-Birth of a Legend by : Russ Wallace
Download or read book Zenobia-Birth of a Legend written by Russ Wallace. This book was released on 2011-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Adult/Historical fiction with broad appeal. Born in 240 C.E., Zenobia escaped infanticide and became a deadly warrior. Beautiful and brilliant, she developed into a political and military genius, the likes of which the world had never seen in a woman. She would one day rule an empire and challenge Rome for the supremacy of her world. All true. Book 1 of the series relates the compelling saga of Zenobia's youth-a rare combination of action and education, history and horses, warriors and scholars, social issues and critical thinking, plus young romance and a thrilling horse race.
Author : Pat Southern
Release : 2008-11-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 51X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Empress Zenobia by : Pat Southern
Download or read book Empress Zenobia written by Pat Southern. This book was released on 2008-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse, and the surviving literary works are biased towards the Roman point of view, much as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica. In Empress Zenobia, Pat Southern seeks to tell the other side of the legendary 3rd century queen's place in history. As queen of Palmyra (present-day Syria), Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful and clever, gathering round her at the Palmyrene court writers and poets, artists and philosophers. It was said that Zenobia claimed descent from Cleopatra, which cannot be true but is indicative of how she saw herself and how she intended to be seen by others at home and abroad. This lively narrative explores the legendary queen and charts the progression of her unequivocal declaration, not only of independence from Rome, but of supremacy. Initially, Zenobia acknowledged the suzerainty of the Roman Emperors, but finally began to call herself Augusta and her son Vaballathus Augustus. There could be no clearer challenge to the authority of Rome in the east, drawing the Emperor Aurelian to the final battles and the submission of Palmyra in AD 272. Zenobia's story has inspired many melodramatic fictions but few factual volumes of any authority have been published. Pat Southern's book is a lively account that is both up to date and authoritative, as well as thoroughly engaging.
Author : Yāsamīn Zahrān
Release : 2010
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 386/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Zenobia by : Yāsamīn Zahrān
Download or read book Zenobia written by Yāsamīn Zahrān. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yasmine Zahran first encountered Zenobia, the 3rd century Syrian Palmyrene queen who led the revolt against the Romans, in 1973 when she was working as a young archaeologist in the Levant. So began a lifetime's preoccupation with the woman who ruled over the Egypt she conquered and quashed all Roman rule in her wake. Although she was eventually defeated by the Emperor Aurelian in 274, Zenobia's life is a story of remarkable drama and achievement. In Zenobia: Between Reality and Legend, Yasmine Zahran explores the blurred line between the woman and the myth, and brings her world and time vividly and thrillingly to life through first-person narrative. This is history told with the energy of a novel, and the informed hand of a writer at her peak.
Author : A. B. Daniel
Release : 2003
Genre : Incas
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Book Rating : 061/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Light of Machu Picchu by : A. B. Daniel
Download or read book The Light of Machu Picchu written by A. B. Daniel. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent epic of the forbidden love between an Incan princess with supernatural powers and a Spanish nobleman reaches its stunning climax in THE LIGHT OF MACHU PICCHU. After three years of foreign occupation, the Incas are finally ready to launch their counter-offensive against the Conquistadors. The Spaniards, who consider their conquered foe to be wholly cowed and beaten, are unprepared for this massive counter-attack. The ensuing conflict will be apocalyptical, with Anamaya on one side and her lover, Gabriel Montelucar y Flores on the other. Can Anamaya persuade Gabriel to switch sides for her? And wil their love be strong enough to change the very destiny of the Inca race?
