Sentence examples for historical adventures from inspiring English sources
Two books inspired by real-life historical adventures have taken CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals for 2015, the much coveted prizes voted for by the nation's librarians.
These are the dolls in the American Girl Collection, which represent the heroines in the American Girl novels, historical adventures set during tumultuous periods in the nation's past.
Their subject matter ranges widely, through historical adventures and monstrous tales to the nonfiction strip Corpse Talk, in which the protagonist digs up and quizzes a corpse of distinction.
Yet the instruments on the observatory's roof offer a rare physical link to one of China's least-known historical adventures: its ill-fated involvement in the first world war.China sent some 140,000 labourers to France and Belgium, and the mud and barbed wire of the Western Front.
February 10 , 1904Sydney, Australia January 27 , 1963Los Angeles, California John Farrow, in full John Villiers Farrow (born February 10 , 1904 Sydney, Australia died January 27 , 1963 Los Angeles, California, U.S). Australian-born director and writer whose diverse film credits included film noirs, westerns, and historical adventures.
Yet the instruments on the observatory's roof offer a rare physical link to one of China's least-known historical adventures: its ill-fated involvement in the first world war.China sent 140,000 labourers to the mud and barbed wire of the Western Front.
In all, Assassin's Creed II provides an unparalleled historical adventure along the lines of an interactive Dan Brown or James Clavell novel, melding historically accurate locations, personages and events with pseudoplausible conspiracy theories rooted in antiquity.
Could a straightforward historical adventure have done that?
As a child, he loved the British author G.A. Henty's historical adventure stories.
The historical adventure The Sun Never Sets (1939) teamed Rathbone and Atwill with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., to good effect.
But one afternoon, Amya, her mother and Mr. Barnes embarked on a historical adventure.
