Tag: Folly

Pinquickle’s Folly The Buccaneers


Free Download Pinquickle’s Folly: The Buccaneers by R. A. Salvatore, Simon Vance, Simon & Schuster Audio
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: B0CMJGHR2Q | 10 hours and 59 minutes | M4B 125 Kbps | 599 Mb
The first adventure in the New York Times bestselling fantasy trilogy from the legendary million-selling author and creator of Drizzt Do’Urden.
In Pinquickle’s Folly, New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore returns to his signature world of Corona, introducing a dynamic new part of the southern coast never written of before as a great starting place for listeners in the DemonWars Saga: The Buccaneers.
The first adventure in the Buccaneers trilogy begins in the free sea outside of the control of the usurping Xoconai empire, where the dwarven powrie pirates and merchants sail. But the golden-skinned Xoconai have begun to encroach upon these waters behind the rapacious attacks of the frigate Crocodile, helmed by Captain Aketz. But when forced to submit, these sailors choose to live, free to do as they please, without some fool or another pretending to hold power over them.

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Folly and Fortune in Early British History From Caesar to the Normans (2024)


Free Download K. Henshall, "Folly and Fortune in Early British History: From Caesar to the Normans"
English | 2008 | pages: 355 | ISBN: 0230555209, 134936407X | PDF | 3,1 mb
Focusing on pivotal points in Early British History, this book examines the role offolly and fortunein major events in Britain from Caesar’s expeditions to the Norman Conquest. By examining the foolishnessin a bygone age, Henshall draws attention to how human behaviour – with all its erraticisms – has helped shape history.

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Fortune and Folly The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South’s Most Eccentric Millionaire [Audiobook]


Free Download Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South’s Most Eccentric Millionaire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPQQZZM2 | 2023 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Sara A. H. Butler
Narrator: Tiffany Morgan

Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its "Briarcliff Campus." Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it. Briarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, Jr.-also known as Buddie. The second son and namesake of Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler, Buddie was a wealthy real estate developer of great successes and greater failures.

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