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Hammond Innes

    15 juillet 1913 – 10 juin 1998

    Ralph Hammond Innes était un auteur anglais prolifique dont les thrillers mettaient souvent en scène des hommes ordinaires projetés dans des situations extrêmes. Ses œuvres se caractérisaient par des explorations méticuleuses d'environnements, des étendues arctiques aux périls de la haute mer, les protagonistes étant obligés de compter sur leur intelligence plutôt que sur la force brute. Innes a fréquemment exploré des thèmes liés aux événements maritimes et s'est plus tard intéressé aux sujets écologiques. Sa capacité à créer des récits captivants à partir de circonstances ordinaires en a fait une figure marquante du genre thriller.

    Hammond Innes
    Air Bridge
    Maddon's Rock
    Hammond Innes' East Anglia
    Strode Venturer.
    The Strange Land
    Adventure Stories
    • For the stranger, Morocco was the last refuge. Here he hoped to build a new life for himself. But three people were waiting for him: Latham, a smuggler turned missionary; Kostos, a man with his grubby fingers in everything illegal; and a girl from his own mysterious past. The answers he sought would be found out among the Berbers residing between the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara...

      The Strange Land
    • A thriller about a man who takes on the task of finding the 'black sheep' of a family of wealthy shipowners, and is plunged into a nightmare world where he must face the dangers of coral reefs, remote islands and financial warfare. From the author of ISVIK and TARGET ANTARCTICA.

      Strode Venturer.
    • The author takes the reader on a personal tour of the eastern counties of Britain: Suffolk, Norfolk, northern Essex and eastern Cambridgeshire. He describes the history of East Anglia through the people, the towns, the inns and landscape of this part of England.

      Hammond Innes' East Anglia
    • The Soviets have cut off food and fuel supplies to West Berlin in a final attempt to force a stranglehold over the city. The Allied response is the Berlin airlift: thousands of planes carrying supplies - a lifeline to the people of the city.

      Air Bridge
    • Campbell's Kingdom

      • 387pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      3,9(12)Évaluer

      Bruce Campbell Wetheral has apparently no future, but suddenly finds himself the sole beneficiary under his grandfather's will. Stuart Campbell had been an aggressive and obstinate old man convinced that oil could be found in the Rocky Mountains. Now his grandson decides to take up the challenge. But time is against him -- the time to live, the time to vindicate his grandfather's obsession, and time to save the land itself from impending disaster.

      Campbell's Kingdom
    • Decimated by drought and poacher's bullets, the last of Africa's majestic elephants face extinction. They are pursued by a "great white hunter" who relies on modern technology to process them as food for the starving natives. He is opposed by his former partner who is determined that the beasts shall not pay the price for man's inability to manage his resources wisely. "Hammond Innes shows great depth of understanding of the complex strands that make up the ecology of a region." (Best Sellers)

      The Big Footprints
    • The Blue Ice

      • 272pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      3,4(5)Évaluer

      It all begins with a lump of rock. The rock, an enticing hint at a rich, hidden supply of mineral ore, leads Gansert and team of men to Norway and to a glacial labyrinth of mountains, following in Farnell's footsteps to the source of the ore.

      The Blue Ice