Gary Jennings

North Cyprus benefits from picturesque mountains, shimmering blue waters and fascinating architecture covering the Roman, Lucinian and Ottoman eras. The region has dealt with several conflicts but is emerging stronger than ever. With its rich history and gorgeous beaches, North Cyprus is now the ideal vacation spot. Introduction to North Cyprus - Sightseeing Highlights - Beshparmak Mountains - Kyrenia - Harbour - Ancient Shipwreck Museum - Kyrenia Gate & Tourism Office - Nicosia - Covered Bazaar - Gothic Cathedrals - Selimiye Mosque - Lusignan House - Hyder Pasha Mosque - Bishops Palace (Byzantine Museum) - Great Khan Inn (B y k Han) - St. Mamas Monastery & Grave - The Bedesten - Lapidary Museum - Library of Sultan Mahmut II - Museum of Barbarianism - Famagusta - Othello Castle - Latin St. George Church - Enkomi - Porta del Mare (Sea Gate) - Capo Greco National Park - Salamis - Bay of Morphou - Vouni Palace - North Cyprus' Caves - Hot Caves, Agirdag, Kyrenia - Guvercinlik Cave, Alevkayasi, Kyrenia - Incirli, Famagusta - Gastro Cave, between Kuruova & Kaleburnu Villages - Execution Cave, near Kaleburnu Village - Festivals - Zeytinlik Olive Festival - Guzelyurt Orange Festival - Cyprus Theatre Festival - International Bellapais Music Festival, Kyrenia - Beaches & Water Sports - Kyrenia Harbour - Catalkoy Beach - Cape Kormakitis - Lara Beach - Turtle Beach - Recommendations for the Budget Traveller - Places to Stay - Places to Eat & Drink - Places to Shop - Carcassonne - Carcassonne Cathedral - Basilica of Saint-Nazaire - School Museum - Montpellier - Place de la Com die - Musee Fabre - Cathedrale St-Pierre - La Maison du Rire - Seaquarium - Wild Animal Park at Les Angles

There's never been a better time to take a trip down under to see the beauty and splendour of Sydney, the capital of New South Wales (NSW) and the largest city in Australia. Sydney is a cosmopolitan city that offers golden sandy city beaches and crystal clear ocean waters. Introduction to Sydney - Overview - Location & Orientation - Climate & When To Visit - Sightseeing Highlights - Sydney Opera House - Sydney Harbour Bridge & Bridge Climb - Centrepoint Tower - Royal Botanic Gardens - Chinese Garden of Friendship - Darling Harbor - The Rocks - Blue Mountains - Manly - Sydney Harbour Cruise - Bondi Beach - Recommendations for the Budget Traveler - Places to Stay - Springfield Lodge - City Hotel - Macleay Hotel - Park Regis City Centre Hotel - Metro Hotel Sydney Central - Places to Eat & Drink - Caf Sydney - Aria Restaurant - Caf Morso - Ripples - Bondi Social - Places to Shop - DFO - Alexandria - Glebe Markets - Rozelle Markets

Juan is a "mestizo," of mixed Spanish and Indio heritage, sure to be doomed to a short, violent life begging on the streets. But Juan has a special gift for handling horses and an ability to defend himself at a time when a man's best friends are his horse and his sword. Only El Mestizo, the half-caste son of the conqueror Cort s, knows that the blood of kings flows in the young beggar. After killing a man for beating a horse, Juan becomes a highwayman and horse thief before disguising himself as a wealthy caballero. He is wined and dined by the richest and most powerful people in the colony--who don't realize that some of them had once stared down the barrel of Juan's pistola as he took their gold. Fighting, conniving, and loving in a colorful era of flashing swords and brave hearts, Juan must use all the tricks he learned as a beggar and a bandit to unlock the secret of his own heritage.

Marco Polo was nicknamed "Marco of the millions" because his Venetian countrymen took the grandiose stories of his travels to be exaggerated, if not outright lies. As he lay dying, his priest, family, and friends offered him a last chance to confess his mendacity, and Marco, it is said, replied "I have not told the half of what I saw and did." Now, in his new novel The Journeyer, Gary Jennings has imagined the half that Marco left unsaid as even more elaborate and adventurous than the tall tales thought to be lies. From the palazzi and back streets of medieval Venice to the sumptuous court of Kublai Khan, from the perfumed sexuality of the Levant to the dangers and rigors of travel along the Silk Road, Marco meets all manner of people, survives all manner of danger, and, insatiably curious, becomes an almost compulsive collector of customs, languages and women. In more than two decades of travel, Marco was variously a merchant, a warrior, a lover, a spy, even a tax collector - but always a journeyer, unflagging in his appetite for new experiences, regretting only what he missed. Here - recreated and reimagined with all the splendor, the love of adventure, the zest for the rare and curious that are Jennings's hallmarks - is the epic account, at once magnificent and delightful, of the greatest real-life adventurer in human history.

The Aztec uprising in 1810 left young Juan Martez orphaned in a savage land. Like many native Aztecs, Juan was sentenced to hang by the Spanish. But his life is spared when a Spanish gunmaker learns of his skills with gunpowder and buys him to make munitions. Keeping his Aztec heritage low key, Juan becomes the finest gunmaker in the colony--and the best shot. But both talents are kept secret--if the Spanish knew of his skills, he would surely be killed. Juan secretly works the Mexican underground, running guns and black powder to guerrilla forces fighting for independence. Along the way he falls in love with Maria Volza, a fiery revolutionary stirring up the masses, but she rejects him as fallen under the Spanish boot. But Juan's destiny is to lead the Mexicans against Spanish rule, and when Maria discovers the life Juan has hidden so well, a battle is ignited and the revolution begins.

After the Aztec empire falls to the Spaniards, a young Aztec named Tenamaxtli begins recruiting from among his fellow survivors of the Conquest to once again challenge the Spaniards and restore the Aztec empire.

The epic tale of an Aztec survivor of the Spanish conquest and his times as a warrior, scribe, travelling merchant, confidant of Motecuhzoma II, and envoy to the invading Spaniards.

During an evening of carousing, these four, good men at heart, agree on one thing: There's got to be an easier way to make a living. They decide to turn badmen and rob a train that is bringing money to a brand-new bank down at a place called Teague. But the train's arrival is a month off and 150 miles away. In an overland odyssey that includes cattle rustling, blistering heat, and a head-on encounter with a tornado, the foursome meet up with the roughest obstacles and toughest luck that ever beset a bunch of well-intentioned badmen. In addition, there is the complication of a beautiful woman and her feisty half-breed daughter. When the Teague Bunch arrives at the hold-up destination, all the bad luck they have previously endured is forgotten--because they find out, for a fact, just how bad their luck can get... In a novel that is rousing, hilarious, and even poignant, Gary Jennings re-creates that peculiarly American turn-of-the-century time of grit, sweat, and swift change. Here is the real Old West; this is the way it was.

Unwillingly at first, Stewart joined Murrell in the life of an outlaw, masquerading as a gang member. As time passed, however, he had to ask himself: Was he acting unwillingly? Though repelled by Murrell's cold-blooded ambitions, he was captivated by the man. When at last Stewart undertook to demolish Murrell's blueprint for revolution, he was torn between his duty to society and his own muddled emotions. Was he serving justice or playing Judas? Even after he had risked his life to bring Murrell before the law, his fellow citizens could not decide who the villain was, Murrell or Stewart. The denouement of this extraordinary segment of history takes some startling twists, and inspires speculation about the faint line between good and evil. From fragments of historical fact and the few fairly reliable legends that exist, Gary Jennings has fashioned a gripping novel, filled with menace and leavened with humor and romance. No two men could have been more unlike than the sophisticated Murrell and the unworldly Stewart. But these characters really lived, and really did the things they do here.