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Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him, Percy's estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, unwittingly sets their agent on her husband's track. Percy's escapades, and Marguerite's daring journey to France to save him from...
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Like other nations, the American Indians had their own creation mythologies. But they are, says the author, "Infinitely more rich in creative and deluge myths than those of any other race in the two hemispheres," and "differ as much from one another as do those of Europe and Asia." Spence guides us through other tribal creation beliefs, then into the sacred stories concerning the worship of birds, especially the eagle, of the rattlesnake, of the great...