Mike is a classic tale that has enchanted millions of readers worldwide. It brings the fierce, stunning landscape of the Great North to life—and tenderly evokes the love that blossoms between Sergeant Mike Flannigan and beautiful young Katherine Mary O'Fallon.

    When first published in mid-20th century, Orson Welles was cast as Borgia in the film version. Tyrone Power as Orsini.

    An Italian prisoner of war in equatorial East Africa recounts his escape from a British POW camp so that he might climb the 17,000-foot peak of Mount Kenya.

    He is found by a Mexican brother and sister, Pedro and Maria, orphans who have run away from a bad foster home. Dave wants to return to his parents in California, while Pedro and Maria want to find their grandmother in northern Baja. Joining together, they attempt to walk north along the length of the Baja peninsula, a journey of hundreds of miles on foot in a sparsely populated desert. Accompanying them are a half-coyote dog named Chico and a roadrunner bird with a broken wing.They improvise and invent. They hunt rabbits with slingshots and dig up clams on the beach. They endure storms and days without water or food. They are held captive by a bad man. They face these adventures, as the title says, without fear while their friendship grows.

    Long unavailable, and essential reading for all fans of classic fantasy. Introduction by Sir Arthur C. Clarke.Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

    A Scotch doctor in a black world at a fateful moment of history.The story is set in Haiti in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the background of the Slave revolt led by Toussaint L'Ouverture and his successor Henri Christophe who proclaimed himself King.

    — With only a brash waterfront urchin as crew, Pete sets sail in his old schooner, pursued by the "tall one: in a radar-equipped yacht. — Outwitting the enemy in a storm, they find the prize guarded by a monster octopus, and the menacing black yacht again on their trail.