The Inferno

Fires have broken out. At first they appear to be natural disasters, but they are spreading globally and into cities. Now, an ultimatum from Faustus has been issued. Dr. Palfrey is completely discredited, but is not prepared to take the situation lying down and is determined to get to Faustus and unlock the secret behind the fires.

Reproduction of the original: The Inferno by August Strindberg

In the tradition of Young Men and Fire and Fire on the Mountain, Stuart Palley’s memoir Into the Inferno documents eight years of devastating wildfire in California, showing how fire can transform a landscape as well as a soul ... For nearly a decade, Palley has been on the frontline of fire. He has witnessed homeowners on the worst day of their lives. He’s seen puddles of aluminum where cars were once parked. He’s watched as 150-foot walls of flame cascaded down mountainsides and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. And he’s captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of firefighters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where fire always seems to have the upper hand. In this memoir, Palley recalls how he went from learning to be safe on the fireline to a fire-savvy documentarian of wildfire and climate change. He covers some of California’s largest, most destructive, and deadliest fires between 2012 and 2020, lugging his gear from the Wine Country Fire Siege to the Thomas Fire and ultimately to the Woolsey Fire in Malibu. And he shows how, in a relatively short span of time, fire season in California has grown into a perpetual crisis, requiring billions of dollars and thousands of firefighters each year. Ultimately, the experiences, the voices, the science shared in the memoir form an urgent call for climate action. Into the Inferno stands alongside Palley’s photography to show just what kind of environmental tragedy we can expect if we do nothing.

Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano’s 2006 exposé of Naples’s Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. To this day, he lives in an undisclosed location. The loneliness of the fugitive life informs all the essays in Beauty and the Inferno, Saviano’s first book since Gomorrah. Among other subjects, he writes about the legendary South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba, his meeting with the real-life Donnie Brasco, sharing the Nobel Academy platform with Salman Rushdie, and the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Present throughout the book is a sense of Saviano’s peculiar isolation, which infuses his words with anger, exceptional insight and tragedy.

From the shadows, an inferno rises … To save Prometheus, Pandora ventures into the infernal realm of Tartarus. There she faces perils unlike anything she has ever imagined. If she can overcome them, if she can free Prometheus, they might together return and at last claim a life together. But not even she can imagine the inferno she will soon unleash … This epic fantasy series includes: The Gifts of Pandora The Valor of Perseus The Inferno of Prometheus The Madness of Herakles The Threads of Theseus The Face of Hekate PRAISE FOR THE WORLD OF ESCHATON CYCLE EPIC FANTASY SERIES: “He takes mythology and lore, stories and peoples and gods you might have heard of and twists them, and makes them uniquely his. His retellings are some of the best I’ve ever read, and the amount of research he puts into each one of his books is staggering.” - Sarah Chorn via Goodreads “The story itself is complex and it is extremely well crafted. ” - FantasyBookNerd via Goodreads “Matt Larkin, is arguably the current master of the Mythic Legend genre. He has created the far reaching Eschaton Cycle that interweaves religions, myths, and legends of cultures and people through out time and across the face of the Earth as we know it.” - Dale Russel via Goodreads “Scenes so vividly detailed it paints a fantastic backdrop and tosses in some spice to add flavor to the mix. ” - Kaye via Goodreads For fans of: R. Scott Bakker Guy Gavriel Kay Madeline Miller Steven Erikson Sue Lynn Tan Katherine Arden Jennifer Saint Tashi Suri Joe Abercrombie Juliet Marillier Wesley Chu Michael Fletcher Giles Kristian Christopher Buehlman George R.R. Martin James Islington Janny Wurts Brent Weeks Ed McDonald Keywords related to this epic fantasy series: Greek myth, dark fantasy books, epic sagas, free epic fantasy books, myths and legends, retellings, folklore, fairytales, mythology, grimdark, epic fantasy, epic free, sword and sorcery, fantasy stories, historical fantasy

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Altein (Jacobson's daughter) presents an account, via documents (letters, cables, etc.), of the successful effort to save the sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch and most members of his immediate family from Nazi-occupied Europe in 1939-40. The Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, was then in Warsaw, with the staff of his worldwide hasidic movement and its main rabbinical school. Efforts to save these people were directed by his followers in the U.S., who turned to the State Department, Justice Brandeis, advisors of President Roosevelt, and European diplomats. Problems in Europe included finding the Rebbe in Nazi-occupied Poland and making covert contact with German officials, especially Admiral Canaris, who agreed to help get the Rebbe out of Poland. It was necessary to find a neutral place from which he could leave the continent. Since he was a citizen of Lithuania, Riga was selected even though it was in danger of being taken over by the Soviets, who had sentenced him to death more than ten years before. U.S. visa problems were ultimately overcome via political contacts and affidavits that U.S. Jews would provide any financial guarantees necessary. Transit problems were solved with the aid of Sweden and Portugal. The Rebbe and family arrived in New York on 19 March 1940, after which he worked to rescue other members of his family, as well as Chabad teachers, students, and other members of his movement.

These notes present a clear discussion of the action and thought contained in Dante Alighieri's classic work "Divine Comedy Inferno" and provide a concise interpretation of its artistic merits and significance.