TALES OF HEROES AND ANGELS
By Robert Tabor
SIENA BOOKS. ISBN # 0-9760027-0-1.
Hardcover. 8-5/8” x 11-1/4.” 174 pp. With 46 illustrations. October
2005. U.S. $21.95. Canada $26.80. Available directly from New Paradigm
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From the Preface: “I began to recall from the biographies of men
and women of courage, and exceptional achievement, that at some time in
their unique endeavors they were aware of a ‘force,’ a ‘power,’ an
eminent ‘figure’ from outside themselves, who intervened to save the
person and others with them, from failure, devastation. and sometimes
death. Rarely does the phenomenon get more than a mention...because that
is not the purpose of the biography. But the author has felt the
necessity to acknowledge such ‘help,’ ‘warnings,’ or ‘guidance’...”
Seventeen luminous tales, all geographically and
historically correct, some untold until today. Did you know about:
The white-maned Arabian
stallion who raced across water?
[READ FULL TEXT OF THE ARABIAN]
The angel who followed Adam and Eve out of the
Garden of Eden?
The invisible shield around Gypsy Moth skipper Francis Chichester?
The seagoing fire fighter in the flowing white robes?
The divine visions of King Lalibela of Ethiopia?
The angel who built
Hertford Cathedral?
The "unknown fourth" who
walked with Ernest Shackleton and two crew members across the
mountains of South Georgia island?
The cathedral within a mosque in Cordoba, Spain and the secret of its
weeping angel?
The wife with their child who sped to see her soldier husband in wartime U.S.A., and the Mack truck and angel that helped her
along the way?
The "Pilot of the Pinta,"
invisible second mate on Captain Joshua Slocum's voyage around the world?
Mount Everest’s guardian angel?
The angel that became a second parachute?
The voices in the cockpit of Charles A. Lindbergh's The Spirit of Saint
Louis?
...AND MORE
These are a few of the stories in this remarkable retelling of some of
the world’s great adventures—adventures which the men and women
survived in spite of facing certain tragedy and even death.
One of the heroes of these stories, a King of Ethiopia named Lalibela, vowed that angels had given him the secret for building
six-story solid rock churches that could not be seen from a block away,
and consequently would not be destroyed by the Muslims when they invaded
a thousand years later. You'll also find legends of truck drivers,
of Indian fighters and of Great White Horses—but the stories written by the men who actually lived them are the ones you'll remember
and think about. These are stories like that of Bill Bass, at the
time the
oldest man ever to climb Mount Everest, who, alone,
exhausted, with no oxygen and up to his waist in snow, thought he was
going to die—but did not.
The author hopes that you, too, will realize, as did the heroes of these
stories, that you are never alone, and that this realization will help
you cope more successfully with your daily life—and perhaps even
accomplish the seemingly impossible.
About the Author:
Now retired from a career in advertising and
theatre management, Robert Tabor lives in Florida. His first book,
Downstream, was a canoeing and rafting guide to Florida’s many rivers
and freshwater springs.
Robert Tabor
Siena Books
4201 North Highway A1A
Fort Pierce, FL 34949
Tel.: (772) 465-5729
Email: <rltabor1017@bellsouth.net>
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