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Beast Quest #26
Hawkite Arrow of the Air
The diabolical Hawkite has destroyed the crops of Gwildor and the people are starving. Tom must stop him, but how can he convince the furious inhabitants that he is there to save them and how can he defeat a beast that is in the air?
119 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2012
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About the author
Adam Blade
857 books212 followersAdam Blade is the house name for the Working Partners Ltd. ghostwriters who write the Beast Quest and Sea Quest series.
Adam Blade is in his late twenties, and was born in Kent, England. His parents were both history teachers and amateur artists, and Adam grew up surrounded by his father’s paintings of historic English battles – which left a lifelong mark on his imagination. He was also fascinated by the ancient sword and shield that hung in his father’s office. Adam’s father said they were a Blade family heirloom.
As a boy, Adam would spend days imagining who could have first owned the sword and shield. Eventually, he created a character – Tom, the bravest boy warrior of them all. The idea for Beast Quest was born.
When Adam grew up and decided that he wanted to be a writer, he was stuck for ideas – until he remembered the old sword and shield, and the imaginary boy he had created when he was young. Adam decided to bring Tom fully to life so that readers could go on the kind of adventures that he always wanted to when he was that age… And still does, even though he’s grown up!
When he’s not writing Beast Quest books, Adam enjoys visiting museums and ancient battle sites. His main hobbies are fencing and football. He also spends a lot of time at home running around after his two exotic pets – a tarantula named Ziggy, and a capuchin monkey named Omar. These little rascals were the inspiration for two of the Beasts that Tom faces on his Quest – Arachnid and Claw.
Sadly, Adam does not have his own Fire-Dragon or Horse-Man. But he really wishes he did!
Adam Blade is in his late twenties, and was born in Kent, England. His parents were both history teachers and amateur artists, and Adam grew up surrounded by his father’s paintings of historic English battles – which left a lifelong mark on his imagination. He was also fascinated by the ancient sword and shield that hung in his father’s office. Adam’s father said they were a Blade family heirloom.
As a boy, Adam would spend days imagining who could have first owned the sword and shield. Eventually, he created a character – Tom, the bravest boy warrior of them all. The idea for Beast Quest was born.
When Adam grew up and decided that he wanted to be a writer, he was stuck for ideas – until he remembered the old sword and shield, and the imaginary boy he had created when he was young. Adam decided to bring Tom fully to life so that readers could go on the kind of adventures that he always wanted to when he was that age… And still does, even though he’s grown up!
When he’s not writing Beast Quest books, Adam enjoys visiting museums and ancient battle sites. His main hobbies are fencing and football. He also spends a lot of time at home running around after his two exotic pets – a tarantula named Ziggy, and a capuchin monkey named Omar. These little rascals were the inspiration for two of the Beasts that Tom faces on his Quest – Arachnid and Claw.
Sadly, Adam does not have his own Fire-Dragon or Horse-Man. But he really wishes he did!
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August 27, 2022
3.5 estrellas
Reconocer la libertad religiosa no significa reconocer, o dar validez, al hecho religioso.
Las utopías son nefastas porque descartan la imperfección y la compasión. Toda utopía es por definición inhumana, bien sea de carácter étnico, socialista, teocrática o cientificista. No existe el bien, sino lo mejorable.
No podemos elegir dejar de ser lo que somos, porque, de algún modo, somos la flecha que ya ha salido del arco. Estamos en movimiento, queramos o no, y debemos optar entre unas cosas u otras, una dirección. [...] No somos pura libertad, porque somos previamente algo, pero ese algo que somos es libre y tiene la capacidad de hacerse más libre. Estamos ya disparados, por así decirlo, a la vez que somos responsables de nuestro rumbo.
La libertad de culto o el respeto a las creencias religiosas deberían considerarse ya implícitos en derechos reconocidos como el de la libertad de expresión, de conciencia o de reunión.
La lógica se suele emparentar en el lenguaje corriente con el sentido común, cuando en la realidad casi se puede decir que sucede lo contrario: levamos una vida normal porque no seguimos continuamente la lógica hasta sus últimas consecuencias. La lógica da lugar una y otra vez a procesos al infinito, con lo que una persona totalmente lógica no podría ni siquiera levantarse de la cama. Parece que vivimos porque en determinados momentos ponemos fin a esas cadenas de razonamientos y actuamos sin más, lo que, por otra parte, no quiere decir que actuemos de modo ilógico o irracional.
Hegel suprime el azar en la historia, como si la historia siguiese una dirección determinada, un sentido. Cada persona vendría a ser expresión de un momento histórico. [...] Al margen de que Hegel no niegue la libertad, este tipo de pensamiento da rienda suelta a la mentalidad propia de los totalitarismos: el creer que las acciones humanas no tienen un sentido en sí mismas, o una bondad en sí mismas, sino en la medida en que contribuyen o no al avance de un proyecto colectivo o histórico.
Educar es dar los instrumentos para que el alumno pueda liberarse de su educación y de su cultura, y ganar un juicio propio.
Es decir, la libertad no sería tanto poder elegir entre opciones, como poseer la virtud suficiente para llevar a cabo la más adecuada.
Reconocer la libertad religiosa no significa reconocer, o dar validez, al hecho religioso.
Las utopías son nefastas porque descartan la imperfección y la compasión. Toda utopía es por definición inhumana, bien sea de carácter étnico, socialista, teocrática o cientificista. No existe el bien, sino lo mejorable.
No podemos elegir dejar de ser lo que somos, porque, de algún modo, somos la flecha que ya ha salido del arco. Estamos en movimiento, queramos o no, y debemos optar entre unas cosas u otras, una dirección. [...] No somos pura libertad, porque somos previamente algo, pero ese algo que somos es libre y tiene la capacidad de hacerse más libre. Estamos ya disparados, por así decirlo, a la vez que somos responsables de nuestro rumbo.
La libertad de culto o el respeto a las creencias religiosas deberían considerarse ya implícitos en derechos reconocidos como el de la libertad de expresión, de conciencia o de reunión.
La lógica se suele emparentar en el lenguaje corriente con el sentido común, cuando en la realidad casi se puede decir que sucede lo contrario: levamos una vida normal porque no seguimos continuamente la lógica hasta sus últimas consecuencias. La lógica da lugar una y otra vez a procesos al infinito, con lo que una persona totalmente lógica no podría ni siquiera levantarse de la cama. Parece que vivimos porque en determinados momentos ponemos fin a esas cadenas de razonamientos y actuamos sin más, lo que, por otra parte, no quiere decir que actuemos de modo ilógico o irracional.
Hegel suprime el azar en la historia, como si la historia siguiese una dirección determinada, un sentido. Cada persona vendría a ser expresión de un momento histórico. [...] Al margen de que Hegel no niegue la libertad, este tipo de pensamiento da rienda suelta a la mentalidad propia de los totalitarismos: el creer que las acciones humanas no tienen un sentido en sí mismas, o una bondad en sí mismas, sino en la medida en que contribuyen o no al avance de un proyecto colectivo o histórico.
Educar es dar los instrumentos para que el alumno pueda liberarse de su educación y de su cultura, y ganar un juicio propio.
Es decir, la libertad no sería tanto poder elegir entre opciones, como poseer la virtud suficiente para llevar a cabo la más adecuada.
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September 8, 2024
One of my favourite books of the whole series and one I couldn’t put down, the author has really changed it up for this series with the different magic in the new items
The new beasts to fight, toms long term injury and the Mystery of the quest absolutely outstanding
The new beasts to fight, toms long term injury and the Mystery of the quest absolutely outstanding
July 31, 2019
I think it is just good.
Because it's good
and fantastic and it has good words and letters
A great book it is lovely and nice.
Because it's good
and fantastic and it has good words and letters
A great book it is lovely and nice.
September 15, 2024
This one was actually better than some of the previous sextets.
September 18, 2014
Full of action, cleverness and mystery. Loved it!!
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