Author: James Braidwood
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781006966200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
James Braidwood (1800-1861) was a Scottish firefighter who founded one of the world's first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824. He was the first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment (the brigade which was eventually to become the London Fire Brigade). He is credited with the development of the modern municipal fire service. He was educated at the Royal High School. He learned about the construction of buildings after joining his father's building firm as an apprentice, knowledge he was later to put to good use. Appointed Master of Fire Engines at the age of 24, two months prior to the Great Fire of Edinburgh, Braidwood established principles of fire-fighting that are still applied today.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction (Esprios Classics)
Author: James Braidwood
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781006966200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
James Braidwood (1800-1861) was a Scottish firefighter who founded one of the world's first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824. He was the first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment (the brigade which was eventually to become the London Fire Brigade). He is credited with the development of the modern municipal fire service. He was educated at the Royal High School. He learned about the construction of buildings after joining his father's building firm as an apprentice, knowledge he was later to put to good use. Appointed Master of Fire Engines at the age of 24, two months prior to the Great Fire of Edinburgh, Braidwood established principles of fire-fighting that are still applied today.
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781006966200
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
James Braidwood (1800-1861) was a Scottish firefighter who founded one of the world's first municipal fire service in Edinburgh in 1824. He was the first director of the London Fire Engine Establishment (the brigade which was eventually to become the London Fire Brigade). He is credited with the development of the modern municipal fire service. He was educated at the Royal High School. He learned about the construction of buildings after joining his father's building firm as an apprentice, knowledge he was later to put to good use. Appointed Master of Fire Engines at the age of 24, two months prior to the Great Fire of Edinburgh, Braidwood established principles of fire-fighting that are still applied today.
Political Pamphlets (Esprios Classics)
Author: George Saintsbury
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
"It is sometimes thought, and very often said, that political writing, after its special day is done, becomes more dead than any other kind of literature, or even journalism. I do not know whether my own judgment is perverted by the fact of a special devotion to the business, but it certainly seems to me that both the thought and the saying are mistakes. Indeed, a rough-and-ready refutation of them is supplied by the fact that, in no few cases, political pieces have entered into the generally admitted stock of the best literary things."
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1134
Book Description
"It is sometimes thought, and very often said, that political writing, after its special day is done, becomes more dead than any other kind of literature, or even journalism. I do not know whether my own judgment is perverted by the fact of a special devotion to the business, but it certainly seems to me that both the thought and the saying are mistakes. Indeed, a rough-and-ready refutation of them is supplied by the fact that, in no few cases, political pieces have entered into the generally admitted stock of the best literary things."
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction
Author: James Braidwood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Six Letters From the Colonies (Esprios Classics)
Author: R. C. Seaton
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359936342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
"I was absent from England eleven months, from November, 1884, to October, 1885. The first three of these Letters are reprinted, with slight alterations, from the Eastern Morning News. The last three were written after my return to England. As I have not cared to keep up the fiction of having written them from Australia, they may contain some references to events subsequent to my return. It is often objected, and truly enough, that travellers, who spend only so short a time as I have in fresh countries, are not justified in expressing deliberate opinions about them; but this does not apply where a writer gives his impressions as such, and not as matured opinions, or where he expresses the opinions of other people who, by long residence or otherwise in a particular country, have had every opportunity of forming them. I think it will not be found that I have offended in this particular."LONDON,October, 1886.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359936342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
"I was absent from England eleven months, from November, 1884, to October, 1885. The first three of these Letters are reprinted, with slight alterations, from the Eastern Morning News. The last three were written after my return to England. As I have not cared to keep up the fiction of having written them from Australia, they may contain some references to events subsequent to my return. It is often objected, and truly enough, that travellers, who spend only so short a time as I have in fresh countries, are not justified in expressing deliberate opinions about them; but this does not apply where a writer gives his impressions as such, and not as matured opinions, or where he expresses the opinions of other people who, by long residence or otherwise in a particular country, have had every opportunity of forming them. I think it will not be found that I have offended in this particular."LONDON,October, 1886.
A Fire Story
Author: Brian Fies
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683354516
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The award-winning author and illustrator presents a personal account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017 in this moving graphic memoir. On October 9th, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in forty-four fatalities and the destruction of thousands of homes. In A Fire Story, Brian Fies shares an unflinching account of this tragedy as he and his wife experienced it—including losing their house and every possession that didn’t fit in their car. As the fires continued to burn through the area, Brian pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online. It immediately went viral. He later expanded the webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors. A Fire Story is a candid testimony of the wildfires that left homes destroyed, families broken, and a community determined to rebuild. This updated and expanded edition includes thirty-two pages of all-new material, extending the story past the events of the hardcover edition to include updates on the rebuilding, wrestling with insurance, wrangling with contractors, the management of sometimes volatile emotions, and the threats of yet another wildfire.
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1683354516
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The award-winning author and illustrator presents a personal account of the Northern California wildfires of 2017 in this moving graphic memoir. On October 9th, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in forty-four fatalities and the destruction of thousands of homes. In A Fire Story, Brian Fies shares an unflinching account of this tragedy as he and his wife experienced it—including losing their house and every possession that didn’t fit in their car. As the fires continued to burn through the area, Brian pulled together A Fire Story and posted it online. It immediately went viral. He later expanded the webcomic to include environmental insight and the fire stories of his neighbors. A Fire Story is a candid testimony of the wildfires that left homes destroyed, families broken, and a community determined to rebuild. This updated and expanded edition includes thirty-two pages of all-new material, extending the story past the events of the hardcover edition to include updates on the rebuilding, wrestling with insurance, wrangling with contractors, the management of sometimes volatile emotions, and the threats of yet another wildfire.
Thyrza (Esprios Classics)
Author: George Gissing
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794861599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794861599
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Destiny of the Soul, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
Author: William Rounseville Alger
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794759646
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860).
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794759646
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860).
London and the Kingdom, Volume I (Esprios Classics)
Author: Reginald R. Sharpe
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794875158
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794875158
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Little Dorrit, Volume II (Esprios Classics)
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794781021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794781021
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Aztec Autumn
Author: Gary Jennings
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765317513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
After the Aztec empire falls to the Spaniards, a young Aztec named Tenamaxtli begins recruiting from among his fellow survivors of the Conquest to once again challenge the Spaniards and restore the Aztec empire.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765317513
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
After the Aztec empire falls to the Spaniards, a young Aztec named Tenamaxtli begins recruiting from among his fellow survivors of the Conquest to once again challenge the Spaniards and restore the Aztec empire.