Author: Douglas Reeman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1590136888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Malta 1941. To most people HMS Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is due for court-martial after shelling the troops he was sent to protect. But to Captain Richard Chesnaye she brings back memories—memories of the First World War when he and the old monitor went through the Gallipoli campaign together. It seems that captain and ship are both past their best. But as the war enters a new phase, Chesnaye senses the possibility of a fresh, significant role—for him and the Saracen.
HMS Saracen
Knife Edge
Author: Douglas Reeman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1590134532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
After the murder of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Blackwood, Ross Blackwood finds himself assigned to the Far East, taking on rebels and illegal-arms dealers in Hong Kong and Malaysia. Along the way he meets another Blackwood, his cousin Steve, who has made a life for himself in the Corp, as an explosives expert. The two Blackwoods uphold the honor of their family and their chosen profession while negotiating the fallout of Britain's post-colonial politics.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1590134532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
After the murder of his father, Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Blackwood, Ross Blackwood finds himself assigned to the Far East, taking on rebels and illegal-arms dealers in Hong Kong and Malaysia. Along the way he meets another Blackwood, his cousin Steve, who has made a life for himself in the Corp, as an explosives expert. The two Blackwoods uphold the honor of their family and their chosen profession while negotiating the fallout of Britain's post-colonial politics.
Battlecruiser
Author: Douglas Reeman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1590134389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
It's 1943, and the seas are haunted by Hitler's deadly U-boats and cruisers. After the mysterious death of the Reliant's last captain, Guy Sherbrooke is given command of the legendary battlecruiser. A symbol of everything the Royal Navy stands for, the battlecruiser boasts the speed of a destroyer and the firepower of a battleship.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1590134389
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
It's 1943, and the seas are haunted by Hitler's deadly U-boats and cruisers. After the mysterious death of the Reliant's last captain, Guy Sherbrooke is given command of the legendary battlecruiser. A symbol of everything the Royal Navy stands for, the battlecruiser boasts the speed of a destroyer and the firepower of a battleship.
A Geographical Description of the Spratly Islands and an Account of Hydrographic Surveys Amongst Those Islands
Author: David Hancox
Publisher: IBRU
ISBN: 1897643187
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher: IBRU
ISBN: 1897643187
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Never Leave the Dog Behind
Author: Helen Mort
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN: 1912560895
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
'We live in a world populated by dog lovers, where many of us regard them as members of the family. We are fascinated by them: either anthropomorphising our pets or obsessing about the ways they differ from us. And mountains – theatres of risk, drama and heroism – provide the perfect stage for us to enact our canine fascination in all its pathos and poetry. In short, the hills bring into focus just how much we love being with dogs.' Dogs specialise in getting on with humans, and tales of faithful hounds in hostile environments form part of our cultural history. Award-winning writer Helen Mort sets out to understand the singular relationship between dogs, mountains and the people who love them. Along the way, she meets search and rescue dogs, interviews climbers and spends time on the hills with hounds. The book is also a personal memoir, telling the author's own story of falling in love with a whippet called Bell during a transformative year in the Lake District. Never Leave the Dog Behind is a compelling account of mountain adventures and misadventures, and captures the unbridled joy of heading to the hills with a four-legged friend.
Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN: 1912560895
Category : Pets
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
'We live in a world populated by dog lovers, where many of us regard them as members of the family. We are fascinated by them: either anthropomorphising our pets or obsessing about the ways they differ from us. And mountains – theatres of risk, drama and heroism – provide the perfect stage for us to enact our canine fascination in all its pathos and poetry. In short, the hills bring into focus just how much we love being with dogs.' Dogs specialise in getting on with humans, and tales of faithful hounds in hostile environments form part of our cultural history. Award-winning writer Helen Mort sets out to understand the singular relationship between dogs, mountains and the people who love them. Along the way, she meets search and rescue dogs, interviews climbers and spends time on the hills with hounds. The book is also a personal memoir, telling the author's own story of falling in love with a whippet called Bell during a transformative year in the Lake District. Never Leave the Dog Behind is a compelling account of mountain adventures and misadventures, and captures the unbridled joy of heading to the hills with a four-legged friend.
Old Monarch
Author: Courtney Marie Andrews
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524870307
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Some people are like monarch butterflies—solitary by nature, on a passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews presents her first poetry collection. This poetry collection reads like a transformation, me, the narrator, being the figurative Old Monarch. Documenting this journey, the book is separated into three sections, "Sonoran Milkweed," "Longing In Flight," and "Eucalyptus Tree (My Arrival to Rest)." In the first stage of my journey, I explore my childhood in Arizona, and the naive assumptions of youth. At this stage in my journey, I am impressionable, seeing the world with all its nuances for the first time. Through the landscape of the Sonoran Desert, I explore some dark family dynamics and what a child sees. Several characters turn up in the early poems including my cowboy grandpa, and the single mother who raised me, despite many forthcomings. The early poems also explore my desire to see a brighter world of possibility beyond the dusty desert island, and see humans more clearly within the confounds of discovery. In the second stage, I have left home. I am falling in love for the first time, as I become a young woman. Finally, the last stage is the old monarch's arrival to the garden. There are a lot of metaphysical and philosophical poems in this section. I arrive at the figurative garden, and I finally understand the journey at the edge of my life. There are a lot of poems in the context of a garden here, accepting mortality and the ever-changing world. These are meant to be wise old woman poems.
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 1524870307
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Some people are like monarch butterflies—solitary by nature, on a passionate search for somewhere. Critically acclaimed songwriter Courtney Marie Andrews presents her first poetry collection. This poetry collection reads like a transformation, me, the narrator, being the figurative Old Monarch. Documenting this journey, the book is separated into three sections, "Sonoran Milkweed," "Longing In Flight," and "Eucalyptus Tree (My Arrival to Rest)." In the first stage of my journey, I explore my childhood in Arizona, and the naive assumptions of youth. At this stage in my journey, I am impressionable, seeing the world with all its nuances for the first time. Through the landscape of the Sonoran Desert, I explore some dark family dynamics and what a child sees. Several characters turn up in the early poems including my cowboy grandpa, and the single mother who raised me, despite many forthcomings. The early poems also explore my desire to see a brighter world of possibility beyond the dusty desert island, and see humans more clearly within the confounds of discovery. In the second stage, I have left home. I am falling in love for the first time, as I become a young woman. Finally, the last stage is the old monarch's arrival to the garden. There are a lot of metaphysical and philosophical poems in this section. I arrive at the figurative garden, and I finally understand the journey at the edge of my life. There are a lot of poems in the context of a garden here, accepting mortality and the ever-changing world. These are meant to be wise old woman poems.
Mudbound
Author: Hillary Jordan
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565125698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565125698
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
(1899) & supplement (1901). Ed. 4
Author: Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
A History of Nova-Scotia, Or Acadie
Author: Beamish Murdoch
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nova Scotia
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nova Scotia
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
The China Sea Directory
Author: Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pilot guides
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description