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Pages : 218
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Boating
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Cockpit Commander: A Navigator's Life
Author: Bruce Gibson
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473822440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Previously self-published by the author, this book charts the course of a dramatic career as a Wing Commander. Living through one of the most dynamic periods in military and Aviation development history, Bruce Gibson saw events play out from his elevated aerial position. His fascinating story will appeal to a wide audience, focussing as it does not only upon Aviation concerns. From life as a mischievous child living in the East End of London, to realising his true direction and joining the RAF Air Volunteer Reserves in 1937, and then the Royal Air Force, and beyond into Aviation ventures in a Civilian capacity. His amusing observations and anecdotes provide the most colourful insight into life during the monochromatic blackout years of World War II, and beyond.Many historical records and operational logs are available on the market to those looking for cold facts and statistical analyses of events; this account features the human tales, the anecdotes and spirit of camaraderie which characterised Gibson's experiences.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473822440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Previously self-published by the author, this book charts the course of a dramatic career as a Wing Commander. Living through one of the most dynamic periods in military and Aviation development history, Bruce Gibson saw events play out from his elevated aerial position. His fascinating story will appeal to a wide audience, focussing as it does not only upon Aviation concerns. From life as a mischievous child living in the East End of London, to realising his true direction and joining the RAF Air Volunteer Reserves in 1937, and then the Royal Air Force, and beyond into Aviation ventures in a Civilian capacity. His amusing observations and anecdotes provide the most colourful insight into life during the monochromatic blackout years of World War II, and beyond.Many historical records and operational logs are available on the market to those looking for cold facts and statistical analyses of events; this account features the human tales, the anecdotes and spirit of camaraderie which characterised Gibson's experiences.
An Empire of Air and Water
Author: Siobhan Carroll
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812246780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century.
Historical Dictionary of Portugal
Author: Douglas L. Wheeler
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The third edition of Historical Dictionary of Portugal greatly expands on the second edition through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as on significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
The third edition of Historical Dictionary of Portugal greatly expands on the second edition through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as on significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.
They Hosed Them Out
Author: John Bede Cusack
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1743051069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A classic Australian war novel, inspired by the author's experiences as an airgunner in the Second World War. This new, revised and annotated edition includes chapters never before published, a fascinating biography of John Bede Cusack by his daughter, Kerry McCouat, and an informative introduction by editor Robert Brokenmouth.
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 1743051069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A classic Australian war novel, inspired by the author's experiences as an airgunner in the Second World War. This new, revised and annotated edition includes chapters never before published, a fascinating biography of John Bede Cusack by his daughter, Kerry McCouat, and an informative introduction by editor Robert Brokenmouth.
The New York Times Magazine
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Pages : 916
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Federation
Author: Judith Reeves-Stevens
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471109143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
At last! The long awaited novel featuring both famous crews of the Starship Enterprisein an epic adventure that spans time and space. Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseNCC-1701 are faced with their most challenging mission yet--rescuing renowned scientist Zefram Cochrane from captors who want to use his skills to conquer the galaxy. Meanwhile, ninety-nine years in the future on the U.S.S. EnterpriseNCC-1701-D, Picard must rescue an important and mysterious person whose safety is vital to the survival of the Federation. As the two crews struggle to fulfill their missions, destiny draws them closer together until past and future merge--and the fate of each of the two legendary starships rests in the hands of the other vessel...
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471109143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 751
Book Description
At last! The long awaited novel featuring both famous crews of the Starship Enterprisein an epic adventure that spans time and space. Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseNCC-1701 are faced with their most challenging mission yet--rescuing renowned scientist Zefram Cochrane from captors who want to use his skills to conquer the galaxy. Meanwhile, ninety-nine years in the future on the U.S.S. EnterpriseNCC-1701-D, Picard must rescue an important and mysterious person whose safety is vital to the survival of the Federation. As the two crews struggle to fulfill their missions, destiny draws them closer together until past and future merge--and the fate of each of the two legendary starships rests in the hands of the other vessel...
Equinox
Author: Gonzalo Gums
Publisher: Gonzalo Guma
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Within the eternal wall of Equinox lie the answers to humanity's most ancient existential questions: Are our whole lives predetermined by a higher power? What happens to the soul when the body dies? This fantastic novel takes us on a journey to that enigmatic place —whether a parallel universe, a traveling waypoint or a bizarre Purgatory is for us to discover— where Tomás’s soul is trapped following a serious accident. To turn the first page of “Equinox: Whispers of Destiny” is to involve ourselves in an original and fascinating tale of adventures that captivate from beginning to end. Have you ever had the feeling something or someone was “playing” with your Destiny?
Publisher: Gonzalo Guma
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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Within the eternal wall of Equinox lie the answers to humanity's most ancient existential questions: Are our whole lives predetermined by a higher power? What happens to the soul when the body dies? This fantastic novel takes us on a journey to that enigmatic place —whether a parallel universe, a traveling waypoint or a bizarre Purgatory is for us to discover— where Tomás’s soul is trapped following a serious accident. To turn the first page of “Equinox: Whispers of Destiny” is to involve ourselves in an original and fascinating tale of adventures that captivate from beginning to end. Have you ever had the feeling something or someone was “playing” with your Destiny?
The Night Lives On
Author: Walter Lord
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453238514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In this New York Times bestseller, the author of A Night to Remember and The Miracle of Dunkirk revisits the Titanic disaster. Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember was a landmark work that recounted the harrowing events of April 14, 1912, when the British ocean liner RMS Titanic went down in the North Atlantic Ocean, a book that inspired a classic movie of the same name. In The Night Lives On, Lord takes the exploration further, revealing information about the ship’s last hours that emerged in the decades that followed, and separating myths from facts. Was the ship really christened before setting sail on its maiden voyage? What song did the band play as water spilled over the bow? How did the ship’s wireless operators fail so badly, and why did the nearby Californian, just ten miles away when the Titanic struck the iceberg, not come to the rescue? Lord answers these questions and more, in a gripping investigation of the night when approximately 1,500 victims were lost to the sea.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453238514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
In this New York Times bestseller, the author of A Night to Remember and The Miracle of Dunkirk revisits the Titanic disaster. Walter Lord’s A Night to Remember was a landmark work that recounted the harrowing events of April 14, 1912, when the British ocean liner RMS Titanic went down in the North Atlantic Ocean, a book that inspired a classic movie of the same name. In The Night Lives On, Lord takes the exploration further, revealing information about the ship’s last hours that emerged in the decades that followed, and separating myths from facts. Was the ship really christened before setting sail on its maiden voyage? What song did the band play as water spilled over the bow? How did the ship’s wireless operators fail so badly, and why did the nearby Californian, just ten miles away when the Titanic struck the iceberg, not come to the rescue? Lord answers these questions and more, in a gripping investigation of the night when approximately 1,500 victims were lost to the sea.
Yachting
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Pages : 380
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