A new one-volume edition of this classic sequence of sea novels set in the early nineteenth century, about a voyage from England to Australia. Rites of Passage (Winner of the Booker Prize) 'The work of a master at the full stretch of his age and wisdom.' The Times Close Quarters 'A feat of imaginative reconstruction, as vivid as a dream.' Daily Mail Fire Down Below 'Laden to the waterline with a rich cargo of practicalities and poetry, pain and hilarity, drama and exaltation.' Sunday Times
Account of the Transglobe Expedition, 1979-1982, led by Ranulph Fiennes. This was the first expedition to circumnavigate the earth via both poles.
This book presents evidence that the ancient Greeks landed in the Americas and circumnavigated the world more than 1300 years before the voyage of Magellan.
Webber was there , pretending to straighten the coverlet but in reality waiting so that I should give him money for doing his duty . “ Thank you , Webber . That will be all . ” To my surprise he did not go .
Wherever the Hunters went, they found that God had been there first." - description of the first edition.
Very recently the Syrian Foreign Minister, Farouk alSharaa, met James Baker, the US Secretary ofState. Baker asked him, “What have you done with the GC people?” Farouk alSharaa was confused, did not know what he was talking about.
With Greaves’s signature warmth and charm, Anywhere for You is a romantic and immensely moving novel about the enduring power of love and finding happiness in unexpected places.
Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources.
This major new book is also a study of the impact of the global world on Scotland itself and the degree to which the Scottish economy was for many years an imperial economy, with intimate, important links through shipping, engineering, jute ...
This second edition of a classic NSBT volume emphasizes how the Bible presents a continuing narrative of God's mission, providing a robust historical and chronological backbone to the unfolding of the early Christian mission.
In his funeral sermon for Hercules Collins (d. 1702),43 who died on October 4, less than two months after Harrison, Piggott also commented upon the evangelistic zeal of Collins by saying that “no Man could preach with a more ...