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Author: W.W. Lloyd
Genre: Arts & Photography
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Originally published in the 1890s and republished for the centenary of P & O
Reprint of the original published for "The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company"
From author's foreword: `The prophetic word of Daniel remains a prophetic word from without and from above, whatever we call it from within--a plain, forward, backward, or round-about view. It should be noted too about the Book of Daniel that in any case we are not dealing here with a burnt-out crater. Daniel is an active volcano. Threfore if anyone thinks that it is a matter of playing with cold lava, for edification or otherwise, he should realize that he is playing with fire.'
Author: H.M.S.O.

Author: P&O S.N. COMPANY

Author: No Author.
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company

The story of the requisitioning and the refitting of the "Elk", " Canberra", "Uganda", "Norland", " Anco Charger" and "Strathewe" for duty in the Falklands Task Force and the role they played in the 1982 Falklands conflict. More than 200 photos, several in color.
Author: LLOYD, W.W.

Author: Roger Cartwright
Genre: History
Publisher: The History Press

Recognised as the first British company to operate regular sea cruises, P&O has a history that goes back to 1837. In more recent times, P&O has undertaken a shift away from line voyages to operating cruises full time. The purchase of Princess Cruises in 1973 led to the founding of the company we know today. Here, Roger Cartwright tells the story of P&O Princess's illustrious history as a cruise line, from the Vectis, the world's first dedicated cruise ship to the Grand class ships of today, each carrying almost 3,000 passengers and weighing in at over 115,000 tons each.
Author: FURNISS, HARRY
Publisher: The Studio of Design and Illustration Supply Company

Delightful Book illustrated with Monochrome and B&W illustrations, often with Humour, Drawn by Harry Furniss on his Cruise aboard a P & O Liner. A Full-Page illustration is opposite every text page. Ports of Call include Malta, Brindisi, Aden, Port Said, Suez, Red Sea, Ceylon & Colombo. Green cloth cover with impressed Gilt Lettering and illustrations of a P&O Ship & Classical Figure holding the P & O Flag.
Author: Ruth Artmonsky
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Shire Publications Ltd

From humble beginnings in the 1830s, The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company grew to dominate British mercantile shipping for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Initially, the company's paddle steamers carried Her Majesty's Mail to the Iberian Peninsula, as the name implies, but over time P&O extended its routes across the Mediterranean and onwards to the Middle East, Far East and Australasia. Besides the mail, P&O liners carried bullion, silk, tea, and even opium as well as passengers. The company came to represent the British Empire at sea - but as the Empire waned and British travellers took to the air, so a golden age of travelling by sea came to an end. Ruth Artmonsky here delves into the P&O Heritage Collection to take a nostalgic glance astern at all those who travelled P&O.
Author: Dan Van Der Vat
Genre: History
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

This comprehensive and detailed account of the naval war in the Pacific, analyses the crucial naval actions and highlights the increasing importance of intelligence-gathering systems during the campaign. The author also discusses the damaging effect of inter-service rivalry on both sides, and American policy towards Britain and Australia.

Uses documents from the Naval Historical Center to reassess the war in the Pacific and reveal the long history of conflict between Japanese imperialism and American manifest destiny.
Author: Robert D. Turner

Author: Ian Collard
Genre: History
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

Founded in 1838 in Liverpool, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company was the first to operate steamships in the Pacific and primarily traded from the UK to the Pacific coasts of South America. Its most famous ships included the Reina del Pacifico and the Reina del Mar. With a line of notable firsts to its name, the Pacific Steam Navigation Company name had disappeared by 1984, part of the rationalization of Furness Withy Group. In 1990, Furness Withy itself was sold to Hamburg Sud, another line which had operated on the South Atlantic and Pacific routes. Many in Liverpool and in South and Central America, from Panama to Tierra del Fuego have fond memories of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company and this history and fleet list will bring back memories of those vessels of the line, both deep sea and coastal, which once operated on the South American run.
Author: LAWSON, WILL

Author: James J. Fahey
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)

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Author: CLAMMER, RICHARD

Author: Allan T. Condie
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Midland Publishing

For a century from the mid-1800s, paddle steamers were synonymous with seaside excursions, not least on the Clyde where the residents of Glasgow poured our to "go doon the watter". Through 112 black & white photos, this book looks back at the heyday of the paddlers, of which sadly very few survive, with only two in active service at present.
Author: David Marchbanks

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Author: John Townsend Gibbons
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Nereus Publishing Co.

Hardcover with dust jacket bound in green colored cloth with gilt title on spine, illustrated with b/w photos, 252 pages. There are no supplements.
Author: Susan Cohen, Daniel Cohen
Genre: History
Publisher: Signet Book

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Author: Philip Davies
Genre: History
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing,Croxley Green

Over 300 spectacular photographs of London's lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buidings, some of them historic masterpieces, captured in location just before their destruction between 1870-1945
Review by
Midlander
5.0 out of 5 starsAnother excellent English Heritage book
3 December 2015
Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase
Superbly produced hardback with big, finely detailed photographs of central London from about 1900 to immediate post-WW2. Most streets and buildings illustrated have since been destroyed.
PLEASE NOTE if you also have Mr Davies's "Lost London", also published by English Heritage, you will find a substantial number of pictures duplicated between the two books and you may therefore hesitate to have both. Personally, I'm more than happy to have the two.
You may also like London - Hidden interiors by the same team which comprises more recent colour photos of interiors, most but not all of which are still extant but not easy to get into.
Author: Peter Howe
Genre: Arts & Photography
Publisher: Artisan Division of Workman Publishing

Paparazzi: And Our Obsession With Celebrity
Author: Daniel Hillion
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Ouest-France

Author: Giles Milton
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: John Murray

Paradise Lost A powerful tale of destruction, heroism and survival by the bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG. Full description
Author: Alexander Kent
Genre: Historical Fiction Historical Fiction
Publisher: Arrow, London

October 1789, and war clouds thunder over Europe when Richard Bolitho steers the Tempest into the perilous waters of the Great South Sea. To protect vulnerable English shipping lanes from her seagoing enemies, he must face the hazards of fickle winds, pirates, and savage islanders.
Author: Frank Scherer
Publisher: Sutton Verlag GmbH

German edition
Author: National Archives And Records Service
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Forgotten Books

Excerpt from Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957

A farmer is one {who Operates a farm, either for himself or for others. A farm laborer is one who works on a farm for the man who operates it.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: OFFERPACE LTD.
Publisher: Offerpace Ltd, UK, 1982

1st Ed. 48 PP with tables and 27 b/w photos. Inside front cover: Cruise Ship Orpheus. Pictorial soft cover (Regina Maris).
Author: William H. Miller
Genre: Business, Finance & Law
Publisher: Carmania Press

Excellent photographic record of American Passenger Liners. Includes vessls from the following lines: Alaska, Alcoa, American Banner, American Export, American Hawaii, American President, Bull, Delta, Eastern Steamship, Farrell, Grace, Hawaiian-textron, M
Author: William H. Miller
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Carmania Press

Frech liners were the epitome of modern styling.
Author: David Williams, Richard de Kerbrech
Genre: History
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing

The final golden age of the ocean-going passenger liner was from the mid-1950s through to the late 1960s, when famous liners traversed the Atlantic. This book taps into the nostalgia which many have for the final years of the great ocean liners. It includes photos which are concentrated at British ports and show many scenes which have vanished.
Author: CAIRIS, NICHOLAS T.
Publisher: TBS The Book Service Ltd, United Kingdom, 1980

Author: Nicholas T. Cairis
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Bonanza Books

Present-day demand for air travel has almost outmoded the passenger ship; it has been unable to maintain the tempo of the airlines and has reluctantly moved out of the scene.

The author here takes a nostalgic look back to the heyday of the passenger ship, pro-viding a brief history of 211 ships of over 10,000 tons, together with specification and technical details of each.

For ready reference, the reader will find such diverse facts as:

who built the ships
where and when they were built
tonnage and dimensions
type of engine
cruising speed
passenger accommodations, officers and crew
maiden voyages and final dispositions
sister ships
general histories and much more.
To this revised edition has been added new technical data, and updated information about last voyages and final dispositions of ships.

In all, thirteen of the better known steam-ship companies dating back as far as 1893 are featured in this book. The book is illustrated with an original photograph of each of the 211 ships.

Contents
Preface 6
Cunard Line 8
French Line 58
Greek Line 84
Holland-America Line 90
Home Lines 108
Italian Line 114
North German Lloyd 140
Norwegian-America Line 173
Polish Ocean Lines 180
Portuguese Line 184
Spanish Line 190
Swedish-American Line 198
United States Lines 206
General Notes 222
Notes for Revised 1979 Edition 223
Index of Ships 225
To Jehovah who has endowed me with a love for the sea and ships and to my mother and father.

BONANZA BOOKS A Division of Crown Publishers, Inc. One Park Avenue New York, New York 10016

Preface
The port of New York where all the great liners of the world have rendezvoused since the advent of the passenger ship to carry the many travellers to far off lands and resorts.
The term passenger liner is a label appropriate to steamships and motorships alike. The specifica-tions governing a vessel of this type have un-doubtedly fluctuated through the history of the passenger-carrying vessels. The phrase being en-tirely controversial,

I have decided to include vessels only exceeding ten thousand gross tons and thereby keeping this volume within reasonable limits. In all there are enumerated two hundred and ten ships. Chartered ships and others completed to be released as war reparations or those which never sailed as passenger ships for the Lines respectively for numerous reasons . . . have not been included in this book. Concerning these ships there will be found in the fleet lists a brief note relating to their stories.



In the following pages I have gathered all such material pertaining to the most prominent steamship companies on the Atlantic Ferry today and those which have been there for some time. Some of the Lines have diverse services to other oceans, seas and continents of the world. My foremost interest was to include the better-known steamship company of each of the seafaring nations in the Western Hemisphere.

In total there are thirteen of these Lines which fly the national flags of their homeland and the last of the Lines the Panamanian ensign owing to the once numerous interests in the company and also for keen tax purposes. I included this last Line as a type of international firm whose founders were of Greek, Swedish, Italian and American origin.

The lore for the sea and ships has prompted me to choose not only the ships of my choice and liking, but to com-bine the greater number of all these liners in an unbiased factual publication of, hopefully, every-body's favourite ships. Each of the ships is illus-trated with an original photograph to help the reader grasp the full beauty that emanates from all of these inspiring ladies from the great leviathans and express greyhounds to the intermediate and cargo-type passenger ships.

In stating the history of the ship's life, if there is any such to mention, there is listed in order if known :

the builder and place of construction with the date;
the last known tonnage;
overall length and extreme breadth;
moulded depth and number of propellers;
type of propulsion and normal service speed;
attained speed on trial runs or maximum speed;
passenger accommodations (the given figures are usually the last in the ships' life and are in most cases smaller in the latter years of a ship than when she first entered into service because of the immigration laws of the early 'twenties and the reclassification of the classes brought about through the years);
officers and crew (this in most cases follows the same rule as passenger accommodations because of the advancements of technology);
maiden voyage;
bulkheads and general number of decks (the labelling of decks is sometimes a controversial matter because of changes in construction and the naming by designers.
Some may consider a certain section of a ship to be labelled a deck for passenger use whereas others may not, depending on the length or location of the section); history and ultimate fate; and last a sister ship or ships if any existed in the Line's services. Roman numerals preceding the name of a ship designate the numbered ship to carry the name.
This fast-moving era of air travel has almost outmoded the passenger ship into oblivion.

Unable to maintain the tempo of the airlines of reducing once several-days' journeys to a mere couple of hours and the competition of rates the passenger ship has slowly, but reluctantly, moved out of the scene. Remorsefully, we are all witnessing the extinction of the passenger liner by the drastic drop in transatlantic sailings since World War II. Some of the larger fleets have depleted rapidly and many have employed their ships in cruising most of the year.

Some have even gone to the point of selling cruise tickets to nowhere in which case the vessel merely sails around in circles just off the coast for a number of days. As time goes by the condition of the steamship companies seems to get dimmer in the possibility of a comeback to take her part in the travel medium which was rightfully hers. Though should the liner fade into the past, she will always live in the hearts of many who knew her in her day.

All facts have been entered in this book to the best of my knowledge. The information gathered stems from various sound resources as Lloyd's Register of Shipping, The American Record, newspaper articles, brochures, original abstract records and to some degree written and oral cor-respondence with the Lines and shipping personnel. Should the reader have any reason to argue its contents, which I believe to be the most accurate in existence, he may take the initiative to write me through the publishers and I would be most happy to try to assist him with the source of origination and degree of authenticity.



My gratitude would be incomplete if I should close without thanking the following people connected for supplying information and photographs for my book. They are enumerated thus: Mr Claros of the Spanish Line, Mr Vreugdenhil of the Holland-America Line, Mr Rickmann of the North German Lloyd, Mr Martin of the Cunard Line, Mr Bet of the Italian Line, Mr Bouvard of the French Line, Mr Martin of the United States Lines, Mr Henriksson of the Swedish-American Line, Mr Amundsen of the Norwegian-America Line, Mr Sigalas of the Greek Line, Mr Coutinho of the Portuguese Line, and Mr Tillet öf the Home Lines.

My thankfulness is also extended to Mr John L. Lochhead of the Mariner's Museum at Newport News, Virginia, Mark Sexton of the Peabody Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, Mrs Alice S. Wilson of the Steamship Historical Society of America on Staten Island, New York, The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders of Glasgow, Scotland, Mr David Pearson of Belmont, Massachusetts, and the Maritime Museum of Barcelona for photographs.

'If the only flags we gave allegiance to were the houseflags of the Lines and the only battles fought were for the Blue Riband.'

Nicholas T. Cairis
London, England


Author: JACOBS, HANNAH

Author: David Latimer
Genre: Ships
Publisher: Colourpoint Books

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Author: McCART, NEIL
Publisher: Patrick Stephens Ltd

Author: SMITH, EUGENE W.

Author: NOMA, HISASHI

Author: Richard Clammer, Alan Kittridge, Paddle Steamer Preservation Society
Genre: Local & Urban History
Publisher: Twelveheads Press

Graceful paddle steamers and prestigious river steamer fleets, market boats and river ferries, evocative excursions in some of the south west's finest scenery. This book was produced jointly with the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society who benefit from its sales.
Author: Alan Kittridge
Genre: History
Publisher: Twelveheads Press

A dozen rivers and creeks radiate off Falmouth Bay and the Carrick Roadstead to form the west country's largest estuary and provide over sixty miles of navigable waterway amidst the beautiful scenery of south Cornwall. Quays and landings on the estuary were once served by distinctive, locally built passenger steamer fleets. Over 130 of these vessels and the passenger services they maintained, are recorded, as well as the crews and owners. Not just are the steamboats themselves described, but also the river history and the steamers' place in the social history of the district.
Author: Trinity Mirror
Genre: History
Publisher: Trinity Mirror Media

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Author: Wendy Leigh
Genre: Arts & Photography
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment

Author: Wendy Leigh
Genre: Arts & Photography
Publisher: Simon Spotlight Entertainment

Author: Christine Noble
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Reader's Digest

Maintaining your hardware learning word excel broadsheets mircosoft paint +much more exc course
Author: Bob Poplett
Genre: History
Publisher: Phillimore & Co Ltd

Pictorial History of Peacehaven, Sussex near to Brighton. B. Poplett an early Peacehaven settler in 1923 - his asbestos shack was described as a holiday home - haulage business - scrap merchant business - gave him many opportunities to gather artefacts. - was Mem. Peacehaven Parish Council- a renowned Builder's Merchant of the area.
Author: Anthony Payne
Genre: Local & Urban History
Publisher: SB Publications

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Author: Malcolm Troak
Genre: History
Publisher: New Anzac Publications

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Author: Anthony Hayward, Debodah Hayward
Genre: Music, Stage & Screen
Publisher: Orion

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Author: WALLIN, VICE ADMIRAL HOMER N.

Author: SMITH, PETER

Author: Peter C. Smith
Genre: History
Publisher: Goodall Publications Ltd

In the summer of 1942 one of the main issues in the balance was the fate of Malta. The island was still a bastion of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean and a constant threat to the supply route for the enemy land forces in North Africa. It bravely resisted every onslaught of the Axis powers, but food supplies were desperately short and fuel oil running low. In August of that year Operation Pedestal was launched - a last attempt to relieve Malta. Fourteen merchant ships were allocated to it and the Royal Navy provided the most powerful force ever to escort a convoy including four aircraft carriers. Operating from Sardinia and Sicily, the Germans and Italians let fly with their shore-based aircraft on an unprecedented scale. The losses on the British side were appalling, but the objective was achieved and the blockade of Malta was finally lifted.
Author: MIDDLEBROOK, MARTIN

Author: LINNEY, A.G.
Publisher: Sampson Low & Co

Author: Emma Tennant
Genre: Historical Fiction (Books)
Publisher: SCEPTRE

This was one of the worst P
Author: Michael Sagar-Fenton
Genre: Health & Welfare
Publisher: Bossiney Books Limited

penlee the loss of a lifeboat
Author: HEATON, ROSE HENNIKER

Author: Roy Hall, John Francis
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Blake Publishing

Hall led a life of crime; posing as a high class butler he conned his way into the houses of the wealthy gentry and once he had their trust he robbed them blind, in well planned and cleverly executed attacks, as a professional jewel thief and later a murderer. He is currently serving life for multiple murder.
Author: Hulton Getty
Genre: Photography & Video
Publisher: Gardners Books

Timeless evocative images from the "Hulton Getty Picture Collection" capture the magnetism of Hollywood's favourite onscreen couples, complete with fascinating film facts, and memorable quotes.
Author: Sebastian Junger
Genre: History
Publisher: Fourth Estate

The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.

The ‘perfect storm’ is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island – Sable Island – and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace. This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. It is the story of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man and Nature, but here Nature is an awesome and capricious power that transforms the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil tanker in two, let alone the 72ft swordfishing boat Andrea Gail with her crew of eight. A typical Hurricane encompasses a million cubic miles of atmosphere and can contain enough energy to, in theory, meet the electric power needs of the UK for a decade. Except that a hurricane will not be controlled. In spare, lyrical prose The Perfect Storm describes what happened when the Andrea Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm.
Author: Juliet Nicolson
Genre: History
Publisher: John Murray

One summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinsky’s gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next – the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with her nineteen yards of pearls. Rupert Brooke (a 23-year-old poet in love with love, Keats, marrons glaces and truth) swam in the river at Grantchester. But perfection was over-reaching itself. The rumble of thunder from the summer's storms presaged not only the bloody war years ahead: the country was brought to near standstill by industrial strikes, and unrest exposed the chasm between privileged and poor – as if the heat was torturing those imprisoned in society's straitjacket and stifled by the city smog. Children, seeking relief from the scorching sun, drowned in village ponds. What the protagonists could not have known is that they were playing out the backdrop to WWI; in a few years time the world, let alone England, would never be the same again. Through the eyes of a series of exceptional individuals – a debutante, a suffragette, a politician, a trade unionist, a butler and the Queen – Juliet Nicolson illuminates a turning point in history. With the gifts of a great storyteller she rekindles a vision of a time when the sun shone but its shadows fell on all.
Author: Virginia Nicholson
Genre: History
Publisher: Viking

What did it feel like to be a young woman in the 1950s? Virginia Nicholson examines the pressures under which women lived in a post-war culture characterized by sex discrimination, inhibition, conservatism and hierarchy, and in thrall to the ideals of marriage, home and the perfect wife. With the emphasis on real women's experience, she explores topics from coronation fever, through 'how to get your man' manuals, housework and paid employment to the pervasive fear of atomic war.
Author: Jim Gibbs
Genre: Ships
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

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Author: SILITCH, CLARISSA M. (EDITOR)
Publisher: Yankee Books

Author: Clarissa M. Silitch
Genre: History
Publisher: Yankee Books

Tells the stories of sea rescues, shipwrecks, sinkings, hurricanes, sunken submarines, collisions at sea, a dog's rescue, and unsolved mysteries.

Review from Amazon: A great collection of short stories, if one has had anything to do with boating then these are good reading.
Author: Micha Berman
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Lulu.com

Imagine yourself sitting at home. The phone rings. You have been offered a dream job and have 48 hours to fly to Miami and board a 70,000 ton cruise ship. Your destination: the Caribbean. Permanent Passenger: My Life on a Cruise Ship tells the adventure of a young man serving as an Assistant Cruise Director on one of the largest cruise ships in the world, Carnival Cruise Line's M.S. Ecstasy. Witnessing rescues at sea, stowaways, and passionate romances are just some of the day-to-day events revealed in this humorous adventure. Discover one of the wackiest job searches ever undertaken including sending letters to over 2,000 college alumni, chasing cruise line executives into bathrooms, and transforming a dorm room into a private office with hired interns. All aboard - this is one adventure you don't want to miss!
Author: Jane Austen
Genre: Classic Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Penguin UK

EUREKA! I have found it. I have found the key word. The key word is “ENJOY.” I ENJOY being alive. I ENJOY breathing the air. I ENJOY being able to sleep, to dream, to think, to write. I ENJOY reading books. And I especially ENJOY writing personally-revealing reviews of personally-revealing books that ignite the imagination and send the mind flying!

OK. OK. Enough about me. What about you? Why might you want to read Jane Austen's "Persuasion"? Why, to ENJOY the book of course! To ENJOY reading Ms. Austen's writing!! But why stop there? Why not launch ourselves beyond the ENJOYMENT of reading the book? Why not keep going until we arrive at the ECSTASY of seeing, hearing, experiencing something imaginary, something ideal, something unreal, as if it were really happening right here, right now, in real life. Sounds great! But how? By bringing the book to life in one's mind. Yes. Yes. Yes. But how? How?? By seeing/hearing the 2007 movie “Persuasion,” starring Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones, BEFORE reading the book. That's how.

I did see/hear the movie BEFORE I read the book. And I'm glad I did. As I was reading the book, the movie kept coming back to life in my mind. In addition, the book supplemented and expanded the movie by revealing, in depth and in detail, all those thoughts, feelings, incidents, and other little things that did not make their way into the movie.

By means of the written word, a book can open a character's heart and mind to the reader. By means of voice-over, a movie can do the same kind of thing. But not to the EXTENT that a book can do. Point granted. But still! Whatever the movie may lack in such EXTENT is made up for, many times over, by the movie's astounding EFFECT.

Indeed, as far as EFFECT goes, there is something in the movie that surpasses anything and everything in the book; in any other book I have ever read; in any other movie I have ever seen; and in any experience I have ever had in my entire life. That extraordinary "something" that I am raving about is the kiss scene. Not to mention the love letter -- and the race against time -- leading up to the kiss scene. Not just the kiss, mind you. The scene!

There, in the kiss scene, a moment of time becomes an eternity of bliss. The infinity of space shrinks to nothing. Nothing except! Nothing except a small warm pocket of space wherein there is room enough for only two human beings, two people, a man and a woman, this man and this woman. Each is the whole world of the other. What will become a kiss evolves and revolves between the two of them, binary stars, paired, gradually encircling one another, beyond the reach of all the universe that is not their own. It is just the two of them. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Try as I may, I cannot tell you in words. The book cannot tell you in words. You have to see the movie to believe it. Seeing it, hearing it, you will believe it, even though it is nothing but make-believe.

"Nothing but make-believe"?? What a thing to say! As if make-believe were of little or no value. A next to nothing sort of thing. A waste of time! of money!! of life itself!!! Ah, but think. Just stop for a moment and think. What would thinking be like without the make-believe of imagination? What would life be like without the make-believe of dreaming? Such questions answer themselves. We cannot think without imagining. Nor can we live without dreaming. Nor can we make the most of life without make-believe. Gotta have it. Can't do without it. So, no more down-talking make-believe.

OK. Agreed. Now that's settled, I can turn my back on things that do not interest me, and return to what does -- i.e., "Persuasion" -- the book and the movie (both of which, by the way, are "nothing but make-believe").

Much as I much prefer books to movies, the 2007 movie of "Persuasion" is exceptional. So exceptional that, if I had to choose one over the other, either the book or the movie, I would choose the movie. By the grace of good fortune, however, I don't have to choose between the two. For, I have both: the movie and the book. Each is excellent. Both are superb. And the two together are scintillatingly synergistic. When push comes to shove, however, my mind must admit, and my heart must confess, that, to my way of thinking and feeling, the movie is even better than the book, simply because of the kiss scene.

That kiss scene is so good, so well done, so realistic, so believable, that I believe it to be real, even though it is "nothing but make-believe." Is believing in make-believe such a bad thing? I think not. Speaking of thinking, consider this:

Once you have seen/heard the love letter, the race against time, the kiss scene, and the other scenes in the movie, you can replay them in your mind by conducting "search and enjoy" missions: just pick up the book; flip to the juiciest pages; and read to your heart's content. What could be easier? What could be more enjoyable?? Certainly not the realities of everyday life. Ugh! Why get into that when you can get into this: a good book.
Author: Donald S. Johnson
Genre: History
Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd

A study of the stories of the ancient mariners who travelled the Atlantic Ocean and returned with tales of awesome, fearful lands. Johnson has looked at the routes and plotted the courses of the old sailors to discover where these mysterious islands actually were. The book is illustrated by maps redrawn by the author.
Publisher: Dewynters In The USA

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Author: Philip. Macdougall
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Reed Books Pty Ltd

Here, at last, is a book which makes an objective attempt to uncover the real truth behind a myriad of maritime mysteries and curious supernatural events. The author is well known for his researches into maritime history. Here, he has accepted only facts proved beyond reasonable doubt: some of the more famous hauntings and tales of cursed ships have therefore been rejected, since, on closer examination, they appear to be based on little more than long-held suspicion or malicious rumour. And yet, other stories of seafaring ghosts cannot be so easily dismissed. With a full complement of famous ships such as Brunel's 'Great Eastern', the supposedly unsinkable 'Titanic' and the infamous 'Flying Dutchman', plus a fleet of less renowned craft, this fascinating book plunges the reader deep into the mysterious waters of maritime history.
Author: W.B. Herbert
Genre: Reference
Publisher: David & Charles

David & Charles Edition.
Author: E. M. Forster
Genre: Poetry, Drama & Criticism
Publisher: Michael Haag Ltd

Review by Amazon customer: Jane DeRocco
5.0 out of 5 stars
A view of Alexandria about a century ago
10 January 2018 - Published on Amazon.com
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This along with Forster's Alexandria: a History and a Guide give an Englishman's view of Alexandria about a century ago. Egypt has always been a pretty amazing place and, although these books are not what you would call exciting reading, they are interesting. Forster's two Alexandria books go hand in hand and overlap a bit, but both are worthwhile.
Author: Anthony Byers
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Imprint unknown

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Author: MARTIN, J.H.

Author: HOWARTH, NOEL (Editor) - 32 POSTCARDS IN BOOK
Publisher: Motor in Manx

A4 format booklet containing 32 actual postcards depicting the company's ships from the past 150 years. All postcards are present and intact.
Author: Frank O. Braynard
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.

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Author: William H. Miller Jr.
Genre: Engineering & Transportation
Publisher: Dover Publications

Graceful, fast, and luxuriously outfittted, the Andrea Doria was one of the most famous ships of the 20th century. On July 26, 1956, three years after its inaugural voyage, the popular Italian liner was assured of an immortal place in maritime history after colliding with another vessel off the New England coast and sinking. Maritime expert William Miller pays tribute to that magnificent ship in this authoritative, profusely illustrated archive. Scores of rare photographs provide views of lounges and staterooms, shots of the ship in port, as well as depictions of its glorious twin, the Christoforo Colombo, and other fleetmates.
Author: Frank O. Baynard, William H. Miller
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.

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Author: William H. Miller
Genre: History
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.

Good: A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels.Some of our books may have slightly worn corners, and minor creases to the covers. Please note the cover may sometimes be different to the one shown.
Author: BRAYNARD, FRANK O.

Author: William H. Miller
Genre: History
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.

Picture History of the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth Maritime authority Miller pays tribute to the "Queen Mary" and the "Queen Elizabeth, " describing their launchings, amenities, maritime rivalry, and contributions during WWII. Also covered are their grand royal successors and other splendid ships. "A worthy addition to a library on passenger ships." -- "Nautical Research Journal." 189 photographs. Full description
Author: William H. Miller
Genre: History
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.

Picture History of the SS United St More than 150 rare photographs reveal stages in the ship's construction and its christening, as well as intimate views of modern lounges with paneled walls and fireplaces, staterooms and dining rooms, a gymnasium and pool, theatres, a ballroom with cocktail bar, and play decks. Extensive captions provide data on tonnage, size, speed, and other characteristics. Full description
Author: Harold Ackroyd
Genre: Arts & Photography
Publisher: The Bluecoat Press

In Picture Palaces of Liverpool, the long-awaited and improved reprint of his original book, Dream Palaces of Liverpool, Harold Ackroyd explores the golden age of cinema with affectionate nostalgia.
Picture Palaces is a chronicle of the way in which film entertainment in Liverpool has developed. Cataloguing virtually every cinema that has existed in the city, Picture Palaces is ideal for anyone interested in Liverpool’s unique heritage.
Author: HILL, C.W.
Publisher: Shire Publications

Author: Norman Jacobs
Genre: Biography
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd

The Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fi elds and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that young Norman Jacobs grew up through the 1950s and 1960s. In a lively, detailed and humorous picture of a postwar Hackney childhood, Norman takes us back to an age of rationing, bomb sites, street markets, colourful characters and camaraderie. And in reminiscing about stodgy school food, jumpers for goalposts, Listen with Mother, greyhound racing, pie 'n' mash, holidaycamps, and the advent of American-style burger bars, he provides a glimpse into a way of life that has vanished for ever. Set against a backdrop of Rock 'n' Roll, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination of President Kennedy, funny, poignant and sometimes sad, Norman's is a story full of innocence and happiness that will take you back to the best of times - the days we thought would never end.
Author: Patrick Harris PhD
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Outskirts Press

The evening of July 27th, 1996 started out as just another pleasant, balmy summers night in the Hamptons, but soon turned into one of the worst nightmares in New York City history. TWA 800, a nonstop flight from New York to Paris, exploded spectacularly over the Atlantic, ten miles off the coast of Long Island. Many of the locals rushed to save survivors of the crash, but their efforts were in vain, because all on board had perished in the explosion and subsequent inferno. An investigation by the FBI and NTSB concluded that the plane had simply blown up on its own due to a spark in the center fuel tank. Others disagreed, largely because hundreds of eyewitnesses had seen a light rise from the ground to strike the plane, suggesting the likelihood of a missile attack. Conspiracy theories soon began circulating that the crash was the result of secretive military exercises being conducted in the Atlantic. The objective photographic, eyewitness report, and radar evidence, however, tell a different story, namely that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by a single missile launched from, or passing over, Long Island. This book lays out the evidentiary trail leading to this conclusion, but also focuses on the media propaganda wars that were spurred by the opposing viewpoints, particularly with regard to news organizations in the United States and in France.
Author: Pat Bushell
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Quotes Ltd

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Author: Anita Shreve
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Back Bay Books

With five novels to her credit, including the acclaimed The Weight of Water, Anita Shreve now offers a skilfully crafted exploration of the long reach of tragedy in The Pilot's Wife. News of Jack Lyons's fatal crash sends his wife into shock and emotional numbness:Kathryn wished she could manage a coma. Instead, it seemed that quite the opposite had happened: She felt herself to be inside of a private weather system, one in which she was continuously tossed and buffeted by bits of news and information, sometimes chilled by thoughts of what lay immediately ahead, thawed by the kindness of others ... frequently drenched by memories that seemed to have no regard for circumstance or place, and then subjected to the nearly intolerable heat of reporters, photographers and curious onlookers. It was a weather system with no logic, she had decided, no pattern, no progression, no form.

The situation becomes even more dire when the plane's black box is recovered, pinning responsibility for the crash on Jack. In an attempt to clear his name, Kathryn searches for any and all clues to the hours before the flight. Yet each discovery forces her to realise that she didn't know her husband of 16 years at all. Shreve's complex and highly convincing treatment of Kathryn's dilemma, coupled with intriguing minor characters and an expertly paced plot, makes The Pilot's Wife really take off. --James Barry
Author: Malcolm Troak
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: New Anzac Productions

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Author: PUNCHARD, ED
Publisher: Virgin Books

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Robert I. Hedges
4.0 out of 5 stars A Personal And Professional Glimpse Into The "Piper Alpha" Catastrophe
Reviewed in the United States on 25 August 2010
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The "Piper Alpha" was once the biggest-producing oil rig in history: in 1979 is produced a whopping 317,000 barrels of oil per day in the North Sea off of Aberdeen, Scotland (p. 116,) sending the oil 128 miles by an underwater pipeline to a facility in Flotta. Indeed, this one mammoth Occidental Petroleum platform, built on a steel jacket over 500 feet tall (with skirt pilings that penetrated a further 380 feet into the rock seabed,) was responsible for twelve percent of UK oil production, and was used as a connecting junction for other platforms (Claymore, Tartan, and MCP-01) for oil and natural gas processing and pumping.

In "Piper Alpha: A Survivor's Story" professional diver Ed Punchard discusses his entry into the world of commercial diving, his history on "Piper Alpha" and other rigs, safety issues on North Sea oil rigs, trade unionism problems, and personal and professional triumphs and tragedies. Overshadowing everything are the July 6, 1988 explosions which utterly destroyed "Piper Alpha" and that killed 167 men, leaving only 59 survivors in what is still the worst oil rig accident in history. The actual history of the accident is extremely interesting from a systems safety viewpoint, but while Punchard does give a brief description of the causes of the accident, especially emphasizing the importance of the explosion of the "Tartan" gas riser in the process, the book is more a personal narrative which covers the accident and the escape from the viewpoint of the offshore workers. I highly encourage those with further interest in the factual causes of the accident, particularly safety professionals, to read the exhaustive two volume set produced by the Lord Cullen Inquiry called "The Public Inquiry Into The Piper Alpha Disaster."

Punchard writes well, especially for someone who had never set out to be an author, and has many interesting well-turned phrases, such as on p. 26 when he refers to the rig with its flare stacks blazing as "noisy and dirty, with bizarre bits sticking out and flames shooting up into the air - like a blazing, second-hand Pompidou Centre on stilts." Punchard makes eloquent cases for his viewpoints, although some are dealt with a bit heavy-handedly, particularly trade union contract issues and inter-union squabbling. I especially appreciated his account of the wholly inadequate stand-by vessel, the "Silver Pit" which rescued him but was not up to the job, having it's own emergency resulting in it drifting near the "Piper Alpha" inferno at the time it most needed to be mobile and in commission. The story of the evacuation from "Piper" and the rescues of men in the water, many of whom had horrifying burns is one that needed to be told, and Punchard does an admirable job of relating it.

I knew I would appreciate this book as soon as I began reading the Preface, which contained this insightful quote about the author's outlook on the accident and life: "There are no mistakes in life, only lessons." I genuinely believe that when Ed Punchard wrote this book he was himself assimilating the lessons the "Piper" had taught him, and was trying earnestly to share those lessons with the public and offshore safety professionals alike. I recommend the book to anyone with an interest in an amazing story of personal survival and endurance, safety systems, or the offshore oil industry.
Author: Ross Kemp
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Michael Joseph

Introduces the corsairs the author meets in Somalia, Indonesia and Nigeria who are armed with AK47 assault rifles, RPG-7 rocket launchers and semi-automatic pistols.
Author: Alan S. Mallett, Andrew M. B. Bell
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Mallett & Bell Publications

The Story Of The 111 Motorships Built For The R. M. S. P. Group Between 1915 And 1932
Author: MALLETT, ALAN S. & BELL, ANDREW M.B.

Author: Elliott Hester
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Griffin

Plane Insanity Flight attendant Hester delivers stories that could only come from a man who "rides tin" for a living. Readers will hear about the passenger from hell, a smuggled python, prostitutes working the lavatories, a riot in coach class, the Mile-High Club and more. Illustrations.
Author: Douglas J. Ingells
Genre: Reference
Publisher: Tab Books

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Author: Robert F. Pipes
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Outskirts Press

The Playboy took a terrible beating that day...
The Luftwaffe fighter planes and heavy cannon fire had really done a number on the hardy B-24 Liberator, leaving it about sixty percent plane and forty percent holes. Fortunately, nine of the ten Playboy crew members were able to bail out. But then the real trouble started.
Years later, one of these brave air crew members shares his story and relives the year he spent narrowly evading the Germans in occupied Holland-hiding in secret compartments and haymows in the country; aiding the Dutch Underground members in disrupting the enemy forces, all while trying to get to Allied lines with the help of the Dutch Resistance Force.
"Our World War II experiences uprooted us from our homes and reshaped us from whatever we had formerly been. Ten specialists were formed into a fighting team-dubbed The Playboy Crew-whose lives, to a great extent, depended on one another. That we functioned as well as we did is a credit not only to our training but to the type of people we were and to those who led us."
Author: Alan Johnson
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Corgi

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Author: Keith Scrivener
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Archive Pubns.

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Author: Alan Kittridge
Publisher: Twelveheads Press

Author: KRANKE, THEODOR & BRENNECKE, H.J.

Author: Daisy Corning Stone Spedden
Genre: Children's Books
Publisher: Little, Brown US

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Author: Dogs Trust
Genre: Children's Books
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

Hello, my name is Poppy. I am five and a half years old, I am a Lurcher, and I am a dog with a job. That's not very unusual, you may think. After all, thousands of dogs get up every morning and go to work. Guide dogs, police dogs, sheepdogs, sniffer dogs - the list of canine careers goes on and on. But nobody has a job quite like mine! I work at the Headquarters of the UK's biggest dog welfare charity, Dogs Trust, in London, and my job is to campaign for the health and happiness of dogs everywhere. Most people who work at Dogs Trust are in fact people, which I agree is a bit odd, so they come to me when they want a real dog's opinion on things. Today I am busy having my photo taken for the cover of this book, but most of the work I do is much more important than just posing with my ears up. I've been on more walks and in more fundraising events for Dogs Trust than I can count. My owner Vicki is a Training and Behaviour Adviser at the charity, so I also regularly visit its 17 Rehoming Centres across the country. Can you believe the staff at those centres look after over 16,000 stray and abandoned dogs every single year?
Author: A G Russell
Genre: History
Publisher: Privately Printed (Eyre and Spottiswoode printers), London 1985

1st. Captain A G Russell, a former director of the Port LIne, compiled this record of the company's history to mark its 70th Anniversary. The story of the company began in 1914 when the Commonwealth and Dominion line was formed and it was not until 1937 that the name was officially altered to Port Line, although it was decided in 1916 that all company ships would carry the prefix "Port" followed by a port name --- the first to be launched with the new name being the Port Darwin in 1918. Ships from the constituant companies of Commonwealth Line --- Tysler, Corry and Royden --- had existing names changed to the "Port" naming system, about 20 ships being involved, with the four operated by Milburn alread carrying the "Port" prefix. Naturally, the first part of the book follows the company fortunes through WWI, then developing trade routes, including to Australia and New Zealand, through the difficult inter-war years. As with most British shipping lines the Port Line suffered its full share of losses during the 1939-1945 conflict, with a number of its ships participating in the famous Malta convoys and another, the Port Wyndham, being one of the last ships torpedoed by a German submarine, when outward bound in the English Channel in April 1945. Badly damaged, she was towed to Southampton where she remained under repair for 15 months before being returned to service. After WWII important developments took place world-wide in the maritime industry and Port Line (now under Cunard group management) was eventually one of the many notable British shipping companies that disappeared from the world's oceans. Captain Russell's history is, however, a fitting tribute to a much loved shipping compay, its fine ships and its men. with the final section of the text , "A Historical Review," covering numerous unusual or interesting incitents or occasions from throughout its existance. First edition of 1985, 155 pages including two appendices (one an extensive alphabetical fleet list of ships owned or chartered from 1883 to 1979) and index, illustrated throughout with photographs, the majority b/w with some in colour. Blue hard covers with gilt spine titles are NF, ditto the text block, no inscriptions. The dramatic colour art wrap-round DJ depicts one of the Malta convoys under air attack (artist Oswald Longfield Brett).
Author: Campbell McCutcheon
Genre: History
Publisher: The History Press Ltd

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Author: Campbell McCutcheon
Genre: History
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

This fascinating selection of 200 images tells the story of the Port of Southampton in a time of change and decline, but which for some trades saw the port grow in importance.
Author: SPROULE, ANNA

Author: MERSEYSIDE MARITIME MUSEUM
Publisher: Merseyside Maritime Museum

Author: JENKINS, FORD

Author: Denis Herbstein
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

On a September night in 1947 the body of Gay Gibson was pushed out of the porthole of her cabin, sailing from South Africa to Southampton. A deck steward was charged with her murder, but he pleaded not guilty. After years of research Denis Herbstein has now unearthed new evidence on the case.
Author: Henry James
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Signet Classics CT195 - New American Library

The heroine of this powerful novel, often considered James’s greatest work, is the spirited young American Isabel Archer. Blessed by nature and fortune, she journeys to Europe to seek the full realization of her potential—or in modern terms, “to find herself”—but what awaits her there may prove to be her undoing. During her journey, wooers vie for her attentions, including an English aristocrat, a perfect American gentleman, and a sensitive expatriate. But it is only after the ingenue falls prey to the schemes of an infinitely sophisticated older woman that her life takes on its true form. With its brilliant interplay of tensions and characters, The Portrait of a Lady is a timeless and essential American novel.
Author: TAYLOR, CAPTAIN L. G.

Author: L. G Taylor
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: Brown and Ferguson

Portrait of a port : a primary guide line study of the influences which serve to formulate the organization and administration of ports activities
Author: Ian McGowan
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Halsgrove

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Author: New York Times
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Times Books

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Author: Elspeth Wills
Genre: Art, Architecture & Photography
Publisher: Open Agency

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Author: Paul Gallico
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Pan Books

Paul Gallico's classic novel, The Poseidon Adventure, is the exciting story of a luxury ocean liner that capsizes after it is struck by a colossal tidal wave, leaving its survivors to fend for themselves and find a way out. The blockbuster movie remake of this story is sure to make a huge splash and lure readers into this compelling and dramatic novel.
Author: GALLICO, PAUL

Author: Steven Schwankert
Genre: History
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a Chinese freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off Weihaiwei. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went down. Of the twenty-six who remained inside, eight attempted to surface using "Davis gear," an early form of diving equipment: six of them made it safely to the surface in the first escape of this kind in submarine history and became heroes. The incident was then forgotten, eclipsed by the greater drama that followed in World War II, until news emerged that, for obscure reasons, the Chinese government had salvaged the wrecked submarine in 1972. This lively account of the Poseidon incident tells the story of the accident and its aftermath, and of the author's own quest to find out about the 1972 salvage.
Author: Julian Stray
Publisher: Shire Publications

The local post office has a special place in the social history of Britain. This book provides an historical overview of the development of this public institution from 'letter receiving house' to familiar high-street presence. It outlines the range of services post offices have provided over time from stamps, pensions and postal orders, to airmail, savings certificates, dog and TV licences. Highlighting the heyday of the GPO during the 1930s, 40s and 50s, the author recalls childhood memories of post office counters selling stamps and sweets, the weekly pension queue, and the friendly local postmaster. It constitutes a celebration of a very British institution now threatened by modern-day forces.
Author: William H. Miller
Genre: History
Publisher: Amberley Publishing

Post-war Canadian Pacific Liners
Author: William H. Miller
Genre: History
Publisher: Fonthill Media

From the end of the Second World War through three decades, to the 1970s, traditional port-to-port, class-divided passenger ship business carried on. This meant all kinds of ships - from big liners to small, often rebuilt, ex-coastal steamers. Accommodations varied from luxurious suites with bedrooms, sitting rooms & marble baths in upper-deck accommodations to Spartan dormitories with as many as 50 berths and communal facilities. But the purpose was all but the same: to go from A to B. It was about the destination, whether with 100 pieces of baggage like the Duke & Duchess of Windsor on 5-night Atlantic crossings to little more than an overnight bag for a immigrant on a 6-week voyage from Europe out to Australia. This book examines, through anecdotes & collected experiences, the many passenger ship services of now a bygone era. It is about the diversity and the contrast.There are of course the Atlantic crossings, but also three & four class ships to South America, combination passenger-cargo types carrying only 100 or so travellers, fast mail ships to South Africa, colonial passenger vessels to Mombasa, crowded migrant sailings to Sydney and Auckland, and trans-suez and trans-Pacific passages. All sorts of ships appear: Big Cunarders like the Queen Mary, Italy's Augustus and Britain's Kenya & Uganda, the Oronsay & Southern Cross and even more remote ships such as the Cap Salinas, Tjinegara, Changsha & Hikawa Maru. It concludes with the closing down, in 1977, of the Union Castle Line's run between Southampton and the South African Cape, the last regular big liner service in the world.
Author: Christopher Deakes
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

From around 1880 for almost 100 years shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted, as well as their magnificent liners, the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life on board. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on posters and postcards to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was born a whole genre that produced tens of thousands of images that form a wonderful record of the great era of the passenger liner. Here, bought vividly to life in more than 500 colourful postcards, are the ships in which so many of our predecessors sailed, as emigrants, soldiers or administrators in distant lands, or simply as tourists. These cards - now highly collectible - show how the ships developed over the years, and are also a fine tribute to the artists who painted them. A glossary of some 170 illustrators forms an important reference section in the book; the author also gives useful advice on collecting. This new paperback edition will be sought after by postcard collectors as well as liner enthusiasts, and by all those with an interest in the vanished world of elegant travel on the finest ships of their day.
Author: past President of the Institute of marine engineers Dr.J.Cowley, Denis Griffiths
Genre: History
Publisher: Patrick Stephens Limited (Haynes Group)

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Author: WINN, GODFREY
Publisher: Sov. pisatelʹ, Leningradskoe otd-nie

Author: Paul Lund, Harry Ludlam
Genre: Antiquarian, Rare & Collectable
Publisher: New English Library

The stories of more than two hundred men, who lived through that nightmare voyage and who have never been approached before, are gathered together through records, papers, diaries and recollections, providing an enthralling human record.
Author: LUND, PAUL & LUDLAM, HARRY

Author: Melissa Gilbert
Genre: Actor & Entertainer Biographies
Publisher: Gallery Books

A fascinating, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting tale of self-discovery from the beloved actress who earned a permanent place in the hears of millions for her role in Little House on the Prarie when she was just a child.

To fans of the hugely successful television series Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert grew up in a fantasy world with a larger-than-life father, friends and family she could count on, and plenty of animals to play with. Children across the country dreamed of the Ingalls’ idyllic life—and so did Melissa.

With candor and humor, the cherished actress traces her complicated journey from buck-toothed Laura "Halfpint" Ingalls to Hollywood starlet, wife, and mother. She partied with the Brat Pack, dated heartthrobs like Rob Lowe and bad boys like Billy Idol, and began a self-destructive pattern of addiction and codependence. She eventually realized that her career on television had earned her popularity, admiration, and love from everyone but herself.

Through hard work, tenacity, sobriety, and the blessings of a solid marriage, Melissa has accepted her many different identities and learned to laugh, cry, and forgive in new ways. Women everywhere may have idolized her charming life on Little House on the Prairie, but Melissa’s own unexpectedly honest, imperfect, and down-to-earth story is an inspiration.
Author: Elisabeth Blanchet
Genre: Arts & Photography
Publisher: Shire Publications

At the end of the Second World War Winston Churchill promised to manufacture half a million prefabricated bungalows to ease the housing shortage; in the end more than 156,000 temporary 'prefabs' were delivered. Nicknamed 'Palaces for the People', and with convenient kitchens, bathrooms and heating systems, they proved popular and instead of being demolished as intended they were defended by residents who campaigned to keep their family homes and communities. Nearly seventy years later, as the last of these two bedroom homes are being demolished, Elisabeth Blanchet tells the story of these popular dwellings and their gardens and shows the various designs that were produced. Through the stories and memories of residents, she also reveals the communities who were pleased to live in the prefabs.
Author: TOP THAT!
Genre: Subjects
Publisher: Unknown

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Author: COWDEN, JAMES E.
Publisher: Jocast Limited, Liverpool

99 PP with 34 b/w photos. Pictorial card cover. 20.6 x 13.7. Record of the losses during WWII of this shipping line: 26 vessels, 144,465 gross tons & 478 sea-going personnel
Author: Jane Austen
Genre: Classic Literature & Fiction
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS AUSTRALIA LTD.

After reading the first few chapters (The chapters are very short) of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" I wondered how anyone could be interested in such pompous, egotistical, aloof and self serving characters?

After reading on I said, "Wow! How could I be so interested in such characters?"

Getting toward the middle of the book, I was hoping that it would never end.

By the end of the book, I fully realized what a magnificent piece of writing I had just read.

"Pride and Prejudice" is one of the best sociological studies about early nineteen century British loyalty and society I have ever read - where title, rank, fortune, and good looks are in many ways the requirements of an approved marriage, much, much more than love. In fact, this wonderful book might not be as relevant today as two hundred years ago, but there are still many traces of such societies throughout the world, today. It was not all that long ago in America, where marrying outside of your religion, or ethnicity, was looked down upon.

The book is full of wonderful characters, but Elizabeth (Lizzy) Bennet is, in my opinion, the star. Her character is so wonderfully and fully realized that at times I felt her jumping off the page and directly into my life.

Liza, a fellow member and friend on Goodreads, informed me that she had read the book twice and still was not sure if the ending was 'sad' or 'funny.' To me, it was funny and exceptionally rewarding but sad to think that a lady's livelihood depended more on the wealth and rank of your partner than love.

Quite an amazing book.
Author: Adrian Jarvis
Genre: Local & Urban History
Publisher: Merseyside Portfolios

The story of Prince's Dock in Liverpool.
Author: Alexander Hill
Publisher: FeedaRead.com

In 1382, a grand stone palatial fortress was erected at Sheriff Hutton, north of York. Over the coming centuries it would grow to become one of the largest and most illustrious royal houses in the entire north of England. Its role throughout the turbulent Wars of the Roses was crucial and has been much overlooked, when it acted as administrative headquarters to the Council of the North and seat of northern governance under King Richard III. Under the Tudors, Sheriff Hutton continued to thrive. In 1525, King Henry VIII sent his illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy to be raised and educated there until he came of age, and a Royal Progress north during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I was intended to include Sheriff Hutton, when its captivating gardens rivalled those at Kenilworth. However, by the early 17th century, Sheriff Hutton was a ruin, a shadow of its former glory. Consequently, the history of the castle has been somewhat neglected compared to other northern fortresses. This book aims to retell the enchanting story of Sheriff Hutton Castle, throwing a new spotlight of this marginalised and fascinating fortress which deserves to remembered and celebrated for its place in English history.
Author: Ann Morrow
Genre: Biographies
Publisher: Trafalgar Square

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Author: Joan Lock
Genre: History
Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd

The Princess Alice Disaster The collision of the Princess Alice pleasure steamer with the Tyne collier, Bywell Castle, in the Thames in September 1878 resulted in Britain's worst-ever inland waterway accident. Almost 650 Princess Alice passengers and crew died. Whole families were wiped out; many children were left orphans; parents childless. The nation wept. Full description
Author: Seward
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd

Author: Anna Pasternak
Genre: Biographies
Publisher: Pocket Books

Princess in Love details the passionate and heartbreaking affair between Princess Diana and Major James Hewitt, an affair that lasted nearly five years, as told to Anna Pasternak by Diana's former lover. 2 cassettes.
Author: Anna Pasternak
Genre: Biographies
Publisher: Pocket Books

Princess in Love details the passionate and heartbreaking affair between Princess Diana and Major James Hewitt, an affair that lasted nearly five years, as told to Anna Pasternak by Diana's former lover. 2 cassettes.
Author: Nicholas Davies
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Blake Publishing

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Author: Unity Hall
Genre: Royalty Biographies
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

The Royal women of Britain have been for centuries looked up and down upon, stereotyped, archi-analyzed and over-investigated. This is an interesting book that puts all of the above perspectives together and offers a thorough picture of their lives, both private and public. What drives a woman to become part of the most watched Royal family in the world? The answers may surprise you, since the undertaking of this "profession" (as the book calls it) has very determined goals for each woman joining in, but few of them understand them. This has probably been the cause of most of the problems experienced in the Royal Family, a family defined as a matriarchy. The author has some very interesting perspectives when analyzing the roles required of a Royal woman, as well as measuring how each one copes or deals with her responsibilities. In this way we are able to find a surprisingly cold and calculated Princess Michael of Kent, a maternal and uncomplicated Duchess of York, a demure Queen and a very practical - sometimes ruthless - Princess Royal. The book gives some very interesting revelations. Why was Princess Margaret never allowed to marry the love of her life? Why was Wallis Simpson never given the coveted HRH title? All these are very delicate issues for the stuffy British protocol and the considerations that must be taken into account will sound extremely rare for us commoners, even frivolous. However, the book offers interesting reading from a cultural point of view. More than ever, becoming Royal is a cultural issue, one that most people couldn't live up to. The privilegies may be great, but so are the consequences, may be even more so if you happen to be a woman. In today's world, where the role of women has paired so much with that of men, the idea of a Royal woman being expected to just dress-up, bear as many children as possible and be a deluxe decorative figure on her husband's side sounds extremely passe, to say the least. The paradox kicks in when one realizes that the women of this family are probably the most powerful in the world. This book will prove an interesting read for feminists the world over. It raises the eternal question of where a woman's place is. It seems today, at the turn of the twentieth century (this book was published in 1990) we are still not sure.
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Genre: Classic Literature & Fiction
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. The Professor is Charlotte Brontë s first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of action, and as a writer Brontë is correspondingly liberated, exploring the relationship between power and sexual desire. William s first person narration reveals his attraction to the dominating directress of the girls school where he teaches, played out in the school s secret garden . Balanced against this is his more temperate relationship with one of his pupils, Frances Henri, in which mastery and submission interplay. The Professor was published only after Charlotte Brontë s death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination.
Author: Noel Kantaris
Genre: Computing & Internet
Publisher: Bernard Babani Publishing

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Author: Norman Polmar, Michael White
Genre: History
Publisher: Naval Institute Press

Project Azorian Despite incredible political, military, and intelligence risks, and after six years of secret preparations, the CIA attempted to salvage the sunken Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the North Pacific Ocean in early August 1974. This audacious effort was carried out under the cover of an undersea mining operation sponsored by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes. "Azorian"-... Full description
Author: Jewel Stern
Genre: Public Buildings
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

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Author: Jewel Stern
Genre: Public Buildings
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

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Genre: Business, Finance & Law
Publisher: TSO

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Author: Great Britain
Genre: Business, Finance & Law
Publisher: Stationery Office Books

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Publisher: The Stationery Office Agencies

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Author: David Morehouse
Genre: Biography
Publisher: Clairview Books

When David Morehouse - a highly decorated army officer - was hit by a stray bullet, he began to be plagued with visions and uncontrolled out-of-body experiences. As a consequence, he was recruited as a psychic spy for STARGATE, a highly classified programme of espionage instigated by the CIA and the US Defence Department. Trained to develop spiritual, clairvoyant capacities, he became one of a select band of 'remote viewers' in pursuit of previously unattainable political and military secrets. When Morehouse discovered that the next step in the top-secret programme was 'remote influencing' - turning 'viewers' like himself into deadly weapons - he rebelled. In his efforts to expose the programme, he and his family endured the full force of the US intelligence community's attempts to silence him. As the multi-million-dollar STARGATE scandal was exposed to the world, Morehouse himself became the enemy of the secret services...In Psychic Warrior one of STARGATE's 'viewers' finally reveals the extraordinary truth of this secret operation. Originally published in 1996, there is a continuing demand for David Morehouse's story in the U.K. Out of print for over a year, this new edition of Psychic Warrior features a new foreword by the author.
Author: David Morehouse
Genre: Mind, Body & Spirit
Publisher: Clairview Books

The true story of the CIA's paranormal espionage programme. 1996