New novel in PC Hodgell's Kencyrath series & sequel to Honor's Paradox Kothifir the Great ruled by an obscenely obese god-king peopled with colorful dueling guilds guarded by the Southern Host of the Kencyrath Here Jame arrives only to find that the turbulent city claims more of her attention as the Talisman than the Host training fields do as a second year randon cadet In order to save the present Jame must search the past be it fifteen years ago when as a boy her brother Torisen arrived here unknown & unwanted or three thousand years ago when the Wastes were a great sea ringed with rich civilizations ...

I live in a world without magic or miracles A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters no angels or superhuman boys to save you A place where people die & music disintegrates & things suck I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things to get through high school without anyone learning about her past & to make the boy who took everything from her-her identity her spirit her will to live-pay All Josh Bennett wants is to be left alone & everyone allows it because they all know his story each person he loved was taken from his life until at seventeen years old there was no one left When your name is synonymous with death people tend to give you your space Everyone except Nastya a new girl in town who won't go away until she's insinuated herself into every aspect of his life But the more he gets to know her the more of a mystery she becomes As their relationship intensifies & the unanswered questions begin to pile up he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she's been hiding--or if he even wants to The Sea of Tranquility is a rich intense & brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy an emotionally fragile girl & the miracle of second chances For fans of Perks of Being a Wallflower ...

' slowly uncoiling their tentacles & making a soft purring sound to each other'A disgusting account of a school of giant squid attacking a seaside resort & two other examples of Wells' extraordinary imagination at work
- ' The Magic Shop' & ' The Land Ironclads' One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range & diversity with works from around the world & across the centuries
- including fables decadence heartbreak tall tales satire ghosts battles & elephants

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A stirring British war film depicting the boat crews whose job it was to rescue downed RAF pilots After the Normandy D-Day landings a dangerous attempt is made to rescue the survivors of a WWII British Hudson bomber crashed at sea On board is an Air Commodore who has secret plans that could stop enemy air raids on London Produced by Daniel M Angel Written by Lewis Gilbert & Vernon Harris from the novel by John Harris ...

This is a classic real-life story of derring do on the high seas complete with extreme risk last-minute ingenuity & many near-misses Beginning in the 1960s this book tells of the real life adventures of the author as a boy
- a time of boarding schools long holidays & an unbelievable (to today's parents) amount of freedom & danger Encouraged by his parents (who lived abroad) to become more independent & self-sufficient Peter decided to see how far he could get in his family's small open dinghy Calypso Aged 16 he spent a winter restoring her before pootling straight out into a force 7 gale & very nearly capsizing after which he headed back to land to plan even more extreme adventures Calypso was a wayfarer a small (16ft) & very popular class of open dinghy; a boat designed for pottering around coastlines & estuaries during the day But along with the occasional brave crewmate Peter managed to sail her across the Channel through the Bay of Biscay down the French canals & into the Mediterranean then up into the North Sea & the Baltic to Oslo living aboard for three months at a time These were some of the longest voyages that anyone had ever achieved in an open boat where (as Peter says) you have to be like a tightrope walker concentrating on balance day & night fully aware of the consequence of relaxing your vigilance' He survived huge waves nine rudder breakages in heavy seas dismasting capsizes & hallucinations caused by sleep deprivation He also managed it on a tiny budget working as a farm labourer hitchhiking everywhere & at times living on one meal of cereal a day to save the maximum amount for his boat Charming quite British in style beautifully written & a lovely insight into a seemingly golden time this is primarily a great read but will be of huge practical use to anyone wanting to go that bit further in their dinghy It also

Includes:: a lovely Foreword by world-famous yachtsman Brian Thompson


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Traces the turbulent emotional journey of Martin Lynch-Gibbon a smug well-to-do London wine merchant & unfaithful husband whose life is turned inside out when his wife leaves him for her psychoanalyst 680 pages Murdoch Iris ...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURNSIDEWhen Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart & sets his heart on destroying her marriage His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come & keep him company & Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his obsessions ...

The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840) Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) & Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) The dominant subject is an intellectual conflict between a ship-wrecked literary figure Humphrey Van Weyden & the brutal captain of a seal-hunting schooner Wolf Larsen who rescues Van Weyden & puts him to menial work on the schooner The central chapters focus on the gory details of seal-hunting & the final section shows how far Van Weyden has learned seamanship as he restores The Ghost to sailing health & returns to port with the only woman passenger another shipwrecked figure to plight their troth ...

' There is nothing more enticing disenchanting & enslaving than the life at sea' wrote Joseph Conrad There is certainly nothing more integral to the development of the modern world In The Sea A Cultural History John Mack considers those great expanses that both unite & divide us & the ways in which human beings interact because of the sea from navigation to colonization to trade Much of the world's population lives on or near the coast & people inhabit & engage with the sea in a variety of ways The Sea explores the diversity of seas themselves maritime technologies (especially the practice of navigation) & different cultures surrounding the sea Seafarers have characteristic social & technical practices as well as having distinctive language & customs Many cultures have created a society of the sea which is usually all-male often cosmopolitan & always hierarchical The separation of sea & land is evident in the use of different vocabularies on land & on sea for the same things the change in a mariner's behavior when on land & in the liminal status of points uniting the two realms like beaches & ports Ships are also deployed in symbolic contexts on land from ship burials to ecclesiastical & public architecture The two realms
- land & sea
- are never completely separate Casting a wide net The Sea uses histories maritime archaeology anthropology art history biography & literature to provide an innovative & experiential account of the waters that surround us

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The full story of seabirds from one of the greatest nature writers The book looks at the pattern of their lives their habitats the threats they face & the passions they inspire
- beautifully illustrated by artist Kate Boxer SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES SOCIETY AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING 2017 In ten chapters each dedicated to a different bird & each beautifully illustrated by Kate Boxer The Seabird's Cry travels their ocean paths fusing traditional knowledge with all that modern science has come to know about them the way their bodies work their dazzling navigational expertise their ability to smell their way to fish or home to understand the workings of the winds in which they live At the heart of the book are the Shiant Isles
- a cluster of Hebridean islands in the Minch that Adam Nicolson has known all his life
- but he has pursued the birds much further across the Atlantic up the west coast of Ireland to St Kilda Orkney Shetland the Faeroes Iceland & Norway to the eastern seaboard of America the Falklands South Georgia the Canaries & the Azores
- reaching out across the widths of the world ocean This book is a paean to the beauty of life on the wing but even as we are coming to understand the seabirds a global tragedy is unfolding Their number is in freefall dropping by nearly seventy per cent in the last sixty years a billion fewer now than in 1950 Of the ten birds in this book seven are in decline Extinction stalks the ocean & there is a danger that the grand cry of a seabird colony rolling around the bays & headlands of high latitudes will this century become but a memory



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