The third volume of William Golding`s Sea Trilogy A decrepit warship sails on the last stretch of its voyage to Sydney Cove. It has been blown off course & battered by wind, storm & ice. Little but rope holds the disintegrating hull together. & after a risky operation to reset its foremast, an unseen fire begins to smoulder below decks. ...

White Vinyl
- 100mm x 150mm Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to source a full
...

Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
...

The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon
-
...

Photoluminescent Vinyl
- 150mm x 150mm. Stanfords is an official distributor of Maritime Progress safety signs. We are able to
...

`I`ve watched deer & elk frolic in the meadow below me, & pine trees explode in a blue ball of smoke. If there`s a better job anywhere on the planet, I`d like to know what it is.` For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a small room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. Capturing the wonder & grandeur of this most unusual job & place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude & the majesty, might & beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors` time up on the peak is filled with drama -- there are fires large & small; spectacular midnight lightning storms & silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers, black bears, & an abandoned, dying fawn. Filled with Connors` heartfelt reflections on our place in the wild, Fire Season is an instant modern classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once an homage to the beauty of nature, the blessings of solitude, & the freedom of the independent spirit. Advance praise for Fire Season: `A masterwork of close observation, deep reflection, & hard-won wisdom.. .an unforgettable reckoning with the American land` Philip Gourevitch ` His adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading` Walter Kirn ...

In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas to India, smuggling with him the instruments of his torture. This powerful text is the story of his life & irrefutable testimony to the appalling suffering of the Tibetan nation at the hands of the Chinese. ...

Four friends. One intensely hot summer that will change their lives forever. When a group of hedonistic teenagers save a woman from drowning they become unlikely local heroes, but their celebrity becomes the focus for first envy, then harassment. Fireball takes us through their last summer together, & one that will come to define their future: a summer of sex, chemical experimentation, shifting loyalties & disillusionment. ...

The firebird is stealing the tsar`s famous golden apples. His two oldest sons fail to capture the bird, so their younger brother, Ivan, must set out on a quest to find it. Befriended by the wise grey wolf, Ivan wins the firebird & the hand of the beautiful Princess Helen. ...

On a secluded hillside in Jamaica lies Firefly, Noel Coward`s peaceful retreat. Here, between sundowners & sunsets, brandies & cigarettes, the seventy-one-year-old Coward whiles away his days
- a comforting, frustrating pattern of unwanted breakfasts, reluctant walks, graceless dips in the pool
- in the company of his manservant Patrice. Both of them dream of a London that is long-gone or imagined: Noel`s peopled with glamorous friends
- Redgrave, Olivier, O` Toole
- & Patrice`s a picture-postcard vision of elegance & opportunity. Set over a series of summer days in the early 1970s, Firefly flits through Coward`s dreams & memories, his successes & regrets, against a sultry, seductive backdrop of blue skies & glistening water. Colourful & contemplative, this is a moving & poignant portrait of old age & friendship, & a life well lived.



...