The White Funnel Fleet of P&A Campbell had a long & successful association with England`s south coast, with the company`s Bristol Channel steamer excursions perhaps being their best-known operation. Covering the period from the 1880s to the 1950s, from the tentative beginnings when brothers Alexander & Peter Campbell took up the challenge of the busy & tempestuous Bristol Channel, this beautifully illustrated history
- using many rare & previously unpublished images from the archives of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society
- takes the reader through the golden years of the Victorian & Edwardian eras, the difficult years of the 1920s & 1930s, & the resurgence of the late 1940s before the harsh economic pressures of the 1950s led to the company`s decline. Including heart-warming stories from the two world wars, when the ships donned warship grey & swept the sea lanes for mines, as well as fascinating ` White Funnel Trivia`, this book evokes the hey-day of the White Funnel Steamers & their enduring appeal.

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`I defy you to read this book & come away with a mind unchanged` John Jeremiah Sullivan` Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin` Observer`I see how we are all the same, that none of us are white women or black men; rather, we`re a series of mouths, & that every mouth needs

Filling: with something wet or dry, like love, or unfamiliar & savory, like love` White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Louise Brooks & Michael Jackson. Freewheeling & dazzling, tender & true, it is one of the most highly acclaimed essay collections in years. `A voice that`s new, that comes as if from a different room. I defy you to read this book & come away with a mind unchanged` John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead ` Effortless, honest & fearless` Rich Benjamin, The New York Times` Als is one of the most consistently unpredictable & surprising essayists out there, an author who confounds our expectations virtually every time he writes` David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times `A comprehensive & utterly lovely collection of one of the best writers around` Eugenia Williamson, Boston Globe

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This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes & taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, & forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale & grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of he imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping, immaculately researched, & brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace & verve of one of our finest historians. ...

Nothing on the tundra rotted.. . The whole history of human settlement lay exposed there, under that big northern sky. There was nowhere here for bones to hide. On Craig Isl&, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle, three travellers are hunting duck. Among them is expert Inuit hunter & guide, Edie Kiglatuk; a woman born of this harsh, beautiful terrain. The two men are tourists, experiencing Arctic life in the raw, but when one of the men is shot dead in mysterious circumstances, the local Council of Elders in the tiny settlement of Autisaq is keen to dismiss it as an accident. Then two adventurers arrive in Autisaq hoping to search for the remains of the legendary Victorian explorer Sir James Fairfax. The men hire Edie -- whose ancestor Welatok guided Fairfax -- along with Edie's stepson Joe, & two parties set off in different directions. Four days later, Joe returns to Autisaq frostbitten, hypothermic & disoriented, to report his man missing. & when things take an even darker turn, Edie finds herself heartbroken, & facing the greatest challenge of her life.. .'A blazing star of a thriller: vivid, tightly-sprung, & satisfying on all levels. Encountering Edie Kiglatuk, the toughest, smartest Arctic heroine since Miss Smilla, left me with that rare feeling of privilege you get on meeting extraordinary people in real life. A huge achievement' Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture ' Edie is an ingenious & original creation but the most addictive character is the Arctic itself' Sunday Telegraph ...

Harold Wilson`s famous reference to `white heat` captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Irel&, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories, images & colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops & mini-skirts, strikes & demonstrations, Carnaby Street & Kings Road, Harold Wilson & Edward Heath, Mary Quant & Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell & Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull & Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich & readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism & decline. ...

Los Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein is in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord & mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence & death will intersect. Told with his trademark blistering & relentless prose-poetry, White Jazz is a bleak & powerful nightmare of a crime thriller, & a fitting conclusion to the LA Quartet. It is one of the greatest crime writers of all time, writing at his best. ...

Home to mythical kingdoms, wars & expeditions, & strange & magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam & Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world`s religions. They are also a plant hunter`s paradise, a climber`s challenge, & a traveller`s dream. In his quest to explore the region`s seismic history, Twigger seeks out the Nagas, who helped his grandfather build a camp for Allied soldiers near Imphal during the Second World War & takes the most scenic bike ride in the world from Lhasa to Kathmandu. The result is a sweeping, fascinating & surprising journey through the history of the world`s greatest mountain range. ...

Home to mythical kingdoms, wars & expeditions, & strange & magical beasts, the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination. Overrun at different times by Buddhism, Taoism, shamanism, Islam & Christianity, they are a grand central station of the world`s religions. They are also a plant hunter`s paradise, a climber`s challenge, & a traveller`s dream. In his quest to explore the region`s seismic history, Twigger seeks out the Nagas, who helped his grandfather build a camp for Allied soldiers near Imphal during the Second World War & takes the most scenic bike ride in the world from Lhasa to Kathmandu. The result is a sweeping, fascinating & surprising journey through the history of the world`s greatest mountain range. ...

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- Pahnes area of the White Mountains on Crete on a waterproof & tear-resistant, GPS compatible & contoured hiking map at
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Map No. 741, White Mountains Nationa Park: Presidential Range
- Gorham, NH, in an extensive series of GPS compatible, contoured
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