The Last Grain Race

The Last Grain Race PDF Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007597833
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
First published: London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1956.

Learning the Ropes

Learning the Ropes PDF Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
With wit and nostalgia--and through radiant photographs that evoke a vanished maritime world--a master storyteller looks back on a youthful adventure that taught him the ways of the sea and ships. 160 photos.

Falmouth for Orders

Falmouth for Orders PDF Author: Alan Villiers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
An account of the race of Herzogin Cecilie and Beatrice from Australia to England.

Eastern Approaches

Eastern Approaches PDF Author: Fitzroy MaClean
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241973252
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould . . .

Round Ireland in Low Gear

Round Ireland in Low Gear PDF Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508204
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
'You've had some pretty crazy ideas in your life, Newby, but this is the craziest.' Grandmother Wanda Newby was exasperated after continuous rain, snow, and gales that knocked from her bike. Twice.

Something Wholesale

Something Wholesale PDF Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508220
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following and is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. However, less known are his adventures during the years he spent as an apprentice and commercial buyer in the improbable trade of women's fashion.

A Small Place in Italy

A Small Place in Italy PDF Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508158
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
This book is a lush and beautiful memoir of a very special house and a superb recreation of a bygone era.

Around the World in 80 Years

Around the World in 80 Years PDF Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007404190
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
An illustrated ebook documenting the hugely varied and always entertaining career of one of Britain’s best-loved travel writers.

The World in a Grain

The World in a Grain PDF Author: Vince Beiser
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0399576444
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
A finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award The gripping story of the most important overlooked commodity in the world--sand--and the crucial role it plays in our lives. After water and air, sand is the natural resource that we consume more than any other--even more than oil. Every concrete building and paved road on Earth, every computer screen and silicon chip, is made from sand. From Egypt's pyramids to the Hubble telescope, from the world's tallest skyscraper to the sidewalk below it, from Chartres' stained-glass windows to your iPhone, sand shelters us, empowers us, engages us, and inspires us. It's the ingredient that makes possible our cities, our science, our lives--and our future. And, incredibly, we're running out of it. The World in a Grain is the compelling true story of the hugely important and diminishing natural resource that grows more essential every day, and of the people who mine it, sell it, build with it--and sometimes, even kill for it. It's also a provocative examination of the serious human and environmental costs incurred by our dependence on sand, which has received little public attention. Not all sand is created equal: Some of the easiest sand to get to is the least useful. Award-winning journalist Vince Beiser delves deep into this world, taking readers on a journey across the globe, from the United States to remote corners of India, China, and Dubai to explain why sand is so crucial to modern life. Along the way, readers encounter world-changing innovators, island-building entrepreneurs, desert fighters, and murderous sand pirates. The result is an entertaining and eye-opening work, one that is both unexpected and involving, rippling with fascinating detail and filled with surprising characters.

A Traveller’s Life

A Traveller’s Life PDF Author: Eric Newby
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007508166
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
A chronicle of travels, some homely some exotic, from the man who can make a schoolboy holiday in Swanage as colourful as a walk in the Hindu Kush.
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