Author: Peter SpierPublisher: Yearling Books
ISBN: 9780440407102
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Illustrates the singing game about London Bridge's falling down. Includes a history of the bridge and music.
Bryant & May: London Bridge Is Falling Down
Author: Christopher FowlerPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0593356217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
“Unbeatable fun . . . [Christopher Fowler] takes delight in stuffing his books with esoteric facts.” —The Guardian The brilliant duo of Arthur Bryant and John May uncovers a nefarious plot behind the seemingly innocuous death of an old lady—and when the case leads them to London Bridge, it all comes down on the Peculiar Crimes Unit. When ninety-one-year-old Amelia Hoffman dies in her top-floor flat on a busy London road, it’s considered an example of what has gone wrong with modern society: she slipped through the cracks in a failing system. But detectives Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit have their doubts. Mrs. Hoffman was once a government security expert, though no one can quite remember her. When a link emerges between the old lady and a diplomat trying to flee the country, it seems that an impossible murder has been committed. Mrs. Hoffman wasn’t the only one at risk. Bryant is convinced that other forgotten women with hidden talents are also in danger. And, curiously, they all own models of London Bridge. With the help of some of their more certifiable informants, the detectives follow the strangest of clues in an investigation that will lead them through forgotten alleyways to the city’s fabled bridge in search of a desperate killer. But just when the case appears to be solved, they discover that Mrs. Hoffman was smarter than anyone imagined. There’s a bigger game afoot that could have terrible consequences.
The Bridge at Dong Ha
Author: Estate of John G. MillerPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This is the true story of the legendary Vietnam War hero John Ripley, who braved intense enemy fire to destroy a strategic bridge and stall a major North Vietnamese invasion into the South in April 1972. Told by a fellow Marine, the account lays bare Ripley's innermost thoughts as he rigged 500 pounds of explosives by hand-walking the beams beneath the bridge, crimped detonators with his teeth, and raced the burning fuses back to shore, thus saving his comrades from certain death. First published in 1989, the book has broad appeal as a riveting tale of adventure. But John Miller has taken this daring act of heroism beyond the specifics of time and place to provide new insights into the nature of war and warriors, characteristics that have remained unchanged for centuries and will remain valid for generations to come. It has been on the Marine Corps Commandant's recommended reading list since 1990. Newly illustrated by Col. Charles Waterhouse, USMCR (Ret.).
London Bridge and its Houses, c. 1209-1761
Author: Dorian GerholdPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789257549
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in London. It was home to over 500 people, perched above the rushing waters of the Thames, and was one of the city’s main shopping streets. It is among the most familiar images of London in the past, but little has previously been known about the houses and the people who lived and worked in them. This book uses plentiful newly-discovered evidence, including detailed descriptions of nearly every house, to tell the story of the bridge and its houses and inhabitants. With the new information it is possible to reconstruct the plan of the bridge and houses in the seventeenth century, to trace the history of each house back through rentals and a survey to 1358, revealing the original layout, to date most of the houses which appear in later views, and to show how the houses and their occupants changed during five and half centuries. The book describes what stopped the houses falling into the river, how the houses were gradually enlarged, what their layout was inside, what goods were sold on the bridge and how these changed over time, the extensive rebuilding in 1477-1548 and 1683-96, and the removal of the houses around 1760. There are many new discoveries - about the structure of the bridge, the width of the roadway, the original layout of the houses, how the houses were supported, the size and internal planning of the houses, the quality of their architecture, and the trades practised on the bridge. The book includes five newly-commissioned reconstruction drawings showing what we now know about the bridge and its houses.
Author: David BallantyneThe Bridge of San Luis Rey
Author: Thornton Niven WilderPublisher: Aegitas
ISBN: 0369408888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
The story is based on a fictional disaster that occurred in Peru on July 20, 1714. A rope bridge woven by the Incas on the road between Lima and Cuzco collapsed when five people were crossing it. They all fell into the river from a great height and were killed. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who was about to cross the bridge himself, witnessed the tragedy. Being deeply pious, he saw in what happened a possible divine providence. Did the dead deserve to have their lives cut short in such a terrible way? The monk tries to learn as much as he can about the five victims, finding and questioning people who knew them. As a result of years of investigation, he compiles a voluminous book with all the evidence he has gathered that the beginning and end of human life are part of God's plan... The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, and remains widely acclaimed as Wilder's most famous work. In 1998, the book was rated number 37 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library on the list of the 100 best 20th-century novels. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Author: Babs Bell HajdusiewiczTay Bridge Disaster
Author: Robin LumleyPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752499602
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the world's longest bridge on a black, fierce night, only to be dashed to pieces in the River Tay as the bridge collapsed during one of the worst storms in Scottish history. The Tay Bridge Disaster remains to this day the worst catastrophic failure of a civil engineering structure in Britain – the land equivalent of the Titanic sinking. In this book, author Robin Lumley brings a poignant human perspective to the fateful night in 1879 that shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost to the dark, freezing waters of the River Tay. Packed full of personal tales and offering technical appendices for those who wish to further their specialised knowledge, Tay Bridge Disaster: The People's Story is a must-read for anyone interested in this tragic event in Scottish and British history.
The Bridge
Author: Janet KuypersPublisher:
ISBN: 9781540326713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
"the Bridge" is a 2016 Scars Publications poetry and prose book with material from assorted writers and artists, as the November/December 2016 issue release of the literary magazine "Down in the Dirt" (http://scars.tv/dirt). Since 2014 "Down in the Dirt" magazine is released every other month (and sometimes with bonus issues) as a 6"x9" perfect-bound paperback book, with not only it's usual ISSN# (print ISSN# 1554-9623 and Internet ISSN# 1554-9666), but also an ISBN#. Because of ISBN# releases, all issues now carry a title to accompany the new format, reflecting the writing inside the book as well as the cover design. Writers and artists included in this Scars Publications perfect-bound 6" x 9" ISBN# paperback book include writers Scott Mahoney, Joann Spencer, Blake Corrao, John Grey, Stephen Toft, Allan Onik, Richard Schnap, Lori Thomasson, Janet Kuypers, Brandy Combs, Priscilla Pilar Estrada, Adam Washington, Liam Spencer, D. Avraham, Melissa Baskerville, Erin Otten, Kerem Granados, Jean Ryan, Leia Johnson, Micel DiPietro, Steven Abramson, Ken Allan Dronsfield, Aidan McNally, Tikira Booker, Norm Hudson, Brian Looney, Ben Macnair, Eric Burbridge, Rain QuietStormPoet Cooper, Anita G. Gorman, Mileva Anastasiadou, Gregg Dotoli, Joseph E. Fleckenstein, Dick Yaeger, Kayla Katsuda, Joshua Sinclair, Marlon Jackson, Wesley Furukido, Rebecca Lee, Jeff Dosser, Daniel M. Shapiro, Shelyn Wongso, and Casey Powers, and art from Kyle Hemmings, Edward Michael O'Durr Supranowic, Fabrice Poussin.
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