FAREWELL TOUR is the crown and dark accompaniment to Michael Williams' 15-year CITY QUARTET PROJECT, but it stands on its own as a culminating work.Apache Downs, a wanderer without direction, awakens in a misty stupor on the fourth floor of a public library. He wanders from the building into his home town, his surroundings estranged by memory and dream. He hears a voice telling his story as he finds his way through a layered landscape, uncertain as to where he is headed and increas...

SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to…well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment?These are the ghosts of The Trai...

Michael Williams has spent the past year travelling along the fascinating rail byways of Britain for this new collection of journeys. Here is the 'train to the end of the world' running for more than four splendid hours through lake, loch and moorland from Inverness to Wick, the most northerly town in Britain. He discovers a perfect country branch line in London's commuterland, and travels on one of the slowest services in the land along the shores of the lovely Dovey estuary to the far we...

Too much like Englishmen uncovers a forgotten migration that reshaped colonial Australia long before the gold rushes made Chinese migration visible. Between 1848 and 1853, more than 3,000 men from Amoy—modern Xiamen in China's Fujian province—were recruited under five-year labour contracts and sent to New South Wales. Drawn into the expanding British imperial labour market after the First Opium War opened Amoy as a treaty port, these men were dispatched to the pastoral frontier, w...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.If you are or aspire to become a business executive then you cannot escape being confronted with problem solving situations from internal operations to external customer facing decisions.Problem solving is a learned skill. As such, you have to learn the right way to do it, and then you have to practice in every problem you face. If you don't learn the skill, you might find yourself hitting a self-imposed corpora...

This beautifully-packaged book will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning nothing but time lost in crowded carriages, condemned by broken timetables. On the Slow Train will reconnect with that long-missed need to lift our heads from the daily grind and reflect that there are still places in Britain where we can stop and stare. It will tap into many things: a love of railways, a love of ...

The world’s least promising knight gets his first taste of high-stakes adventure in this rollicking epic fantasy from the beloved Dragonlance book series!Weasel’s luck was not always good . . . Galen Pathwarden, known as “the Weasel”, would give anything to stay clear of adventure, danger, or heroism. Cowardly, deceitful, and hardly noble—and mired in a backwater castle far from any action—he bickers with his siblings and schemes against his elders. But on...

The new and expanded edition of Great Kids in History is a collection of 40 amazing stories of incredible kids who have accomplished many great feats.Throughout history, children have played a significant role in key events. As incredible as it may seem, it was a 14-year-old boy who invented television, and it was a child who discovered the legendary Lost Sea. Read about the incredible Sybil Luddington, the teenage girl who rode more than 40 miles to rally soldiers to defe...

In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history.But there is a story that has hitherto been largely overlooked. It is a tale of quiet heroism, a story of ordinary people who fought, with enormous self-sacrifice, not with tanks and guns, but with elbow grease and determination. It is the story of the British railways an...

The Survivalist Compound Guide, by author Michael Williams, is a book that offers some ideas about what to use to build a compound for a small group or a larger community of preppers.It offers some suggestions for you to think about if you have been thinking about building a compound for survival when society falls or the zombie end times come to be!If your a prepper now, and when a catastrophe strikes you become a survivalist, and you are looking for a place to be safe then ...

Immerse yourself in the world of the most prestigious Historically Black University attended by the world's most gifted students. Students with some of the most extraordinary powers and abilities. Immerse yourself in the adventure of a lifetime as these young, gifted students navigate college life while learning how to harness their abilities. At the same time, the ever-preying eye of an evil lurking in the shadows whose only goal is the extermination of these talented gifted students at t...

Eastern Sevier County rests in the toursity foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park but also boasts a colorful history of its own. Eastern Sevier County is home to the small communities of Foxfire Mountain, Pittman Center, Jones Cove, Richardson's Cove, Locust Ridge, and Pearl Valley. Foxfire Mountain is best known today for the adventure park and agri-tourist destination brought to life by the Postlewaite family, yet it also boasts a colorful history that includes Benjamin Ow...