A young fighter pilot's action-packed account of some of the fiercest battles of WWI — fought, for the first time, thousands of feet above the ground.Paul Townend has wanted to be a pilot ever since he saw his first plane. So as soon as he turns nineteen, he leaves his farm near Winnipeg to join the Royal Naval Air Service. Within months of enlisting, he is engaging in dogfights over France and the English Channel, including a skirmish with the infamous Re...

Jim Harrison grew up on the prairies, played Junior in Saskatchewan, and pro with the Bruins, Leafs, Hawks, and Oilers. Three years before a former teammate equaled the mark, Harrison set one of the most enduring and seemingly unreachable records in professional hockey with three goals and seven helpers on January 30, 1973. And almost nobody remembers.This is Harrison’s story: the games he played, the agent who stole from him, the woman he mourned, the fights he fought, and the friends he ...

A “come from away” exploring love, loneliness, and adventure in remote NewfoundlandPart memoir, part nature writing, part love story, Bay of Hope is an occasionally comical, often adversarial, and always emotional story about the five years ecologist David Ward lived in an isolated Newfoundland community; of how he ended up there, worked, survived the elements, and coped with loneliness and a lack of intimacy. But this book is also a story about David’s 78...

The book is about a sponsored cycle ride undertaken in May 1998, with the objective of cycling from Sheffield to Rome in the space of a fortnight. The story describes the obstacles and hazards involved in trying to complete such a challenging feat.

Set in a quiet backstreet in a small English town is a beautiful vintage store, selling curious discs which contain music from bygone days. Strange as this may seem -- there are yet stranger happenings beyond the frontage of this charming old-world shop. Nevertheless, only those who know the special code are allowed to pass through its secret side door. While waiting on the other side is a far off world: Filled with hidden secrets, exciting adventures, and endless possibilities.

The basis of this critical examination of Eliot’s work, first published in 1973, is the investigation of his transmutation of this and other philosophical, mythological and religious motives into the textures of his verse. This book focuses on Eliot’s peculiar eclectic approach to what he described as ‘the Tradition’. It also recognises the fact that Eliot, for all his attempts at universality, was a product of time and place, and gives an account of the way in which his education and expe...

This book is about literary representations of the both left- and right-wing Italian terrorism of the 1970s by contemporary Italian authors. In offering detailed analyses of the many contemporary novels that have terrorism in either their foreground or background, it offers a “take” on postmodern narrative practices that is alternative to and more positive than the highly critical assessment of Italian postmodernism that has characterized some sectors of current Italian literary criticism....

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in the book is on the organisms that dominate this harsh environment, although theoretical and experimental aspects are also discussed. In this updated second edition, there is a greater focus on the effects of climate change and some of its likely effects on deserts, seeing desertification as among the most...

This book tells the tale of an unforeseen caving disaster which occurred in the tranquil and picturesque Derbyshire village of Castleton back in 1959, and how the widespread publicity surrounding this event attracted international media attention.

First published in 1989, Chronicles of Darkness is about images of Africa seen through the eyes of writers, visitors, residents, and native-born. They range from Joseph Conrad and Olive Schreiner, through Laurens van der Post, Karen Blixen and Evelyn Waugh, to more recent writers like Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink and J.M. Coetzee.Such writers have frequently been faced with feelings of alienation, marginality, exile, self-consciousness, and egoism. It is only in this sense- that th...

Set in a quiet backstreet in a small English town is a beautiful vintage store, selling curious discs which contain music from bygone days. Strange as this may seem -- there are yet stranger happenings beyond the frontage of this charming old-world shop. Nevertheless, only those who know the special code are allowed to pass through its secret side door. While waiting on the other side is a far off world: Filled with hidden secrets, exciting adventures, and endless possibilities.

David Ward has spent most of his life travelling the globe, with travel, cars, and music as his guiding passions. In 2007, fate—or perhaps just a strong drink—brought him together with a 2003 Brabus smart car (equipped with a radio!). This unlikely pairing led him into the thrilling world of competitive rallies, as they took on a prestigious European event and won, earning them a spot in car enthusiasts’ hearts.Not content to stop there, David and his trusty smart car embarked on m...