16 Ergebnisse.

For sixteen years under Margot's influence, and touched by her love, I grew and thrived, producing and publishing a variety of books. In my painting, despite our totally different styles and techniques, Margot would suggest subtle touches of colour and shading that brought added dimension and perspective to mountains, trees and figures. Margot offered encouragement and praise but was not afraid to admonish when needed. With Margot, I slowly le...

Colour illustrated story about a young boy's pet, Henry Hamster Esquire.His adventures start when the local cat grabs Henry from his cage. Henry gets away from that danger but runs into a number of other animals that mistake him for lunch. Henry's owner, young Billy, is so sad when Henry disappears. When Billy finally finds him again, all is right with the world!

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Ben Nuttall-Smith's biographical novel is a testament to survival. Based on the author's experience of running from the buried memories and shame of horrific sexual abuse during the London Blitz, (he) travels to French Canada and further bullying. At 17, he joins the Navy and is almost happy, for a while. As an artist on the Sunshine Coast, he is finally able to confront his childhood terrors and begin the road of recovery that brings him true...

As cruise ships sail in comfort past Alaskan glaciers, passengers can imagine themselves down in a sail boat, bobbing amongst the growlers: Smell the biting cold air as you drift under towering blue ice and ancient cliffs. Historical references place the Alaskan scenery in the context of then and now. This book allows you to make that once-in-a-lifetime cruise from the comfort of your favourite chair.

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Ramesside Studies in Honour of K. A. Kitchen is a series of 46 papers devoted to aspects of Egypt in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties. This book, which has been written to honour the most eminent Ramesside scholar of his generation, includes contributions from some of the leading Egyptologists from around the world. As such, this volume is a landmark collection of studies on the state of Ramesside scholarship in the early 21st century.

This book is a major (indeed the only) anthology of 19th century poetry about Ancient Egypt, edited by Egyptologist Professor Donald P. Ryan. It brings together, in a series of themed sections, verses by well-known poets - such as Shelley, Keats, Byron and Longfellow - with those by less-famous but no less fascinating writers. The editor provides a series of commentaries that set the poems in their archaeological and historical context and giv...

Pat Carey smiles through the pages as he relates his exciting and often humorous adventures from pioneering on the Fraser Valley to flying as an early bush pilot. As a homesteader and logger, we have Pat's first-person insight into pioneering days in the opening decades a century ago. His stories of flying out of Chilliwack and Richmond, B.C. to Canada's Far North are fascinating tales of aviation reality. Historical and down-to-earth homey, w...

Notes To Mother is a series of in-your-face tales from behind the scenes of recent history. Ride in a stagecoach in the driver's box, guide and take pictures of Teddy Roosevelt in the wilds of Yellowstone Park, covertly gather info on all the abandoned military hardware left over in the Pacific after WW2 for MacArthur's Korean battle, speak with Dr. Porsche about starting the first VW franchise in America... These remarkable stories go from Eu...

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