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A novel based on historical fact, it tells the complete story of the part played in the Bounty mutiny by the man known as Alexander Smith - real name John Adams - his subsequent fate and that of the eight other mutineers together with their Maori women and friends who finally sailed from Tahiti in the Bounty in search of a secret sanctuary. The book offers adventure and excitement as well as the idea that the popular legend of Fletcher Christian as a hero and liberator and Bligh being branded as a bullying, inhuman monster may not be accurate; far from being an apologia for Bligh, it presents a logical, commonsense view of events that have intrigued historians since Bligh's first dispatches from Timor reached London. Cover art by Frank Norton. -
Includes chapters on: Cause and Origin of Migration; Routes; The Height and Speed of Migration Flight; The Distances Travelled by Birds; Migration of Weather; The Perils of Migration; Early Ideas of Migration. A fascinating work on the topic without being wordy. This book was part of a 1/- series published by the Cambridge University Press on Science and Literature intended to cover a broad range of subjects, written by experts for the interested reader seeking easily accessible, sound knowledge. -
Pancho Villa: Jean Rouverol
$40.00Pancho Villa lived in violent, brutal times and the necessities of those times made him a violent, brutal man. He was a revolutionary, who fought for his country and his people through ten years of civil war. He was born in 1878, a time when the land owners and the Church grew fat by stealing land from the peasants and exploiting their labour. Villa saw his fellow revolutionaries Madero and Carranza turn into greedy politicians upon gaining office, forgetting their promises to their loyal followers. He helped create a revolution; yet tragically, he could not help solve it. -
Kenneth Williams, star of stage, radio, screen and Carry On put together a collection of witty, wicked put-downs, retorts, comebacks - and all those great responses we never think of at the time! These have been collected from far and wide across the world of film, literature, politics and celebrity. From Dorothy Parker, observing a notorious society flirt: That woman can speak eighteen languages and can;t say 'No' in any of them. Or Groucho Marx, to a delighted author: From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter...some day I intend to read it... After W.C. Fields made his feelings about children widely known, he was asked how he really liked children: His response? "Boiled or fried..." Illustrated by ffolkes. -
Spike Milligan had published volumes of humorous and children's poetry before the 1970s, but Small Dreams of a Scorpion is the first volume to feature some of his most personal and painful musings: partly on his own bouts of clinical depression and hospitalisation; partly about some of his darkest moments as a soldier in World War II; and also about some of the terrible moments of post-war world history and his reactions to them - the Korean and Vietnam conflicts, the Aberfan school disaster and the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Illustrated by Spike and Laura Milligan.
