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Condition: clean copy, dust jacket in excellent condition protected by plastic cover.Content: This book documents Britain's rise to pre-eminence in the northwest coast of North America. It shows how the relentless activities of its commercial interests, the adroit use of its naval plower, and the resolve of its diplomats secured British claims to dominion and rights to trade along the Northwest Coast.266 pages, notes, bibliography, index.

Condition: clean copy, dust jacket in excellent condition and protected by plastic cover. This book is the first comprehensive survey to examine Britain's motives for expeditions to this distant frontiers of British maritime development. It is also the first to draw the history of the coast into the general realm of pacific history, relating its development to events in Europe, the American eastern seaboard, Australia, the Falkland Islands, and China.190 pages, notes, select bibliography, index

The White Hotel is an extraordinary, daring colossus of a work in which is seen a startling poetry of violence and redemption. Fuge and threnody, it interlaces history, lush sexuality, psychological truth, fantasy and the craving for brutality, in the case-history of Lisa Erdman, a patient of Freud's. And travelling through the intricate patterns of her being, the reader is sent on an odyssey that seeks refuge beyond the nightmare of the 20th century.

The Chinese Educational Mission was one of the earliest efforts at educational modernization in China. As part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing government sent 120 students to New England to live and study for a decade, before they were abruptly summoned home to China in 1881. This book, based upon extensive research in local archives and newspapers, focuses on the experiences of the students during their nine-year stay in the United States.Historians of modern China will find this book highly relevant because of its detailed account of one of the major projects of the Self-Strengthening Movement. To date, there are at most two credible studies in English and Chinese on the Chinese Educational Mission; both are deficient in source citation and tend to dwell on the students' experiences after their return to China rather than during their stay in America.
This volume will also appeal to specialists in Asian-American studies, for its comparing and contrasting the experiences of the Chinese… Read more

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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorces, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guild , but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhyms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Luch become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the fautlines in their relationship.

Content: non-fiction, history. The second battle of Ypres in April 1915 represents Canada's horrific introduction to modern warfare. Two thousand Canadians would die in four days. This book uniquely chronicles that battle and brings to life those grimmest of times. The Canadians at Ypres revives this First World War battle, an event important to Canadian Heritage. It is the reference needed to visit those forgotten battlefields of today.88 pages, illustrated, maps, references.

Content: non-fiction, history. The Battle of the Somme was one of the most horrific battles of a horrific war. It lasted from July to November of 1916 and sucked in hundreds of thousands of soldiers from France, Germany, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland. The Canadians fought there between September and November, battling their way across the fields north of the small farming village of Coucelette. For a gain of two kilometers of undulating farland, more than 8,000 Canadians died.91 pages, illustrated, maps, references.

Condition: clean copy.Content: When R.M.Lockley settled on Skokholm, an uninhabited island of the Pembrokeshire coast, he was 24 years old. It was a boyhood dream to be 'with birds and flowers in some remote place, ' to live like Robinson Crusoe. He rebuild a ruined cottage with timber salvaged from a wrecked schooner. He farmed and fished to make a living. He studies the wildlife of the island. And with his wife, Do, he had a daughter. For 12 years Skokholm was their family home. When war broke out in September 1939, this dream island life had to be abandoned. Knowing he may never return, Lockley began writing about the history and wildlife of his island. He sent what he wrote to his friend and brother-in-law John Buxton - a naturalist captured by the Germans in Norway in 1940. These letters to a prisoner-of-war, intended to solace Buxton it his captivity became this book.244 pages, illustrated with drawings.

Condition: new.Content: index; most complete tables for companion planting; table to cross reference beneficial insects; fruits and berries, pruning, pollination; vegetable gardening; irrigation; polyculture; mulching and crop rotation techniques' applying a holistic approach to growing food, planetary influence; ecologically sustainable practices; cost analyses; root cellars, pens, fences, and other structures; natural pointers for timing to adapt to geographical regions; collecting seeds; animal husbandry.208 pages, index.

Condition: new.Content: This comprehensive compilation of the author's experience will serve both as a manual for beginning beekeeping and a reference guide for advanced beekeepers who wish to practice ecologically responsible beekeeping, using a holistic approach rather than chemical treatments. With over 70 illustrations and an extensive index, this book transforms a complex subject into an easy to understand undertaking. Topics covered are the use of natural remedies, Integrated Pest Management, Sustainable Mite Control, breeding, hive construction, was recycling, foundation building, coast analysis, and more.144 pages, index.

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Condition: clean copy.Content: This is the record of a spiritual journey - an unflinching honest account of the author's struggle with grief during the difficult process of the hawk's taming and her own untaming. At the same time, it's a kaleidoscopic biography of the brilliant and troubled novelist T. H. White. Tt's a book about memory, nature and nation, and how it might be possible to try to reconcile death with life and love.300 pages, notes.

From the author of the world-famous Travis McGee thrillers, thirteen of John D. MacDonald's earliest and best crime and mystery stories brought together in one volume.
Written at the beginning of his career and originally published in American magazines only, these stories give us a taste of MacDonald's early achievements and show the range of his skill in the realm of mystery and thriller writing.

Condition: clean copy, previous owner's name on first page, upper right corner.Content: This contains a series of essays on water, as the author draws from his broad knowledge as an agriculturalist and his vast life experience to tell us 'what every Canadian should know about water.' Introducting by Hugh Dempsey, 192 pages, photographs.

Condition: clean copy.Content: In this book, the author sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads and sea paths that form part of a vast network of routes that crisscross the British landscape and its waters, connecting them to the continents beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, or the stories out tracks keep and tell and of pilgrimage and ritual.434 pages, notes select bibliography, glossary, index of select topics.

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Drawing on newly available material from the United States anc China, as well as from interviews with all major survivors, the author re-examines the week in 1972 when Nixon travelled to China. Appendix - The Communique; Notes; Bibliography; Index; 394 pages.

This is going to rank among the classic voyages in small wooden boats. Like a perfect pair of oars, the carefully wrought narrative and lyrical style whisk the reader along for all 500 miles -Mathew P Murphy, Editor, WoodenBoat