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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

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Contents: La Place de L'Etoile; The Night Watch; Ring Road; translated from the French by Caroline Hillier, Patricia Wolf, and Frank Wynne.

Postage may be lowered for this item after ordering. Please inquire for exact post quote to your area. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he as seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond [a pond that she's claimed was an ocean] behind the ramshackle old farmhouse where she once lived, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

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While visiting his gravely ill daughter in England, James Hillyer encounters by chance Gabriel Fontaine, who he met in his youth while on a holiday in Gaspe. At the time, the boys had competed for the love of a French-Canadian firl from the village. Now, over six decades later and faced with the terrible possibility that he could outlive his own daughter, James must respond to Gabriel's surprising request for company on a final, unthinkable journey.

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'Officers and Gentlemen' is the second volume of Waugh's trilogy, 'Sword of Honour' which chronicles the fortunes of Guy Crouchback. The first and third volumes are 'Men at Arms' and 'Unconditional Surrender.'

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Since 1924, The Olympic Hotel has been the place in Seattle to stay, dine, consult, entertain - and to make history. Giants strike through the pages of this book, as they did through The Olympic's corridors: presidents and senators, aviators and astronauts, movie stars and musicians, industrialists and union leaders, kings and queens - and at least one emperor. Thousands upon thousands of humbler citizens from near and far have also trod The Olympic's carpets, dined in its restaurants, rested in its suites, and celebrated the great milestones of life in its lobbies and ballrooms.In shrink wrap.

The Omega Seed brings together the recent writing of the author on eschatology, that branch of theology concerned with the final events in the history of the world or of mankind. He believes that the simulation of the divine will provide man with a blueprint for creation not only of our physical environment but also of a new stage in the evolution of mankind. His work is against the things of a materialistic society, toward a redesigning of the urban civilization of earth.

This book is based on the transcription by Miss Una Thomas of the lecture series presented by Dr von Franz at the C G Jung Institute, Zürich, in the fall of 1969. 124 pages.

The radioactive winds had not yet hit Australia. There, survivors of the accidental muclear war, men and women destined to be the last human beings on earth, prepared for extinction. Some found solace in religion, others in alchohol and frenzied sex, and hundreds stood waiting for their government ration of cyanide pills, hoping they would not have to use them - knowing they would...

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The author examines the dispute between Highlanders, who developed a strong environmental awareness countless generations before other Europeans, and conservtionists, whose thinking owes much to the romantic ideals of the 19 century. He also suggests a new way of dealing with the problem, advocating drastic land-use changes and the repopulation of empty glens. Notes, Bibliography, Index, 280 pages.

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From Admirals to Yates, the streets of Victoria boast numerous intriguing names that tell the history of the city. These street names were originally attached to people - Douglas, the Hudson's Bay Company factor who chose the site for Fort Victoria; Yates, an early wine merchant, whose daughter Harriet also has a street named after her; Burdett-Coutts, a wealthy Englishwoman who never visited Victoria but sent a church and organ, and a boatload of potential brides to the growing city. Other roads bear the names of long-gone farms - Viewfield, Craigflower, Hillside - or handsome homes - Fernwood,Gonzales, Cloverdale.

Translated by Ralph Parker.