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Author : William Earl Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 0006917933
Author : Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher : Canelo
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800329409
A ghost ship full of long-lost gold beckons, and Biggles gets an icy reception... Biggles, Algie, Bertie and Ginger are visited by Grimes, an old pal from the war, whose father, a Merchant Navy captain known as Jumbo, is in a spot of bother. He was recently tricked into skippering a crew of seal poachers to an islet off Antarctica. While there, they spotted an old ship – still rigged for sail – trapped in the pack ice. After an investigation of the ship, Jumbo overheard the words ‘starry’ and ‘crown’ from the jubilant crew. An avid fan of an unsolved mysteries, Biggles immediately recognises the importance of these words. Jumbo and his crew had stumbled upon the long-lost schooner Starry Crown, which went missing seventy years prior with a ton of Australian gold ingots aboard. There have been several sightings and ill-fated recovery expeditions since, but no one has ever retrieved the gold. Grimes reckons that they might be able to beat the poachers to the treasure if they were to go by air, and wonders if Biggles is interested in an adventure. After making a few enquiries, Biggles agrees to the expedition, but there is more than gold in the Starry Crown, and no help for miles across Antarctica’s vast silence... Wrap up warm for a classic Biggles adventure to the frozen continent of Antarctica.
Author : W. E. Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798686106314
Biggles is approached by 'Jumbo' Grimes, whose father used to serve in his old squadron in the Western Desert. His father had sighted a wreck trapped in the Antarctic ice pack which he believed carried a "crown" with "stars". Biggles believes it to be the Starry Crown, a long lost schooner which carried a horde of gold. Soon the Biggles quartet - Sergeant Bigglesworth, C.I.D., Ginger, Algy and Bertie - are airborne to the South Pole on a treasure-hunt waged against time and the fierce opposition of Lavinsky and his gang. This tale of courage, exploration and adventure has an authentic background in the story of the Starry Crown, whose loss with her cargo of gold is one of the unsolved mysteries of the sea.
Author : John Pearson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448207763
From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes the fictional biography of the mystical and fearless ace, James Biggles Worth. For over fifty years, James Biggles Worth, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C. has flown the skies in everything from Sop with Camels to the earliest jets, he emerged with glory from devilish scrapes all over the world. Yet until now Biggles has often been seen as a storybook caricature. A dashed fine chap, certainly, but not the extraordinary man he really was. Here, for the first time, is an insight into the 'real' man who made these adventures possible. In Biggles, his fictional biography, first published in 1978, John Pearson has unraveled the missing strands in Biggles' life; delving vigorously into subjects that were once taboo. Why did Biggles never marry? What was the truth about his tragic first love? And what were Biggles' real regrets and frustrations as he tried to come to terms with a rapidly developing world in peacetime? The truth - so long hidden behind a stiff upper lip and an equally stiff pink gin in the Officers' Mess - is at last revealed.
Author : Sinead Moriarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000262711
For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and tropes while interrogating how this landscape has been constructed as a wilderness within British literature for children. The text is divided into two sections. Part I focuses on the stories of early-twentieth-century explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature highlights the impact of children’s literature on the expedition writings of Robert Scott, including the influence of Scott’s close friend, author J.M. Barrie. The text also reveals the important role of children’s literature in the contemporary resurgence of interest in Scott’s long-term rival Ernest Shackleton. Part II focuses on fictional narratives set in the Antarctic, including early-twentieth-century whaling literature, adventure and fantasy texts, contemporary animal stories and environmental texts for children. Together these two sections provide an insight into how depictions of this unique continent have changed over the past century, reflecting transformations in attitudes towards wilderness and wild landscapes.
Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020825
This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.
Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780236292
As one of two points where the Earth’s axis meets its surface, the South Pole should be a precisely defined place. But as Elizabeth Leane shows in this book, conceptually it is a place of paradoxes. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, yet it is a highly sought-after location, and reaching it on foot is one of the most extreme adventures an explorer can undertake. The Pole is, as Leane shows, a deeply imagined place, and a place of politics, where a series of national claims converge. Leane details the important challenges that the South Pole poses to humanity, asking what it can teach us about ourselves and our relationship with our planet. She examines its allure for explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen, not to mention the myriad writers and artists who have attempted to capture its strange, inhospitable blankness. She considers the Pole’s advantages for climatologists and other scientists as well as the absurdities and banalities of human interaction with this place. Ranging from the present all the way back to the ancient Greeks, she offers a fascinating—and lavishly illustrated—story about one of the strangest and most important places on Earth.
Author : Graham M Thomas
Publisher : SAGUS
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
As the SAGUS series of memoirs unfolds, Vol 10 covers the years 1967-69.
Author : Peter Berresford Ellis,Piers Williams
Publisher : W H Allen
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037654337
Author : W. E. Johns
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547117698
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Biggles Breaks the Silence" by W. E. Johns. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Curtis C. Smith
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0912289279
Author : W. E. Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0340031050
Author : W. E. Johns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07
Category : Adventure stories, English
ISBN : 1853759112
Features Biggles who becomes involved in three undercover operations. Biggles Secret Assignments take him from Antarctica to remote regions of China: hunting a Second World War German submarine loaded with stolen gold; battling with desperate villains over an ice-bound treasure ship; and tackling his arch enemy Erich Von Stalhein.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : UOM:39015061593326
Author : Tony Soper
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781784770914
Updated throughout, the 7th edition of Bradt's Antarctica: a Guide to Wildlife is the most practical guide to the flora and fauna available for those 'going south'. Celebrating the amazing and often unique species of this spectacular environment, the title features chapters on the region's famous whales and penguins, and also on lesser known species such as skuas and sheathbills, with full coverage of plumage and identification. Each chapter is accompanied by vibrant illustrations from Dafila Scott to help bring species to life. Tony Soper's immaculate and engaging text remains the indispensible choice for the intrepid wildlife enthusiast. Antarctica's wildlife is under threat. The Southern Ocean is warming and the most obvious effect is on the continental ice shelves. Spectacular retreats and monster carvings from the west coast of the peninsula have been seen in recent decades. Less ice means fewer krill, which depend on the ice-edge for the algae which nourish them. In turn, this will impact on seal and whale numbers. In the case of penguins, while kings and macaronis, for instance, are doing well, the magnificently adapted and truly Antarctic species, Adélies and emperors, are in decline. In the case of emperors, maybe by as much as 50%. Bradt's Antarctica not only helps you to identify and understand species and habitats, it also explains the issues faced by this extraordinary continent, regarded by many as one of the most precious places on the planet.
