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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Adventure
Author: Hamba Gashle
Author: Ian HassallPublisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456612689
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Hamba Gashle is the inside story of white society in colonial Southern Africa during the 1950s and 1960s. Ian Hassall's edgy memoir provides a vivid and disturbing depiction of childhood and family life against a background of racial exploitation, political change and the disintegration of his white community. Written as a diary from childhood through to early adulthood, the deceptively simple style provides a sense of immediacy, building a vivid picture through apparently unconnected events. The child narrator arrives in Northern Rhodesia from England aged four. Soon after, his parents divorce and he is fostered for several years. His mother marries an anti British Afrikaaner who is a strong influence on the boy. As a teenager he becomes delinquent and fails at school. He moves with his father's family to Rhodesia as it is approaching UDI. The narrator has developed anti-racist views and joins the protest movement at university in South Africa. Finally he returns to London in 1970, alone, a stranger. Ian Hassall produces a rich and informative picture of this period, honest, critical and unflattering, attacking its racism. The work is carefully researched so that key historical events are portrayed accurately and intimately. The youthful narrator's preoccupations, adventures, sexual encounters and daydreams contrast with more sober political observations, sometimes hilariously. This is also a study of childhood, and a celebration of youth which transcends time or location. 'Hamba Gashle' means both chameleon and take it easy, because of the animal's leisurely pace. The book's title reflects the author's admiration for this wonderful creature and its attributes, some of which he required to survive his upbringing.
Transactions
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Author: North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical EngineersPublisher:
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Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Not for the Telling
Author: Alan PaiseyPublisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398420700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A minor road accident led to a chance meeting of two new undergraduates, whose origins, study paths, and potential employment proved to be so contrasting. War was out of the question at the time, but when it arrived it enabled both women to devote their interests to a common objective. One found her metier in the air. Though discouraged by the exclusion of women from flying in the air force, nevertheless she seized a golden opportunity to fly in the service of her country. Her wartime record was distinguished and record breaking. Meanwhile, the other was recruited into an anti-espionage service designed to curb the activities of those citizens who were bent on crippling the national effort, if and when war actually came. The ensuing wartime enabled both women to excel in their respective duties, one in the physical sense, the other surreptitiously. On leaving university their ways had taken them apart, through unexpected adventures, trials, tribulations and various love matches, but a second sheer chance in their lives brought them together again, after losing each other and forgetting their former friendship.
The Sand Pebbles
Author: Richard McKennaPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sand Pebbles" by Richard McKenna. 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.
Field messages. Headquarters 2nd Division, 2nd F.A. Brigade, 3rd Infantry Brigade, 4th Brigade Marines, 1918
Author: United States. Army. 2d DivisionPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 1858
Book Description
Roads and Road Construction
Author: Catalogue of Official A.E.F. Photographs
Author: United States. War Department. General StaffPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Hunter's Way
Author: Robert SwannPublisher: New Generation Publishing
ISBN: 1785075659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Who is Simon Hunter? Is he a wealthy international entrepreneur or a parasite preying on an unsuspecting society? Simon Hunter is a rare binary man. Some see him as the abductor of talented individuals and others as a liberator of down trodden ordinary people - but beware, with him nothing is quite as it seems. What he does and the way he does it excites the interests of intelligence agencies on both sides of the Atlantic; they want to use his unique talents to further their own devious aspirations. He is thrust unwillingly into a complicated life of intrigue and double dealing which takes him to the squalid back streets of London, the unsavoury ghettos of Africa and immerses him in the sinister world of international conspiracy. Can he come to terms with the the demands thrust upon him when his family become enmeshed in the danger of the shadowy world into which he finds himself? The answer to his dilemma unfolds in a series of unpredictable and fateful consequences which will leave him and those around him forever changed.