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This beautiful HarperCollins Children's Classics edition is perfect
for every bookshelf. Despite his better judgement, eccentric
English gentleman Phileas Fogg has wagered half his fortune on a
whim - and a foolish one at that. He must travel around the world
in eighty days or lose it all. Fogg is determined not to lose, no
matter the typhoons, bison or Scotland Yard detectives that get in
his way. By steamer, train, sledge and boat, on foot and on
elephant back, Fogg and his beleaguered valet journey the globe,
crossing land and sea in the greatest of races. The most celebrated
of Jules Verne's Voyages extraordinaires series, this riotous
adventure story has inspired countless films, plays and trips
around the world. Complete your library with HarperCollins
Children's Classics.
The Early seventeenth-century port books for Londonderry,
Coleraine, Carrickfergus and the Lecale ports are an underrated
source which have been underutilised by historians of the early
seventeenth century. As Robert Hunter himself highlighted, they can
be used to establish the character of the merchant class of the
emerging plantation towns and the incipient commercialisation which
was one of the characteristics of plantation. They can also be
used, as names are gradually identified, to indicate the
hinterlands of the Ulster ports, for example, Strabane merchants
trading through Derry.
From the busy West Coast and Midland Main Lines to the thriving
quarries of Leicestershire and intermodal terminals in and around
Birmingham, rail freight is still alive and well in the Midland
counties of England. All the established freight operators are
represented, including Colas Rail, with its various ballast
workings and occasional oil trains to Sinfin, and DC Rail serving
Burton-on-Trent. Alongside the Class 66s, we see DB and
Freightliner Class 90s on the West Coast Main Line, DRS Classes 68
and 88 on intermodal traffic, Freightliner and Colas Rail Class 70s
on various flows, and DB Class 60s on heavy oil and steel trains.
Turning the clock back, the closure of every remaining coal mine in
the region has brought the demise of numerous freight-only lines
and branches in Nottinghamshire and parts of Derbyshire,
Leicestershire and Warwickshire. Many steel and petroleum terminals
have closed, as have several automotive railheads in the Birmingham
area. The intermodal network has also seen some cutbacks, albeit
compensated for by several new facilities. As for traction, we
revisit an era when Classes 20, 25 and 31 were commonplace, as well
as the humble and often overlooked Class 08 shunter. Illustrated
with over 160 carefully chosen photographs, many of which are
previously unpublished, this volume looks at the changing face of
rail freight across the Midlands. It details the changes in
traction, rolling stock and railway infrastructure over four
decades.
** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The Fearless Book Club by Nobel
Peace Prize-Winner, Malala Yousafzai ** Travel writer Julia Cooke's
exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.
Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am offered young
women the world. Come Fly the World tells the story of the
stewardesses who served on the iconic Pan American Airways between
1966 and 1975 - and of the unseen diplomatic role they played on
the world stage. Alongside the glamour was real danger, as they
flew soldiers to and from Vietnam and staffed Operation Babylift -
the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of
Saigon. Cooke's storytelling weaves together the true stories of
women like Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab
was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few African
American stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation
of a jet-set life. In the process, Cooke shows how the sexualized
coffee-tea-or-me stereotype was at odds with the importance of what
they did, and with the freedom, power and sisterhood they achieved.
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