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James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Japan to keep the peace
between the superpowers when a SPECTRE rocket intercepts an
American space capsule carrying a nuclear warhead. In between
visits to the geisha house and flights in his Little Nellie, 007
manages to track down SPECTRE's secret base and its evil mastermind
Blofeld (Donald Pleasence). Will he be able to stop Blofeld's evil
plans or is this really the end of Bond and the world as we know
it? After this fifth entry in the series, Connery took a break from
the title role, only to return in 'Diamonds Are Forever' (1971).
This volume contains the translations of the following accounts:
Travels in Persia, by Caterino Zeno; A short narrative of the life
and acts of the King Ussun Cassano, by G. M. Angiolello; The
travels of a merchant in Persia; Narrative of ... V. d'Alessandri,
ambassador to the King of Persia. The first three accounts are
translated from the second volume of Ramusio's 'Delle navigationi
et viaggi'. Originally bound together with 49a but separately
paginated. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the
volume first published in 1873.
Originally written for private circulation among the Royal Family,
this book, written by Lieutenant-General Charles Grey (1804-70),
was first published in 1867. It details Prince Albert's life from
his birth in 1819 through to his wedding to Queen Victoria and the
first year of their married life. The Queen commissioned Grey, who
had been secretary to both Albert and herself, as her husband's
biographer, and the book was granted a wider publication, so that
all who read it would 'tend to a better and higher appreciation of
Prince Albert's great character'. Sourced from letters and
memoranda, the book traces the development of Albert from an
intelligent and gentle boy to the intellectual and moral compass of
a nation. It records Albert's first visits to England, the wedding,
his love for his adopted country and life in London, and includes
details such as an attempted assassination of the Queen.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains six
narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the
fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Barbaro's account is given
in a sixteenth-century translation; the others were made for this
edition. These stories of travel, by land and by sea, to distant
destinations are full of engaging detail about the customs of the
countries visited, and also about the negotiations by which the
Venetian Signoria and Uzun Hassan, the ruler of Persia, tried to
form an alliance against the Ottoman Turks.
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