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'The first serious attempt to analyse pop culture by someone who
was part of it.' Julian Mitchell, "Guardian"
The redoubtable GeorgeMelly (1926-2007): flamboyant jazz singer,
sexually ambiguous raconteur, prodigiously gifted critic. In the
early sixties, at the birth of what we now recognise as the pop
revolution, Mellybegan work as a broadsheet journalist, commenting
upon this new cultural phenomenon.Revoltinto Style (1970) is his
first-hand account of those turbulent and exciting years when all
things creative - whether music, fashion, film, art or literature -
were changed utterly.
Central to the book are The Beatles - the epitome of the
swinging sixties - who charted the decade's changes and about whose
significance the Liverpudlian Melly had a special feel and insight.
Alongside the Fab Four is a large cast of movers and shakers, of
wannabes and taste-makers, all dissected by Melly's surgical
mind.
An entertainment on marriage by George Melly, Alan Ayckbourn, James
Saunders, Harold Pinter, Alun Owen, Fay Weldon, David Campton,
Lyndon Brook and John Bowen.1 woman, 1 man or flexible casting
Lands Forlorn documents a 1911-1912 expedition to Great Bear Lake
and the lower Coppermine River to search for copper deposits. The
three-man exploration party was led by George M. Douglas and
included his brother, Lionel, a master seaman, and Dr. August
Sandburg, a geologist. They tracked a York boat up the
rapids-filled Great Bear River to Great Bear Lake, then sailed
across the stormy lake to the northeasterly corner at the mouth of
the Dease River. There, Lionel Douglas built a sturdy cabin for the
winter while George Douglas and August Sandburg canoed, walked, and
portaged up the Dease to the Dismal Lakes and then down the Kendall
River to the Coppermine River. They explored the Coppermine
Mountains during the first season before returning to the cabin. In
the spring of 1912 the Douglas party returned to the Coppermine by
dogsled and foot. The party went to the Coronation Gulf, meeting
some of the Copper Inuit.
This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse,
Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by
the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story
of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian
household. Rum, Bum & Concertina, the naval equivalent of wine,
women and song, describes Melly's National Service as one of the
most unlikely naval ratings ever. He becomes an anarchist and
connoisseur of Surrealist Art while self-educating himself on some
of the wilder shores of love. Once demobbed, Melly comes to London
to work in an art gallery, and in Owning Up he describes how he
slipped into the world of the jazz revival, revelling in an endless
round of pubs, clubs, seedy guest-houses and transport caffs while
surrounded by a mad array of musicians, tarts, drunks and
arch-eccentrics.
Title: Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
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British Library Melly, George; 1851. 2 vol.; 12 . 10095.c.22.
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CHAPTER III. OF STATESMEN. LORD PALMERSTON. ONLY met Lord
Palmerston once or twice. He sent for me in 1851 to discuss the
Suez Canal, which I had just seen in partial progress. I remember
he was very furious and positive about the Canal, and said he was
advised by the best engineers that it was impracticable, for as
fast as you took out one basket of sand, three would be blown in. "
It cannot, it will not, and it shall not be built," said he; " and
if it ever is we shall have to annex Egypt, and that will involve a
war with France." When it was a question of appraising the powers
of any other country to do anything, Lord Palmerston, being an
Englishman, was at fault. When the duties and interests of England
was the question, Lord Palmerston never made a mistake. LORD JOHN
RUSSELL. I saw Lord Russell on several occasions, and I do not
agree with the doggrel bard who wrote " Yet whoe'er is no
lickspittle, Still says Little John is little." Earl Russell was a
very great man, and bore his few inches with much dignity. He was
also a thorough Liberal, in advance of the light of those days. But
he made a terrible mess of the " Alabama" matter, and deliberately
allowed that pirate to escape to her terrible work of depredation,
which cost us some years afterwards three millions of money. Never
did a Government sin with their eyes so wide open. They were
perfectly informed, and William Rathbone and I predicted, in our
various private interviews with Earl Russell, exactly what took
place afterwards. But here again Society, under London influences
of club and coterie, betrayed the nation. Earl Russell hesitated to
quarrel with the Southern States because Pall Mall and St. James
Street, " mostly fools," as Sydney Smith once said, were confident
that the South was going to...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to
www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books
for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III. OF STATESMEN. LORD PALMERSTON. ONLY met Lord
Palmerston once or twice. He sent for me in 1851 to discuss the
Suez Canal, which I had just seen in partial progress. I remember
he was very furious and positive about the Canal, and said he was
advised by the best engineers that it was impracticable, for as
fast as you took out one basket of sand, three would be blown in. "
It cannot, it will not, and it shall not be built," said he; " and
if it ever is we shall have to annex Egypt, and that will involve a
war with France." When it was a question of appraising the powers
of any other country to do anything, Lord Palmerston, being an
Englishman, was at fault. When the duties and interests of England
was the question, Lord Palmerston never made a mistake. LORD JOHN
RUSSELL. I saw Lord Russell on several occasions, and I do not
agree with the doggrel bard who wrote " Yet whoe'er is no
lickspittle, Still says Little John is little." Earl Russell was a
very great man, and bore his few inches with much dignity. He was
also a thorough Liberal, in advance of the light of those days. But
he made a terrible mess of the " Alabama" matter, and deliberately
allowed that pirate to escape to her terrible work of depredation,
which cost us some years afterwards three millions of money. Never
did a Government sin with their eyes so wide open. They were
perfectly informed, and William Rathbone and I predicted, in our
various private interviews with Earl Russell, exactly what took
place afterwards. But here again Society, under London influences
of club and coterie, betrayed the nation. Earl Russell hesitated to
quarrel with the Southern States because Pall Mall and St. James
Street, " mostly fools," as Sydney Smith once said, were confident
that the South was going to...
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