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Roger Ludlow, The Colonial Lawmaker (Hardcover): John Metcalf Taylor Roger Ludlow, The Colonial Lawmaker (Hardcover)
John Metcalf Taylor
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Medals and Prizes (Paperback): John Metcalf Medals and Prizes (Paperback)
John Metcalf
R377 R345 Discovery Miles 3 450 Save R32 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Medals and Prizes brings together eight of the best stories and novellas by John Metcalf, a virtuosic champion of the short form. Metcalf was born in Carlisle and emigrated to Canada as a young man, where both his innovations as a prose stylist and his talent as an editor are legendary. Until now, he has never been published in Britain. Spanning more than fifty years, and ranging from some of his earliest published stories to the astonishing late-career 'Medals and Prizes', the work gathered here shows us a writer whose voice, at every stage, is unmistakeable. Entertaining and moving and mischievous, these elegant fictions are a homecoming for a writer ready to assume his rank among Britain's great short fiction masters.

Paving Our Ways - A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements (Paperback): Maxwell Lay, John Metcalf, Kieran Sharp Paving Our Ways - A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements (Paperback)
Maxwell Lay, John Metcalf, Kieran Sharp
R1,317 Discovery Miles 13 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. After its empire collapsed, Roman pavements fell into ruin. The slow recovery of pavements in Europe began in France and then in England. The work of Trésaguet, Telford and McAdam is examined. Asphalt and concrete slowly improved as paving materials in the second part of the 19th century. Major advances occurred in the 20th century with the availability of powerful machinery, pneumatic tyres and bitumen. The advances needed to bring pavements to their current development are explored, as are the tools for financing, constructing, managing and maintaining pavements. The book should appeal to those interested in road paving, and in the history of engineering and transport. It can also serve as a text for courses in engineering history.

Paving Our Ways - A History of the World's Roads and Pavements (Hardcover): Maxwell Lay, John Metcalf, Kieran Sharp Paving Our Ways - A History of the World's Roads and Pavements (Hardcover)
Maxwell Lay, John Metcalf, Kieran Sharp
R3,591 Discovery Miles 35 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. After its empire collapsed, Roman pavements fell into ruin. The slow recovery of pavements in Europe began in France and then in England. The work of Tresaguet, Telford and McAdam is examined. Asphalt and concrete slowly improved as paving materials in the second part of the 19th century. Major advances occurred in the 20th century with the availability of powerful machinery, pneumatic tyres and bitumen. The advances needed to bring pavements to their current development are explored, as are the tools for financing, constructing, managing and maintaining pavements. The book should appeal to those interested in road paving, and in the history of engineering and transport. It can also serve as a text for courses in engineering history.

The Life of John Metcalf - Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough (Paperback): John Metcalf The Life of John Metcalf - Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough (Paperback)
John Metcalf
R737 Discovery Miles 7 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Blinded by smallpox at the age of six, John Metcalf (1717-1810) led a life that might have featured in an eighteenth-century novel. Popularly known as 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough', Metcalf had many and varied careers, including musician, horse trader, fish supplier, textile merchant and stage-wagon operator. Developing a method for building roads on marshy ground, using heather and gorse as a foundation, he eventually became one of the eighteenth century's great road builders, laying over 120 miles of high-quality roads in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire and Cheshire. Published in 1795 and based on conversations with Metcalf, this book recounts his life in a series of anecdotes. Metcalf starts with his boyhood escapades, and his becoming an accomplished swimmer, climber and gambler. Among the later episodes recounted are his services in raising troops to fight Jacobite rebels, during which he was present at the battles of Falkirk Muir and Culloden.

Selected Essays (Paperback): Clark Blaise Selected Essays (Paperback)
Clark Blaise; Edited by John Metcalf, J. R. Tim Struthers
R613 R556 Discovery Miles 5 560 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Clark Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short-story writers in the last 50 years. His "Selected Essays" bring together for the first time another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre, belles-lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadian heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual writers as Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, Salmon Rushdie, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Bernard Malamud, his friend and mentor. His essays on literary craft and technique are essential reading for aspiring writers and for readers eager for knowledge of literature's nuts-and-bolts. Always elegant, profound, thought-provoking and contrarian, Blaise's essays grapple with the themes and preoccupations that have animated his fiction, and give us a more intimate understanding of the work of this most modern of North American writers.

Off the Record (Paperback): John Metcalf Off the Record (Paperback)
John Metcalf; Contributions by Caroline Adderson, Kristyn Dunnion, Cynthia Flood, Shaena Lambert, …
R497 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R32 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A collection of stories and essays gathered by literary critic, writer, and editor John Metcalf. Featuring six Canadian fiction writers, among them the winners of the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, The Butler Book Prize, and the Marian Engel Award, these collected works offer an in-depth look at the processes and inspiration behind their stories.

Temerity & Gall (Paperback): John Metcalf Temerity & Gall (Paperback)
John Metcalf
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"[Metcalf's] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable."-Washington Post In Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing. In a 1983 editorial letter to the Globe and Mail, celebrated Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella railed that "Mr. Metcalf-an immigrant-continually and in the most galling manner has the temerity to preach to Canadians about their own literature." Forty years later, in spite of Kinsella's effort to discredit him in the name of a misguided nationalism both embarrassing and familiar, John Metcalf still has the temerity and gall to preach, to teach, and to write passionately (and uproariously) about literature in Canada. Part memoir, meditation, and apologia, part criticism and pure Metcalf, the present volume distills a lifetime of reading and writing, thinking and collecting, and continues his necessary work kicking against the ever-present pricks. As is the case with all of his critical work, Temerity & Gall will challenge, delight, anger, and inspire in equal measure, and is essential reading for anyone interested in literature in Canada and its place within the wider tradition of writing in English. Temerity & Gall is printed in a limited paperback edition of 750 copies signed and numbered by the author.

Roger Ludlow, The Colonial Lawmaker (Paperback): John Metcalf Taylor Roger Ludlow, The Colonial Lawmaker (Paperback)
John Metcalf Taylor
R551 Discovery Miles 5 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut - 1647-1697 (Paperback): John M (John Metcalf) 1845- Taylor The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut - 1647-1697 (Paperback)
John M (John Metcalf) 1845- Taylor
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Social Forces, Philanthropy. Williams College, 1867. An Oration (Hardcover): Taylor John M. (John Metcalf) Social Forces, Philanthropy. Williams College, 1867. An Oration (Hardcover)
Taylor John M. (John Metcalf)
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Case for Universal old age Pensions (Hardcover): John Metcalfe The Case for Universal old age Pensions (Hardcover)
John Metcalfe
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bunderley Boggard and Other Plays (Hardcover): John Metcalfe Bunderley Boggard and Other Plays (Hardcover)
John Metcalfe
R861 Discovery Miles 8 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Notes on Physical Diagnosis .. (Hardcover): John Metcalfe 1875-1904 Polk, C N B (Charles Nicoll Bancker) Camac Notes on Physical Diagnosis .. (Hardcover)
John Metcalfe 1875-1904 Polk, C N B (Charles Nicoll Bancker) Camac
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
T'strike (Hardcover): John Metcalfe T'strike (Hardcover)
John Metcalfe
R785 Discovery Miles 7 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Feasting Dead (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) (Paperback): John Metcalfe The Feasting Dead (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) (Paperback)
John Metcalfe
R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Aesthetic Underground - A Literary Memoir (Hardcover, illustrated edition): John Metcalf An Aesthetic Underground - A Literary Memoir (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
John Metcalf
R928 R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Save R122 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this much-anticipated memoir, Metcalf takes us on a personal journey through his life and those influences that inform his own literary aesthetic. Here is a fascinating story peopled with the likes of Alice Munro, Norman Levine, Ernest Hemingway, John Newlove, Hugh Hood, Keath Fraser, Irving Layton, Mavis Gallant, and many other literary luminaries. By turns humorous and iconoclastic and brimming with intelligence and brio, this highly readable memoir provides much-needed perspective on the art of editing, literary values, and the current state of Canadian literary publishing.

Praesagium (Paperback): John Metcalfe Praesagium (Paperback)
John Metcalfe
R287 Discovery Miles 2 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It's always easy to trace the breadcrumb trail backwards and note the causes retrospectively, but what if you could see the signs beforehand? What if you could filter out the noise? Could you tune into weak signals and know the future? Lee believed you could. What's more he was proving it could be done in some of the most unpredictable environments. Praesagium follows three strangers who are preoccupied with their own futures. But when their paths cross in Mexico none of them had foreseen the outcome...

The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) (Paperback): John Metcalf Taylor The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) (Paperback)
John Metcalf Taylor
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work, tredition donates a portion of the proceeds from each sold copy. As a reader of a TREDITION CLASSICS book, you support our mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion.

Conversaciones poderosas (Spanish, Paperback): Angel Martinez Marcos, Christopher John Metcalfe Conversaciones poderosas (Spanish, Paperback)
Angel Martinez Marcos, Christopher John Metcalfe
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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