A Short History of the Union-Castle Line
Author: Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company
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Published: 195?
Total Pages: 35
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Author: Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company
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Published: 195?
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Union Castle Line
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Published: 1951
Total Pages: 35
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sir David John Owen
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 158
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mike Roussel
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780750962919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Union-Castle Line's heritage spans over a century. It provided the mail service to South Africa for 120 years and established an unrivalled reputation for punctual schedules. From the middle of the nineteenth century it ran 'like clockwork' until its demise in 1977, a victim of emerging competition from jet aircraft, increasing fuel costs and the containerisation of cargo.As a company, the Union-Castle Line used the latest technical innovations of the day, constantly striving to improve speed, reliability, customer comfort and safety. Its lavender-hulled ships were some of the most impressive vessels of the time. Yet the story of the Union-Castle Line is also one of people - the passengers and crew ensured that the line survived for so long. This book tells some of their fascinating stories, including tales of shipwrecks, war service, missing gold bullion, escaped wild animals and even the occasional murder on board.Utilising previously unpublished diaries, letters and photographs, this illustrated volume chronicles the shipping line from its glorious beginning to its tragic end. It is a multifaceted history of the Union-Castle Line, which examines some of the company's shipwrecks as well as the fond legacy of the line today.
Author: David Birmingham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-05-01
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0190613459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labor, first as privately owned slaves and later as conscript workers. The colony was managed by a few marine officers, by several hundred white political convicts, and by a couple of thousand black Angolans who had adopted Portuguese language and culture. The hub was the harbor city of Luanda which grew in the twentieth century to be a dynamic metropolis of several million people. The export of labor was gradually replaced when an agrarian revolution enabled white Portuguese immigrants to drive black Angolan laborers to produce sugar cane, cotton, maize and above all coffee. During the twentieth century Congo copper supplemented this wealth, by gem-quality diamonds, and by offshore oil. Although much of the countryside retained its dollar-a-day peasant economy, new wealth generated conflict which pitted white against black, north against south, coast against highland, American allies against Russian allies. The generation of warfare finally ended in 2002 when national reconstruction could begin on Portuguese colonial foundations.
Author: C. J. Harris
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis absorbing account of the ocean mail service that plied between Britain and southern Africa between 1857 to 1977 captures the spirit of an era now gone.
Author: Malcolm Murphy
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Published: 1996
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0547572484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.
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Published: 1993
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEPHEMERA & SIMILAR MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL RELATING TO UNION, CASTLE & UNION-CASTLE LINES, FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.