Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables

Author: Aesop

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781853261282

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A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Centenary of the Crossword
Centenary of the Crossword

Author: John Halpern

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780233003962

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The crossword has been the most consistently successful puzzle of modern times. This title celebrates the world's favourite word puzzle by recounting the history of it, alongside examples of puzzles and words of wisdom from puzzle setters, crossword editors and members of the public who have racked their brains to find the solution to that elusive clue.

Howard Pixton
Howard Pixton

Author: Stella Pixton

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2014-07-02

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1473822564

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This book is a truly remarkable account that captures the atmosphere, thrills and danger of the pioneering days of aviation. Howard Pixton was flying for A V Roe at Brooklands in 1910 when S F Cody at Laffan's Plain tried to persuade him to join him. But in 1911 he test flew A V Roe's 'tractor biplane, the forerunner of the 504. By now acknowledged as the first professional test pilot, he left A V to join Bristols and for two years demonstrated new models to dignitaries across Europe.??In 1913 he joined Tommy Sopwith and in 1914 he became the first Briton in a British plane to win an international race, the coveted Schneider Trophy. This gave Britain air supremacy and Howard was feted as the finest pilot in the World. Sopwith's Tabloid aircraft developed into the 'Pup', and then into the 'Camel'. Throughout The Great War Pixton test flew many of the rapid evolving designs.??For a biography of an early aviation pioneer of the top rank, this book cannot be bettered.

The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943)
The SS Terra Nova (1884-1943)

Author: Michael C. Tarver

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2020-08-03

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0750995513

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SS Terra Nova was most famous for being the vessel to carry the ill-fated 1910 polar expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott, but the story of this memorable ship, built in wood to enable flexibility in the ice, continued until 1943, when she sank off Greenland. This newly designed and updated edition presents the definitive illustrated account of one of the classic polar exploration ships of the 'heroic age'. Put together from accounts recorded by the men who sailed in her, it tells the sixty-year history of a ship built by a famous Scottish shipbuilding yard, in the nineteenth-century days of whaling and sealing before coal gas and electricity replaced animal oils.

The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire
The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire

Author: John Phillip Santos

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0143118730

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"Wonderful...a book that connects us to the global story of ourselves." -Sandra Cisneros In this beautifully written, highly original work, John Phillip Santos- the author of Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation-creates a virtuosic meditation on ancestry and origins. Weaving together a poetic mix of family remembrance, personal odyssey, conquest history, and magical realism, Santos recounts his quest to find the missing chronicle of his mother's family, who arrived in southern Texas in the 1620s. As Santos traces their roots to northern Spain, he re-imagines the way we think about identity. The result is a uniquely engaging adventure in the frontier between self and family, past and present, at a time when breakthroughs in genetics are changing our window on history.