The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present
The Scottish Experience in Asia, c.1700 to the Present

Author: T. M. Devine

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-22

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 3319430742

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This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them in different ways? Were their networks distinctive compared to other ethnicities? What was the pull of Asia for them? Did they really punch above their weight as some contemporaries thought, or was that just exaggerated rhetoric? If there was a distinctive ‘Scottish effect’ how is that to be explained?

A Compilation of Moored Wind and Current Meter Observations
A Compilation of Moored Wind and Current Meter Observations

Author: Raymond T. Pollard

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13:

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Summaries of wind and current measurements made with current meters and wind recorders by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during the year 1965 are presented. Averaged quantities are presented in computer-generated output as histograms, basic statistics, spectra, progressive vector diagrams, and east-north component plots. (Author).

The complete works of G. A. Henty
The complete works of G. A. Henty

Author: George Alfred Henty

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2021-02-01

Total Pages: 14401

ISBN-13:

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George Alfred Henty was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent best known for his historical adventure stories. A contemporaries described him as a man of strong will, reasonable ambitions and a hard, steady worker. Henty wrote about eighty books for boys. A young man who worked as his secretary for two years said that Henty used to walkup and down his study smoking his clay pipe and reeling off stories just as fast as the secretary could take them down. Best known for adventure stories such as The Young Bugler, Under Drake's Flag, With Clive in India, When London Burned: Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire, Moore at Corunna, At Aboukir and Acre, A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt, With Buller in Natal, With Roberts to Pretoria and With Kitchener in the Soudan, In Freedom's Cause, Under Drake's Flag, In Times of Peril, The Lion of the North and In the Reign of Terror.

The Book of Jack London
The Book of Jack London

Author: Charmian London

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13:

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Several years after Jack London’s death, his wife Charmian released a 2-volume biography of his life. Volume I starts with the origins of his parents, John and Flora, and covers Jack’s childhood and early life growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. It also covers his oyster pirating, Klondike trips, and time spent riding the railroads. The book is full of his letters to Cloudesley Johns, Anna Strunsky, and others. The first volume ends with his voyage to Asia to cover the Japanese-Russian War. Volume II starts with his return from Korea after war-reporting and his divorce from his first wife. It covers their trip on the Snark and trips to New York and around Cape Horn. The 'bad year' when his house burns is described in detail, as is a return to Hawaii and the start of World War I. The volume ends with Jack's death in 1916.

Julius, the Street Boy or Out West
Julius, the Street Boy or Out West

Author: Horatio Alger

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 373407178X

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Reproduction of the original: Julius, the Street Boy or Out West by Horatio Alger