Posh Portside Out Starboard Home My Life Story

Author : Jack Woodside
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398438863
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P.O.S.H. Portside Out – Starboard Home My Life Story written by Jack Woodside and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liner on the cover is the Empress of Scotland, the flagship of the Canadian Pacific Steamships, known as CPR, a very elegant liner. In the year of 1951 at the age of eighteen I was one of the three officer’s stewards on board the liner. That same year Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip had completed a tour of Canada and America. The princess was returning to England for her coronation which was taking place on the 2nd June 1953. In her party were five Canadian Mounted Police. Throughout the seven day voyage, the princess and duke spent every day on the bridge deck of the liner in the company of the ship’s captain and officers. One of my duties was to serve beverages to the princess, the duke and the officers. I was eighteen years of age.

Author : Jack Woodside
Publisher : Austin Macauley
ISBN 13 : 9781398438859
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book P.O.S.H. Portside Out - Starboard Home My Life Story written by Jack Woodside and published by Austin Macauley. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liner on the cover is the Empress of Scotland, the flagship of the Canadian Pacific Steamships, known as CPR, a very elegant liner. In the year of 1951 at the age of eighteen I was one of the three officer's stewards on board the liner. That same year Princess Elizabeth and her husband Prince Phillip had completed a tour of Canada and America. The princess was returning to England for her coronation which was taking place on the 2nd June 1953. In her party were five Canadian Mounted Police. Throughout the seven day voyage, the princess and duke spent every day on the bridge deck of the liner in the company of the ship's captain and officers. One of my duties was to serve beverages to the princess, the duke and the officers. I was eighteen years of age.

Author : Erik Smalhout
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839218
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland written by Erik Smalhout and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erik Smalhout was born a child of privilege in the Netherlands East Indies. Smalhout’s father sent his unruly son to a boarding school in Australia, just months before the Japanese seized the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942. While young Smalhout adapted to life in rural Australia, his sister and father back home were placed in Japanese prison camps, an experience that proved fateful for his father and changed his sister’s life forever. Serendipity followed him through induction in the WWII Dutch military, his postwar service on merchant ships circling the globe, and eventually to the most southern place on earth: the Mississippi Delta. Smalhout spent the rest of his life adapting to challenging circumstances time after time: first as a progressive Dutchman in the American South, then as an IRS agent in the nation’s second-largest financial center, and finally as a man who, due to a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, often could not identify himself. Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland: Searching for Home is Smalhout’s memoir, edited by his granddaughter, Erika Berry, and supported with pictures and documents that he saved throughout his lifetime. Smalhout’s story reminds readers that place is secondary to experience and that no matter where we are or what fortunate or unfortunate circumstances placed us there, an eternal curiosity for humanity will help us find a place in the world.

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Total Pages : 242 pages
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Author : Michael Quinion
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Download or read book Port Out, Starboard Home written by Michael Quinion and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the true origin of the phrase 'one fell swoop'? Does the word 'honeymoon' really derive from an old Persian custom of giving the happy couple mead, a honey wine, for the first month after the wedding? The rapid growth of the internet and the use of email has increased the circulation of (usually) false tales about the evolution of language. In this entertaining and fascinating new book on the origins of words and expressions, Michael Quinion retells the mythic tales that have become popular currency - the word 'posh' deriving from 'port out, starboard home' - and also tries to find and explain the true stories behind the origins of phrases. Quinion offers explanations of why and how stories about words are created, and how misunderstanding word origins - while usually harmless - can have serious consequences.

Author : Douglas S. Russell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844862046
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winston Churchill Soldier written by Douglas S. Russell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young man Winston Churchill set out to become a hero, to make a name for himself in the public eye as a soldier and so make possible a life of politics and statesmanship. There were many chances to fail and many close calls in the face of sword, spear and bullet along the way. Yet Churchill survived and succeeded – an early measure of his courage and stubborn will that the world would come to know so well in the Second World War. This is the first full-length, fully-researched biography of Churchill's colourful military career. Using an unrivalled range of sources, and with previously unpublished photographs, and detailed maps by Sir Martin Gilbert, it brings to life Churchill's motives, abilities, experiences, successes and failures, and his unswerving sense of destiny as an officer in the British Army. The result is a story to echo the man himself – rich in action, courage, charismatic self-belief, patriotism and humour. Making extensive use of the contemporary accounts of Churchill and his fellow soldiers and archival documents from three continents, illustrated with many maps and previously unpublished photographs, Douglas S. Russell vividly brings to life the military career of the vigorous young officer of hussars who later became the greatest Briton of the twentieth century. From Sandhurst to the mountainous North-West Frontier of India, to the charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, from the South African veldt to the deadly trench warfare of the Great War, the author – whom Sir Martin Gilbert calls 'a keen portraitist' – tells the gripping story of Churchill's army life with careful attention to historical detail and all the drama that the real life adventures of his subject deserve.

Author : Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society (1821- )
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Author : Addison Cowles
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Author : Herbert C. Banks
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781563115127
Total Pages : 136 pages
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