To The North

Author : Paul Morley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747578168
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The North written by Paul Morley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the age of seven, old enough to form an identity but too young to be aware that 'southern' was a category, Paul Morley has always thought of himself as a northerner. What that meant, he wasn't entirely sure. But he wondered why, when as a child he was so ready to abandon his Cheshire roots and support the much more successful Lancashire cricket team, and when as an adult he found he could travel between London and Manchester in less than two hours, he continued to say he was from the north.

Author : al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ
Publisher : Penguin Group(CA)
ISBN 13 : 9780141187204
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Season of Migration to the North written by al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ and published by Penguin Group(CA). This book was released on 2003 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'SEASON OF MIGRATION TO THE NORTH-An Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions and delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West and a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy and the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully and poetically written and splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies.' Observer

Author : Hermann Tietgen
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039142265
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invitation to The North written by Hermann Tietgen and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man with a recent degree in Agriculture from the University of Berlin, Hermann came to Canada in 1930 to escape inflation and lack of jobs in Germany. A chance encounter led him to the North and a job prospecting for gold. He fell in love with the North like so many others had done before him. In 1939 the declaration of war against Germany stopped all searches for gold in the North. Suddenly other minerals were more important. This brought all the gold prospectors to Edmonton from the North and there were many more men than jobs. Hermann, his wife, and little daughter moved ‘back’ to Montreal where he was hoping to find a job. Fortunately, through a friend of a friend, he did land a job at an alloy-producing plant in Beauharnois, Quebec near Montreal. The first job was as a ‘stoker’ on a platform above the huge vats of molten metal, stirring the mass which would be used to make armoured steel for vehicles and tanks, for the Canadian Armed Forces. He worked at St. Lawrence Alloys as a Stores Keeper and then as the Purchasing Agent, until he retired in 1968. He died in 1970, never having returned to the North which he loved so well. This is his story in his own words.

Author : David Wragg
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147382236X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race to the North written by David Wragg and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, some of Britains leading main-line railway companies threw caution to the winds in an attempt to provide the fastest passenger express services between London and Scotland. These became known as the races to the north. There were two phases, in 1888 and 1895, and they spurred the building of new bridges across the Firth of Forth and Firth of Tay.David Wraggs gripping, detailed narrative tells the story of this epic engineering and commercial competition. He concentrates on the determination of the railway companies to see who could provide the fastest schedule between London and the main Scottish cities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee and Aberdeen.Casting aside their early policy of co-existence on these prestigious and lucrative routes, the West Coast and East Coast companies were drawn into a period of intense, highly publicized rivalry as they sought to dominate the market. David Wragg gives an insight into the conduct of the well-publicized highs and tragic lows of this dramatic story the extension of the lines to the far north, the building of the Tay and Forth bridges including the collapse of the first Tay bridge with 72 fatalities and the repeated bids by the companies to cut the journey times.While he describes the public side of this fascinating story, David Wragg fills in the background, which is no less interesting the pioneering engineering of the steam age, the massive construction projects, the cut-throat battle for passengers and freight and the deep inter-company rivalries that drove the rapid development of the railways during the Victorian period.

Author : North Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memorial of the North Pennsylvania Rail Road Company to the councils of the city of Philadelphia, etc written by North Pennsylvania Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew David
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1134767501
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798 written by Andrew David and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the journal of Broughton's journey across Mexico (1793). An extensive introduction by Professor Barry Gough places the voyage in its historical context. Broughton had first visited the North Pacific in 1792 in command of the brig Chatham during Vancouver's voyage. When negotiations between Vancouver and Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra reached an impasse, Broughton was sent back to London to seek fresh instructions, travelling across Mexico and returning to Europe in Spanish ships. Back in London in July 1793 he was appointed in command of the sloop Providence with orders to rejoin Vancouver in the Pacific, taking with him the astronomer John Crosley.

Author : George Vancouver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean written by George Vancouver and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christophe Paulin de La Poix (chevalier de Fréminville.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voyage to the north pole, in the frigate the Syrene; including a notice relative to the island of Iceland written by Christophe Paulin de La Poix (chevalier de Fréminville.) and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. C. Yarrow
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians written by H. C. Yarrow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An Introduction to the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians' by H.C. Yarrow is a fascinating exploration of the burial rituals and beliefs of Indigenous tribes. This book sheds light on the deep significance of these customs and what they reveal about the philosophy, social, and moral conditions of these people. Through careful observation and study, Yarrow provides a thorough examination of the care of the deceased, the method of burial, and the gifts and mourning customs associated with death.

Author : James HENDERSON (Architect, Aberdeen.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What does the present mode of conveyance to the North cost the public? And what would be the saving by railway?. written by James HENDERSON (Architect, Aberdeen.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: