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The Colonial Clippers

By: Basil Lubbock

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The Colonial Clippers

By: Basil Lubbock

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375241037X

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9783752410372

Fog of the Forgotten

By: Basil Wells

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The fog of their world matched the fog in their minds. Rebelling against science, they smashed it, dragged their people down into the ancient mists. But Ho Dyak wanted light.excerpt"The fog sea thinned before Ho Dyak, and he could see the dank rocks of the cliffs he scaled a scant twenty feet beneath his feet. The network of blue-veined pale vines that he climbed thinned even as the air itself thinned. Far below him in the lowlands the mat of agan vines was three hundred feet in depth in many places.Higher and higher climbed Ho Dyak, his long pale face, with its full red lips and great thick-lidded purple eyes, drawn with pain. For the air of the uplands was chill. As the fog thinned, so too dropped the temperature.Ho Dyak gripped tighter the pouch of flayed drogskin, in which five of the forbidden foot-long cylinders of metal skins nestled, as he paused for a moment to rest. It was because of them, the forbidden scrolls stored in a musty forgotten chamber of the Upper Shrine of Lalal, the One God of Arba, that Ho Dyak was now climbing into the frigid death of the cloudless uplands.The ivory-skinned body of the man was swathed in layer upon layer of quilted and padded garments of leather and fabric. His two feet, with their webbed outstretched toes, and his short stubby middle limbs, strong-fingered webbed hands at their ends, were encased in sturdy mittenlike moccasins. Only his long upper hands were encased in stout leather gloves with four divisions-one for the thumb and the other three for his four-jointed fingers.Over his grotesquely swollen bulk, for which his myriad garments were responsible, Ho Dyak's sword belt and the filled sheath of javelin-like darts were belted. To his crossed belts also were attached his broad-bladed machete-like knife and the throwing stick for his dwarfish spears.No longer did he fear pursuit. The fighting priests, the dark-robed orsts of Lalal, had brought with them none of the warm garments Ho Dyak wore. Their shouts and sacred battle cries had died away on the slopes a mile or more beneath where he now perched. For the moment he was safe from their vengeance."I will see what lies above the fog sea," said Ho Dyak to the unresponsive ladderlike network of agan he climbed. "Perhaps I can, for a few short hours, see the vast plateaus that once my people ruled.

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eStar Books

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1612104088

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9781612104089

The Soldier Poets

By: Basil Jay

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The Soldier Poets

By: Basil Jay

Some of the soldier poets of the Great War, 1914 to 1918: Ivor Gurney, Robert Graves, Charles Sorley, Seigried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Edgell Rickword , John McCrae , Ewart Alan MacIntosh, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Julian Grenfell, John William Streets, and Richard Adlington. They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn At the going down of the sun and in the morning WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM

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154

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AuthorHouse

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1477243216

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9781477243213

Chance and Commitment

Memoirs of a Medical Scientist

By: Basil S. Hetzel

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Chance and Commitment

Memoirs of a Medical Scientist

By: Basil S. Hetzel

The work of Dr. Basil Hetzel and his team of researchers has prevented and will continue to prevent millions of people worldwide from being born intellectually disabled. In this memoir, Hetzel recalls his discovery that a single dose of iodized oil added to the diet of pregnant women could eradicate the serious birth defects that had plagued many developing countries.

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350

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Wakefield Press

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1862546827

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9781862546820

An Engagement with Plato's Republic

A Companion to the Republic

By: Basil Mitchell,J.R. Lucas

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An Engagement with Plato's Republic

A Companion to the Republic

By: Basil Mitchell,J.R. Lucas

Outrageous, unfashionable, politically incorrect though many of Plato's opinions undoubtedly are, we should not just dismiss them as thoughts now unthinkable, but think through them, recognising the force of the arguments that led Plato to enunciate them and consider the counter-arguments he might have marshalled to meet contemporary objections. This book encourages today's students to engage in Plato's thought, grapple with Plato's arguments, and explore the relevance of his arguments in contemporary terms. A text only comes alive if we make it our own; Plato's great work The Republic, often reads as though it were addressing the problems of the day rather than those of ancient Athens. Treating The Republic as a whole and offering a comprehensive introduction to Plato's arguments, Mitchell and Lucas draw students into an exploration of the relevance of Plato's thought to our present ideas about politics, society and education, as well as the philosophy of mathematics, science and religion. The authors bring The Republic to life. The first chapters help the reader to make sense of the text, either in translation or the original Greek. Later chapters deal with the themes that Plato raises, treating Plato as a contemporary. Plato is inexhaustible: he speaks to many different people of different generations and from different backgrounds. The Republic is not just an ancient text: it never ceases to be relevant to contemporary concerns, and it demands fresh discussion in every age.

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190

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Routledge

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1351958976

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9781351958974

The Order of Things

By: Basil Georgiou

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The Order of Things

By: Basil Georgiou

Discrimination, ambition, assassination, love and tragedy shape this fast-paced tale about the lives of three men from different backgroundsduring the tumultuous period in South Africas history from the 1930s, through apartheid, to the first free election in 1994. The Order of Things weaves their gripping stories as conflicting political and social forces threaten the survival of each of them. Marius Strydomheir to a politically powerful Boer farmeris nurtured by the lore of the bitter battles of his people against the British. His boyhood playmate, Jeremiah Ngubeni, born to black labourers on the farm, is banished by Marius as a young man. The ambitious Neil Robertson, raised in England, leaves home to seek his fortune in Johannesburg. While doors open for the two white men, Jeremiah experiences a different South Africa. All three are tested by the order of things as each tries to forge his destiny.

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459

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Balboa Press

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1504308212

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9781504308212

The David Connection

By: Basil Taher

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The David Connection

By: Basil Taher

Sixty years after her liberation from a Nazi death camp, Ingrid is still a prisoner of war. Like other Holocaust survivors, she is haunted by the atrocities inflicted on her, but she suffers even more by misplaced guilt and shame that has a profound effect on her relationships. A boy she once knew in Germany is now a successful businessman living under an assumed name in South America. While Oscar's life is motivated by the prejudice and hatred within the neo-Nazi movement, Ingrid's loving family in Detroit is challenged by religious identity as well as the cancer that seems an unfair blow to a woman who has already endured so much. The probability of their adult children ever meeting each other was unlikely, but with fatal consequences. The David Connection is an epic historical drama that explores filial loyalty in the shadow of unfathomable loathing, as well as the tests of spirituality and love.

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408

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Lulu.com

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1775203301

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9781775203308

At the Edge of the Desert

By: Basil Lawrence

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At the Edge of the Desert

By: Basil Lawrence

In the Namibian harbour town of Lüderitz, a liminal space where desert meets ocean, a terrible history is made intimate and personal when filmmaker Henry van Wyk must confront a childhood tragedy that has moulded his life. Having returned to his birthplace in an attempt to get his career back on track, Henry struggles to complete a documentary he is working on. He whiles away his mornings swimming in a nearby tidal pool on Shark Island, and finds himself increasingly drawn to the small town and its romantic possibilities. But the tranquil land hides a bloody history: Shark Island was once the site of a concentration camp, and a law firm is suing the German government for their role in the genocide of Namibia’s indigenous people. When Henry begins to interview the survivors’ descendants, their testimonies compel him to search the desert for a mass grave. At the Edge of the Desert is a meditation on loss, isolation and love, which asks us to consider the implications of telling someone else’s story.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1485904641

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9781485904649

Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

By: Basil Hall

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Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

By: Basil Hall

First published in 1931. 'Hall is the ideal travel-writer. He never wearies his readers, but makes them love him.' Times Literary Supplement Basil Hall's Fragments of Voyages and Travels originally appeared in nine volumes. Miscellaneous in their topics, and arranged without any order the volumes re-issued here have been selected for their clarity and interest, both geographical and historical. Few books give a more graphic picture of the Royal Navy a century ago and Hall's volumes are full of nautical information. Hall was also an indefatigable traveller and a keen observer who learnt Hindustani, Malay and Japanese, studied Hindu mythology, flora, fauna and geology and compiled the first ever vocabulary of the language of the Loo Choo Islands.

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Routledge

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1134284802

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9781134284801

The Aurelian Legacy

British Butterflies and Their Collectors

By: Michael A. Salmon,Peter Marren,Basil Harley

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The Aurelian Legacy

British Butterflies and Their Collectors

By: Michael A. Salmon,Peter Marren,Basil Harley

This entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the 17th century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings. Laced with anecdotes and quotations, the beautifully illustrated volume describes the equipment used and gives brief biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists. 58 illustrations, 42 in color.

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Univ of California Press

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0520229630

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9780520229631

Book's by Basil Keen

The Colonial Clippers

The Colonial Clippers

Fog of the Forgotten

Fog of the Forgotten

The Soldier Poets

The Soldier Poets

Chance and Commitment

Chance and Commitment

An Engagement with Plato's Republic

An Engagement with Plato's Republic

The Order of Things

The Order of Things

The David Connection

The David Connection

At the Edge of the Desert

At the Edge of the Desert

Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

The Aurelian Legacy

The Aurelian Legacy

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