Clive Catchpole's Books

Explains how and why birds sing to one another.

Clive Howard and Joe Whitley were both sergeants and served as correspondents for the Seventh Air Force during World War 2. The men of the Seventh were forced to fly the longest missions in any theater of war, entirely over water and, at first, without fighter escort. They fought at Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Truk, Saipan, Palau, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and finally Tokyo. One Damned Island After Another covers the history of this remarkable air force from the events at Pearl Harbor through to V-J Day, detailing events on every single island that the force landed on in between. This new 2019 edition of One Damned Island After Another includes annotations and original photographs from the Pacific campaigns.

Young Gerald Latimer tragically loses his father and then loses his job to a robot. To end this losing streak and raise 23,000.70p to place his dotty mother in a care home, he resorts to drug making. This fails disastrously when his friends greenhouse explodes. Gerald then agrees to rob a bank with an amateurish plan that also fails and given so little time to pay the care home fee, he is talked into a burglary. This results in the theft of a priceless item from a bent high court judge that no fence would ever consider handling. When nasty underworld characters learn of Geralds ill-gotten gain, he goes on the run with his cocaine-addicted friend and an attractive bank teller who had fallen for him. A deadly chase by the thugs and the police culminates in a surprise ending.

The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the most up-to-date record of the pronunciation of British and American English. Based on research by a joint UK and US team of linguistics experts, this is a unique survey of how English is really spoken in the twenty-first century. This second edition has been fully revised to include: a full reappraisal of the pronunciation models for modern British and American English; 2,000 new entries, including new words from the last decade, encyclopedic terms and proper names; separate IPA transcriptions for British and American English for over 100,000 words; information on grammatical variants including plurals, comparative and superlative adjectives, and verb tenses. The most comprehensive dictionary of its type available, The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English is the essential reference for those interested in English pronunciation.

A revised collection of the biographies of the highest scoring Allied fighter pilots of World War II. All details of their combat are arranged in tabular form. Included are a selection of photographs from hitherto private collections.

Text and pictures present the many beautiful and unusual forms of life that thrive in the jungle.

Text and illustrations describe the unique characteristics and conditions of the desert including the climate and rich and varied plant and animal life.

Describes the severe weather conditions characteristic of high mountain regions, and discusses the hardy animals such as the ptarmigan, chinchilla, llama, and grizzly bear, that live in mountainous areas.

Describes the climate and plant life of the world's grasslands and introduces several of the animals, including the wildebeest, gazelle, elephant, and kangaroo, that inhabit grassland areas.

Bird Song has long been an inspiration to poets, and a delight to many other people, but why do birds sing? Bird song has been studied extensively in the past few decades, so that there is now hardly an area of animal behaviour on to which studies of song do not shed light. This book explores the study of bird song from the biological viewpoint, reviewing the literature written on the subject and considering its intricate nature. It is written with a wide readership in mind so that, while undergraduate and postgraduate students of biology may gain particularly from it, both professional biologists interested in bird behaviour and amateur ornithologists with some knowledge of biology will also find it a mine of information.

Book's by Clive Catchpole

Bird Song

Bird Song

One Damned Island After Another: The Saga of the Seventh

One Damned Island After Another: The Saga of the Seventh

The Sad-Faced Bank Robber

The Sad-Faced Bank Robber

The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English

The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English

Aces High

Aces High

Jungles

Jungles

Deserts

Deserts

Mountains

Mountains

Grasslands

Grasslands

Bird Song

Bird Song

Mountains

Mountains

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