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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean to the Far East, to capture a last glint of imperial glory. His adventures in these distant and forgotten ends of the earth make compelling,...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the builders of the British Empire, how they were represented in popular culture of the day, and how that vision has changed over time.
From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world's surface. The common saying was that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." What began as a largely entrepreneurial enterprise in the early modern period, with privately...
Author
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The Jesus Incident --A sentient Ship with godlike powers (and aspirations) delivers the last survivors of humanity to a horrific, poisonous planet, Pandora--rife with deadly Nerve-Runners, Hooded Dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. Chaplain/Psychiatrist Raja Lon Flattery is brought back out of hybernation to witness Ship's machinations as well as the schemes of human scientists manipulating the genetic structure of humanity. Book 1...
Author
Series
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"What did it mean to be an African subject living in remote areas of Tanganyika at the end of the colonial era? For the Kaguru of Tanganyika, it meant daily confrontation with the black and white governmental officials tasked with bringing this rural people into the mainstream of colonial African life. T. O. Beidelman's detailed narrative links this administrative world to the Kaguru's wider social, cultural, and geographical milieu, and to the political...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This is a collection of Ian Hernon's three books, Massacre and Retribution, The Savage Empire, and Blood in the Sand. Much has been written about the great British military triumphs of the 19th century, but there are many more astonishing stories which have been largely forgotten. These forgotten wars cannot hope to compete in history with the Crimean War or the Boer War, but for acts of sheer courage and endurance, they deserve to be remembered....
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
This work covers tales from local people whose journey through life has taken them from their homeland to Britain as well as those who left the Southwest for a life overseas. Testimonies and reconstructions tell of child migrants, war brides and African immigrants amongst others.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Perhaps Australia's most significant and most famous 19th-century colonial novel, For the Term of His Natural Life is a narrative of great suffering-of whips, chains, and man's inhumanity. There is no attempt to soften the truth of the degradation and cruelty in convict Australia. Yet the novel is peopled with vivid characters--Rufus Dawes, condemned to transportation for a crime he did not commit, is one of the most unforgettable characters in Australian...
Author
Series
Cluster volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Original and fascinating ... entertaining and beautifully written," the complete Cluster series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Xanth Novels ( Science Fiction Review ). Seamlessly blending science fiction and fantasy, New York Times bestselling author Piers Anthony presents an epic adventure series in a completely original universe. Cluster : In a battle to control the energy of the Milky Way galaxy, two adversaries of superior...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Don't be alarmed - that dizzy pleasurable sensation you're experiencing is just your brain slowly exploding from all the wild magnificent worldbuilding in Nicky Drayden's Escaping Exodus . I loved these characters and this story, and so will you. - Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of The Art of Starving and Blackfish City The Compton Crook award-winning author of The Prey of Gods and Temper returns with a dazzling stand-alone novel, set...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in a remote British penal colony in the late eighteenth century, Bring Larks and Heroes explores the early years of European settlement of desperate men and corrupt soldiers to Australia, the world's end. Corporal Phelim Halloran, an honest man, poet and lover, attempts to make a home for himself while confronting the demands of his secret bride, a convict-artist, his Irish comrades, and his own conscience. Can he overcome the hellish, sun-parched...
Author
Series
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Based on a New York Times bestseller, inhabitants of a planet colony confront totalitarianism in this "intelligent" sci-fi fantasy "with solid characters" (Kirkus Reviews).
In The Jesus Incident, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author George Herbert and poet Bill Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants...
12) Angelmass
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Fast-paced action ... first-rate sf space adventure" ( Library Journal ) from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn . Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying -- which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. For while Empyrean human colonies on the edge of the...
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored revisionist decrees that have exacerbated tensions, complicated the process of establishing and recording national memory, and triggered divisive debates...
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This prize-winning study examines the nightmarish effects of the so-called "wonder drug" in preventing sleeping sickness in Africa. After the Second World War, French colonial health services set out to eradicate sleeping sickness in Africa. The newly discovered drug Lomidine (also known as Pentamidine) promised to protect against infection, and mass campaigns of "preventive lomidinization" were launched across Africa. But the drug proved to be both...
15) Moonfall
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins e-books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.
But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new...
16) Thetis
Author
Series
Deep sky saga volume 2
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Blind and broken, orphaned teenager Jonah Lincoln reluctantly boards a rescue ship bound for the planet Thetis, but not before it picks up a few more surprising and dangerous survivors from the massacre on the moon Achilles. After regaining his sight, Jonah sees the gated colony on Thetis is just as he feared -- cloaked in mystery and under an oppressive rule with no one to trust -- and that outside the walls, it's even worse. Surrounded by terrifying...
17) Rolling Thunder
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The third book in the Thunder and Lightning Series is "a smashing success ... [with] action-packed, science-packed homages to Heinlein's best work" (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing ). Navy lieutenant Podkayne, daughter of Ray Garcia-Strickland, is tired of her job as Martian consul in California -- and Earth's oppressive gravity. So she's OK with getting called back to Mars even if it's because her great-grandmother is sick and being put into suspended...
18) Achilles
Author
Series
Deep sky saga volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young colonists find themselves stranded on an unpopulated moon -- and not as alone as they thought -- in a series debut from the author of The Red Bishop . The year is 2221, and humans have colonized a planet called Thetis in the Silver Foot Galaxy. After a tragic accident kills dozens of teenage colonists, Thetis's leaders are desperate to repopulate. So Earth sends the Mayflower 2 -- a state-of-the-art spaceship -- across the universe to bring...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Stuart Stirling tells the history of the Inca princesses and of their conquistador lovers and descendants. The story begins with the early days of Pizarro's conquest at Cajamarca in the 1530s, when the emperor Atahualpa gifted his young sister wife Quispe Sis Huaylas to Pizarro. This was the beginning of the distribution and rape of the princesses among the conquistadors - a practice which was in many ways a distillation of the tragedy of the Spanish...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Beginning his career as a British Surgeon Major in Afghanistan, George Scott Robertson found himself defending Chitral Fort in 1895 against a besieging force of thousands of tribesmen. He was celebrated as a hero, but this was only one chapter in what was an extraordinary life. Traveling in India, Canada, and Kafiristan, he took part in numerous military expeditions on the frontier, wrote a renowned ethnography-The Kafirs of the Hindu Kush-and in...
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