The journey began in August 1914 in London and the next the world knew of Shackleton was in May 1916, when three ragged men staggered into the whaling station at Grytviken on South Georgia. On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS Endurance from London's West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic. It was to turn into one of the most breathtaking survival stories of all time. Even as they coasted down the channel, Shackleton wired back to London to offer his ship to the war effort. The reply came from the First Lord of the Admiralty, one Winston Churchill: "Proceed". And proceed they did. When the Endurance was trapped and finally crushed to splinters by pack ice in late 1915, they drifted on an ice floe for five months, before getting to open sea and launching three tiny boats as far as the inhospitable, storm-lashed Elephant Island. They drank seal oil and ate baby albatross (delicious, apparently). From there Shackelton himself and seven others—the author among them—went on, in a 22-foot open boat, for an unbelievable 800 miles, through the Antarctic seas in winter, to South Georgia and rescue. It is an extraordinary story of courage and even good-humor among men who must have felt certain, secretly, that they were going to die. Worsley's account, first published in 1940, captures that bulldog spirit exactly: uncomplaining, tough, competent, modest and deeply loyal. It's gripping, and strangely moving.

    Together the Johnsons flew and sailed to Borneo, to Kenya, and to the Congo, filming Simba and other popular nature movies with Martin behind the camera and Osa holding her rifle at the ready in case the scene's big game star should turn hostile. This bestselling memoir retraces their careers in rich detail, with precisely observed descriptions and often heart-stopping anecdotes. Illustrated with scores of the dramatic photos that made the Johnsons famous, it's a book sure to delight every lover of true adventure.

    She had a key insight into the intimate lives of a generation being revolutionized, and the reality is that her experiences are priceless in understanding modern man.The primary interest of this work is not historical, it is educational and moral. It contains dozens of short stories of personal, first hand experiences from the author's life regarding courtship, marriage, and raising children.This book of experience will have the advantage of spurring on parents to prepare their children for the great lessons of life, and of giving to these same young people living examples to illustrate these lessons, hopefully sparing them the cost of irreversible consequences.

    

    a reminder of why history matters,” the bestselling sequel to Only Yesterday illuminates the events that brought America back from the brink Published in 1940, Since Yesterday takes up where Lewis’s classic leaves off. Opening on September 3, 1929, in the days before the stock market crash, this information-packed volume takes us through one of America’s darkest times all the way to the light at the end of the tunnel.   Following Black Tuesday, America plunged into the Great Depression. Panic and fear gripped the nation. Banks were closing everywhere. In some cities, 84 percent of the population was unemployed and starving. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in 1933,  public confidence in the nation slowly began to grow, and by 1936, the industrial average, which had plummeted in 1929 from 125 to fifty-eight, had risen again to almost one hundred. But America still had a long road ahead. Popular historian Frederick Lewis Allen brings to life these ten critical years. With wit and empathy, he draws a devastating economic picture of small businesses swallowed up by large corporations—a ruthless bottom line not so different from what we see today. Allen also chronicles the decade’s lighter side: the fashions, morals, sports, and candid cameras that were revolutionizing Americans’ lives.     From the Lindbergh kidnapping to the New Deal, from the devastating dust storms that raged through our farmlands to the rise of Benny Goodman, the public adoration of Shirley Temple, and our mass escape to the movies, this book is a hopeful and powerful reminder of why history matters.

    Priestley broadcast during the early period of the second World War. They have passed into folklore as a slice of social history, and everyone back then knew that they were stopped because Priestley threatened to outshine Prime Misiter Winston Churchill. JBP was accused of being rather left-wing in what he said, but he was just talkuing to ordinary people about the sort of things ordinary people wanted to hear discussed! Significantly, this book of his Postscripts was published because of public demand to see his talks in print! KFSee also All England Listened, and The Story of J.B. Priestley's Postscripts.

    This anthology is the product of many years of intensive research and collecting on the part of the editor. Each letter is prefaced with a biographical prelude and a summary of the historic background behind the correspondence. Among the over 120 letters herein, read as Alexander the Great announces to Darius, King of Persia, that he alone has dominion over the earth; Beethoven writes to his Immortal Beloved; Michelangelo negotiates with the Pope over the Sistine Chapel; Christopher Columbus reports his first impressions of America to the Court of Spain; Dostoyevsky describes his sensations in the minutes before he was to be executed; Thomas Mann writing in 1937 hurls his defiance against Hitler and the Nazi regime. Here then are love letters, taunting letters, shocking letters, letters dipped in honeyed phrases, letters written with words of gall, bombastic letters, letters breathing fire, letters with good news, letters that spelled disaster, passionate letters, secret letters, casual letters, gushing letters, impulsive letters, grandiloquent letters, crafty letters, short letters, voluminous letters, letters of courage, letters of hatred, letters of adoration, letters of fury, letters that people forgot to burn, letters that people did not dare to send, letters that glorified literature, thundering letters, tender letters, inspired letters, diabolical letters, letters that made history.

    The book begins in 27 BCE with Augustus, Emperor of Rome, and follows the various manifestations of the empire through to Byzantine Constantinople and to Germany, ending with the fall of the Holy Roman Empire and the last (Holy) Roman Emperor, Francis II, in 1806. It is comprehensive in coverage, including both 'official' emperors and usurpers. Each chapter looks at a specific period of Roman imperial history, focusing not only on the emperors' reigns, but also on the rulers as people, discussing their personality and motivation and bringing them to life for a modern audience. "

    

    A Baker's Dozen is a collection of 13 essays recounting Llewelyn Powys's childhood memories of Somerset.■ Introduction by John Cowper Powys■ The New Year■ The Village Shop■ The Memory of One Day■ Childhood Memories■ Weymouth Harbour■ The Haymaking Months■ Herring Gulls■ Tintinhull Memories■ A Montacute Field■ The Harvest■ Buffalo Intruders■ Montacute Hill■ A Somerset Christmas

    poetry

    Surviving treacherous boat journeys, a broken leg, and hell-bent storms, he made temporary homes with his family on some of the remotest Hebridean islands so he could study the habits of grey seals and seabirds. The family finally settled on an abandoned croft in the Summer Isles, on Tanera Mor, and started farming the barren land. They repaired a ruined herring fishery and its stone quay. They fertilized the ground with seaweed, cut peat for the fires, and planted a garden behind sheltered walls. Slowly, they brought life back to the island.Island Years first published 1940 by G. Bell and Sons. Island Farm first published in 1943 by G. Bell and Sons.

    

    MacDonald.Please note that the author's last name is written as "Unishevsky" in the translated version, but the correct spelling is "Unischewski."

    It has hints and tips for attacking suspicious visitors, defending villages, what to wear on patrol and how to spot and secure a German parachutist- a very real threat to the British homeland in 1940.