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The Sea and its Thresholds
Seven-Tenths is James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea. A beautifully-written blend of literature and science, it is here brought ba...
The Sea and Its Thresholds
Discusses the islands, coasts, reefs, abyssal depths, and ways the oceans work in people's imagination....
Gerald Samper is a ghost writer to the stars: rock singers, racing drivers and ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, who...
A re-examination of the rule of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos in the Philippines and the conditions that gave rise to their leadership. The author argue...
A Novel
1961. A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. Highly manoeuvrable, the...
Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include 'Mus...
When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft the...
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars, ships and locomotives from 1900 to 1941 by the author of the bestselling Empir...
In 1986 the overthrow of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos by Cory Aquino's 'People Power' revolution focused global attention on the Philippines. Western m...
A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's f...
The Dismantling of Great Britain
'Exquisitely written and ripe with detail' Sunday Times. 'An engaging book... He knows his British stuff' The Times. 'One of England's most skilled an...
The First Great Romantic Symphony
An ode to Beethoven's revolutionary masterpiece, his Third Symphony In 1805, the world of music was startled by an avant-garde and explosive new work....
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Mistakenly kidnapped by a guerrilla group, the son of an American oil executive discovers that as the weeks of his captivity pass he is less and less ...
Book Three in the Gerald Samper series finds Samper recuperating in Sussex, when he learns that film rights to his book on Millie Cleatathe have been ...
The Story of the Lockheed SR-71 Spy Plane
The American 'spy' aircraft, the SR-71 'Blackbird' was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft and has never been ...
This text discusses the mummification processes used in ancient Egypt and their relevance and importance to the religious beliefs and elaborate funera...
Hamilton-Paterson, author of several novels, tells of his adventure with an international crew of researchers, investors, and salvage experts searchin...
Botanical horror story....
Een Britse moeder en haar twee tienerkinderen gaan in de jaren zestig naar het Oosten op zoek naar wijsheid....
A Very Personal War, first published in 1971, was James Hamilton-Paterson's first non-fiction book, and though out of print for many years it retains ...
The fascinating story of the spy plane SR-71 Blackbird-the fastest manned aircraft in the history of aviation. The SR-71 Blackbird, the famed "spy" je...
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The Seascape in Contemporary Photography
Artwork by Roni Horn. Photographs by Tom Baril. Contributions by James Hamilton Patterson. Text by Trudy Wilner-Stack....
Having spent most of his life in foster homes and institutions, a fourteen-year-old withdraws into himself until a strange message on the beach takes ...
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