Product Description: A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the airLittle more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I...read more

[Read by Gildart Jackson]A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air.Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces.The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air ''aces'' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Marked for Death debunks popular myth to explore the brutal truths of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of burning, screaming nineteen-year-olds falling to their deaths; of pilots blinded by the entrails of their observers.James Hamilton-Paterson also reveals how four years of war produced profound changes both in the aircraft themselves and in military attitudes and strategy. By 1918 it was widely accepted that domination of the air above the battlefield was crucial to military success, a realization that would change the nature of warfare forever.

Product Description: [Read by Gildart Jackson]A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air.Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I...read more

Nearing the end of his career, Sir Edward Elgar, the British composer, impulsively decides to travel to Brazil, where he encounters a woman from his past

Product Description: First published in 2001, Loving Monsters begins with a British writer, now living in Italy, being propositioned to write the biography of a strange near-neighbour, a man named Jebb whose life has taken in 1920s London, wartime Egypt and modern Tuscany...read more

Product Description: 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 they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter...read more

Product Description: James Hamilton-Paterson's classic exploration of the sea, Seven Tenths is a beautifully written blend of literature and science that includes the acclaimed essay "Sea Burial." Hamilton-Paterson writes about fishing, piracy, ecological crises, and is especially brilliant on the melancholy fascination of those border places and moments when the sea and land meet and the human experience seems transient...read more

Product Description: "Imagine a British John Waters crossed with David Sedaris."-The New York Times Book Review Set both in Tuscany and in the trendy haunts of London, this hilarious sequel to the popular Cooking with Fernet Branca is further evidence of Hamilton-Paterson's wit and comic inventiveness...read more

Gerald Samper, an effete Englishman, lives on a hilltop in Tuscany. He is a ghostwriter for celebrities, and a foodie, whose weird tastes include 'Mussels in Chocolate and Garlic' and 'Fernet Branca Ice Cream'. His idyll is shattered by the arrival of Marta, a vulgar woman from a former Soviet republic now run by gangsters, notably male members of her family. She is a composer in a neo-folk style who claims to be writing a score for a trendy Italian film director. The neighbours' lives disastrously intertwine. The entourages of the rock star and the director come and go; mysterious black helicopters bring news of mayhem in Voynova, Marta's homeland; and along the way the English obsession with Tuscany is satirized mercilessly.

The author of Ghosts of Manila describes Project Orca's quest for the gold carried by two World War II wrecks, the Japanese submarine I-52 and the British liner SS Aurelia, and shares impressions of life three miles below the surface of the South Atlantic. Reprint.

Delving into the depths of the Ferdinand Marcos regime, the author explains how Marcos came to power, with U.S. help, by exploiting Phillipine mythology and creating stories surrounding his combat with the Japanese. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "Sea Change brings together the imagery of nineteen artists who have returned to the world's oceans as photographic subject matter. Instead of focusing on maritime life, beach culture, or shoreline scenery, these artists look to the sea itself to discover its purest qualities: water, air, and light...read more

Describes Project Orca's quest for the gold carried by two World War II wrecks, the Japanese submarine I-52 and the liner SS Aurelia, and shares the author's impressions of life three miles below the surface of the South Atlantic

Product Description: 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 argues that they were merely the latest in a long line of corrupt Filipino leaders in a country which had historically been ruled by oligarchie...read more

Product Description: "A wonderful inner journey in the outer light and color of a remote coast, uncommonly well written."--Peter Matthiessen

In the wake of World War II, an eccentric European curator struggles to keep alive a greenhouse full of exotic, nocturnal plants, fending off financial threats to their survival and his own creeping insanity.

A wasteland city whose factory processes the skeletons of derelicts for science harbors four people--a television journalist, an archaeologist, an embattled and poor Filipina, and a corrupt cop--who reflect on unresolved pasts and obsess upon the world around them.

Product Description: James Hamilton-Paterson spends a third of each year on an otherwise uninhabited Philippine island, spear-fishing for survival. Playing with Water tells us why he does. Beyond that, it gives an account of life in that class-bound country as a whole...read more

A voyage through the mind of a writer with a passion for the sea dives into lyrical explanations of a watery world with sections on charts, islands, reefs, wrecks, fishing, and pirates

Tessa Hemony travels with her two children from their home in a religious cult commune to the holy city of Malomba, where they become the unwitting pawns of an enterprising young bellboy

Examines the mysterious relics of Egypt's past, detailing the chemical processing involved in mummification, discussing superstitions that have persisted through the centuries, and providing photographs, diagrams, and other illustrations

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 him back to another time.