Atlantic Fever
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Atlantic Fever
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Author : Joe Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2012-05-08
Atlantic Fever written by Joe Jackson and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-08 with Transportation categories.
For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to capture the $25,000 prize that Raymond Orteig offered to the first man to cross the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Joe Jackson's Atlantic Fever is about this race, a milestone in American history whose story has never been fully told. Delving into the lives of the big-name competitors—the polar explorer Richard Byrd, the French war hero René Fonck, the millionaire Charles Levine, and the race's eventual winner, the enigmatic Charles Lindbergh—as well as those whose names have been forgotten by history (such as Bernt Balchen, Stanton Wooster, and Clarence Chamberlin), Jackson brings a completely fresh and original perspective to the race to conquer the Atlantic. Atlantic Fever opens for us one of those magical windows onto a moment when the nexus of technology, innovation, character, and spirit led so many contenders from different parts of the world to be on the cusp of the exact same achievement at the exact same time.
Atlantic Fever
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Author : Edward Jablonski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Atlantic Fever written by Edward Jablonski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Aeronautics categories.
Includes material on Alcock and Brown, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Charles Levine, and Douglas "Wrong-Way" Corrigan.
The Fever Of The World
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Author : Phil Rickman
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2022-06-02
The Fever Of The World written by Phil Rickman and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with Fiction categories.
'Brilliantly eerie' PETER JAMES 'Engrossing and beautifully dark . . . a cracking good read' JO BRAND 'A most original sleuth' THE TIMES Welcome to the River Wye: a place of poetry, historic obsession... and occult murder. The curious death of an estate agent is being investigated by detective David Vaynor who, before joining the police, studied the famous 18th century poet William Wordsworth. As Vaynor is discovering, the dark paganism that changed Wordsworth's life still lingers on the banks of the River Wye today - and there are some killings even the police can't approach... Enter Merrily Watkins, parish priest, single mum, and diocesan exorcist for Hereford. Called away from her local hauntings, Merrily finds herself confronting the riverside ghosts who, as Wordsworth puts it, 'promote ill purposes and flatter foul desires'. In the ancient heart of the Wye Valley, a buried grudge is about to come to light. *Book 16 in the Merrily Watkins series - now a critically acclaimed ITV drama starring Anna Maxwell-Martin!* More praise for Phil Rickman 'Cleverly illuminates the darkest corners of our imagination' John Connolly 'The layers, the characters, the humour, the spookiness - perfect' Elly Griffiths 'First rate crime with demons that go bump in the night' Daily Mail 'No one writes better of the shadow-frontier between the supernatural and the real world' Bernard Cornwell
The Yellow Demon Of Fever
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Author : Manuel Barcia
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-01
The Yellow Demon Of Fever written by Manuel Barcia and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-01 with History categories.
A pathbreaking history of how participants in the slave trade influenced the growth and dissemination of medical knowledge As the slave trade brought Europeans, Africans, and Americans into contact, diseases were traded along with human lives. Manuel Barcia examines the battle waged against disease, where traders fought against loss of profits while enslaved Africans fought for survival. Although efforts to control disease and stop epidemics from spreading brought little success, the medical knowledge generated by people on both sides of the conflict contributed to momentous change in the medical cultures of the Atlantic world.
The Malady Of Revolutions
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Author : Katherine Arner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Malady Of Revolutions written by Katherine Arner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, revolutions in the Americas and Europe rocked the Atlantic world and introduced new patterns of trade, warfare and migration. The patterns of long-distance trade that knitted the Atlantic World together, and the warfare and political dislocation that threatened to tear it apart also transported yellow fever far from its African origins and transformed it into an alarming health crisis that engulfed the Caribbean, new United States and southern Europe. This dissertation examines the new ecology for health management that contemporaries created to deal with the crisis. Existing scholarship on medical responses to the yellow fever pandemics focuses on imperial, local or new national contexts. Using the framework of Atlantic History, this dissertation explores how, not unlike yellow fever itself, knowledge about the disease and practices became subject to the global circulation and activities of physicians, military and naval personnel, political refugees, merchants, consuls and lay travelers who connected the diverse ports that hosted outbreaks of the disease. As a result of these actors' complex movements and dislocations during this period, management of the health crisis became a product of exchanges that cut across the new ideological and international boundaries that began to crystallize in this period. What emerged out of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions was a rich tapestry of vibrant medical networks, literature and practices that spanned across new national divides.
Ship Of Death
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Author : Billy G. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2013-11-19
Ship Of Death written by Billy G. Smith and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-19 with History categories.
How a ship of British idealists sailed to Africa to end the slave trade but instead ignited a yellow fever pandemic
Medicalizing Blackness
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Author : Rana A. Hogarth
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-09-26
Medicalizing Blackness written by Rana A. Hogarth and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-26 with Social Science categories.
In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever." Lining's comments presaged ideas about blackness that would endure in medical discourses and beyond. In this fascinating medical history, Rana A. Hogarth examines the creation and circulation of medical ideas about blackness in the Atlantic World during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She shows how white physicians deployed blackness as a medically significant marker of difference and used medical knowledge to improve plantation labor efficiency, safeguard colonial and civic interests, and enhance control over black bodies during the era of slavery. Hogarth refigures Atlantic slave societies as medical frontiers of knowledge production on the topic of racial difference. Rather than looking to their counterparts in Europe who collected and dissected bodies to gain knowledge about race, white physicians in Atlantic slaveholding regions created and tested ideas about race based on the contexts in which they lived and practiced. What emerges in sharp relief is the ways in which blackness was reified in medical discourses and used to perpetuate notions of white supremacy.
The Last Hunt
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Author : Deon Meyer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-11-14
The Last Hunt written by Deon Meyer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Fiction categories.
'The undisputed champion of South African crime. Meyer grabs you but the throat and never lets you go' Wilbur Smith 'From its startling opening to its tense and thrilling conclusion, Deon Meyer's The Last Hunt takes you on a whirlwind safari across two continents. In the whole of the Benny Griessel series so far, the stakes have never been higher or the odds so much against' Peter Robinson *** A cold case for Captain Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido of the Hawks elite police unit - not what they were looking for. And a difficult case, too. The body of Johnson Johnson, ex-cop, has been found beside a railway line. He appears to have jumped from South Africa's - perhaps the world's - most luxurious train, and two suspicious characters seen with him have disappeared into thin air. The regular police have already failed to make progress and others are intent on muddying the waters. Meanwhile in Bordeaux, Daniel Darret is settled in a new life on a different continent. A quiet life. But his skills as an international hit-man are required one more time, and Daniel is given no choice in the matter. He must hunt again - his prey the corrupt president of his homeland. Three strands of the same story become entwined in a ferocious race against time - for the Hawks to work out what lies behind the death of Johnson, for Daniel to evade the relentless Russian agents tracking him, for Benny Griessel to survive long enough to take another huge step in his efforts to piece together again the life he nearly destroyed - and finally ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. The Last Hunt shows one of the great crime writers operating at the peak of his powers.
The Woman In The Blue Cloak
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Author : Deon Meyer
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-10-04
The Woman In The Blue Cloak written by Deon Meyer and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Fiction categories.
From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick The Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant novella which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer's much-loved detective Benny Griessel. Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring - and that means he needs a loan. So Benny has a lot on his mind when he is called to a top-priority murder case. A woman's body is discovered, naked and washed in bleach, draped on a wall beside a picturesque road above Cape Town. The identity of the victim is a mystery, as is the reason for her killing. Gradually, Benny and his colleague Vaughn Cupido begin to work out the roots of the story, which reach as far away as England and Holland... and as far back as the seventeenth century.
The Fever
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Author : Wallace Shawn
language : en
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Release Date : 1992
The Fever written by Wallace Shawn and has been published by Dramatists Play Service Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Drama categories.
THE STORY: The nameless narrator of this blistering monologue lies ill and alone in a dreary hotel room in a poverty-stricken country. A political execution is about to take place beneath his window. Far from the glib comforts of his own life, he s