The Thames Valley Catastrophe
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The Thames Valley Catastrophe
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Author : Grant Allen
language : en
Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
Release Date : 2022-12-13
The Thames Valley Catastrophe written by Grant Allen and has been published by Lindhardt og Ringhof this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-13 with Fiction categories.
One Londoner and an American geologist are out for a bicycle trip in the Thames valley. They talk about natural disasters and volcanic eruptions and how thankful they are that such things do not happen in these regions and at these times. The next morning will however prove them wrong and the Londoner will have to ride for his life to escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption. Grant Allen was a Canadian writer who lived in the period 1848 – 1899. His writing career began around 1876 when he published a series of essays on science. His first books, "Physiological Aesthetics" and "Flowers and Their Pedigrees" took up this subject as well. Grant Allen was also a pioneer in science fiction. He wrote about thirty science fiction novels in the period 1884-1899. In his later works, Allen also took up some revolutionary theories for the time regarding marriage. "The Woman Who Did" which depicts the life of an independent woman who takes care of her child on her own became a bestseller.
The Thames Valley Catastrophe Illustrated
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Author : Grant Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-24
The Thames Valley Catastrophe Illustrated written by Grant Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-24 with categories.
A strange and unexpected disaster happens in the Thames Valley...
The Thames Valley Catastrophe Illustrated Edition
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Author : Grant Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-04
The Thames Valley Catastrophe Illustrated Edition written by Grant Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with categories.
A strange and unexpected disaster happens in the Thames Valley...
The Thames Valley Catastrophe Annotated
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Author : Grant Allen
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-03-31
The Thames Valley Catastrophe Annotated written by Grant Allen and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-31 with Fiction categories.
Grant Allen's work "The Thames Valley Catastrophe" was first released in 1901. A general synopsis or description of the book can be found below: A science fiction book titled "The Thames Valley Catastrophe" examines what happens after a catastrophic event occurs in the Thames Valley, especially in London. The narrative takes place in a future in which there has been a tremendous volcanic eruption that has caused profound social and environmental disruption. The Thames Valley floods as a result of the eruption's chain of events, which drastically alters both society and the surrounding area.The story tracks the protagonists' experiences as they deal with the obstacles the calamity brings about as it happens. The story examines how people and society deal with the fallout from a significant natural disaster by fusing aspects of science fiction, adventure, and social commentary.Known for his works in a variety of genres, such as popular science and science fiction, Grant Allen combines his experience in science and literature with his writing to produce a gripping story that captures the hopes and fears of the period it was written.
The Thames Valley Catastrophe Illustrated
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Author : The Thames Valley Catastrop Grant Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-21
The Thames Valley Catastrophe Illustrated written by The Thames Valley Catastrop Grant Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-21 with categories.
an excerpt from the story: I rode for very life, with grim death behind me. Once well across the bridge, and turning up the hill, I saw Ward on the parapet, with his arms flung up, trying wildly to save himself by leaping into the river. Next instant he shrivelled I think, as the beggar had shrivelled; and it is to this complete combustion before the lava flood reached them that I attribute the circumstance (so much commented upon in the scientific excavations among the ruins) that no cast of dead bodies, like those at Pompeii, have anywhere been found in the Thames Valley Desert. My own belief is that every human body was reduced to a gaseous condition by the terrific heat several seconds before the molten basalt reached it. Even at the distance which I had now attained from the central mass, indeed, the heat was intolerable. Yet, strange to say, I saw few or no people flying as yet from the inundation. The fact is, the eruption came upon us so suddenly, so utterly without warning or premonitory symptoms (for I deny the earthquake shocks), that whole towns must have been destroyed before the inhabitants were aware that anything out of the common was happening. It is a sort of alleviation to the general horror to remember that a large proportion of the victims must have died without even knowing it; one second, they were laughing, talking, bargaining; the next, they were asphyxiated or reduced to ashes as you have seen a small fly disappear in an incandescent gas flame. This, however, is what I learned afterward. At that moment, I was only aware of a frantic pace uphill, over a rough, stony road, and with my pedals working as I had never before worked them; while behind me, I saw purgatory let loose, striving hard to overtake me. I just knew that a sea of fire was filling the valley from end to end, and that its heat scorched my face as I urged on my bicycle in abject terror.
The Thames Valley Catastrophe And My New Year S Eve Among The Mummies Dodo Press
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Author : Grant Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-11
The Thames Valley Catastrophe And My New Year S Eve Among The Mummies Dodo Press written by Grant Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with Fiction categories.
Professor Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (1848-1899) was a science writer, author and novelist; an able upholder of the theory of evolution. Born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada, the son of an emigrant Anglo-Scottish Protestant minister and grandson of the fifth Baron of Longueuil, he studied at King Edwardas School in Birmingham, and Merton College in Oxford, both in the United Kingdom. He also studied in France and in his mid-twenties became a professor at Queenas College in Jamaica. His first books were on scientific subjects, and include Physiological Asthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886). In Allenas many articles on flowers and perception in insects, Darwinian arguments replaced the old Spencerian terms. After assisting Sir W. W. Hunter in his Gazeteer of India in the early 1880s, Allen turned his attention to fiction, and between 1884 and 1899 produced about 30 novels. He was also a pioneer in Canadian science fiction, with the 1895 novel The British Barbarians and his short story The Thames Valley Catastrophe which describes the destruction of London by a sudden and massive volcanic eruption.
Anticipations
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Author : David Seed
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1995-05-01
Anticipations written by David Seed and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Several of the writers discussed (Mary Shelley, Poe, Verne, Wells) have been proposed by literary historians as the founders of science fiction. The aim in these essays, however, is not to privilege one individual, but rather to look at the gradual convergence of a number of different genres and at the process of continuing influence of one writer on his/her successor.
The War Of The Worlds
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Author : H. G. Wells
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
The War Of The Worlds written by H. G. Wells and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Imaginary wars and battles categories.
In The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells invented the myth of invasion from outer space. Martians land near London, conquering all before them, and ruin the metropolis; the fate of civilization and even of the human race remains in doubt until the very last.
Science Fact And Science Fiction
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Author : Brian M. Stableford
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2006
Science Fact And Science Fiction written by Brian M. Stableford and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
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Victorian Time
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Author : T. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-01-17
Victorian Time written by T. Ferguson and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of accelerated time.