Passage to America: A History of Emigrants from Great Britain and Ireland to America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

COLEMAN, Terry

Hutchinson and Co. [Publishers] ltd

Southern Cross

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Viking Press

445 pages of excellent text. This is the story of Wolsey Lowell - of her English husband, her Irish lover, and her American children, lived out during fifty years of the first settlement in North America. First Edition.

Thanksgiving

Hutchinson

Historical novel about the English settlement of Australia.

Genre Fiction

Arrow

In the middle years of the last century more than two million men, women and children abandoned the British Isles. The Irish were 'shovelled out' by absentee landlords and famine; the English went west to escape poverty and slums. Sea-sick, homesick, herded like cattle, dying like flies, they poured across the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York. They were swindled, robbed, insulted and terrorized at every stage. Making brilliant use of original diaries and letters and contemporary newspapers and prints, Terry Coleman gives us an intensely vivid account of this heroic and historic exodus.

Passage to America

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin

The Liners

Business & Money

Industries

A History of the Men Who Made Railway Navvies

History

Europe

Penguin Group Canada

This is the story of the men who built the railways, the unknown labourers of the nineteenth century who blasted, tunnelled, drank and randied their way across Christian England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside a new iron-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.'A sensitive historian can do something to piece together a forgotten way of life. Mr Coleman's vivid and perceptive study of Victorian railway navvies is modest in scale but something of a landmark.' Guardian'Mr Coleman matches them in industry. He has unearthed the full story of their lives and achievements in all its absorbing detail and presented it so readably that no one with a spark of imagination and a twinge of interest in people could fail to find this book a pleasure.' Evening Standard

The Railway Navvies

Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, in The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson, novelist Terry Coleman provides a superb portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure. Here is a vivid account of Nelson's life, from his childhood and early career at sea--where a high-placed uncle helped speed his advancement to post captain--to gripping accounts of his greatest sea battles. Readers will witness the Battle of the Nile, where Nelson crushed a French squadron of thirteen ships of the line, and the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died at the moment of his greatest triumph. What emerges is a man of strength of mind amounting to genius, frequently generous, always fascinated with women, often uneasy with his superior officers, and absolutely fearless. Coleman also lays bare Nelson's faults: he was a ruthless commander, whose instinct was not just to defeat the enemy but to annihilate him. Indeed, some of Nelson's more controversial actions might be viewed as war crimes today. And he was a skillful self-promoter, who did all he could to advance his own fame. But in the end, that fame was well earned and he was deservedly idolized by the British people. Sure to appeal to readers of Patrick O'Brian and other seafaring fiction, as well as all military history and naval history buffs, this is a superbly written biography that gives readers the texture and feel of this magnificent life.

The Nelson Touch: The Life and Legend of Horatio Nelson

Americas

Oxford University Press

Admiral Horatio Nelson captures our imaginations like few other military figures. A mixture of tactical originality, raw courage, cruelty, and romantic passion, Nelson in action was daring and direct, a paramount naval genius and a natural born predator. Now, in The Nelson Touch, novelist Terry Coleman provides a superb portrait of Britain's most revered naval figure. Here is a vivid account of Nelson's life, from his childhood and early career at sea--where a high-placed uncle helped speed his advancement to post captain--to gripping accounts of his greatest sea battles. Readers will witness the Battle of the Nile, where Nelson crushed a French squadron of thirteen ships of the line, and the Battle of Trafalgar, where he died at the moment of his greatest triumph. What emerges is a man of strength of mind amounting to genius, frequently generous, always fascinated with women, often uneasy with his superior officers, and absolutely fearless. Nelson was a ruthless commander, whose instinct was not just to defeat the enemy but to annihilate him. Sure to appeal to readers of Patrick O'Brian and other seafaring fiction, as well as all military history and naval history buffs, this is a superbly written biography that gives readers the texture and feel of this magnificent life.

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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