This travel text by a direct descendent of Clive of India retraces his ancestor's journeys around south-eastern India, interweaving a biography of Clive and the East India Company with accounts of the author's own adventures. Holt's plans often don't work out but his disasters reveal as much of India and Indians as his successes. Along the way he meets a faith-healing American Methodist minister, Bangladeshi refugees, taxi drivers, a bizarre array of fortune-tellers, museum curators, many local characters. He also visits a leper colony and is frank about the country's poverty, crowds, dirt, stench and corruption.

In Clive's footsteps

Travel

Holt, Peter

Asia

Hutchinson

Jumping the Odds: Memoirs of a Rastafarian Showjumper

Skeete, Oliver

Headline

For centuries inventors have been dreaming up schemes to allow people to submerge beneath the waves, stay a while then return again unharmed. The Resurgam was designed for this purpose, as a stealthy underwater weapon which was the brainchild of an eccentric inventor realized in iron, timber, coal and steam. The inventor was George William Garrett, a curate from Manchester who designed and built the Resurgam submarine in 1879 using the limited technology available to a Victorian engineer on a small budget. This is not the story of Garrett himself as this story has already been told, instead this book tells the story how the Resurgam was built, how she may have worked and what happened to her. The book introduces Garrett the inventor then puts the creation of Resurgam in context by considering similar submarines being developed at the end of the 19th century. Garrett’s relationship with the Royal Navy is related here as they were his intended client and the tale continues with a description of how the submarine was built and how it may have worked. The end of the story relates how the Resurgam came to be lost in 1880 pieced together from documents and newspaper reports. Curiously, aspects of the tale do not fit with what was found by underwater archaeologists recording the wreck so other ideas are explored about how and why the submarine was lost.Table of ContentsIntroductionGlossaryTimelineGeorge William Littler Garrett19th Century SubmarinesGarrett and the Royal NavyThe EggBuilding ResurgamThe Resurgam Submarine in UseThe First and Last VoyageSearching for ResurgamRediscoveryThe SubMap ProjectLater Site HistorySite FormationResurgam TodayA Reanalysis of the Loss of ResurgamThe End?Appendix 1: TablesAppendix 2: The Open LetterReferences

The Resurgam Submarine: ‘A Project for Annoying the Enemy’

History

Military

Archaeopress Archaeology

Astrology and fortune telling are big business in India. Many Indians regularly consult an astrologer, and even government decisions are swayed by the position of the planets. In this exuberant travelogue, journalist Peter Holt traverses the country in search of the prediction experts. He begins his journey at the Temple of Somnath in Gujarat, the place where Hindus believe man first arrived on earth. In Ladakh, he is physically attacked by a Tibetan oracle for being an "unbeliever;" in Ujjain, he interviews a silent guru who has not spoken for 40 years; and in Delhi, he meets Indira Gandhi's former clairvoyant. At journey's end, Holt finally meets B.V. Raman, said to be the greatest living astrologer in the world, who gives the author his predictions for the future of the world.

Stars of India: Travels in Search of Astrologers and Fortune Tellers

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Mainstream Publishing

Urological Disorders of the Dog and Cat: Investigation, Diagnosis, Treatment

This book provides veterinary practitioners and trainees with a concise, systematic guide to urological disorders affecting dogs and cats. The author focuses first on assessment of the patient and the main investigative techniques to reach a diagnosis. He then deals with the differential diagnosis, causes and treatment of conditions ranging from prostate disorders and trauma to all types of urinary incontinence, including urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence. The book is fully referenced and illustrated throughout by color photographs, imaging, and diagrams of the highest quality.

Science & Math

Hotson-Moore, Alasdair

Agricultural Sciences

CRC-Press

This book provides veterinary practitioners and trainees with a concise, systematic guide to urological disorders affecting dogs and cats. The author focuses first on assessment of the patient and the main investigative techniques to reach a diagnosis. He then deals with the differential diagnosis, causes and treatment of conditions ranging from prostate disorders and trauma to all types of urinary incontinence, including urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence. The book is fully referenced and illustrated throughout by color photographs, imaging, and diagrams of the highest quality.

Medical Books

Veterinary Medicine

The history and current practice of game shooting is examined in this humorous collection of 300 entries on the subject, ranging from the bizarre, the quirky, and the curious to the downright odd. Inspired by the author's lifetime of shooting experiences and the sport's colorful history, this anthology recounts some of shooting's most intriguing stories, including:
<li>How a day's shooting led to the creation of the Guiness Book of World Records</li>
<li>The tragic, outrageous story of America's first country sports writer</li>
<li>An incredible shot that made a one-eyed sculptor the toast of Victorian England</li>

The Keen Shot's Miscellany

Literature & Fiction

Quiller Publishing Ltd.

<li>The latest in Peter Holt's bestselling "keen" series (Keen Foxhunter's Miscellany, 978-1-84689-065-9; Keen Shot's Miscellany, 978-1-84689-039-0)</li>
<li>A selection of entries on everything that the true countryman--or woman--would like to know</li>
<li>All things rural, from profiles of great farmers through history like Thomas Coke and King George III to snippets about wood-burning stoves, vermin control, and wildcat sightings </li>

The Keen Countryman's Miscellany

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