After the First World War, airships were seen as the only viable means of long range air transport for passengers and freight. In Britain, this gave rise to the Imperial Airship Scheme of 1924 to link the outposts of the Empire by an airship service. Conceived as part of this scheme, the R.100 airship, built by private enterprise, successfully flew to Canada and back in 1930. This is the story of R.100, Britain's most successful passenger airship. It is a tale of schemes and politics, over-optimism and rivalry. It tells the full story of its design and construction under difficult conditions, the setbacks and delays, personal antagonism and financial constraint. Two years late and massively over budget, R.100 flew and flew well, achieving her designer's ambition and fulfilling the contract specification. Her Canadian flight in 1930 was the culminating success, but her ultimate fate was dictated by the tragedy that befell her Government-built sister ship, R.101, and economic expediency at a time of national economic depression.

Airship on a Shoestring the Story of R 100

History

Anderson, Associate Professor John

Military

New Generation Publishing

Few sports have the mystic allure that is so much a part of mountaineering. The rewards for success are great, as are the consequences for failure. So solitary a sport, mountaineering leads to the release of some of our innermost feelings; feelings of uncertainty, competitiveness, and the desire to conquer fear and physical limitation. Within the pages of The Armchair Mountaineer are the accounts of many of the great triumphs and tragedies of mountaineering. The combination of great climbers and renowned authors leads to a volume filled with accounts of ascents from around the world, from a detailed account of the equipment necessary to ascend Yosemite's Lost Arrow to Rick Ridgeway's journal of the attack on K2, to Herzog on Annapurna, Hillary on Everest, and Reinhold Messner on the will to survive. Not surprisingly, some of the greatest authors of fiction have made their mark on the literature of climbing. (6 x 9, 352 pages, illustrations)

Water Rights: Scarce Resource Allocation, Bureaucracy, and the Environment

Pacific Research Inst for Public

Pencilings in Palestine: Being Scenes Descriptive of the Holy Land and Other Countries in the East, Written During a Visit in 1850

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Pencilings In Palestine: Being Scenes Descriptive Of The Holy Land And Other Countries In The East, Written During A Visit In 1850 (1851)

Travel

Kessinger Publishing

A Contribution To The Herpetology Of Arabia: With A Preliminary List Of The Reptiles And Batrachians Of Egypt (1896)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, Parts 1-2

Sclater, William Lutley

Nabu Press

A History of Edinburgh from the Earliest Period to the Completion of the Half Century 1850: With Brief Notices of Eminent Or Remarkable Individuals

Contemporary

Acheen, and the Ports of the North and East Coasts of Sumatra; With Incidental Notices of the Trade in the Eastern Seas, and the Aggressions of the Dutch. [with a Map.]

World

British Library, Historical Print Editions

Title: Mandalay to Momien: a narrative of the two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel E. B. Sladen and Colonel H. Browne ... With maps and illustrations.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral coastal regions that comprise South and East Asia. Other works focus on cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics. These books help readers understand the forces that shaped the ancient civilisations and influenced the modern countries of Asia. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++ British Library Anderson, John; Browne, Horace Albert; Sladen, Edward Bosc.;  1876. xvi. 479 p. ; 8º. 010057.i.29.

Mandalay to Momien: a narrative of the two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875, under Colonel E. B. Sladen and Colonel H. Browne ... With maps and illustrations.

Browne, Horace Albert

Sladen, Edward Bosc.

Asia

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Pencillings in Palestine: Scenes Descriptive of the Holy Land and Other Countries in the East

Palala Press

English Intercourse With Siam In The Seventeenth Century (1890)

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Europe

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