Natural Medicine

Brian Inglis

Collins

In 1981 British Rail had a call from a woman who claimed to have had a vision of a fatal crash in which a freight train had been involved. So clear had it been, she said, that she not merely saw the blue diesel engine, but could read the number: 47 216. Two years later, an accident of the kind she predicted occurred, all the details matching - except one: the engine's number was 47 299. That would have been that, but a train spotter, Howard Johnston, happened to have noticed that 47 299 was not the engine's original number. It had been renumbered, a couple of years before, from 47 216. Diesels, he knew, were ordinarily renumbered only after major modifications, which this one had not undergone. When curiosity prompted him to ask why, he was told about the prediction. Apparently British Rail officials had been sufficiently impressed (they had checked with the local police, and found that the woman who had provided it had given them some useful information from her visions) to try to ward off fate by changing the number. The ruse had failed, and 'they had officially logged it all as an "amazing coincidence".' Life is full of coincidences, some are minor, but often, like the one above, they are extraordinary. Whether they are random events or meaningful cosmic moments which have a purpose, we don't know-it remains a mystery. But what is certain is, a lot of people have them, and they never cease to amaze us. In Coincidence: A Matter of Chance - or Synchronicity? Author and historian, Brian Inglis has compiled a collection of fascinating accounts that will uplift, confound, and leave the most committed sceptics scratching their heads.

Coincidence: a Matter of Chance - or Synchronicity?

Self-Help

Hutchinson

In the 1880s the Ulster Protestant Roger Casement worked as one of HM Stanley's volunteers in the Congo, before joining the British consular service. In 1904 he produced a devastating report which showed how the Congo Free State, far from being the model colony Leopold II of Belgium claimed it to be, was a ruthless commercial enterprise run with unrelenting cruelty for Leopold's profit. Six years later he provided an even more horrifying report on how Amazonian Indians were exploited by the Peruvian Amazon company, a British-based rubber company. For this he was knighted in 1911. An Irish nationalist, when war broke out in 1914 he went to Germany to secure a treaty giving Ireland formal recognition of her nationhood. Upon returning in a u-boat to Ireland in 1916 he was captured, brought to London and sentenced to death as a traitor. To blacken his name further, rumours about his "black" diaries claimed that he was a practising homosexual. The author Brian Inglis was allowed access to the relevant files at the Public Record Office in order to help research this biography.

Roger Casement : The Biography of a Patriot Who Lived for England, Died for Ireland

Biographies & Memoirs

Harcourt Jovanovich

1st Hodder & Stoughton 1st print 1976 edition hardcover fine in near fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

The Opium War

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Forbidden Game (Coronet Books)

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Natural and Supernatural: History of the Paranormal (Abacus Books)

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

SPHERE

Fact Or Fantasy - Compelling Collection Of Awe-Inspiring Tales

J. Allen Hynek

A.J. Ellison

In 1976, the journalist Brian Inglis published this excoriating analysis of the First Opium War (1839-1842) by which Britain forced the Chinese to accept opium imports; he traces the causes of the conflict, asking both who should be held responsible and why the opium trade had become crucial to the British economy. The book is now reissued in paperback to mark the authors centenary, with an introduction by his son Neil.

Endeavour Press

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