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Download or read book Dunedin written by Shena Mackay and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE (1996) AND THE WHITBREAD PRIZE (2003) 'A national treasure . . . She has achieved that rarest of things for a writer' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Shena Mackay notices a London that passes most writers by . . . ' PAUL BAILEY, INDEPENDENT 'She writes like an angel wielding a scalpel' GUARDIAN New Zealand, 1909. After weeks at sea the new minister, Jack Mackenzie, arrives from Scotland with his unhappy wife and children in tow. A keen naturalist, he is more enthralled by the botanical - and carnal - delights of Dunedin than in the wellbeing of his flock. In London, eighty years later, Jack Mackenzie's descendants are middle-aged, searching for a way out of their loneliness. Olive, embittered with her loveless life, steals a baby from a crowded tube; William, distraught at the death of a pupil, abandons his job as headmaster and struggles to fill his empty days. Jay Pascal, a young New Zealand vagrant of mysterious parentage arrives in London, looking for a place where he might belong.
Download or read book Dead Reckoning written by Jeff Dawson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the sinking of the Dunedin Star November 9th, 1942. Amid the cloaking gloom of the Liverpool docks lay the Dunedin Star. A ship of the Blue Star Line, she was bound for the Middle East, her consignment of munitions for the 8th Army supplemented by twenty-one fare-paying civilians escaping the Blitz for the colonies, all forced to take the long haul round the Cape. As an unescorted merchantman sailing U-boat infested waters, Dunedin Star's passage was, at best, a risky undertaking. But her eventual fate was to defy all expectation. Three weeks into her voyage, her hull mysteriously holed, Dunedin Star ran aground off Namibia's infamous Skeleton Coast - five hundred miles of raging surf and burning desert, the most violent and desolate shore on earth. Sixty-three men, women and children were to defy mountainous waves and unfathomable odds to reach land . . . but their struggle for survival had only just begun. From interviews with survivors, eyewitness testimony, historical resources and personal journals, Dawson skilfully reconstructs the Dunedin Star's doomed voyage, the terror of the wilderness and the painstaking rescue missions. From the grim waters of the North Atlantic to the blistering African wastes, he narrates a classic tale of pluck, set against the backdrop of World War II.
Book Synopsis Dunedin Past and Present by : Dunedin (Fla.). Elementary School. Fifth Grade, 1956/57
Download or read book Dunedin Past and Present written by Dunedin (Fla.). Elementary School. Fifth Grade, 1956/57 and published by . This book was released on 1957* with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blood in the Sea written by Stuart Gill and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2004-10-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This harrowing tale of survival pays moving tribute to the courageous British sailors of World War II, and offers entrance into the ultra-secret world of British code-breaking. In November 1941, the British light cruiser "HMS Dunedin" was patrolling the shipping lanes of the central Atlantic, directed to its targets by British intelligence agents who had cracked the German "Enigma" code. On November 24, a torpedo from a German U-boat sent her crashing to the ocean floor, along with over 400 of her crew. For three days, 72 desperate survivors clung to the flotsam, fighting off swarming sharks and pounding waves until an American ship stumbled across the scene.
Book Synopsis The Story of Dunedin by : Alfred Hamish Reed
Download or read book The Story of Dunedin written by Alfred Hamish Reed and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Dunedin in 40 Objects by : Heather A. King
Download or read book The History of Dunedin in 40 Objects written by Heather A. King and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Scarfie Flats of Dunedin by : Sarah Gallagher
Download or read book Scarfie Flats of Dunedin written by Sarah Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Gallagher shares some of the stories of these flats, how they got their names, who lived in them and what life was like there.
Book Synopsis Pieces of the Past: the History of Dunedin in 40 Objects by : Heather A. King
Download or read book Pieces of the Past: the History of Dunedin in 40 Objects written by Heather A. King and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Shipwreck of the Mv Dunedin Star by : Charles River Editors
Download or read book The Shipwreck of the Mv Dunedin Star written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the shipwreck *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "The U-boat can fairly be described as Hitler's last card and he will play it for all he is worth." - Sir Stafford Cripps On the morning of November 9, 1942, the Dunedin Star, a 13,000-ton refrigerated cargo ship, was tugged off her moorings and nudged into the mouth of the Mersey River, that iconic entrance way to Liverpool Harbor and the British gateway to the outside world. On her port side, Fort Perch hung ghostly and silent in the dawn light, and the old Leashow Lighthouse blinked forlornly on the North Wirral headland. As she passed the harbor walls and entered open water, the harbor pilot shook the captain's hand and wished him Godspeed before clambering down to the pilot boat chugging softly alongside the ship. Orders were given, and in the engine room, the great wheels began to turn. Under power, the Dunedin Star passed alongside the Liver Building and the low bluffs of Crosby before gliding out into the shipping lanes. Within an hour, as the fog was beginning to clear, she entered upon the grey and restless waters of the Irish Sea, heading toward Saint Georges Channel and the wide-open, naked expanse of the North Atlantic Ocean. The Dunedin Star belonged to the Blue Star Line, a Liverpool-based company that had so far suffered a disproportionate loss of tonnage thanks to the attrition of war. That year alone, Blue Star could list the Avila Star, the Viking Star, the Andalucia Star, the Empire Star and the Pacific Star all casualties of U-Boat attacks, and by the end of the year, the Ionic, Doric, Sultan, Adelaide, Wellington, Avelona, Arandora, Auckland, Napier, Almeda, Afric, Rodney, Imperial, Tacoma, and Scottish Stars would join that list. At the outbreak of war in 1939, there had been 38 Blue Star ships afloat, but by the end of the war, there would be only 9, and in total, 646 Blue Star seamen would lose their lives as a consequence of these losses. The Dunedin Star was en route to Egypt, via the Cape and Aden, a lengthy diversion around the southern tip of Africa made necessary by the effective closure of the Mediterranean to non-naval shipping. In North Africa, Allied and Axis powers remained at one another's throats, as the balance of the war was decided in a see-saw action of advance and retreat across the great deserts of Libya and Egypt. All told, it was indeed a nervous and sober compliment of crew and passengers that steamed cautiously over the most dangerous oceanic region ever known. And as time would tell, they had every right to be, because they were about to undergo some of the most famous trials and tribulations of the war. The Shipwreck of the MV Dunedin Star: The History of the Famous British Ship during World War II chronicles one of the most famous rescue stories of the war. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Dunedin Star like never before.
Download or read book The Dunedin Sound written by Ian Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... A uniquely archival book celebrating the music known as the ‘Dunedin Sound.’ Predominantly pictorial, it is a plethora of personal photographs and memorabilia ..." -- Website.
Download or read book Containment written by Vanda Symon and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanda Symon's third novel features the feisty young policewoman Sam Shephard who was the central character in her two previous books Overkill and The Ringmaster. In Containment, Sam is training as a detective at Dunedin Central when she is assigned to investigate what seems to be a routine diving accident off the Otago coast. But the forensics reveal that the man didn't die from drowning. And that the body was stuffed in its wetsuit after death. And is there a connection with another incident Sam is involved with, in which the citizens of Dunedin have been pillaging the wreckage of a container ship out at the harbour entrance? As the novel unfolds, our young detective is involved in making sense of a complex web of lies and violence. Who is behind it all? Who are the real criminals?
Book Synopsis Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise by : Myrtle Scharrer Betz
Download or read book Yesteryear I Lived in Paradise written by Myrtle Scharrer Betz and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Child to Adult by : Phil A. Silva
Download or read book From Child to Adult written by Phil A. Silva and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study (DMHDS), an ongoing longitudinal study of 1037 babies born in Dunedin between 1 April 1972 and 31 March 1973. The study has generated more than 500 specialist papers in scientific journals, unpublished research reports, theses, etc. This book presents the major findings in a form accessible to the non-specialist.
Book Synopsis The Face of Nature by : Jonathan West
Download or read book The Face of Nature written by Jonathan West and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primordial peninsula and people. He whenua hou: a new land -- Arrival and adaptation -- Continuity and change: making southern Māori -- The world washes ashore. Takata Pora: the people of the ships, European exploration, Māori discovery 1770-1830 -- 'Soon may the Wellerman come': whaling at Ōtākou 1831-48 -- Improving God's creation. 'A desperate struggle': British settlement on the Otago Peninsula 1848-61 -- The axe and the lucifer match: boom-time settlement of the 1860s and 1870s -- 'The whole face of Nature is altered': 1881-1900.
Book Synopsis History of Dunedin by : William Lovett Douglas
Download or read book History of Dunedin written by William Lovett Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dunedin is a Ghost Town by : Andrew Smith (Tour guide)
Download or read book Dunedin is a Ghost Town written by Andrew Smith (Tour guide) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Story of the Dunedin Botanic Garden by : Eric Dunlop
Download or read book The Story of the Dunedin Botanic Garden written by Eric Dunlop and published by Friends of Dunedin Botanic Garden. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
