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Since 1920 members of the Old Cornwall movement have striven to keep alive the Cornish dialect. They have collected words, phrases and stories as well as writing poetry and stories of their own using dialect words. This book contains a selection of these works, taken from the Old Cornwall journal.
This fascinating book provides a firsthand account of life in Tahiti in the early 19th century, based on the experiences of George Pritchard, a British consul who lived and worked on the island. The book focuses in particular on Pomare, the powerful queen of Tahiti, and her efforts to maintain a measure of autonomy and independence in the face of European colonization. Pritchard's observations of Tahitian culture and society are detailed and insightful, and provide a valuable window into a critical period in Polynesian history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public do...
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A young man sat at home, in his garden in early 1940, having just finished work in a job he loved. Watching some planes high in the sky, he and his father witnessed an attack on Croydon aerodrome. Worried for his workmates he set off to find that they were all gone, factory, people, all gone. George knew what he wanted to do. The day he turned 17, he signed up with the RAF as aircrew to seek retribution for the loss of those innocent lives. He was soon to become a pilot, first in the ADLS and then in photo reconnaissance. He survived belly landings, near crashes, enemy fire and engine failures, to name but a few. His dogged determination (and 9 lives!) kept him going through countless experi...