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A series of short stories concerning the land of New Albion and the weird and wonderful folk who inhabit it. There is Ellen Hall the tomboy adventuress, Sir Grenville Lushthorpe a bonkers inventor, Admiral Sherman a crime solving dog and plenty more besides. Come into my world of airships, ornithopters and steam locomotives, but beware there are strange goings-on in the shadows.
A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic "reality," The Journal of Albion Moonlight is the American monument to engagement.
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Discovery of Drake's "lost" navigational chart finally reveals secrets behind his voyage to America's West Coast in 1579. The secret location of Drake's colony "New Albion" is finally identified. This was the "first" British colony in America; and it marks the beginning of the British Empire. At last, we know the reason for an ongoing feud between Queen Elizabeth and Sir Francis. He wanted desperately to rescue the shipmates that he left behind in New Albion. Drake used a shipboard clock to map the West Coast. This is the first map of America that was made using a chronometer: thus Drake's map is accurate to within 15-degrees of the true longitude. Drake was not "just a pirate" as most historians assume. He was a naturalist, ethnographer, and geographer. Drake's map and his new ship design opened the way for the Dutch East India Company.
A woman stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out to sea and the horizon. Dancers welcome the sun in a circle of stones. A dowsing road turns without warning. A church bell. Footsteps. Old Weird Albion is America writer Justin Hopper's dark love song to the English South; a poetic essay interrogating the high, haunted landscape of the South Downs Way; the memories, myths and forgotten histories from Winchester to Beachy Head. When someone disappears, when someone leaps from a cliff and is all-but-erased from memory, what traces might we find in the crumbling chalk of the cliff face; in the wind that buffets the edge of this Albion? A skewed alternative to Bill Bryson, Hopper casts himself a...
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Imagine a culture using reason to better understand our world.Imagine a wise land living in harmony with irreplaceable nature.Imagine the blessing of grace to realize our fullest potential.Imagine a nation born in loyalty between people wanting better.Imagine New Albion: The Rebirth of the West.New Albion is an active project to create a new Atlantic homeland in the northeastern quarter of North America, a united effort between Americans and Canadians to restore Western Civilization, honor our European heritage, and defend the timeless values that settled this continent. A peaceful movement based on hyperlocalization with greater respect for our liberties, our environment, and seeking greater unity, this first book on New Albion introduces the need for the concept, our core principles, and explains why only a new nation can restore liberty which neither America nor Canada cannot.
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