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Peter Richards Account Book
Account book kept by Richards for farm produce sold by him, bought by him, chairs, wine, lists of expenditures, leases, receipts, etc. Includes letter to Richards laid in at front (1842).
Peter Richards Letter
Letter from Peter Richards, New London, to Jabez Huntington, concerning a shipment of panes of glass, and the price obtained for it.
Thirty-three Years in the Trenches
Born blind in one eye but never accepting a handicap, Peter Richards escaped an unloving home for a life of hard physical labour, as a farm boy after the war, then on construction sites, and finally for many years as a gas mainlayer. Wild Irishmen, callous gangermen, corrupt officials, harsh working conditions, the crack, a certain kind of freedom and adventure - Richards gives authentic, humorous and uncomprimising insights into life behind the red and white barricades. Just as revealing is the interwoven material on Peter's home life: love and marriage; raising a family in poor living conditions; fighting; stress; passions for sea-fishing and allotment gardening.
Met Man Pete Goes South
This book is based on Peter Richards' experiences in the Antarctic from 1957 to 1960, working for what was then then the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, which later became British Antarctic Survey. It was a time when little had changed from the days of the earlier explorers. Travel was with dog teams and communications were still quite primitive, relying on relaying wireless messages or sending Morse code. Young men - surveyors, meteorologists and scientists - would spend three long years on the bases, only seeing other humans when, in the summer, the supply ships visited. Their kit was mostly army surplus - no warm quilted polyester waterproof anoraks. It was an exciting challenging t...
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The Medieval Leper and His Northern Heirs
Medieval history is rich in rules and regulations for lepers, but reveals little of who they were or what became of them. This book searches for the reality of the individuals themselves, people who through their disease - or suspicion of it - contributed a unique chapter to social and medical history. Their hopes, fears, frustrations, and sufferings are explored partly through English medieval sources but mainly through the record of the remarkable survival of both leprosy and many medieval attitudes to it in the Aland islands between Sweden and Finland in the seventeenth century, where the struggle of a poor community both to contain the disease and to provide for those suffering from it w...
