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Blackbird by Hamilton-Paterson, James
24.99 AUD
Category: History
The compelling story of the spy plane SR-71 'Blackbird' - the fastest manned aircraft in the world. The American 'spy' aircraft, the SR-71 'Blackbird' was deliberately designed to be the world's fastest and highest-flying aircraft and has never been approached since. It was conceived in the late 1950s ...Show more
Blackbird : The Story of the Lockheed SR-71 Spy Plane by James Hamilton-Paterson
34.99 AUD
Category: Planes Trains Automobiles
Cooking With Fernet Branca by Hamilton Paterson James
40.95 AUD
47.99 (14% off)
Category: Fiction
A very funny sendup of Italian-cooking-holiday-romance novels (Publishers Weekly). Gerald Samper, an effete English snob, has his own private hilltop in Tuscany where he whiles away his time working as a ghostwriter for celebrities and inventing wholly original culinary concoctions–including ice cream ...Show more
DK Trains, Planes, Ships & Cars The Golden Age by James Hamilton-Paterson
59.99 AUD
Category: Planes Trains Automobiles
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the golden age of aircraft, cars, ships and locomotives from 1900 to 1941 by the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds. This dazzling book describes the flourishing of transport and travel, and the engineering that made it possible, in the years before the ...Show more
Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony by James Hamilton-Paterson
19.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: The Landmark Library
In 1805, the world of music was set on its ears by a new work from a German composer. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica', was revolutionary music. After those first two stunning chords, Western music was never the same again. And the whiff of actual political revolu ...Show more
Gerontius by James Hamilton-Paterson
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nearing the end of his career, Sir Edward Elgar impulsively decides to travel by ship to Brazil, where he encounters a woman from his past. Set in 1923 and based on true events, Gernontius is a modern classic, and takes the great composer out of his depths in this beautiful, episodic, mysterious novel s ...Show more
Sinfonia Eroica: The First Great Romantic Symphony (Beethoven's Third Symphony) by James Hamilton-Paterson
39.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: fine
In 1805, the world of music was set on its ears by a new work from a German composer. Intellectually and emotionally, Beethoven's Third Symphony, the 'Eroica', was revolutionary music. After those first two stunning chords, Western music was never the same again. And the whiff of actual political revolu ...Show more
Stuck Monkey: The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love by James Hamilton-Paterson
32.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History
People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap- When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it. But it couldn't let go. And unless the monkey released the banana, it was stuck.We are, of course, the stuck monke ...Show more
Stuck Monkey - The Deadly Planetary Cost of the Things We Love by James Hamilton-Paterson
22.99 AUD
Category: Animals
People hunting monkeys in the jungle once devised a simple yet effective trap: When the creature found a banana in a large jar with a narrow neck, it would plunge its paw in to retrieve it. But it couldn't let go. And unless the monkey released the banana, it was stuck.We are, of course, the stuck monke ...Show more
What We Have Lost by James Hamilton-Paterson
49.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Between 1939 and 1945, Britain produced around 125,000 aircraft - to take one example - and enormous numbers of ships, motor vehicles, armaments and textiles. We developed radar, antibiotics, the jet engine and the computer. Less than seventy years later, the major industries that had made Britain a glo ...Show more
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