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Biggles Breaks the Silence
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher: Biggles, Special Air Detective
Published: 2023-03-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781804364413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biggles Breaks the Silence
Author: Captain W. E. Johns
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2022-07-25
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1800329407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A ghost ship full of long-lost gold beckons, and Biggles gets an icy reception... Biggles, Algie, Bertie and Ginger are visited by Grimes, an old pal from the war, whose father, a Merchant Navy captain known as Jumbo, is in a spot of bother. He was recently tricked into skippering a crew of seal poachers to an islet off Antarctica. While there, they spotted an old ship – still rigged for sail – trapped in the pack ice. After an investigation of the ship, Jumbo overheard the words ‘starry’ and ‘crown’ from the jubilant crew. An avid fan of an unsolved mysteries, Biggles immediately recognises the importance of these words. Jumbo and his crew had stumbled upon the long-lost schooner Starry Crown, which went missing seventy years prior with a ton of Australian gold ingots aboard. There have been several sightings and ill-fated recovery expeditions since, but no one has ever retrieved the gold. Grimes reckons that they might be able to beat the poachers to the treasure if they were to go by air, and wonders if Biggles is interested in an adventure. After making a few enquiries, Biggles agrees to the expedition, but there is more than gold in the Starry Crown, and no help for miles across Antarctica’s vast silence... Wrap up warm for a classic Biggles adventure to the frozen continent of Antarctica.
Biggles Breaks the Silence
Author: W. E. Johns
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09-14
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biggles is approached by 'Jumbo' Grimes, whose father used to serve in his old squadron in the Western Desert. His father had sighted a wreck trapped in the Antarctic ice pack which he believed carried a "crown" with "stars". Biggles believes it to be the Starry Crown, a long lost schooner which carried a horde of gold. Soon the Biggles quartet - Sergeant Bigglesworth, C.I.D., Ginger, Algy and Bertie - are airborne to the South Pole on a treasure-hunt waged against time and the fierce opposition of Lavinsky and his gang. This tale of courage, exploration and adventure has an authentic background in the story of the Starry Crown, whose loss with her cargo of gold is one of the unsolved mysteries of the sea.
Antarctica in Fiction
Author: Elizabeth Leane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-06-29
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1107020824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.
Biggles
Author: John Pearson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-12-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1448207762
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the author of All the Money in the World, now a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott, comes the fictional biography of the mystical and fearless ace, James Biggles Worth. For over fifty years, James Biggles Worth, D.S.O., D.F.C., M.C. has flown the skies in everything from Sop with Camels to the earliest jets, he emerged with glory from devilish scrapes all over the world. Yet until now Biggles has often been seen as a storybook caricature. A dashed fine chap, certainly, but not the extraordinary man he really was. Here, for the first time, is an insight into the 'real' man who made these adventures possible. In Biggles, his fictional biography, first published in 1978, John Pearson has unraveled the missing strands in Biggles' life; delving vigorously into subjects that were once taboo. Why did Biggles never marry? What was the truth about his tragic first love? And what were Biggles' real regrets and frustrations as he tried to come to terms with a rapidly developing world in peacetime? The truth - so long hidden behind a stiff upper lip and an equally stiff pink gin in the Officers' Mess - is at last revealed.
Biggles' Secret Assignment
Author: William Earl Johns
Publisher: Crows Nest
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 654
ISBN-13: 9781742371498
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the icy wastes of Antarctica to war-torn Korea - four fantastic stories in another bumper Biggles omnibus. Biggles becomes involved in four undercover operations in this third bumper omnibus of his classic adventure stories that take him from the icy wastes of Antartica to war-torn Korea: - hunting a Second World War German submarine loaded with stolen gold - battling with desperate villains over an ice-bound treasure ship - rescuing kidnapped scientists from a remote region of China - Tackling his arch enemy Erich Von Stalhein and teaming up with Gimlet King's special forces unit undercover in China.
Biggles in the Antarctic
Author: William Earl Johns
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780006917939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biggles in the Orient
Author: W E Johns
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-03-31
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1409098400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'You're out last hope, Bigglesworth,' said the Air Commodore, with something like despair in his voice. The war supply route between Calcutta and China is a vital one but something is attacking the planes that fly it. Again and again pilots set off, only to disappear somewhere along the line, never to be seen again. When Biggles and his team are called in to investigatem, flying the route is close to a suicide mission . . .
Antarctica in British Children’s Literature
Author: Sinead Moriarty
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-29
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 1000262715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent themes and tropes while interrogating how this landscape has been constructed as a wilderness within British literature for children. The text is divided into two sections. Part I focuses on the stories of early-twentieth-century explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton. Antarctica in British Children’s Literature highlights the impact of children’s literature on the expedition writings of Robert Scott, including the influence of Scott’s close friend, author J.M. Barrie. The text also reveals the important role of children’s literature in the contemporary resurgence of interest in Scott’s long-term rival Ernest Shackleton. Part II focuses on fictional narratives set in the Antarctic, including early-twentieth-century whaling literature, adventure and fantasy texts, contemporary animal stories and environmental texts for children. Together these two sections provide an insight into how depictions of this unique continent have changed over the past century, reflecting transformations in attitudes towards wilderness and wild landscapes.
