Richard Hughes

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Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of...

A High Wind in Jamaica, first published as The Innocent Voyage in 1929, is a classic coming-of-age novel. The story centers on the five children of the Bas-Thornton family, living on a plantation in late nineteenth-century Jamaica. Following a devastating hurricane, their parents send...

A small used car dealer tries to make ends meet from his dealership in tiny Truro, Massachusetts, population 2000. Truro is a beautiful beach community of sand dunes and ocean views. Cape Car Blues is the story of how 6-year old Mikey Mayflower acts...

From their Cape Cod compound, the brightest safety consultants in their profession take you into their world to resolve local as well as global safety, health, and environmental conflicts. Meet characters you wish you knew, maybe even characters you do know dealing with true...

Cape Safety, Inc. - Change of Climate, No. 5 in the Danger Dogs Series, takes us from land mine detection in Ukraine to refloating the Ever Forward in Baltimore, Maryland, from underground aquifers in California to entertainment submarines engaged in hostage exchanges, from preserving...

The 6th book in the series, Cape Safety, Inc. - S. H. E. - Safety, Health & Environmental, captures over 50 headline interventions involving the diverse cast of characters better known as the E. H. & S. consultants of C.S.I. Once more, the men--and...

Cape Safety, Inc. - Where Problems Perish continues the global adventures of the expert men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the "go-to" safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists.Proud of your designer clothes? Look behind the scenes at...

Deep Sea Decisions introduces the Evergreen Group, the owners of the largest container ships ever built, and details their recent high-value losses jumping off every headline. Why? Who is really to blame for these incidents? And why are the officers and crew the first...

The Archimedes is a modern merchant steamship in tip-top condition, and in the summer of 1929 it has been picking up goods along the eastern seaboard of the United States before making a run to China. A little overloaded, perhaps--the oddly assorted cargo includes...

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II. He was sent to Europe twice. The first assignment in 1940 was short lived, as he joined the hopelessly ill equipped and overwhelmed Allied forces in France. The superior German...

The Flying Saucer News was published under the banner of the JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH FlYING SAUCER BUREAU AND FLYING SAUCER CLUB, England by Richard Hughes as editor and publisher. This publication, like many others of that time, was a forum for fortean experience,...

A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, The Fox in the Attic is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." Set in the early 1920s, the book centers on Augustine, a young man from an aristocratic...

"The Grace of Troublesome Questions will be an introduction and evaluation of Richard Hughes's writing as he deals with the complicated religious issues of race, sexuality, and other questions that may vex modern Christians"--Author: Richard HughesISBN-10: 1684260221ISBN-13: 9781684260225Publisher: Abilene Christian University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/07/2022Pages:...

This book is a comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of homeopathy. It provides an in-depth look at the history and development of this alternative medical field. This is an essential resource for anyone interested in homeopathy and its potential benefits.This work has...

The Wooden Shepherdess is the sequel to The Fox in the Attic, and the second volume of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." It opens with Hughes's hero Augustine in prohibition era America, where he is a bemused onlooker and an increasingly...

1975: Six-year old Jake lives near the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, a poor kid who wistfully watches the cadets. Will he put his thoughts into action? Written by an alumnus with a revisionist recollection of the Academy's last all-male European training cruise....