The Killowen Series 4: The Gribbon Family and the Clothworkers

The Killowen Series 4: The Gribbon Family and the Clothworkers
Author: Ronnie Gamble
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1326863266

This volume focuses on the Gribbon family and the history of the clothworking trade in Coleraine town and the Killowen area of the town. The subjects include an overview of the Irish clothworking industry and how the Killowen workforce were employed in the trade until the close of the 1900s

The Killowen Series 3: Industrial Life

The Killowen Series 3: Industrial Life
Author: Ronnie Gamble
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2014-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1326844628

This third volume of the Killowen Series focuses on the industrial history of old Killowen. The subjects include an overview of the economic history of Ireland, economic theory, mechanised industry, small businesses, self employment and the type of employment available to the majority of the old Killowen population. The Clothworking trade will be discussed in the next volume.

The Last Adventurer

The Last Adventurer
Author: Peter Berresford Ellis
Publisher: Donald M. Grant Publishers
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Talbot Mundy's life is far from being a dull literary biography. Accounts of his adventures are often a record of lordly lies. Born William Lancaster Gribbon, he was the stereotype of the Victorian English rake. His travels and exploits -- with frequent confrontations with the law -- took him all over the world under a variety of aliases. The day after he landed in New York in 1909 Mundy was enticed into a poker game, robbed and beaten. During his recovery, he tried his hand at writing and soon became very popular. He drew heavily upon his adventures in India, the Near East and Africa as background for his fiction.

What a Lady Needs

What a Lady Needs
Author: Kasey Michaels
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0373777647

From a "USA TODAY"-bestselling author comes the second book in her captivating series about the RedgravesNfour siblings celebrated for their legacy of scandal and seduction. Original.

Date Expectations

Date Expectations
Author: Juliana Gribbins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780983094548

A laugh-out-loud look at one woman's return to the dating scene following her divorce. Sixty humorous essays from the outrageously popular, award-winning "Single on the Shoreline" column that appeared on the pages of the Shore Publishing Newspapers along the Connecticut Shoreline, and reaching over 100,000 fans.

Sitdown Up North

Sitdown Up North
Author: Ted Egan
Publisher: Kerr Publishing
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925283895

Ted Egan was born in Melbourne and spent his first sixteen years there, described in his The Paperboy's War. Since 1949 he has lived and worked in the Northern Territory, now based in Alice Springs, performing, writing, singing and recording his own songs, and collecting those of others. He speaks two Aboriginal languages, and often lectures on Aboriginal language and issues. He is an inaugural Life Member of the Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame. In 1991 he was awarded the Order of Australia for 'services to the Aboriginal People, and for an ongoing and significant contribution to Australia's literary heritage through song and verse'. He was at one time a member of the Prime Minister's National Reconciliation Council. Author of numerous books, his last was Justice All Their Own, an account of the clash of cultures when Aboriginals speared a group of Japanese fishermen and a white policeman to death in the early 1930s. Ted Egan, 17, was going to stop over en route to Brazil, but he still lives in the Territory. Sitdown Up North scatters our pre-conceptions of what Territorians are like. Egan's palette goes beyond red ochre and sky blue. There are nut-brown metho-drinking scholars, a white man whose first language is Cantonese, a dusky mother who pursued her 'stolen children' and an ebony-coloured son patiently decorating his revered father's bones in rainbows of intricate design, for starters. A love of song tuned his ear superbly to the vagaries of Territorians' speech. There's the ABC we expect of any good Outback yarn Adventure, Brawls and Close-shaves. But more than that ... The author's work gave him a rare, privileged position from which to watch change coming over the land. His acquaintanceship has been extraordinarily wide and diverse: bums and bureaucrats, elders and activists, publicans and politicians, stockmen and nurses, all hues, young 'uns and flourbags, Lingari, Coombs, Roberts, Whitlam. Good listener, insatiably curious, historian, Ted Egan knows his Territory. Where the record isn't pretty, he doesn't flinch. Commitment to a fair go, quick sympathies for the oppressed, honest recall of youth and his love of the place and all its people make Sitdown ... moving autobiography, refreshing history and an exotic tour of one of the world's least understood places. 'A bloody good yarn ... a rambunctious, insightful and compelling account of Territory frontier life' - Tim Bowden ' ... lucky enough to witness the Territory during one of its most interesting stages. He happened to be in the right place at the right time in some cases the wrong time.' - Les Hiddens

Classic Sail

Classic Sail
Author: Joseph Gribbins
Publisher: Main Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-05-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781402713347

Prepare to be swept away as Gribbins captures the beauty and adventure of being on the water in a sailboat or speedboat.--Outdoor Photographer With an authoritative text and striking, full-color photographs, noted boating writer Joseph Gribbins chronicles the evolution of sail, from the early days, when it opened up a world of exploration and trade, to its current popularity as a form of recreation and competition. It's a long and rich story: celebrated wood- and wood-and-metal-hulled sailboats from throughout the ages appear in vivid detail, with discussions of their historical significance. Vintage designs, day sailers, cruisers, racing classics, luxurious yachts, replicas and reinterpretations: each one will set your imagination afire. Includes complete source and kit information for obtaining plans for featured boats.