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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole, and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death, and...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, Pirbhai, a teenage boy looking for work, is taken from his village in India to labor on the East African Railway for the British. One day Pirbhai commits an act to ensure his survival that will haunt him forever and reverberate across his family's future for years to come. Pirbhai's children are born and raised under the jacaranda trees and searing sun of Kampala during the waning days of British colonial rule....
27) Arctic summer
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck, the promise of a strange new future begins to take shape before his eyes. The seeds of a story start to gather at the corner of his mind: a sense of impending menace, lust in close confines, under a hot, empty sky. It will be another 12 years, and a second time spent in India, before...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The continuing adventures of Richard Sharpe, a 19th century soldier, as he fights to enlarge the British empire. He helps the Duke of Wellington put down the Indian Mahratta rebellion, an operation culminating in the 1803 Battle of Assaye which is described in vivid detail.
30) Mohandas Gandhi
Author
Series
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Describes briefly the colonial India into which Gandhi was born, his upbringing and education, including his stay in South Africa, and the nonviolent revolution he led to free India from English rule.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The English chef behind such New York restaurants as The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and the John Dory shares recipes and techniques that combine her working-class English background with a flair for seasonal and meaty dishes using fresh ingredients.
33) Gunga Din
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Three English soldier comrades battle the punjabs in India while accompanied by their lowly water-bearer Gunga Din, who longs to be a fighter himself.
34) Coast
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An epic experience, the story of Coast combines history, geography, biology, archaeology, and travel in a visually stunning and fascinating documentary journey around the coasts of Britain, interconnected with those of her neighbors.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of the burning of the White House by the British during the War of 1812 from the perspectives of its witnesses, including First Lady Dolley Madison, a British officer and a 9-year-old slave.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Hailed by critics as one of the most thoughtful and important TV dramas ever, the sweeping fourteen-part remastered adaptation of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet is the story of the men and women of both ruling and ruled classes of WWII India, trying amidst the turmoil to come to terms with the drastic changes taking place around them, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
English chef Jamie Oliver offers recipes for preparing traditional British dishes, covering breakfasts, soups, salads, pub food, afternoon tea, pies and puddings, Sunday lunch, and more.
Having grown up in his parents' gastropub, Jamie Oliver has always had a special place in his heart for British cooking. And in recent years there's been an exciting revolution in the British food world in general. English chefs, producers, and artisans are retracing...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt in defiance of British law.
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