![]() The commander serves as a friend and role model. As a newbie, Lockhart is thrown into the maelstrom and must learn quickly how to function effectively. The book focuses on the relationship between the commander and officers, particularly his lieutenant, Lockhart. It is told linearly, covering 1939 to 1945, with one chapter dedicated to each year, and is based on the author’s own (and, at that time, recent) experiences. His officers are new to the Royal Navy, as so many were at the start of the war, having previously held civilian jobs. The only experienced crew member is Lieutenant-Commander George Ericson, who had previously served in the Merchant Navy. ![]() At the story opens, the newly built HMS Compass Rose is just being readied for launch and the crew is in training. ![]() Published in 1951, this book is a classic fiction of maritime warfare in the Battle of the Atlantic during WWII, focused on a corvette ship assigned to protect convoys from German U-Boats. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Burrells' degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life - all by itself. Extremely rare species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer - proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain - the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade. ![]() Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope. ![]() In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the `Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. 'The remarkable story of an astounding transformation' George Monbiot, author of Feral. ![]() ![]() There is a reason she is still a towering presence in the SF community, and it's not just that she's the one black female author most SF fans can name. I am sure she had many, many more books in her, and the world was robbed of her talent. ![]() And in the final apocalyptic battle, her survival will depend on whether all humans are bigots-or all bigots are human. Genetically modified to be able to walk in daylight, Shori now becomes the target of a vast plot to destroy her and her kind. But Shori is a fifty-three-year-old vampire with a ravenous hunger for blood, the lost child of an ancient species of near-immortals who live in dark symbiosis with humanity. ![]() Found alone in the woods, she appears to be a little black girl with traumatic amnesia and near-fatal wounds. ![]() |