Most Popular Books by Richard Doyle

A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1865. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

An old fairy tale: The sleeping beauty is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A storm rages over the north of Britain. A troop carrier founders in the irish Sea; flood indicators go off the scale; the seas are mountainous and a spring tide is about to strike the East Coast. Air-Sea rescue and military personnel struggle to save lives all down the coast. The worse is yet to come. When the storm reaches the south the two forces of wind and tide will combine and send a huge one-in-a-thousad tidal surge up the Thames. But surely London is safe: the Thames Barrier will save the capital from disaster as it was intended to do? The river is a titanic presence by now, higher than anyone has known it, and the surge thunders towards the Barrier. Scientists begin to talk of the possibiltiy of overtopping. Can fifty feet high gates be overwhelmed by a wave? Then there is an explosion the size of a small Hiroshima: a supertanker is ablaze in the estuary and most of the Essex petrochemical works are going up with it. The Thames catches fire and the wall of fire and water thunders towards Britain's capital. This is the story of what happens next, and the desperate attempts to save the capital from destruction.

Letter from Richard Doyle to Mrs. Ritchie, about his visit to Eastbourne, and also his thoughts on the book "Past Hours" by Adelaide Sartoris, which was exchanged between Doyle and Ritchie. On the final leaf Doyle also recounts a story of an encounter he observed between a group of school aged boys and a barking dog.

The journals of artist Richard (Dick) Doyle written as a young man living in 1840 London.