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Hadfield's British Canals: The Inland Waterways of Britain and Ireland (Hadfield's British Canals)
Joseph Boughey
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Renowned canal historian Charles Hadfield describes how canals emerged from the industrial revolution of the 18th century; their decline due to the railways; and their survival into the 20th century.
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Inland Waterways of Great Britain
Jane Cumberlidge
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British Waterways Board (Cm.:)
C.C. Baillieu ,
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Great Britain
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Inland cruising companion
John Liley
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The Inland Waterways Association
Neil Edwards
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The fatal poisoning of Charles Bravo in 1876 remains a great, unsolved mystery. As James Ruddick shows in this engrossing account, there was no shortage of suspects. Among them were Bravo's wife, Florence, who married the young barrister in part to erase the taint of a recent sexual scandal; Jane Cox, a servant caught spinning a web of lies about what happened the night Bravo died; and James Gully, an esteemed doctor who was also once Florence's lover. "In time, the case passed into the pantheon of English crime, a riddle that drew the interest in speculation of every passing generation," writes Ruddick. It's not hard to see why. Death at the Priory is full of compelling personalities and titillating revelations about what happened behind the closed doors of Victorian England. Ruddick promises something more than a rehash of the established facts: "I discovered the new evidence which has enabled me to expose Charles Bravo's murderer." The author ultimately does not point his finger in a surprising direction, though he has added substantial details to what's known about the case. Fans of true-crime literature will enjoy this book, especially if they're attracted to its historical setting. --John Miller
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In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence Ricardo married the handsome and successful young attorney Charles Bravo, hoping to escape the scandals of her past. But Bravo proved to be a brutal and conniving man, and the marriage was far from happy. Then one night he suddenly collapsed, and three days later died an agonizing death. His doctors immediately determined that he had been poisoned. The graphic and sensational details of the case would capture the public imagination of Victorian England as the investigation dominated the press for weeks, and the list of suspects grew to include Florence, her secret lover the eminent doctor James Gully, her longtime companion the housekeeper Mrs. Cox, and the recently dismissed stableman George Griffiths. But ultimately no murderer could be determined, and despite the efforts of numerous historians, criminologists, and other writers since (including Agatha Christie), the case has never been definitively solved. Now James Ruddick retells this gripping story of love, greed, brutality, and betrayal among the elite -- offering an intimate portrait of Victorian culture and of one woman's struggle to live in this repressive society, while unmasking the true murderer for the first time. Simultaneously a murder mystery, colorful social history, and modern-day detective tale, Death at the Priory is a thrilling read and a window into a fascinating time. "An impressively researched retelling ... Death at the Priory reads as a historical intervention, crime novel, and sensational docudrama." -- Zarena Aslami, Chicago Tribune "A suspenseful and stimulating read." -- Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times "Enjoyable; Ruddick has done much admirable sleuthing." -- Paul Collins, The New York Times Book Review
Customer Reviews:
This book is a priority!.......2006-04-28
This is an extremely well-written, suspenseful true crime mystery set in the Victorian era. To me, the author did not only a great writing job, but I really felt transported back in time to that era of sexual repression. There was obviously a lot "happening" then, more than you'd think. The unfolding of one woman's two unsuccessful marriages, and the doomed affair is sure to bring thrills and chills up many a 21st century human's spine. The book includes a few photos of the main protaganists and of the places where they lived and breathed. The poisoning that takes place is gruesomely portrayed and the theories about the never-prosecuted perpetrator were well-researched.
One thing I would have liked to understand better is just how abrupt the transitions were between men, i.e. Gully, her lover, seems to leave the picture in the blink of an eye as she makes way for husband number two. And was Florence, the main character, really such a spoiled brat? To me she seems to have had a tremendously hard life for landed gentry. Her father was certainly not overly sympathetic to her needs when she reported her marriage(s) weren't working out so well. By reading about this true crime, pretty much a direct result of sexual repression, we get a great view into the Victorian era. Read it and weep!
An absorbing real-life mystery........2006-03-17
"Death at the Priory: Sex, Love, and Murder in Victorian England" is such a fascinating true-crime book. I'm no expert in this genre, since this is only the second true-crime book I've read, but I think it was expertly told. Author James Ruddick approached the history and telling of the lives in a fictional sort of way - you read it like a story. When it came to his detective work and investigation, it reads like a magazine article. Never did I feel I was reading a file of information. My only complaint is how Ruddick ends this book - it falls flat in comparison to the entire story. If you enjoy mysteries, then take a step back in time and read about a real mystery. I recommend.
A genuine scoop on a great story.......2005-10-05
A well-written account of a marriage and a murder, gripping from the first page and packed with new information about this unusual case. The Gloria Mundi review is wrong - I checked her sources. The Yseult Bridges book does NOT cover the new information regarding Jamaica in Ruddick's account, and neither does the 1989 book, Murder at the Priory. Bridges refers to Jamaica but does not include the information Ruddick uncovered in his researches on that island - namely the extent of the estate; dates of occupation and so on. I thought Ms Mundi's review rather churlish and carping given the pleasure she obviously derived from Ruddick's book.
It is clear that the Bravo case will go on fascinating and intriguing generations to come. But this is a classic of its kind and by far the best work to date, encompassing broad social history and issues about marriage and womanhood that are both interesting and still relevant.
I just wish they'd make a movie of the case!
Good, though not the last word on the case.......2005-03-09
The fatal poisoning of Charles Bravo is a classic historical mystery, and rightfully so. The case's unique fascination lies with its strange cast of characters, featuring someone who was among the most unsympathetic victims in the annals of crime (as Ruddick notes, Bravo "was the sort of man to whom your mind would instinctively turn when you were told that someone had been expelled from your club for cheating at cards,") and with the extremely narrow list of suspects. Practically speaking, there were only two people in the world who could be said to have the means, motive, and opportunity to poison Bravo, but no evidence has ever been uncovered to prove the guilt of either party.
While Ruddick's book is a nicely researched and well-written account of the death of Charles Bravo, it is not nearly as definitive as he thinks. The "new evidence" that he so proudly features in his book has already appeared in print, notably in Yseult Bridges' 1956 study "How Charles Bravo Died," a book that Ruddick cites but does not seem to have actually read. Bridges centered her book around the peculiar personality of the victim, not of the accepted suspects, and in the process devised what is still the most original and intriguing solution to the mystery. It would have been interesting to have Ruddick address Bridges' theories, particularly as he and Bridges had completely different interpretations of cryptic, and probably crucial, conversations that Bravo's new wife, Florence, had with her doctor.
While Ruddick certainly presents a plausible theory of Bravo's death, I finished the book with the feeling that the last chapter to this tale has yet to be written.
The best work to date, thorough and full of new information.......2004-08-22
This is an outstanding work of true crime and scholarship, and is, to my mind, the definitive work to date on the Bravo case. The author has read and examined every source he could find, and, after dismissing most of the secondary works on the case as inaccurate, returned to the primary sources, such as the Coroner's Inquest testimony and other source documents for much of the information in this book. This is a thoroughly researched work of true crime. Ruddick also places the crime firmly in the social and legal context of the era and explains the horrible position of a Victorian woman trapped in a bad marriage: there were no real options, and even separation was socially unacceptable and legally possible only if both parties agreed to it. Florence Bravo was between a rock and a hard place--married to an abusive, short-tempered money grubber [her first husband was an abusive alcoholic] who married her solely for her money.
I agree with 85 to 90% of the author's reasoning, though he does jump to a few conclusions. Ruddick also effectively demolishes two of the prevailing theories for Bravo's murder: the accidental overdose theory, i.e., Florence intented to put just a little antimony in Charles's water to sicken him and prevent his sexual advances, and the theory that Mrs. Cox poisoned Bravo for firing her.
There are a few "aren't I clever" moments, such as the author's demonstration in the Priory that the maid standing at the doorway of the room Bravo died in would have heard Bravo alleged confess of taking poison to Mrs. Cox. He seems surprised that the police didn't try this during their investigation, but about 25 pages previously he states that "ninety percent of the crimes that the Metropolitan Police investigated in their first fifty years were crimes against property." Ruddick also drops in facts several places in the book. For example, in a discussion of Mrs. Cox's behavior during Bravo's illness he describes her as "a trained night nurse" and "a woman trained in sickroom procedures." There is no mention of this training in the previous information about Mrs. Cox's background or previous employment. He also describes a quarrel during a trip to London on the day Bravo was poisoned and surmises that this was the straw that broke Florence's back, but I find no mention of this quarrel in the previous description of that day.
The book would have also benefitted from a chronology of events list. I found myself flipping back and forth looking for dates of specific events frequently and a one-page chronology would have been useful and a time-saver. The floor plan illustrations of the Priory printed on the endpapers are useless; they don't even tell what floor of the house they represent! Approximate room measurement would also have been nice.
These few faults do not detract from an outstanding book. Ruddick's theory of the crime is not new, but it is persuasively stated and covers all the facts of the case. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about one of true crime's classic puzzles.
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WICKED!!!.......2002-07-26
This is an awesome book, in my opinion. The plot is really exciting, but I have only read the first and third books. I think that I should say to readers who are intending to use that little piece of information about Mary, Queen of Scots on p. 100 had better check their facts: Mary was beheaded in 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle, not the Tower of London. And in case anyone was wondering, the wax museum is called Madame Tussaud's.
Still, I really recommend this book to anyone who loves a good scary, mysterious story.
I LOVE THIS BOOK!.......2000-09-03
As I have all the books in this miniseries this book really connects well to the next.I think it is the best of the three in the actual miniseries.It's brill!
My Favorite SVH Book!!!.......1999-02-07
This has got to be the best Sweet Valley Book I've ever read! It gives a good mental and physical description of it's characters. If you like werewolves this is a must read book.
Really good.......1998-12-12
A great opener of a 3 part series. The setting is in Londen where Liz and Jess are working as intern's for the Londen Journal. They find out about a series of murders where the victim's throat is torn up. Throw in a quiet poet, a Lord a snotty roommate and a missing princess. The perfect elemnts for a great book. The other 2 books are just as scary as this one is.
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At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald
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This is a story of a poor stable boy living in Victorian London in which everyday lives are mysteriously enveloped by a power and a glory, personified here as a beautiful woman known as the North Wind. She visits the small boy, Diamond, and takes him with her on her journeys, teaching him about herself. Through the eyes of an innocent and yet perceptive child, MacDonald explores North Wind as a way of exploring the place of death in our lives. He looks squarely at social injustice--he knew poverty and the poor first hand--and yet also sees that the deepest need we have is for love and forgiveness, which are rooted in eternity.
This is a book for children--I've read it to my own daughter more than once--even though they may not understand just who North Wind is until years later. Adults on the other hand will learn that while they thought they knew something about death, there is much to relearn--and probably the most important part. --Doug Thorpe
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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of At the Back of the North Wind includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Nancy Springer.Listen hard....you can hear magic in the wind!Diamond lives in a hayloft. But that was all right with him. He loves to snuggle up to the horses at night and listen to them snore away. Sometimes he can even hear the stars twinkling in the sky.One night Diamond is visited by a beautiful fairy with long flowing hair. She calls herself North Wind, and she lives in the enchanged land far, far away. Best of all, she has come to take Diamond back with her--back to the land at the back of the North Wind.Adored by millions of young readers since its first publication in 1871, George MacDonald's magical tale continues to delight.
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A charming and heart-breaking classic. Not for children only.
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Not all that impressed.......2007-02-09
I can see the main point of this book, and I think that's cool. "Don't worry when bad things happen - good things are around the corner." Or, to put it another way, "All things work together for good." But most of this book honestly annoyed me. Diamond is entirely too perfect (it starts to get on my nerves).
However, there *are* some scenes that really touched me and really made me think. For instance, when Diamond goes to help the drunken cabbie and his family. I like it when George MacDonald makes these side-notes about society and how we often approach situations from the wrong angle. That was definitely worth it.
After I read this, I went on to read "The Lost Princess." What a contrast! I went from reading about one angelically perfect boy to two horrendously bratty girls. I found the girls much more interesting! (And I felt like I could learn a few lessons myself regarding pride and humility)
Incredibly Boring!.......2006-10-18
After reading and loving his "The Princess and the Goblin" and "The Princess and Curdie",I thought this would be a joy as well. I was wrong! I tried to like it. I read about 75 pages and had to give up. I could detect no plot,no point at all and it seemed to be going nowhere,all he did was fly around with the North Wind,and they chatted about nothing of any interest or importance. This is the worst book that it has been my misfortune to come across in a very long time,and only the second,that I ever remember closing and giving up on. Read the other two,but forget this one!
The Magic of MacDonald's Fairy Tale.......2006-07-31
I am quite ready to add At the Back of the North Wind to my collection of masterpieces that shall remain close to me, I suspect, my entire life. While a collection of favorite books by C. S. Lewis' site largest on that shelf, At the Back of the North Wind will be the second book by George MacDonald to join them. This seems quite appropriate as Lewis himself held MacDonald in such high esteem, even calling him his `master.' While more childish than Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind manages to enchant my imagination in the same way that Narnia always has, while upon first inspection the tale may seem to be of little substance to a more mature audience I think there is subtle depth hidden within the deceptively simple child whom the story centers upon.
Diamond is the young boy of a poor coach driver and his wife living in England during the late 1800's. The story begins in the hayloft above the horse stalls where Diamond sleeps, as the wind blows, but it is not a simple wind, it is the North Wind, the romantic and enchanting idea of a grand lady who is the north wind. Diamond, the infinitely innocent and pure child is beckoned into the air and weaved into many journeys with the north wind where he learns goodness, truth and beauty. Throughout the story, other people see him as quietly wise or as one of `God's Babies.' As the story progresses Diamond becomes week and ill and while being taken to the enchanted country at the back of the North Wind he lapses into unconsciousness. Diamond returns, and with what strength he has, blesses everyone whom he meets; helping his family by driving his father's cab while he is ill, saving an orphaned friend off the streets, even quieting the drunken man's baby who lives next to him, whom even mistakes him for an angel. Finally touching the heart of the rich, but generous and altruistic man who looks after Diamond's orphaned friend and gives Diamond's father a job and lodgings in the countryside.
Yet, it is not these heroic acts, if one might call them that, resound so thoroughly, he is not doing good deeds, doing good deeds seems almost insincere when considered next to his genuine good nature. Like Narnia and Phantastes, there is a longing for something we may never fulfill here in our daily lives, a longing for something we have only hints of, Lewis defines this as Joy, for Diamond it is the longing for the country at the back of the North Wind, of which his first journey there is only a hint of the true country. As for me, I too feel this longing and it is an experience likely to be found in a quite forest and in the embrace of this extraordinary book.
Diamond is someone you can admire.......2006-05-11
This is a 299 paged fiction book.
This book most likely takes place in Europe where horses and carriages were people's transportation.
Diamond is a young boy.
His father is a coachman. His mother works in the home.
Diamond is named after his dad's favorite carriage horse.
Diamond is first visited by the North Wind in his bedroom in the loft.
When he was with North Wind, he could not say he was exactly happy because he didn't have his parents with him; but it was more than happiness, he was content, at peace and still when there.
Diamond is a small boy who has blond hair, light blue eyes, light brown skin, lips like a red rose, sings songs to his little brother and sister that some time make you cry.
Diamond was kind to his little brother and sister; he was brave, clever, neat, and generous. He was wise beyond his young years.
People liked him. He was kind to every one.
North Wind is gentle and kind to Diamond. Even though it doesn't say it at the beginning, North Wind is death. Diamond went to be with her.
I would recommend this book to 6th graders and up.
The book talks about death in a peaceful way.
Diamond is someone you can admire.
Innocence at its finest.......2006-05-05
George Macdonald suceeds in creating a perfectly innocent character in this book: the young boy Diamond. A previous reviewer said that Diamond was too perfect and not believable. I assume that this reviewer would say that Adam was not believable before he fell as well. Why someone is looking for "believable" (by believable I believe that he meant a character we would expect to meet in real life) characters in a George Macdonald fantasy novel in the first place is beyond me. It is like criticizing China for not producing any Englishmen.
Secondly, a previous reviewer said that this book is important historically but that it was not fun to read. He says that "He's the point when 'just fun' and 'sound moral instructions' combine in children's literature." I would like very much for him to show me one of these childrens stories with no moral instruction. That is what all fairy tales were about until recently. Try to find any traditional fairy tale that is not meant to convey moral truths to us. I am afraid that the reviewer has got it exactly backwards. This novel is not historically important at all, but it is very fun to read. George Macdonald is a master at creating fantasy worlds which the reader find easy to become immersed into.
Overall grade: A
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Making Love: A Romance
Lucretia Stewart
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
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Set against the sexual freedom of the 1970s and the tough realities of solitary life in the late 1990s, Lucretia Stewart’s moving first novel charts the sentimental education of a woman who learns the truth about herself through the intricate lessons of desire and pain.
This is the first U.S. Edition.
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Read Something Else.......2007-04-19
Making Love: A Romance is, quite simply, one of the worst books I've read in the last five years. The novel opens with a promising beginning, a great first line of, "In London, two days after my father's funeral, I began an affair with a man with whom I had first slept twenty-five years earlier in Italy." That's a great start, but unfortunately, the climax of the book occurs in the first sentence (bad pun, I know).
My problem with the book is the lack of scenes, which directly correlates with the lack of tension. This novel is likely more than ninety percent narrative summary, and that's not the way to write a novel, a short story, or any work of fiction. How will the reader feel anything is at stake when the Stewart summarizes important events in a paragraph and clips critical moments just as tension is rising? For example, after the narrator won't return a scorned lover's calls, she writes "he stormed into the my Cambridge office..." and then after a superfluous description of what he wore, she continues "The men in the office persuaded him to leave quietly but this was by no means easy." That's it; an interesting and potentially telling moment summarized in a paragraph. But this is by no means the most egregious or obvious example. I simply opened the book to a random page and found that one.
My point is that this occurs at every turn. Long relationships end in a sentence, seasons go by in a paragraph, and years go by in the span of half a page. At one moment, the narrator is sleeping with a relative's boyfriend, and when the relative finds them in bed together, that's it; the scene ends and that's all we get. What happened next would have been the most interesting moment of that event, but we aren't given it. Similarly, when a boyfriend says to the narrator "Fat bitch. No wonder your father couldn't stick you," she responds, with a line of exposition, "The remark stung," and that's it. Both of those, seem to me, to be important moments, moments when the reaction is more important than the events themselves. For example, in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants," when the man asks Jig to get an abortion the story doesn't end. On the contrary, the remark creates tension, and the real story is in the conversation and events that follow, until we learn, at the end of the story, that everything between them has changed, that their relationship is over.
This brings me to my second complaint: superfluous backstory. This book gives us the relevant past history of the narrator and then the narrator's new lover, Louis (the man in the first sentence) then dives into their present situation together. If not for the lack of scene, this would all be very gripping. And then, about eighty pages into the novel, Stewart stops and gives the reader another eighty pages of completely unnecessary backstory, her complete sexual history, all of course told in narrative summary. This did nothing but portray the narrator as slightly unlikable. Again, years pass in a paragraph, and there's no fixative to hang onto because of the lack of scene. Worst of all, we don't learn a thing about the narrator in this point. She appears as the same unfulfilled nearly nymphomatic person she is in adulthood. Perhaps this is supposed to justify her current behavior in some way, but why take eighty pages to do this? And more importantly, why feel the need to justify a character's behavior in the first place? I finished this section and thought of the lines from the William Carlos Williams poem, "The Ivy Crown" : "Children pick flowers/ Let them./ Though having them/ in hand/ they have no further use of them/but leave them crumpled/ at the curb's edge." The problem here is that WCW, in only a few lines, says everything Stewart says in eight pages: the narrator was young, impetuous, and slept with a lot of different guys.
Of course, I can't recommend this book, mostly because of the story telling blunders. But there are strong moments in this novel, though they are very few and with thirty or so pages of muck between them. Stewart has an occasional strong line, like "But I measure true love by the amount of pain I experience." She also commands a good sense of language. Her prose style is clear and sophisticated. I get the sense she's a smart women, well read, well traveled. But what I worry most about, is the idea of an aspiring writer finding this book and copying the style. That would be a huge mistake. The great novels of our time use scene and tension (two people wanting different things or one character wanting different things). Wuthering Heights, Bleak House, East of Eden, The Human Stain all incorporate narrative summary and backstory, but the bulk of these books, and the moments we'll remember, are SCENES.
This, ultimately, is why Stewart's Making Love: A Romance is not a good novel. I have the impression that this might be a capable writer who just wiffed. There could be good work out there by Stewart, and good work to come. But skip this novel. The characters are insipid, unfulfilling, and boring, which coincidently, are adjectives I would use to describe novel as well.
Making Love Talk-Show Style.......2005-01-28
Perhaps you will be expecting a series of erotic love tales from the title of Lucretia Stewart's novel, "Making Love." However, what one finds is a seemingly endless parade of failed love affairs that have a propensity for the desperate, not steamy, sultry side that is easily found in Harlequin romances. Stewart's characters appear to be tragically compulsive and unable to act in their own best interests, even when the choices are clear. For example, the unnamed female protagonist is unable to leave Louis, a married manic-depressive alcoholic, because she feels like it is "one big movie" and says, "I couldn't let go because the relationship had developed a life, a momentum of its own, which was quite separate from the individuals involved in it."
Stewart's writing transmits a palpable sense of loss, depicting characters that cling to an unhappy fate out of fear and habit. The author's sentences are crisp and to the point as we watch the unnamed female protagonist meander from the beginning of her love life in the 1970s to the present. Overall, a believable and even an enjoyable read, despite, actually, because the terrain of the unnamed female protagonist is awash with horrible decisions. Reading this train wreck proves to be delicious fodder for any rubbernecker or unscrupulous talk-show host.
Bohdan Kot
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Love and Death in London (Sweet Valley High)
Francine Pascal
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