Bøker av Andrew Cunningham

The autobiography of Britain's greatest fighting admiral of the twentieth century. A fascinating and at times gripping memoir. A new introduction that contextualises the Admiral's achievements.

BOOK FOUR IN THE YESTERTIME TIME TRAVEL SERIES!Keith Miller, an urban explorer, leads small groups of thrill-seekers through abandoned buildings. The exploration of an old mountain inn goes horribly wrong when the group accidentally accesses a time portal that takes them to 1917, a distant and dangerous time.Former time traveler Ray Burton learns of their disaster and tries to help from afar. However, something alarming has happened to the portals.Has Ray unknowingly put the travelers' lives in jeopardy?As desperation sets in for the travelers, they begin to realize that they are facing an even greater peril than they thought...

"The novel grabs from the first sentence." - Cape Cod Times Jessica Norton is a woman on the run, a sensational lead item on the nightly news. Jon Harper is a grieving father whose life has crumbled over the death of his young daughter. When Jon picks up Jess hitchhiking on a deserted Texas highway one rainy night, it pitches them both into the middle of a massive conspiracy. Wisdom Spring takes readers on a fast-paced, suspenseful ride along the highways of the U.S. and Canada, and into the far reaches of the Alaskan wilderness. Pursued by a group of relentless killers, the two unlikely heroes must transition from helpless prey to proficient hunters, leading to a shocking discovery--one that threatens the very future of the United States.

"I'm going to die a hundred years before I was born..."The handwritten note was in a dusty trunk that sat in a cave untouched for 150 years. What did the words mean? When journalist Ray Burton finds the trunk near the Arizona ghost town of Hollow Rock, his life changes in an instant.Something in the trunk shouldn't be there.This begins a dangerous journey of discovery bordering on the impossible. A discovery that will affect the past, the present, and the future.

The crash was just the beginning ...Scott Harper makes his living flying hunters and fishermen into the wilds of Alaska. However, his current passenger is different, wearing a suit and tie and carrying a briefcase.Scott's strange passenger directs him by gunpoint to a remote landing strip in the middle of nowhere, and armed men suddenly surround his plane. Barely able to take off under fire, his aircraft is heavily damaged and crashes deep in the wilderness.With the men in hot pursuit, Scott must navigate the rugged terrain to stay one step ahead.The Alaska wilderness is full of surprises.Finding his way back to civilization could be deadly!

In the climactic third book in the Yestertime Series, Ray, Natalie, and the other time travelers are desperate to return to the 21st century.But how?Just when a slim opportunity to find their way home presents itself, they get some chilling news. And now, Ray and his friends may be stranded for good."A remarkable time travel novel." - Bookwormex - Book Reviews for Avid Readers (on Yestertime)

When It's Terrorist vs. Hurricane ... Everybody Loses!It's July 5th, and the Cape Cod roadways are clogged with tourists heading home from the holiday weekend and trying to outrun an approaching potentially catastrophic hurricane. But in the blink of an eye, their lives are thrown into chaos when terrorists bring down all of the bridges to the Cape. Instantly, a half million terrified people have no way to escape. And when the terrorists threaten to release anthrax on the captive population if their demands aren't met, fear turns to all-out panic.With time running out, Marcus Baldwin, a private investigator and former CIA operative, and Sara Cross, a disgraced ex-homicide detective, are brought together by a sole clue to the identity of the terrorists. They quickly realize that they may be the only ones with even a chance of stopping the plot before it's too late.With Category 4 Hurricane Chad barreling up the coast on a path for a direct hit on Cape Cod, it becomes frighteningly clear to everyone trapped on what has now become an island-one way or another they are probably all going to die.

Gunned down on a busy Boston street, bestselling mystery author Sabrina Spencer is left clinging to life. Media speculation suggests a deranged fan as the shooter. But was Sabrina really the intended target? For Del Honeycutt, a chilling link emerges between Sabrina's shooting and that of his father's murder three years earlier. Discovering that his father was leading a secret life, he digs deeper, and the clues lead Del down a dangerous and deadly path.

While vacationing on a Caribbean cruise, Del Honeycutt runs across his old high school classmate, Chet. When Chet suddenly vanishes from the ship, Del and bestselling mystery author Sabrina Spencer are thrust into a dark and dangerous voyage.Why isn't anyone concerned about his disappearance? And who is the strange man now calling himself Chet?On a ship full of lies, Del and Sabrina don't know where to turn or who to trust-and the wrong decision could be deadly!

What is happening to all the time travelers?Time travelers Ray Burton and Natalie O''Brien were living peacefully in 1958 England. Now they are missing. What has happened to them, and why are travelers throughout time being targeted for elimination?In the thrilling sequel to the Amazon bestseller, Yestertime, the impossible has happened. And now, some people will do anything to stop it.

On the afternoon of May 11, 1996, ValuJet 592 plunged into the Florida Everglades. There were no survivors. But something came through the crash unscathed: a small box with huge implications for humankind. And the one man unlucky enough to discover its whereabouts disappeared without a trace. Now, 20 years later, the mystery of Flight 592 hits close to home for Del Honeycutt and bestselling mystery author Sabrina Spencer. A shocking revelation launches them into the middle of a dark conspiracy, and locating the box becomes a matter of life or death. They are not alone in the hunt for the mysterious parcel and very quickly learn that others will stop at nothing to find it and will eliminate anyone who stands in their way. With killers hot on their trail, Del and Sabrina must navigate dangers lurking both above and below the swamp waters of the Everglades in order to find the box ... or die.

Focusing on projects of inquiry, this history of anatomy is a discontinuous look at the different people seeking and finding different things within their social context. It asks why do people investigate nature? Why in that particular time and place? And why these particular people?

A collection of essays concerned with issues of identity - what was the identity of topics, disciplines, arguments, diseases in the past, and whether they are identical with (more usually, how they are not identical with) topics, disciplines, arguments or diseases in the present.

The Enlightenment period is considered to be a period when religion was obliged to give way to rationality. However, there are indications in scholarship that this may be an overstatement. It appears that religion retained many of its customary relations with medicine. This book explores how far, and the ways in which, this was still the case.

Students notoriously vote with their feet, seeking out the best and most innovative teachers of their subject. This book deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of the travelling students: who went where; how did they travel; what did they find when they arrived; and, what did they take back with them from their studies.

The eighteenth-century practitioners of anatomy saw their own period as 'the perfection of anatomy'. This book looks at the investigation of anatomy in the 'long' eighteenth century in disciplinary terms. It considers the practical aspects of anatomizing, the questions of how one became an anatomist, and where and how the discipline was practised.

This book presents a series of essays, each specially written by an expert in the area, which focus on the role of Romantic philosophy and ideology in the sciences, and on the role of the sciences in Romantic literature.