Bøker av Richard Doyle

The story of Jack, the intrepid little boy whose courage and ingenuity defeated a host of many-headed giants several times his size, is an English folk-tale that must have been told often in the Victorian nursery of the Doyle family.

London faces the worst disaster in its history...It was to be the day the American President drove in state through the streets of the UK's capital city.But the lethal combination of a gigantic freak storm and an unusually high tide launch a devastating thirty-foot surge of water up the Thames.By the middle of the morning London's streets are already under several feet of water - and the level is still rising.What follows is a catastrophe on an unimaginable scale.Homes are swept away by an unprecedented wave of destruction. A power station explodes like a bomb. Parts of the city are flooded to a depth of twenty feet. Countless lives are lost. And there is yet more water to come.Told with chilling and rigorous detail, Deluge is a terrifyingly convincing imagining of London's ultimate nightmare scenario. Read it if you dare!____________'A classic of the disaster genre' ALISTAIR YOUNG'Cataclysmic' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Another TOWERING INFERNO' DAILY TELEGRAPH

This charming travelogue follows three British gentlemen as they embark on a grand tour of continental Europe, providing delightful accounts of their adventures and misadventures along the way. Written in a humorous and engaging style, Doyle's work offers a unique perspective on the culture and customs of 19th century Europe.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Manners And Customs Of Ye Englyshe; Drawn From Ye Quick has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

The Foreign Tour Of Messrs. Brown, Jones, And Robinson : Being The History Of What They Saw And Did In Belgium, Germany, Switzerland & Italy has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

The richness of the Treasure Valley, high in the mountains of Stiria is lost through the evil of the owners, the two elder "Black Brothers", Hans and Schwartz, who in their foolishness mistreat Southwest Wind, Esquire, who in turn floods their valley, washing away their "liquid assets", and turning their valley into a dead valley of red sand. Forced into a trade other than farming, Hans and Schwartz become goldsmiths. They cruelly melt their younger brother Gluck's prize heirloom, a golden mug. This action releases the King of the Golden River for Gluck to pour out of the crucible as a finely dressed little golden dwarf. The dwarfish king offers a proposition to brothers: if someone were to climb up to the source of the Golden River high in the mountains and throw into it at least three drops of "holy water", it would become, for that person only, a river of gold. That person must do it on his first and only attempt or be overwhelmed by the river to become a black stone.

Before he joined the staff of Punch and designed its iconic front cover, illustrator Richard "Dicky" Doyle was a young man whose father (political caricaturist John Doyle) charged him with sending a weekly letter, even though they lived under the same roof.

Drawing on tools from rhetoric and poststructuralist theory, the author argues that the ascent of molecular biology, with its emphasis on molecules such as DNA rather than organisms, was enabled by crucial rhetorical "softwares."