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Owning Up

The Trilogy

by George Melly ...

This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. Rum, Bum & Concertina, the naval equivalent of wine, women and song, describes Melly's National Service as one of the most unlikely ... Read more

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This single volume includes three famous memoirs - Scouse Mouse, Rum, Bum & Concertina and Owning Up, with a new introduction by the author. Scouse Mouse is a funny and frequently touching story of the author's 1930s childhood in a middle-class Liverpudlian household. Rum, Bum & Concertina, the naval equivalent of wine, women and song, describes Melly's National Service as one of the most unlikely
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Revolt into Style

The Pop Arts

by George Melly ...

'The first serious attempt to analyse pop culture by someone who was part of it.' Julian Mitchell, GuardianThe redoubtable George Melly (1926-2007): flamboyant jazz singer, sexually ambiguous raconteur, prodigiously gifted critic. In the early sixties, at the birth of what we now recognise as the pop revolution, Melly began work as a broadsheet journalist, commenting upon this new cultural ... Read more

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'The first serious attempt to analyse pop culture by someone who was part of it.' Julian Mitchell, GuardianThe redoubtable George Melly (1926-2007): flamboyant jazz singer, sexually ambiguous raconteur, prodigiously gifted critic. In the early sixties, at the birth of what we now recognise as the pop revolution, Melly began work as a broadsheet journalist, commenting upon this new cultural
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Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles (Complete)

by George Melly ...

After a pleasant journey through Lombardy, and a very agreeable stay at the city of gondolas and palaces, we arrived at Trieste on the 25th of September, 1850, on our way to Egypt. Our party consisted of my father and mother, my brother and sister, and myself. We had all travelled much, and were thus pretty well accustomed to the small annoyances, which those who leave comfortable homes in England ... Read more

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After a pleasant journey through Lombardy, and a very agreeable stay at the city of gondolas and palaces, we arrived at Trieste on the 25th of September, 1850, on our way to Egypt. Our party consisted of my father and mother, my brother and sister, and myself. We had all travelled much, and were thus pretty well accustomed to the small annoyances, which those who leave comfortable homes in England
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Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by George Melly ...

This vivid travel narrative follows a caravan from the Nile into the deserts of Nubia and Upper Egypt, where every mile brings a mix of hardship, humor, and discovery. From the comic chaos of loading camels with tents, hens, cooking gear, and reluctant riders to the chill of dawn marches and hard ground at night, the journey becomes an intimate portrait of desert life as it is really lived. Along ... Read more

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This vivid travel narrative follows a caravan from the Nile into the deserts of Nubia and Upper Egypt, where every mile brings a mix of hardship, humor, and discovery. From the comic chaos of loading camels with tents, hens, cooking gear, and reluctant riders to the chill of dawn marches and hard ground at night, the journey becomes an intimate portrait of desert life as it is really lived. Along
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Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles

Restored Classics to Go Edition

by George Melly ...

George Melly's Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles is a lively Victorian travel journal of a family's bold journey from Europe into Egypt, Nubia, and beyond the ordinary Nile route toward Khartoum. From the steamer Europa leaving Trieste to the first dazzling sight of Alexandria, the narrative blends adventure, observation, and dry wit as ancient monuments, bustling harbors, and the heat of the ... Read more

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George Melly's Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles is a lively Victorian travel journal of a family's bold journey from Europe into Egypt, Nubia, and beyond the ordinary Nile route toward Khartoum. From the steamer Europa leaving Trieste to the first dazzling sight of Alexandria, the narrative blends adventure, observation, and dry wit as ancient monuments, bustling harbors, and the heat of the
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The Beatles: Paperback Writer

40 Years of Classic Writing

by Brian Epstein, John Lennon, George Melly, Hunter Davis ...

The Beatles: Paperback Writer is a unique volume containing over 40 years of interviews, articles, reviews and essays, on subjects ranging from the Fab Four's Liverpudlian origins, to their influence on the counterculture of the late 1960s, and beyond to the post-Beatle paths followed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. This collection is a compelling and utterly ... Read more

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The Beatles: Paperback Writer is a unique volume containing over 40 years of interviews, articles, reviews and essays, on subjects ranging from the Fab Four's Liverpudlian origins, to their influence on the counterculture of the late 1960s, and beyond to the post-Beatle paths followed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. This collection is a compelling and utterly
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Moab Is My Washpot

by Stephen Fry ...

Moab is My Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable.Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready ... Read more

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Moab is My Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable.Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready
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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess

by Emily Ruete (Salamah bint Saïd; Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar & Oman) (1844-1924) ...

NINE years ago I conceived the idea of writing down some facts for the information of my children, who at that time knew nothing about my origin except that I was Arabian and had come from Zanzibar. Exhausted in body and in mind, I did not then expect to live until they were grown up, did not think I should ever relate to them verbally the happenings of my youth and the course of my fate. Hence I ... Read more

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NINE years ago I conceived the idea of writing down some facts for the information of my children, who at that time knew nothing about my origin except that I was Arabian and had come from Zanzibar. Exhausted in body and in mind, I did not then expect to live until they were grown up, did not think I should ever relate to them verbally the happenings of my youth and the course of my fate. Hence I
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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar

by Emily Ruete ...

Emily Ruete was born in Zanzibar (in modern day Tanzania) as Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. Her extraordinary life story is the subject of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.This new digital edition of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar includes an image ... Read more

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Emily Ruete was born in Zanzibar (in modern day Tanzania) as Sayyida Salme, Princess of Zanzibar and Oman. She was the youngest of the 36 children of Sayyid Said bin Sultan Al-Busaid, Sultan of Zanzibar and Oman. Her extraordinary life story is the subject of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar.This new digital edition of Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar includes an image
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Morocco That Was

by Walter Harris ...

Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour. Harris was an intimate of at least ... Read more

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Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as closed to foreigners as Tibet. Walter Harris was the exception. He lived in the country for more than thirty-five years, and as The Times correspondant he observed every aspect of its life. He describes the unfettered Sultanate in all its dark, melodramatic splendour. Harris was an intimate of at least
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Untold Stories

by Alan Bennett ...

Alan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work ... Read more

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Alan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work
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Memoirs of An Arabian Princess

An Autobiography

by Emily Ruete ...

Memoirs of An Arabian Princess: An Autobiography is the memoirs of Emily Ruete (born Sayyida Salme) , princess of Zanzibar and Oman. It is believed to be the first autobiography of an Arab woman. ... Read more

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Memoirs of An Arabian Princess: An Autobiography is the memoirs of Emily Ruete (born Sayyida Salme) , princess of Zanzibar and Oman. It is believed to be the first autobiography of an Arab woman.
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