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  • HMS Bermuda Days

    An Ordinary Seaman's Log

    by Peter Broadbent ...
    In 1961 the Royal Navy came up with a brilliant idea: why not take all its rogues, thugs and malcontents and place them on board its flagship, HMS Bermuda, where hard work and continuous exercising would keep them out of trouble?Joining this colourful crew was sixteen-year-old Peter Broadbent, fresh out of his year’s training at HMS Ganges, and drafted to ‘Bermadoo’ to make up the ship’s quota of ... Read more

    $13.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • HMS Ganges Days

    From Nozzer to Dabtoe in 386 days

    by Peter Broadbent ...
    When Peter Broadbent entered HMS Ganges, the toughest training establishment for young recruits to the Royal Navy, he was a naive 15-year-old Yorkshire schoolboy, entranced with the idea of seeing the world, proud of his drainpipe trousers and DA hairstyle, and eager to meet girls. In other words, he was a ‘Nozzer’ - a raw and unsuspecting recruit. When he emerged 386 days later it was as a ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Felix Wild

    A Foundling on Board HMS Warrior

    by Peter Broadbent ...
    Series Book 1 - Felix Wild
    Gosport, 1860. Felix Wild has lived on the streets and on his wits for all his young life. He’s been a mudlark at The Hard, eaten tallow when there was nothing else to be had, picked oakum in Forton Gaol, and acquired a skill for ‘tup-tup-tupping’ from the women of Haslar. He has no family, no idea of how old he might be, and has never heard of Christmas. But he has one remarkable talent: he can ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Wight Little Isle

    Very Much a Novel

    by Peter Broadbent ...
    It's 2008 and Jeremy Stubbles (or 'Stubbsy' as he's better known) is due to turn 30. Born and bred in Cowes, Isle of Wight, he lives a bachelor existence in his Art Deco flat overlooking the Solent. He is the proud owner of a floor-shaking Wurlitzer Bubbler jukebox, a retro king-sized water-bed, last season's Musto jacket and a Ford Scorpio that is lovingly valeted as soon as the suggestion of a ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Up Spirits

    A young tot-drinker's memoir

    by Peter Broadbent ...
    Until that fateful day in 1970 when the Royal Navy abolished the rum ration, the one thing that every Royal Navy sailor could rely on was that ‘Up Spirits’ would be piped at approximately 11:45 each day . ‘Tot-time’ was the cue for plenty of banter and lamp-swinging, but also for baffling negotiations as to who might have sippers, wets, gulpers, halfers, sandy bottoms, or their share of ‘Queen’s’. ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Felix Wild and the Blockade Runners

    by Peter Broadbent ...
    Series Book 2 - Felix Wild
    Felix Wild is approaching his seventeenth birthday, if the horse doctor who originally estimated his age by examining his teeth is correct. He still has the remarkable ability to memorise and draw anything he has seen, but is now looking for a fresh challenge. Studying navigation appeals to him but fate - in the shape of Admiral Millinhall-Slice - intervenes, and he is whisked away from the ... Read more

    $10.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Singapore Fling

    An AB's Far-Flung Adventure

    by Peter Broadbent ...
    Having survived the notorious Training Establishment HMS Ganges and ‘cut his teeth’ onboard HMS Bermuda, Peter Broadbent believed that he was equipped for anything the Royal Navy could throw at him.For 18 incident-filled months (1962-64) he ‘did his bit’ onboard HMS Lincoln caught up in the Malaysian Crisis, on the other side of the world. For the young sailor, this meant visiting every corner of ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • OCR A Level Geography Third Edition

    by David Barker, Michael Raw, Helen Harris, Andy Palmer, Peter Stiff, Nigel Yates, Chris Broadbent ...
    Help your students to develop the geographical skills and knowledge they need to succeed using this new Edition Student book, which includes new case studies and practice questions. Written by our expert author team, the new edition is structured to provide support for A-Level Geography learners of all abilities. The book includes:· Activities and regular review questions to reinforce geographical ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Leveraging the New Infrastructure

    How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology

    by Peter Weill, Marianne Broadbent ...
    Imagine thinking about your company's information technology in the same way that you think about its investment portfolio: as a bundle of assets that-when managed right-will generate revenues and savings. Here's just such a framework for leveraging IT (technology, networks, data, and software)-one that enables business managers to make the important decisions about the potentially confounding mix ... Read more

    $47.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poultry Health

    A Guide for Professionals

    by Damer Blake, Janet M Bradbury, Andrew Broadbent, Ian H Brown, Peter Cargill, Vanessa Ceeraz, Jens Peter Christensen, Jane K. A. Cook, Vivien Coward, Annatachja DeGrande, Fien DeMeyer, Evelien Dierick, Richard Ducatelle, Kannan Ganapathy, Patrick Garland, Evy Goosens, Hafez Mohamed Hafez, Rowena Hansen, Rüdiger Hauck, Grant Hayes, Rikke Heidemann Olsen, Richard Jennison, Michael Jones, Richard C. Jones, Roberto LaRagione, Paul F McMullin, Chris Morrow, David Parsons, Jade Passey, Androniki Psifidi, Scott Reid, Joan A. Smyth, Victoria Smyth, Barry Thorp, Fiona Tomley, Filip Van Immerseel, Paul Wigley ...
    Poultry are a major source of valuable high-quality protein for much of the world's population, so food security is heavily dependent on maintaining poultry health. They are also increasingly important as specialist hobby animals in back-yard flocks. Despite this, veterinarians specializing in the care and health of these important domestic animals are few and far between, and many vets in small ... Read more

    $83.09 CAD

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  • Marching with the Devil

    Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign Legion

    by David Mason ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    ‘Since its creation in 1831, the French Foreign Legion has become the stuff of myth, fiction and dreams... Anyone thinking of joining up would be well advised to read this book first’ - The Sun HeraldA real-life boy's own adventure, Marching With The Devil is an account of David Mason's five years in the infamous French Foreign Legion.David Mason graduated from the Australian National University ... Read more

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