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  • A Diary Without Dates

    by Enid Bagnold ...
    A Diary Without Dates is a poignant and introspective work by Enid Bagnold, chronicling her experiences as a nurse during World War I. The narrative unfolds through a series of diary entries, capturing the emotional landscape of life on the front lines and the challenges faced by medical personnel. Bagnold's reflections reveal the intense realities of war, including the suffering of soldiers and ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Libyan Sands

    Travel in a Dead World

    by R.A. Bagnold ...
    In the 1920s and 30s, a band of British officers stationed in Egypt began to explore the Western Desert which straddles the borders with Libya and the Sudan. Adapting a series of Model T Fords, Bagnold and his colleagues set out across territory hitherto traversed only by camel caravans. They mapped new routes across 'impassable' sand seas, in 'regions untrodden by man since the Stone Age'. They ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

    by R. A. Bagnold ...
    Series series Dover Earth Science
    An expert treatise on the origin and evolution of dunes, this classic work was used by NASA in studying sand dunes on Mars and is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students. The first book to deal exclusively with the behavior of blown sand and related land forms, its accessible style makes it an enduring reference more than half a century after its initial publication.The author studied ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • A Sapper Officer's War 1915-1917

    The Memoirs of Ralph A. Bagnold, Founder of the Long Range Desert Group in WW2

    by Christopher Ralph Bagnold ...
    Bagnold chronicles front-line life in 1915–1916, revealing the harsh reality behind early warfare.While Ralph Bagnold is well known as being the founder of the Long Range Desert Group in 1940 and author of The Physics of Blown Sands and Desert Dunes in 1941, there is little published material relating to his earlier life. These memoirs were written in 1919 but never published.After the outbreak of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Happy Foreigner

    by Enid Bagnold ...
    Between the grey walls of its bath � so like its cradle and its coffin � lay one of those small and lonely creatures which inhabit the surface of the earth for seventy years. ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD

  • Audiobook

    National Velvet

    by Enid Bagnold ...
    Narrated by Annette Chown ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    The most famous and loved racing story of all time. National Velvet is a classic tale of dreams, ambition and one girl’s belief in a horse. ‘Velvet’ll sit on a horse like a shadow and breathe her soul into it ... I never seen such a creature on a horse.’ Velvet is mad about horses. When she wins a piebald horse in a raffle, she knows he’s something special. His heart is as big as the five-foot ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Happy Foreigner

    by Enid Bagnold ...
    The story of "The Happy Foreigner" likely revolves around an individual who is an outsider or foreigner in a particular setting, exploring themes of identity, belonging, and cultural differences. Enid Bagnold's writing often delved into the complexities of human relationships and emotions.The novel might portray the experiences and perspectives of the "foreigner" character as they navigate ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Classic Plays by Women

    from 1600-2000

    by Hrostwitha, Elizabeth Carey, Aphra Behn, Susanna Centlivre, Githa Sowerby, Enid Bagnold ...
    Staged in theatres by successive generations and proving relevant to contemporary audiences, the plays demonstrate the wit, theatrical skill and innovation of their creators in exploring timeless topics from marriage, morality and money to class conflict, rage and sexual desire. An essential resource for students, playwrights, colleges, universities and libraries, this collection also provides ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes

    by Ralph Bagnold ...
    Series series History (R0)
    THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM THIS book results from an attempt to explain on a basis of experimental physics some of the many strange phenomena produced by the natural movement of sand over the dry land of the Earth. The subject is but one aspect of a far wider problem which is still very imperfectly grasped-the transport of solid particles of any kind by fluids in general. Here the difficulty has ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Necklace and Other Stories

    Maupassant for Modern Times

    by Guy de Maupassant ...
    Translated by Sandra Smith ...
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