LIBROS DEL AUTOR: basil jay

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: basil jay

  • Sliding Down the Banisters of Life
    Basil Jay
    This may be a book about an ’ordinary’ life but it is more than that, much more. Firstly, if Basil Jay’s life has been ’ordinary’, then the Bugatti Veyron Super Sports is a family saloon. In his life he has been described as many things. A Surveyor, a Businessman, and an Entrepreneur. A Musician, a Poet, a Writer and a Thespian. An Adventurer, a Chancer, a Receiver of Stolen Go...
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    39,68 €

  • The Soldier Poets
    Basil Jay
    Some of the soldier poets of the Great War, 1914 to 1918: Ivor Gurney, Robert Graves, Charles Sorley, Seigried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Edgell Rickword , John McCrae , Ewart Alan MacIntosh, Robert Nichols, Wilfred Wilson Gibson, Julian Grenfell, John William Streets, and Richard Adlington. They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old Age sha...
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    17,86 €

  • 65 Days to Delhi
    Basil Jay
    In 1974, despite having a young wife and three very young children, Basil suggested that he would like to take a year out and drive, with his family, some 30,000 miles, to India and back. This is the story of part of that incredible journey and of a group of young people they met and travelled with. A journey that would be impossible today. Three times held up by gunmen, in wha...
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    39,74 €

  • The Adventures of Twig
    Basil Jay
    A long time ago when Basil’s children were small, they were enjoying a ski-ing holiday in Austria. One night there was a big storm but the next morning was bright and sunny. Basil was ski-ing with Jeremy (who was just six years old) when they found a small twig that had broken away from its tree. This small twig looked just like the drawings you will find throughout this book. ...
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    34,14 €

  • And the Tigers Come Again
    Basil Jay
    And The Tigers Come Again, is the second book in a planned trilogy. Book One dealt with, and walked the reader along, what Basil called, The Prostate Path, from Diagnosis to ultimate surgery. It was highly acclaimed, highly amusing, and extremely light hearted look at a serious subject. A MUST read for any man who has faced the prospect of Prostate Cancer ...
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    13,24 €

  • The Thirteenth Knight
    Basil Jay
    Clear before them in the darkness gleamed and burned the torches bright.Brother clasped the hand of brother stepping fearless through the night. The Thirteenth Knight is a story of great adventure. Of battles with hideous creatures in dark dangerous caverns...of one to one combat with evil, but might knights. It is a story of honour and glory, it is a story of brotherhood, cour...
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    17,63 €

  • Many Days in August
    Basil Jay
    Many Days In August is the story of Victor Bravery, of those he loved, those who loved him and those who died for him.It is the story of the growth of a business empire from two rusty canal barges, to a fleet that became the pride of the canals. Of village cricket played in the idyllic setting of an English summer´s day. Of the courage and the pain of friends who willingly ...
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    20,52 €

  • And the Tigers Come at Night
    Basil Jay
    AND THE TIGERS COME AT NIGHT is a funny and light hearted book on a subject as serious as life itself. The author was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in 2004 at the comparatively young age of 62. The diagnosis resulted in major surgery. The book traces the four months from diagnosis to operating theatre. Down what the author calls ’THE PROSTATE PATH’. It deals with the...
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    15,53 €