Resultados de búsqueda: Autobiography/Biography from Hanselled Books

UK: Birlinn Ltd, 2006. Soft cover. As New. 23 x 15.6 x 1.4 cm. p/b 212 pages, condition is As New. When Patrick Gillies graduated from the University of Edinburgh's distinguished school of medicine with honours in 1890, a high profile career as a surgeon lay ahead of him. Any city across the world would have welcomed him, and his university mentors, including the famous Joseph Lister, urged him to take up one of these opportunities. Gillies defied them all and returned to his home town of Easdale, determined to continue the work his father had begun as a physician to the parishioners of the Slate Islands. Over the next 40 years Patrick Gillies worked tirelessly to sustain and improve the community services available in Argyll. Although he worked as a General Practitioner, Patrick involved himself in every aspect of the community, joining the Cullipool School Board, where he was determined to protest against its closure - a fight he eventually won. This early battle is indicative of the rest of… Leer más

Mainstream Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.25" x 9.5. H/B 300 pages, condition is Very good. As the first British player to score a goal in European club competition, in 1955, Hibs hero Eddie Turnbull holds a unique place in footballing history. Now, for the first time, he tells his extraordinary life story in this compelling, sometimes hilarious and thoroughly entertaining autobiography. Turnbull reveals how he became a professional footballer after just one competitive match following his demob from the Royal Navy and gives his version of how he became one-fifth of the most celebrated forward line ever to grace Scottish football - the Famous Five of Hibernian FC. He uncovers why he played no more than nine times for his nation and reveals why he had to wait until he was eighty-two to be awarded his first international 'cap'. After his playing career ended, Turnbull achieved lasting fame as manager of Aberdeen and his beloved Hibs. 'Turnbull's Tornadoes'… Leer más

UK: Macmillan, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches. h/b 448 pages, condition is very good, the DJ is worn and is only fair,

UK: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. H/B 253 pages condition is very good, No DJ. an owners name and address to the flyleaf.

Scotland: Crail Museum Trust, 2013. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 7.5" x 10. p/b 59 pages, condition is Very good. A fascinating account of life on a farm and farming methods in the East Neuk of Fife before and during the Second World War, as seen through the eyes of a boy growing up there.

Breedon Books, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. H/B 224 pages, condition is very good. The eventful Life Story of Joseph Johnston Lee, Scotland's Forgotten War Poet

Breedon Books, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. H/B 224 pages, condition is very good. The eventful Life Story of Joseph Johnston Lee, Scotland's Forgotten War Poet

UK: Quartet Books, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. 5 x 7.6 inches. Eric Liddell is famous for being the man who would not compromise his religious principles and refused to compete in the Olympics on a Sunday - despite the fact that he was the red hot favourite for the gold. Instead, he entered a different event that was not being competed on the Sabbath...and won a gold anyway. One of Scotland's finest athletes, Liddell was feted throughout the United Kingdom. At the height of his fame, however, he slipped quietly out of the limelight to become a missionary in China, where he later came to an unpleasant end in a Japanese internment camp. Eric Liddell's remarkable story was the subject of the smash 1982 film "Chariots of Fire.

UK: House of Lochar, 2001. Soft cover. Very Good. 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches. P/B 378 pages, condition is very good. The fascinating life of Flora MacDonald after the "45". when with her husband and family, the heroine of the Jacobites made her way to the New World to escape the punitive deprivation of Skye - only to arrive in the Carolinas on the eve of the American revolution! This is a compelling tale, carefully researched and beautifully told. In an outstanding historical novel the author describes the hardships and dangers of the voyage, the privations and political intrigue of colonial life, the courage and loyalty of a remarkable woman.

UK: Gourdas House, 1980. Soft cover. Very Good. p/b 104 pages, condition is very good. Edith Bishop - at 84 years young can only be described as a rather remarkable lady. Remarkable in the vitality and enthusiasm she radiates when one meets her, she is quick to tell you of her success in song writing - both lyrics and music - songs of love - songs about Scotland. She will tell you with enthusiasm of a recent visit to her son in Yorkshire when, once again, she travelled by plane. But it is her clear memory of her childhood and teenage years - spent in an Aberdeen that few would recognise - that is most remarkable. Here, Edith Bishop writes most delightfully of an era which contrasts so greatly to our present day.

UK: John Murray, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 192 pages, condition is very good. George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, but he did not want it published while he lived. In particular, he looks at Orkney, where he was born the youngest child in a poor family, and which he rarely left.

UK: 4th estate, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6.3 x 9.4 inches. The human genome, the complete set of genes housed in 23 pairs of chromosomes, is nothing less than an autobiography of our species. Spelled out in a billion three-letter words using the four-letter alphabet of DNA, the genome has been edited, abridged, altered and added to as it has been handed down, generation to generation, over more than three billion years. With the first draft of the human genome due to be published in 2000, we, this lucky generation, are the first beings who are able to read this extraordinary book, and to gain hitherto unimaginable insights into what it means to be alive, to be human, to be conscious or to be ill. By picking one newly discovered gene from each of the 23 human chromosomes, and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. He finds genes that we share with bacteria, genes that distinguish us from… Leer más

Edinburgh University Press, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 252 pages, condition is very good.

Collins, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 19.6 x 13 x 3.6 cm. p/b 434 pages, condition is very good. Including "Order of Service 1991". Baron George Macleod was a Glasgow MP who studied theology at Edinburgh. He founded the Iona community, which set about restoring the ruined abbey on Iona Island in 1938. This book is Macleod's biography and is written by a former leader of the Iona community and author of "Chasing the Wild Goose".

Simon & Schuster, 1989. Soft cover. Very Good. p/b 588 pages, condition is very good, minor edge wear.

UK: Readers Union, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. h/b 317 pages, condition is very good.

Stanley Paul, 1984. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.75. H/B 180 pages, condition - Very good in VG jacket. There is a gift inscription in ink on the flyleaf. Gordon Strachan, the most exciting playmaker Scotland has produced in years, shot to international football fame in the 1982 World Cup as Scotland's star player and was voted by the world's press as the personality of the event. In 1983, he inspired his club Aberdeen to victory in the European Cup Winners' Cup against the legendary Real Madrid in Gothenburg. Brought up in a tough district of Edinburgh, the young Strachan resisted attempts to take him to fashionable clubs like Manchester United. He wanted to mature at home, so he joined Dundee and was captain at nineteen. But his career really blossomed when he moved to Aberdeen in 1977, at the start of a period which was to prove Pittodrie's greatest. Now the 27-year-old midfield player lifts the lid off a career which has been brimful of incident, from great… Leer más

UK: E P Dutton & Co Inc, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 21.3 x 15.2 x 2 cm. h/b 159 pages, condition is very good, the front flyleaf has been removed. The story of Grace Darling, heroine and Victorian superstar.

UK: Luath Press Limited, 2010. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 6" x 9.25. p/b 155 pages, condition is Very good, Signed by the author on the flyleaf. A book for actors, for would-be actors and for everyone who has a curiosity about theatre as it is on the inside. The bareback performance of the histrionic art as it has been since the Greeks. This is one actor's experience over 60 years as a professional, including roles in The Avengers, Dr Finlay's Casebook, Jason and the Argonauts and This Man Craig.

UK: Birlinn Ltd, 2001. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.7 inches. In the late 1940s and 50s, the Liberal Party seemed doomed to irrelevance. Its few MPs held their seats as a result of pacts to which Winston Churchill turned a blind eye. Its share of the vote was just 2.5%. Clement Davies, its leader at the time, in one of the bravest decisions he made, refused an offer of a merger from Churchill and chose to soldier on. However, it was Grimond, who picked up the mantle of leader after Davies' resignation and, in the face of seemingly insuperable odds, turned the fortunes of the Liberal Party around. When Grimond passed the torch on to his successor, Jeremy Thorpe, the Liberals were secure in their independence as the third force in British politics.