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The story is set primarily in and around Melbourne, Australia, in 1963. World War III has devastated most of the populated world, polluting the atmosphere with nuclear fallout, and killing all human……続きを見る

In Post-World War II London, Jean Paget, a secretary in a leather goods factory, is informed by solicitor Noel Strachan that she has inherited a considerable sum of money from an uncle she never kne……続きを見る

In 'The Breaking Wave' by Nevil Shute Norway, readers are taken on a gripping journey of love, loss, and resilience in the aftermath of World War II. Set against the backdrop of a post-war Australia……続きを見る

John Turner, a young man with a checkered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his remaining time in search of three very different men he met in the hospital during t……続きを見る

When seasoned pilot Johnny Pascoe tries to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback, his plane crashes and leaves him stranded and dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe,……続きを見る

The expression “beyond the black stump” refers to the deepest, darkest wilds of the Australian outback, the setting for Nevil Shute’s novel of a romance tested by cultural difference. Stanton Laird ……続きを見る

you flick out your favourite lure into the reeds and begin to slowly retrieve the line. a ripple appears, moving fast towards the lure and then suddenly the fish strikes and you are in for the fight……続きを見る

The Breaking Wave is one of Nevil Shute’s most poignant and psychologically suspenseful novels, set in the years just after World War II. Sidelined by a wartime injury, fighter pilot Alan Duncan rel……続きを見る

These two related novellas, Stephen Morris and Pilotage, were Nevil Shute’s first works of fiction and drew on his own youthful experiences. Both concern young men obsessed with the early world of a……続きを見る

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford archaeologist who has employed him on an expedition to the Arcticーand still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix. But onc……続きを見る

World War II pilot Peter Marshall leads the most successful bombing crew at his airbase, having survived an unusual number of extremely dangerous missions over Germany. However, when Peter falls hop……続きを見る

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Land of Song, Book III - For upper grammar grades. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now……続きを見る

Compilers' Preface. The inestimable value of literature in supplying healthful recreation, in opening the mind to larger views of life, and in creating ideals that shall mold the spiritual nature, i……続きを見る

Set in 1938, this novel tells the story of the Corbetts, a family preparing for the coming war. As the world begins to collapse around them, they decide to chance their one means of escape and take ……続きを見る

Jennifer fled the drab monotony of post-war London. When she landed in Australia, it was like coming home. She loved it and when she met Carl, she had every reason to stay. But the two of them came ……続きを見る

Malcolm Stevenson, a wealthy ex-naval officer haunted by his memories of the war, finds his lonely life turned upside down one night when he runs into trouble on a road near the coast. What at first……続きを見る

When Peter Moran, a former World War I pilot, picks up a man on the roadside while driving through a bitter rainy night, he is startled to discover that the bedraggled man is a wartime comrade of hi……続きを見る

It is the wet season in the Australian outback. Drunk and delirious, an old ex-pilot known as “Pisspot Stevie” lies dying in a remote cabin in the Queensland bush. When a priest named Roger Hargreav……続きを見る

A romantic World War II adventure about the strength of true love and how it can overcome any obstacle. A British air reconnaissance officer falls for a pub waitress, but finds his lift in chaos whe……続きを見る

Malcolm Stevenson, a wealthy ex-naval officer haunted by his memories of the war, finds his lonely life turned upside down one night when he runs into trouble on a road near the coast. What at first……続きを見る

Nevil Shute’s most beloved novel, a tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from the Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback. Jean Paget, a young Englishwo……続きを見る

Aboard a fishing boat named “Genevieve,” a small group of British officers and French fishermenーarmed only with a flame thrower and small armsーplan a secret commando mission against the might of t……続きを見る

When seasoned pilot Johnny Pascoe tries to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback, his plane crashes and leaves him stranded and dangerously injured. Ronnie Clarke, who was trained by Pascoe,……続きを見る

The Far Country is the story of a London girl who visits Australia and meets a displaced doctor from Czechoslavakia, in the unlikely location of a timber cutting area, and various adventures which, ……続きを見る

Set in 1938, this novel tells the story of the Corbetts, a family preparing for the coming war. As the world begins to collapse around them, they decide to chance their one means of escape and take ……続きを見る

Originally published in 1953, In the Wet is Nevil Shute's speculative glance into the future of the British Empire. An elderly clergyman stationed in the Australian bush is called to the bedside of ……続きを見る

Imagine a witch doctor marching up a district assembly aisle with his tools burning above his head in surrender to the Lord. Imagine bullets spattering around your boat as guerillas fire away. Imagi……続きを見る

An Undivided Union is the sixth and last volume of the Blue and Gray ー on Land series. Like its predecessors, the book follows the adventures of the Riverlawn Cavalry, a Union regiment, raised in K……続きを見る

To Alaska for Gold tells the story of Randy and Earl Portney, two brothers from the backwoods of Maine, who accept their uncle’s invitation to join him in his search for gold in Alaska, near the Can……続きを見る

When a young Englishwoman named Jennifer Morton leaves London to visit relatives on their sheep ranch in the Australian outback, she falls in love both with the gloriously beautiful country and with……続きを見る