Bücher von Richard Hughes

On the high seas of the Caribbean, a family of English children is set loose - sent by their parents from their home in Jamaica to receive the civilising effects of England. Innocence is their protection, but as life in the care of pirates reveals its dangers, the events which unfold begin to take on a savagely detached quality.

THE  NEW GUARD, Book #9 in the Danger Dogs series, follows our intrepid safety, health, and environmental consultants into more international and national problems that require their expertise. In a unique genre of actual fiction, the consultants of Cape Safety, Inc. and their West Coast enterprise, Cliff Safety, Inc., chase headline incidents that may have made a single news cycle but were then quickly left behind for more breathtaking "Breaking News." THE NEW GUARD rekindles those events with details beyond the sound bite you possibly heard. You'll read unusual stories about:car carrier ship firesthe dark day in Boston in 1780blue economiesseed banksfast fashion frailtiesship breaking with waterrain forest destructionenergy storing concretesexual harassment solutionsAmazon delivery driver traininga fire on a New England islandamazing plastic-eating fungiFenway Park farmingliving seawallsarmoring Manhattanskateboard failuresCodfather matters, and much more.Any trip with a Cape Cod-based CSI consultant will prove interesting, educational, and informative.

A High Wind in Jamaica, first published as The Innocent Voyage in 1929, is a classic coming-of-age novel. The story centers on the five children of the Bas-Thornton family, living on a plantation in late nineteenth-century Jamaica. Following a devastating hurricane, their parents send the children to England aboard a merchant ship which is captured by pirates shortly after the ship sets sail. What follows is an intense, gripping story of children forced to deal with difficult situations and with emotions they are not yet equipped to handle. The book is considered to have set the stage for later novels such as Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and was the subject of a 1965 movie of the same name. Included in this edition is an Introduction by Isabel Paterson and four illustrations from the 1932 edition.English author Richard Hughes (1900-1976), wrote novels, children's stories, plays, and poetry. A High Wind in Jamaica is his most famous work.

It is 2023 and our intrepid Cape Cod health, safety, and environmental consultants, who some call the best in the business, are continuing to travel globally to help those in everyday headlines with their S, H, & E crises. Client problems range from military to millinery; autism to engulfment; Ukraine to San Francisco's historic Cliff House; Amazon to Mexican pig farms; confined spaces to massive Texas large garbage dumps; civil war submarine health to Boston light rail safety; and all manner of issues with the world's new energy needs. Our consultants encounter people against nature, people against people, people against the dangerous machinery their own imaginations had created, people against misinformation, people against deliberate false information, people taking bad risks, and man's hubris toward outwitting obvious perils. These are all cutting-edge challenges for our savvy crew of experts. Can they make a difference? Will they make a difference? If not, how likely is the planet's future if they don't make a difference? Entertaining, informative, educational, and mostly fun reading!

CAPE SAFETY, INC. - NEW BLOODDanger Dogs Series - No. 7 by Richard Hughes New Blood takes a far stricter look at how American politics in 2023 is affecting the national and international safety, health, and environmental decisions of the premier S. H. & E. firm, Cape Safety, Inc. and their California branch, Cliff Safety, Inc. "People are ultimately the firm's engineering specialty," says a staff member of the barely fictional consulting firm. What's really going on in the world? They travel internationally from their Woods Hole, MA, or San Francisco, CA, headquarters to engage in forward-thinking problem-solving at many headline crises of 2023. From East Palestine, Ohio; to Guanabara Bay, Brazil; to the badly exploited African miners in the hidden cobalt mines of the Congo, so we can get the rare earth mineral to power our cell phones; to Divest Food in Massachusetts; to shipbreaking yards in Turkey; to airline bottlenecks with the DOT in Washington, D.C.; to Hanford Atomic Energy in Washington State; even browbeaten Indian welders and pipefitters in Mississippi; to name just a few spots visited by our old friends (and some New Blood, too). It's not all bad news! Learn about progress in autism; Rhode Island gun control; harvesting the heat off of computers and recycling it; environmentalists' plan to reduce companies' use of plastics; finally, barnacles can be eliminated by getting them to kick away from ships' hulls; nanotechnologies quickly suppress vapor formation, reducing confined space entry safe operation procedures; renewable energy from garbage; innovative lifeboats; Africa's tectonic plates are shifting and creating a new sea, cutting the continent into two. Contemporary history in a fun format. A uniquely inspirational genre to keep up with current events in a fun way.

The 6th book in the series, Cape Safety, Inc. - S. H. E. - Safety, Health & Environmental, captures over 50 headline interventions involving the diverse cast of characters better known as the E. H. & S. consultants of C.S.I. Once more, the men-and increasingly, the talented women-of the barely fictional consulting firm travel internationally from their Woods Hole, MA, or San Francisco, CA, headquarters to engage in forward-thinking problem solving at many of the global crises of 2022. Contemporary history in a fun format. A uniquely inspirational genre to keep up with current events in an easy read.

A small used car dealer tries to make ends meet from his dealership in tiny Truro, Massachusetts, population 2000. Truro is a beautiful beach community of sand dunes and ocean views.Cape Car Blues is the story of how 6-year old Mikey Mayflower acts out with his pranks then eventually worms his way into the hearts of the used car staff, finding love and acceptance as they fill the role of "extra parents" for him.The owner, Sam Oscar Shallow, is always trying to think up new schemes to make a profit, many of them ill-conceived and in bad taste. A bureaucratic pair of fish cops show up routinely with their overly officious antics and pester the locals with excessive regulation reminders.An unusual test drive of an orange El Camino bedevils the dealership. A few New England Patriots players stop in and buy classic cars. One woman trades in her horse for a car. A few hapless criminals are in a hurry to buy the six cars they failed to purchase at the car auction.Read Cape Car Blues and immerse yourself into a nostalgic 1975 summer when hope and laughter was in great supply.

Cape Safety, Inc. - Cast of Characters continues the travels and travails of the men and women of a fictitious top-notch safety consulting firm, internationally recognized as the "go-to" safety, industrial hygiene, and disaster specialists. Look over their shoulders as they describe the Great Molasses Flood of 1919 in Boston, as a giant tank full of molasses exploded, covering the city. Learn how a team of hazmat specialists disposed of 70,000 lbs. of rotted food in the U.S.S. Cole, how to avoid getting hit by lightning, just how badly Hollywood's stunt performers--including Jackie Chan--get hurt in every part of their bodies and why no one is doing anything about it. Read a fascinating, true tale of how a 1300-acre lake in Louisiana literally "went down the drain" in one of the most bizarre stories ever told. The diverse collection of personable experts at Cape Safety, Inc. remain the busiest safety guys and gals around, but don't think for a minute it's all work and no play. Cape Safety Inc. - Cast of Characters, the 2nd in his Danger Dogs Series, continues Mr. Hughes's unique genre of "actual fiction" combining the elements of true news events with fictional characters, set on picturesque Cape Cod.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Adventures Into the Unknown was an American comic-book magazines series best known as the medium's first ongoing horror-comics title.published by the American Comics Group, initially under the imprint B&I Publishing, it ran 174 issues (cover-dated Fall 1948 - Aug. 1967). The first two issues, which included art by Fred Guardineer and others, featured horror stories of ghosts, werewolves, haunted houses, killer puppets and other supernatural beings and locales. The premiere included a seven-page, abridged adaptation of Horace Walpole's seminal gothic novel The Castle of Otranto, by an unknown writer and artist Al Ulmer. Unlike many American horror comics of the Golden Age, it weathered the public criticism of the early 1950s and survived the aftermath of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings of April and June 1954 when the comics industry attempted self-regulation with a highly restrictive Comics Code. This book contains the very scarce and hard to find Issues #3 and #4.

1975: Six-year old Jake lives near the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, a poor kid who wistfully watches the cadets. Will he put his thoughts into action? Written by an alumnus with a revisionist recollection of the Academy's last all-male European training cruise. A fictional remembrance of cadet life, hijinks, experiences, and unexpected adventures. Might the cadets find it necessary to sail the T/S Bay State themselves? Training Ship is a high seas coming of age tale to warm your heart.