Railway man

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Booklet - Isle of Man 1998 125th Anniversaryof Isle of Man Steam Railway /A34.05 booklet complete & fine SG SB49

  ISLE OF MAN  - 1973 Steam Railway Complete set in corner sheet blocks of four **UM**                                   All items are described as accurately as possible with the illustration being an integral part.     SHIPPING RATES • Domestic Standard Mail (at buyers risk)                         R 10.00 • Domestic Registered Mail. (Recommended)                  R 30.00   INTERNATIONAL BUYERS: please contact me for mailing options.   NB: If any lot is found to be incorrectly described it may be returned for a refund (at your own cost). Please note that the scans form an integral part of the description.

Postmark - Great Britain 1973 cover bearing illustrated slogan cancellation for Isle of Man Railway Centenary

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders, captured by the Japanese in Singapore. Forced into manual labor as a POW, he survived 750 days in the jungle working as a slave on the notorious "Death Railway" and building the Bridge on the River Kwai. Subsequently, he moved to work on a Japanese "hellship," his ship was torpedoed, and nearly everyone on board the ship died. Not Urquhart. After five days adrift on a raft in the South China Sea, he was rescued by a Japanese whaling ship. His luck would only get worse as he was taken to Japan and forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later, he was just ten miles from ground zero when an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. In late August , he was freed by the American Navy--a living skeleton--and had his first wash in three and a half years. This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen, who survived not just one, but three encounters with death, any of which should have probably killed him. Silent for over fifty years, this is Urquhart's inspirational tale in his own words. It is as moving as any memoir and as exciting as any great war movie. Features Summary * An extraordinary and moving tale by an ex-POW and last surviving member of the Gordon Highlanders regiment that was captured by the Japanese in Singapore... Author Alistair Urquhart Publisher Abacus Release date Pages 312 ISBN ISBN

The Wall concerns a farmer's struggle with elements and drought-ravaged soil, Saxophone Blowing is a poignant vignett of man whose disspated lifestyle is losing all meaning for him. In The Deluge a broken fanbelt and a hot, dusty country road lead to an encounter with Hester and her father and a discovery of the secrets they share.  Memory deals with adolescence and tentative young love on platteland farm. The New Teacher who comes to take over the dorp school in small farming community. In the final story Departure, Johann de Klerk, forced off the land by drought, finds work as railway porter and finall comes face to face with his own mortality. Jonathan Ball softcover well-binded, clean pages 137 pages.