James Bradley

This book is set in London, 1826. Leaving behind his father''s tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city''s anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master''s nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city''s resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies. Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London''s underworld, a place where everything and everyone is for sale, and where - as Gabriel discovers - the taking of a life is easier than it might seem.

Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a more personal kind of history. An elderly recluse, dying in a nearby shack, seems to know something of the corpse's identity - and also its connection to the shipwreck. He begins telling David about his own past, a story of a life marred by ambition, sexual passion, rivalry, deceit and betrayal. But will he give David the information he needs before it is too late? A haunting tale of the lure of the imagination and the destructive workings of obsession, "Wrack" is a first novel of unusual reach and suggestive power

London, 1826. Leaving behind his fathers tragic failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the citys anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his masters nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the citys resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies. Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of Londons underworld, a place where everything and everyone is for sale, and where - as Gabriel discovers - the taking of a life is easier than it might seem.

Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a more personal kind of history. An elderly recluse, dying in a nearby shack, seems to know something of the corpses identity - and also its connection to the shipwreck. He begins telling David about his own past, a story of a life marred by passion, rivalry and betrayal. But what does he know about the ship and the murder - and will he tell David before it is too late?

Wise compassionate and urgent Robert Macfarlane author of UnderlandA Bookseller Nonfiction Editor s Choice for March 2024Plunge into the depths of the unknown in this thrilling work of nonfiction that combines science history and nature writing to explore the deepest recesses of the natural world Oceans created shaped and sustain not just human life but all life on Earth and perhaps beyond it They are our history from evolution to exploration and colonialism our present from beach holidays to transporting food and goods and as rising sea levels and warming water reshape coastlines and the climate our future Deep Water is a reckoning with humankind s complex relationship with the ocean a book shaped by tidal movements and vast currents and lit by the presence of other minds and other ways of being It speaks directly and uncompromisingly of the urgency of the environmental catastrophe that is overtaking us but is also suffused with the glories of the ocean and alert to the extraordinary efforts of the scientists and researchers whose work helps us understand its secrets Immense in scope but also profoundly personal it offers vital new ways of understanding humanity s place on our planet and shows that the oceans might yet save us all

Oceans created shaped and sustain not just human life but all life on Earth and perhaps beyond it Deep Water is a reckoning with humankind s complex relationship with these oceans In this thrilling work a blend of history science nature and environmental writing acclaimed author James Bradley plunges into the unknown to explore the deepest recesses of the natural world guiding readers through the atomic creation of the oceans to the wonders contained within like the schools of fish who use electromagnetic sensing to migrate across the globe describing how human populations have circumnavigated the world by boat and interrogating the environmental catastrophe already impacting our lives Deep Water celebrates the ocean s glories and the extraordinary efforts of the scientists and researchers currently unlocking its secrets Offering vital new ways of understanding humanity s place on our planet Bradley shows that the oceans might yet save us all

In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima and into a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire from 22,000 Japanese. After climbing through a hellish landscape and on to the island's highest peak, six men were photographed raising the stars and stripes. One of those soldiers was the author's father, John Bradley.

En el contexto de la IIª Guerra Mundial y de las llamadas Guerras del Pacífico. El 19 de febrero de 1945 se inició el desembarco aliado en Iwo Jima, tratando de vulnerar las defensas de la metrópoli nipona. La batalla de Iwo Jima fue la mas sangrienta de las batallas libradas en el Pacifico: los japoneses habian convertido a la isla en una verdadera fortaleza sobre la que tuvo poco efecto el previo bombardeo al desembarco. La lucha, encarnizada y sangrienta, duro 36 dias de combate, durante los cuales los norteamericanos perdieron 6.000 hombres y los japoneses sufrieron la baja de 20.000 soldados. La memoria colectiva de los seis marines que alzaron la bandera se hallaba perdida en las profundidades del tiempo. Este libro la rescata. Redime del olvido a aquellos muchachos uno de ellos el padre del autor que mutan de iconos anonimos a individuos de carne y hueso. Ninguno de sus nombres esta inscrito en el monumento. Pero uno aprende a conocerlos a traves del magnifico libro de James Bradley.

En el invierno de 1945, en una isla rocosa al sur de Japón se libró una de las batallas más sangrientas y decisivas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: la batalla de Iwo Jima. La pequeña isla se convirtió en un infierno en el que en un mes de encarnizada lucha murieron 22.000 solados japoneses y alrededor de 26.000 estadounidenses. La batalla marco un antes y un despues en el teatro de la guerra del Pacifico, abrio el camino de la victoria a los aliados y quedo inmortalizada para la historia en una fotografia en la que seis marines plantaban una bandera una vez conquistada la isla. Esta es la historia de esta batalla y de los soldados que la libraron, en concreto de los seis marines anonimos que acabaron convertidos en iconos de una victoria epica. El resultado es un libro sobrecogedor, en el que se funden los horrores de la guerra y las emocionantes historias humanas de los jovenes que la protagonizaron, dejando en muchos casos su vida en ella. “Inolvidable... Uno de los mas instructivos y emocionantes libros sobre la guerra y sus consecuencias jamas escritos.... Rivaliza por la fuerza de su plasmacion de la guerra con En busca del soldado Ryan.” The New York Times “El mejor libro sobre una batalla que he leido jamas... Su lectura sobrecoge”, Stephe

Iwo Jima: el infierno de la Guerra del Pacífico , es la historia de una de las batallas definitivas en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Esta obra es: • La única que explica la historia intima de los seis m

From the author of bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The Resurrectionist, and one of The Guardians top eco-fictions, comes a provocative, urgent novel about time, family and how a changing planet might transform our lives.On a beach in Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sydney his partner Ellie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treatment.That result, when it comes, will change both their lives and propel them into a future neither could have predicted. In a collapsing England, Adam will battle to survive an apocalyptic storm. Against a backdrop of growing civil unrest at home, Ellie will discover a strange affinity with beekeeping. In the aftermath of a pandemic, a young man finds solace in building virtual recreations of the dead. And new connections will be formed from the most unlikely beginnings.

Banderas de nuestros padres , nos traslada a esa gran tragedia que fue la batalla de Iwo Jima, uno de las principales puntos de referencia de la segunda guerra mundial, donde miles de soldados de ambos bandos, el japones y el estadounidense, perdieron sus vidas, en aras del pensamiento politico de la epoca. La trama central gira alrededor de la historia de parte de aquellos soldados que protagonizaron la famosa fotografia en la que se les muestra izando la bandera de Estados Unidos en la cima del Monte Subachi.