Bristow: 84 books
Alan Bristow: Helicopter Pioneer
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Alan Bristow, founder of Bristow Helicopters, died seven days after completing his autobiography. He was a truly remarkable man; his full-page obituary was published in The Times and The Daily Telegraph. As a merchant navy officer cadet during the war Bristow survived two sinkings, played a part in...
Eric Bristow: The Autobiography
The Crafty Cockney
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Eric Bristow MBE (1957-2018) might just have been the greatest darts player of all time.
An unmistakable figure on the oche during his 1980s heyday, 'the Cheeky Cockney' became renowned not just for the number of world titles he won but for his arrogance on stage and off it.
In this...
American Pandemic
The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event seems but a forgotten moment in our nation's past. American...
by Gwen Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
New York Times**–bestselling author Gwen Bristow presents a captivating love story that dramatizes the struggle between the ways of the old Louisiana plantation families and those of the new twentieth-century South**
In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp, overseeing...
“But I Digress …”
A selection of his best columns
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Gathered together for the first time, a selection from the columns and occasional writings of Darrel Bristow-Bovey. For the better part of this century and the worst part of the last, Darrel Bristow-Bovey has been making enemies, allies and occasional friends with his newspaper and magazine columns....
Suburban Boy
Growing Up in South-East London in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
This is the story of a bygone era, describing the childhood of a boy who grew up in south-east London in the 1930s. Adrian Bristow came not from a working- or upper class background, but from that great unsung mass—the lower middle-class. Adrian Bristow describes what it was like to grow up in the...
Riding the Dragon's Spine:
Beit Bridge to Cape Town - SA's Ultimate MTB Trail
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
When windmill-dodgers David Bristow and Steve Thomas followed their dream to blaze (and map) a mountain bike trail across South Africa, they hoped to be spared howling headwinds, freezing rain and slushy terrain. They weren’t, yet were not deterred from having a mud-splattering good time. The result,...
The Sociology of Generations
New Directions and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This book suggests that the enduring problem of generations remains that of knowledge: how society conceptualises the relationship between past, present and future, and the ways in which this is transmitted by adults to the young. Reflecting on Mannheim’s seminal essay ‘The Problem of Generations’,...
Been There, Done That
A South African checklist for the curious and the brave
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
At the age of 14, author David Bristow stuck a large touring map of South Africa on his bedroom wall, determined to mark off every road one day. It was the start of a life-long love affair with the land – indeed, in 40 years of dedicated travelling David has pretty much ‘been there, done that’,...
by Katharina Gerlach, Ava Fairhall, K.V. Moffet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018
Solve a mermaid's problem…
Step off the edge of a roof…
Dig up a grave at midnight…
Take advice from a fortune cookie…
Visit the last library…
Meet a bridge troll…
And more…
In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...
by Gwen Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
**The New York Times–bestselling author of Jubilee Trail does “a grand job of storytelling” in this saga of the pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness (The New York Times).
For his service in the king’s army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy’s father, a Puritan...
China in Drag
Travels with a Cross-dresser
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Approaching the end of his five year stint as a BBC journalist in Beijing, Michael Bristow decided he wanted to write about the country's modern history. To assist him he asked for the help of his language teacher. It came as a surprise though, to learn that the teacher was also a cross-dresser.
Making Men Moral
Social Engineering During the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
On May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should be torn to shreds by German...
by Lorin Bristow
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Government is the new growth market. B-to-B sales techniques just don’t work. Learn the new rules for selling to all levels of government.
This year, local, state, and federal governments will spend trillions of dollars on all sorts of goods and services. Don’t miss out on your share of...