Robert Richardson

Title: Adventurous Boat Voyages, etc. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF TRAVEL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains personal narratives, travel guides and documentary accounts by Victorian travelers, male and female. Also included are pamphlets, travel guides, and personal narratives of trips to and around the Americas, the Indies, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Richardson, Robert; 1884. 256 p.; 8 . 10024.aaa.23.

Travelling from the UK to enjoy the sunshine and pleasures of Mexico while on a business trip turns out to be an unexpected nightmare for one naive young lady who jouneys into hell

Captain James Butler is ordered to take a small team of soldiers into Java and attempt to rescue a Dutch Scientist being held in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp. The Germans also want this man for the development of a bomb that will end the war. 'If you can't get him out.....kill him.'

Some Company Directors and Senior Managers show little principle when dealing with the people they are supposed to look after responsibly. Alison Cavendish and her colleagues come face to face with hostility they never imagined was possible.

Private Trimble served with the Glorious Gloucesters during the war between North and South Korea. Invalided out after being wounded he trained to become a butler, but quickly learned that that profession had its own wars.

Geraldine Ewing is recruited and trained to operate as an undercover agent in wartime Italy. Captured by the Gestapo and tortured, her team leader has a personal reason to set up a complex operation to release her and get her out of the country, with the Germans doing the utmost to prevent her escape.

Reggie Cavendish is arrested for drug offences on the Island of St Lucia in the Caribbean. Rather than transfer him to Britain, the local police hand him over to Venezuela where he is condemned to 20 years hard labour in their notorious prison at Ciudad Guayana where the Governor uses a silver cane containing a sword to punish any prisoner breaching the harsh rules. The hated English Gringo is subjected to the most barbaric treatment until he finds a way to hit back.

Five young teenage girls who have lost their parents in tragic circumstances, join an orphanage and become firm friends. Each will eventually have their own tale to tell on being fostered out to different families. One of those girls, Alison Cavendish, suddenly finds a fairytale beginning to a new and unexpected lifestyle.