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Peter Jefferson Smith was born in 1939 in Ely, Cambridgeshire. On completing his degree in history at Trinity College Cambridge, he came to live in Clapham, where he remained for the rest of his life. He joined the Civil Service and spent almost all of his career in what was then H M Customs and Excise, retiring in 1995 after seven years as Deputy Chairman. Much of Peter s spare time was devoted to historical research but he was also heavily involved...
2) Surveyor
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250 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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A friendship between two men ends when the outside world intrudes. The two are wartime buddies who lead a reclusive life in the New Mexico desert, exploring an underground river. The beginning of the end comes with the arrival of archeologists and a woman. A first novel.
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From one of the most beloved Western authors comes an epic historical tale of adventure and romance in the great wilderness.
Against the epic backdrop of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad across plains and deserts and through the mountains to meet up with the Southern Pacific in Utah comes a sprawling, historical tale. Warren Neale is a brilliant civil engineer who is constantly confronted with construction problems. He is sided by Larry...
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773 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and America, and traces their relationship.
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American exploration and travel volume 83
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xvii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Details the daily lives and adventures of the 1875 Ferdinand V. Hayden survey team, largely through their own personal narratives region geography, and the American expansionist impulse"--Provided by publisher.
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Girl called Echo volume 2
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47 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Red River Resistance sees Echo Desjardins adjusting to her new home, making new friends, and learning about Metis history. One ordinary afternoon in class, Echo finds herself transported through time to the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869. All is not well in the territory, as Canadian surveyors have arrived, and Metis families, who have lived there for generations, are losing access to their land. As the Resistance takes hold, Echo fears...
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277 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"A captivating journey blending memoir, history, and biography that takes the reader on one of the world's most famous trains and tells of carving the dramatic route it follows, while pondering other international railways through the eyes of travellers past and present. Rick Antonson has ridden trains in more than thirty-five countries -- but almost everything he thinks he knows about train travel changes when he boards the Rocky Mountaineer with...
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