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Secret Agent Jack Stalwart... The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur
Fictional travel/adventure series for children aged 6-9 years old. author: Hunt, Elizabeth Singer; publisher: Chubby Cheeks Publications
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Fourth Estate The Escape Artist: Life from the Saddle
In reviewing Matt Seaton's <I>The Escape Artist</I>, the irresistible temptation is to adopt the shorthand of a marketing pitch and call it the <I>Fever Pitch</I> of cycling. Seaton's book, like Nick Hornby's, is about male obsession and the ways it changes (or doesn't) in the face of growing responsibility and maturity. In <I>Fever Pitch</I> the obsession was Arsenal FC; in <I>The Escape Artist</I>) the obsession is cycle-racing, the sport of strange, lycra-clad lads with shaved legs and eyes permanently fixed on the back wheel of the bike ahead. Seaton is particularly good at evoking the rituals of the sport (the loving maintenance of both body and bike, the relentless monitoring of calories, pulse beats and heart rates) and at recreating the adrenaline thrills it provides. His descriptions of his own races--with the cyclists bunched together for mile after mile, each one testing and assessing the pace and stamina of the others, until the sudden, dramatic opportunity to escape the pack offers itself--go a long way towards explaining the otherwise inexplicable hold the sport has on its devotees. His accounts of his own developing responsibilities, and of the tragedy of his wife's illness and premature death, which force him to reassess the priorities in his life, seem more tentative. It is as if the experiences, unsurprisingly, are still too raw and painful to be approached in any less oblique and indirect way. Yet it is these passages that give the book an individuality that makes it much more than just another story of male obsession. <I>The Escape Artist</I> is a brief book, easily read, but it is a moving one and it manages to say much in a short space about subjects more important than cycle-racing.--<I>Nick Rennison</I>
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Constable and Robinson The Escape of Charles II: After the Battle of Worcester
Pages: 224, Paperback, Constable and Robinson
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Red Fox Jack Stalwart: The Escape of the Deadly Dinosaur
Pages: 128, Paperback, Red Fox
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Quartet Books The Escape Plan
Pages: 240, Paperback, Quartet Books
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James Bennett Pty Ltd Chronicles Of Riddick, The: Escape From Butcher Bay
Pages: 144, Paperback, James Bennett Pty Ltd
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David Horovitz Brewood: Some Notes on the History of Brewood in Staffordshire, with an Account of the Escape of Charles II After the Battle of Worcester on 3rd September 1651
Pages: 448, Hardcover, David Horovitz
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Ragged Bears The Escape of Marvin the Ape
Pages: 32, Hardcover, Ragged Bears
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Ripping Yarns.com Escape from England: Including the Escape from the Siege of Tsingtao Back to Europe
Pages: 154, Paperback, Ripping Yarns.com
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Cambridge University Press The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy & Society in Past Time)
Pages: 216, Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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