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Download or read book The Isle of Wight, Portsmouth & the Solent written by Mark Bardell and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own local roadsteads and a unique double tidal system. This geography has shaped the area's history. Southampton's docks, located on Southampton Water to the north-west, had become the country's largest civilian port by the mid-twentieth century. Just north-east across the stretch of water called Spithead is the island city of Portsmouth with its ideal natural harbour. This was an internationally important port for over three hundred years, while the whole area has been places of naval significance on the world stage for even longer. From when Queen Victoria bought Osborne House in 1845 and had it remodeled as an Italianate mansion the Isle of Wight became a hub of Victorian society. The Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson lived at Freshwater, while Charles Swinburne grew up at Bonchurch, a place where Charles Dickens vacationed. Charles Darwin began his Origin of Species here, and Karl Marx came to restore his health; it was the expanding rail network that brought them there. Mark Bardell explores the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth and the surrounding maritime landscapes, revealing unexpected historical and literary associations."--PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION.

Download or read book Bradshaw's monthly railway and steam navigation guide written by George Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sailing Directions for the South Coast of England written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sailing Directions for the South Coast of England from the Scilly Isles to North Foreland written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Solent Hazards written by Peter Bruce and published by Boldre Marine. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spy Beside the Sea written by Adrian Searle and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy O'Grady is uniquely placed in the annals of espionage. She was the first Briton condemned to death under the Treachery Act of 1940 after she was frequently spotted on the outskirts of Sandown (a prohibited area on the Isle of Wight), insisting time and again that her dog had strayed. Had her appeal not saved her from the gallows, she would have been the only woman of any nationality to suffer death under the Act during the Second World War – indeed, the only woman to be executed in Britain for spying in the 20th century. Yet the full story of her extraordinary brush with notoriety and its enduring legacy has never been told, despite the fact that it has more than once dominated the front pages of the British press and inspired both a BBC radio drama and a novel. Now, with the benefit of access to previously classified documents, the truth underpinning the O'Grady legend can finally be revealed. Following her appeal she served nine years in prison for her wartime crimes – but was she really a spy in the employ of Germany? Or was O'Grady, as she insisted years later, a self-seeking tease who committed her apparent treachery 'for a giggle'? Or was there some other motivation which drove her to wartime infamy in a case which reverberated around the world? In The Spy Beside the Sea, author and journalist Adrian Searle examines all the evidence to reach a disturbing conclusion.

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