Bøger af Les Rogers

Solitude Hill and Other Places is an elegant collection of stories, poems, and vignettes that spans many years and many miles. In spare, highly polished prose, the pieces explore universal themes like love, passion, family, loyalty, and tradition.

In the 1940s an adventurous youth flees New England for Los Angeles, a city vibrating with wartime energy and sex. Beach culture and a pretty girl captivate him, but he leaves to tramp alone far into Mexico and climb Paricutín, an exploding volcano. Back in L.A., he drives across the country with his mother in pursuit of her escaping lover. Alone again, he pedals an overloaded bicycle to Canada and hitches a ride on the Alaska Highway with a short-tempered sourdough. The old-timer has bet a quart of whisky on the driving time, and a dangerous washout lies ahead. In Fairbanks, Territory of Alaska, he embraces frontier life, mixing with cheechakos and pioneers, dreamers and realists. He meets a young prostitute at the notorious Line. He works as cement handler and railroad gandy dancer and becomes a student at the University of Alaska. Then he's off for Whitehorse to canoe the Yukon.

Simon was a young married financial advisor, with a beautiful wife and a son he adored. His best friends were a flashy single solicitor, James, and a hard-working estate agent, called Richard. Richard's wife Susan was also very good friends with Simon's wife Janet. The recession was hitting financial services & Simon pretty hard, so he showed a great deal of interest when his solicitor friend suggested a way for him to get a much-needed financial boost. Simon knew this busi-ness deal was dodgy, would he get involved, would he risk everything and take his friends down with him?

Years in the making, this book covers the wide variety of markings used by British aviation units in World War I. Organized numerically by squadron number the book includes both textual and photographic examples for nearly all RFC, RAF, and RNAS squadrons. Many of the photographs are published here for the first time, and the color profiles offer a representative selection of units, aircraft, and color schemes. A classic book.