Books with author Jamie White

Excerpt from The Adventures of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Vol. 2The humiliations, brother, and the miferies which I have expe rienced are in no wife inferior to your own. I was born in an ob fcure village in the North of Eng land, Of parents who maintained themfelves by agriculture.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Adventures of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Vol. 3The morality-men, who perform thefe pieces, to exhibit it to the people at a certain great monafiery.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

In a quiet Sussex Village live a curious group of humans and animal friends.In the first book of the Captain Cecil Crump & His Brilliant Friends, series of stories, the marvellously eccentric Captain Cecil Crump (Formerly of the Kings African Rifles) discovered that the local animals were able to communicate with humans. After all, he learned, that just because animals don’t talk it does not necessarily mean they can’t talk!Having befriended a group of them, they offered to help him ring the church bells for an important wedding, in return for some delicious treats of course!In this story, one of those same animals, a gorgeous and friendly rabbit called Charlie Cement, receives a rather unexpected letter from his Cousin Saleese Silosse who, having left the village years before along with another Cousin named Sidley Kidley, joined a very special rabbit theatre in London and during her time away, made quite a name for herself.Saleese sends Charlie a ticket for him to attend the opening of an important theatre play in which she is starring in the lead role.Charlie Cement wants to go, indeed he must go but how will he get to London? Even if he can get to London, what will he find there and who might he meet? Captain Cecil Crump soon comes to Charlie’s aid and introduces Charlie to his good friend, Nicolias Sherwin-Chuff who drives a Steam Train. Nicolias agrees to take Charlie to London on his train although Charlie must be prepared to help out along the way as there is important work to be done. Charlie revels in his responsibilities and takes them very seriously.This story tells the tale of Charlie’s journey, his visit to the rabbit theatre and his return home. Prepare to be amazed and enchanted by the many interesting characters that he meets along the way and the incredible things that happen while he is in the City.Indeed, one must prepare upon reading this book, for the simple fact that you might never look at your local animal friends in quite the same way, ever again!