Charles Gilson: 7 books

"THE LAW-SCIENCE CHASM" is a socio-legal study that takes seriously the varying approaches to science that physicians and scientists use, as compared to legal actors such as judges and lawyers. Offering a way to mediate and translate their different perspectives and assumptions, Gilson uses...

In the transition between the colonial era and today's world order, the Cameroons were an important battleground -- both literally and metaphorically. In Captain Charles Gilson's novel Across the Cameroons: A Story of War and Adventure, the drama of the period is underscored by the heroism of individuals on both sides of the conflict.

"Held by Chinese Brigands" is one of the more popular adventure stories for boys in the genre of imperial fiction popular at the time of publishing in 1921. The setting is South China and the action follows the adventures of the British heroes Frank Armitage and Sir Thomas Armitage...

A Tale of the Great War, of German spies, and submarines, of naval warfare, and all manner of adventures. In the following story fact is blended with fiction. The account of the Battle of the North Sea, in which the "Blücher" was sunk, is as historically accurate as is possible with the details at present available.

THE EXPLORERS' CLUB The Explorers' Club no longer exists. To-day, as a matter of fact, it is a tea-shop in Old Bond Street--a small building, wedged between two greater ones, a fashionable milliner's and a famous Art Establishment. Towards the end of the last century, in what is known as the mid-Victorian...

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