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GBP1 of each sale is pledged to making the twelve-part series Noah's Ark, commencing 11 January 2021 on Sky TV, as well as the series' You are Noah Tie-In books. Captured is a chance moment of mayhem. Flooding from two strong storms created a dam across an otherwise peaceful river, just before a pandemic swept across the world to isolate this spot along with the author. But, also captured along with manmade environmental destruction, is the transformation that took place from busy contrail skies to blue and verdant water scenes... and a pair of geese that made this their home. Then kayakers tackle the obstacle, boaters try to remove it, a swan performs... and a fox attacks...

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Stern Magazine, the Black Scorpion: "we will aim at everything - even if it is not moving" Surrey Life magazine: "George S Boughton was an oil engineer in Nigeria during the 1967 to 1970 Biafran War and what emerges from this intense, emotional memoir is a withering indictment of governing elites and the destructive consequences of their out-of-control behaviour. Around a million people starved to death or were killed in the fighting; yet the news vacuum meant that Boughton and other expat workers were often in the dark about the true extent of what was going on. Black Gold Black Scorpion is a fascinating, first-hand account of how a nation at war with itself became a magnet for cold war politics as it sank into moral darkness". Recounted are the lives of a young oil engineer, his wife and newborn child, during the War, when they inadvertently lived through one of the worst episodes of African history. Working in an industry that has gone on to pollute massively with oil, theirs is a different story of Africa, oil and aid. The author describes the political elites and those, like Ojukwu and Adekunle, who fought them - having himself been captured and detained, one to one, by the mythically ruthless Black Scorpion; this, the strangest of events, enabling him to observe at close range the disintegration of a powerful personality. More especially, the author's and his family's interaction with the people of the area, the people of Igboland, serves to underline how most of Africa continues to be let down by the pillars of the modern world - political elites, capitalists, the media and warring world powers.

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in the 2060s action over climate change, wildlife conservation, overpopulation have long failed. Cities are overcrowded, wildlife has dwindled, natural disasters are increasing as are migrations and wars. Planet B is mankind's destiny now. Dwindling natural resources, shrinking standards in overcrowded cities, has constantly swelled economic migrations. To the point that populating 'Planet B' is urgently underway. An international team of researchers is assigned to live and work in newly built Near Earth Territories - each vessel greatly more spacious than the largest ocean liners, which they dwarf. Except, on Earth, an unforeseen escalation in natural disasters is plunging territories into anarchy and territorial wars. The researchers must find answers and least qualified among the scientists is Sashia, a paraplegic who surprisingly becomes a rock on which they all depend. Doctors Mei Sai Ling and Steve Nord form the scientific team's backbone, headed by Professor Mark Madison and assisted by FayWell, the enigmatic Artificial Intelligence to the fleet. Tending their medical needs is Doctor O'Malley. Their mission is to discover the cause of the natural disasters, to avert this Mass Extinction becoming as apocalyptic as the end Cretaceous event. News coverage is increasingly grim with refugees fleeing disasters caught up in battles between new styled warlords and United Nation Security Council forces. Those actions extend to space, where the Territories fleet, escorted by the biggest and best US Navy battle-carrier, becomes a primary target. Our species is outgrowing the home planet. The Territories fleet is predominantly manned by designer-babies now in young adulthood. Designed to reside permanently in space, they are the beginning of a new branch of the human species, transformed into extraterrestrial beings. As for the Earth: It's not too late. Time to let nature revive and evolve on its own...

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