Books by Richard Phillips

Mr Book is determined to share nothing with readers but his pages have other ideas.

8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa.

Timely textbook to lead students through their essential fieldwork module. University level, up to date, and packed with applied content, it teaches students how to get the best out of fieldwork, link with their methods courses and use it in their research projects.

This volume looks at how adventure stories, produced and consumed in vast quantities in 18th- to 20th-century Europe, map both European and non-European peoples and places. However, such stories also had the effect of unmapping geographies and identities, destabilzing and sometimes recasting them.

Thie books investigates controversies surrounding prostitution, homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire, and draws conclusions about the importance of sex as a nexus of imperial power relations. It will be of particular interest to academics and students in Geography, History, Postcolonial Criticism and Gender/Sexuality Studies. -- .