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British annuals are normally a collection of new and reprint material with color and black and white interiors. Published annually in hard cover, they are dated, if at all, one year ahead of the copyright. Most annuals contain illustrated text stories, comic strips and features such as puzzles, games, sometimes-even articles. Annuals based on TV shows often carry many photos from the show. The art, mainly unaccredited, is average to good.Van der Valk was a British television series produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" (real name Simon) van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere (but not the plots) of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972. 55 PAGES TWO STRIPS ONE IN COLOR AND 2 STORIES. ... Read more

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Chapters: John Black, Jessica Watson, Alan Villiers, Jon Sanders, Ashley Coulston, Jesse Martin, Kay Cottee, John Arthur Barry, Adrienne Cahalan, Edgar Gold, Fred Rebell, Michael Blackburn, David Dicks, Will Oxley, Chris Packer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Captain John Black (1778-1802), the son of a clergyman, was a ship's officer who had many adventures in his short career. His best remembered adventure concerned the mutiny on the Lady Shore of August 1797, a ship that had been sailing with a cargo of soldiers and female convicts to Sydney, Australia. In 1798 his father, the Reverend John Black (1753-1813), a prolific writer of prose and poetry, published his son's letters which gave an account of the mutiny on board the ship, when his son had been put into a small boat and left to find his way to safety with several other members of the crew. The book was dedicated as a small testimony of gratitude to the Portuguese nation for the unequalled hospitality extended to his son and his fellows in the Portuguese colonies that are now part of Brazil. John Black was also privateer (state-sanctioned pirate) for part of his naval career. He was engaged twice on privateers, once as the ships captain. That is, during the time of the English-Spanish war of 1795-1801, he was twice engaged on private warships authorized by the English government to attack and rob the enemys shipping. During both engagements he was involved in the successful capture of a Spanish vessel. In 1798 the nineteen-year-old sailed into Sydney Harbour, where, after meeting the convict girl Mary Hyde (1779-1864), he made Sydney his base of operations. In between his whaling operations, voyages of exploration, and capturing Spanish vessels, he and Mary had two children. In 1802,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20899941 ... Read more