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Book specifications:

200 pages with 160 colour and black and white photographs

ISBN: 1-904099-08-4

Retail price £15.00

To purchase contact:-

Richard Spencer
+44 (0) 151 666 1500
e.mail: books@theretoday.co.uk
Size 240mm x 240mm ? hardback

Connections

Liverpool - Global Gateway relates the life stories of 32 extraordinary people who live in Liverpool (UK) but who have far-flung links with the rest of the world.

Liverpool has long been a global gateway which has spawned so many great enterprises and seen so many people carried in and out of the city on the tide, one can only try to imagine the excitement and trepidation of passengers, crew and masters facing an uncertain future.

For the early explorers of trade routes, setting out on the vast and turbulent Atlantic in vulnerable little wooden ships, it was a lottery whether they would even survive the journey, let alone bring home a profitable cargo.

Those who embarked on long and often dangerous voyages in search of political freedom, economic fortune, or simply a new life in a new world, were stepping into the unknown with everything they possessed. It took courage and commitment when common sense probably suggested that there was a safer option.

Readers of this fascinating book - a collaboration between The Beetham organisation and Garlic Press Publshing - will meet the Faces of Liverpool read their stories, and through these 32 people living in the city in 2005, will get a flavour of the city in the past and present, in all its richness and variety. Each story, while intensely personal, is typical of many other people's experience, and the whole collection builds up a portrait of Liverpool through the lives of its citizens.