Angalo de Haberdasheri

Angalo is a nome from the Haberdasheri Department of the Store, and son of the Duke Cido de Haberdasheri. He is the first of the Store nomes encountered by Masklin's group of Outside nomes.

Angalo dresses in bright clothes, with a belt studded with glass, leather boots and a hat with a feather in. He also has a pet trained rat named Bobo. He is very curious about the Outside, despite the Arnold Bros (est. 1905) doctrine of "All Things Under One Roof" - i.e. that the Store represents the entire world, and that the Outside is just a story. Angalo's interest in the Outside develops into a keen interest in vehicles, and he boards a lorry during Truckers to find out more about them before the Long Drive; his long absence influences his father to support the project. When Angalo returns, his love of vehicles has translated into a love of going fast and driving. He plays an important role in the original Long Drive, and in Diggers and Wings, goes with Masklin and Gurder on the mission to contact the starhip Swan. His desire to see how fast they're moving almost leads to his getting captured on a Concorde jet liner when he takes it into his head to climb into the cockpit and look out of the pilot's window.

Angalo also represents the rise of atheism, or at least rational and scientific thought, amongst the nomes. After his adventures he writes A Scientific Encyclopedia for the Enquiring Young Nome, which is quoted in Wings at the beginning of each chapter. Angalo uses the book to try and explain the things he finds on his journey:

  "SCIENCE: A way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what
  is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes
  up with more understandable excuses when it is wrong. There is a lot more Science than you
  think."  
           From A Scientific Encyclopedia for the Enquiring Young Nome by Angalo de Haberdasheri.

Books

Angalo appears in the three books of Bromeliad: Truckers, Diggers and Wings.