Great Britain, Maps & the Environment

Great Britain, Maps & the Environment

Great Britain, Maps & the Environment

Great Britain, Maps & the Environment

Great Britain & Maps, topography and geography of the British Isles and coastine, walking tours and oddly British curiosities.

 

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DEATH IN THE AIR
KATE WINKLER DAWSON    Book Number: 93014
Published price: $27
Bibliophile price: £7.00
Product format: Hardback

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Sub-titled 'The True Story of a Serial Killer, The Great London Smog, and The Strangling of A City', this is a book about a killer fog and a killer loose amidst it. London was still recovering from...
BRIEF HISTORY OF LONDON
JEREMY BLACK    Book Number: 93076
Published price: £10.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
Product format: Paperback

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With plentiful literary references, quotations from visitors and boxes covering topics such as Jack the Ripper, Black analyses the pivotal moments in history that make London what it is today. Fro...
THAMES AT WAR: Saving London from The Blitz
GUSTAV MILNE    Book Number: 92273
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £9.00
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During the Blitz, the very familiar sinuous shape of the Thames under moonlight directed waves of bombers to valuable targets like warehouses, industries, power stations, offices, docks and the ass...
BEAK, TOOTH AND CLAW: Living with Predators in Britain
MARY COLWELL    Book Number: 93152
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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From foxes and ravens attacking new-born lambs to weasels eating game-bird chicks, predators compete with us, putting them directly into the firing line. Buzzards, crows, badgers, seals, kites - B...
CLUBLAND: How the Working Men's Club Shaped Britain
PETE BROWN    Book Number: 93154
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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Brown is a brilliant master of ceremonies as he brings the history of these fine institutions to life and demonstrates their importance in working-class communities across the country. Blending viv...
WHERE THE SEALS SING
SUSAN RICHARDSON    Book Number: 93177
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £6.50
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"A recently born seal pup. It's mother, resting a few meters away, is ignoring it, pebble and kelp surrounds also smeared with blood. Another few meters further on, a mob of grey black-backed gulls...
EDINBURGH AT WAR 1939-1945
CRAIG ARMSTRONG     Book Number: 93220
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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By April 1939, Edinburgh had 6,000 air raid wardens recruited and under training together with demolition squads, later renamed rescue squads, who had responsibility for demolishing structures whic...
EDINBURGH IN THE GREAT WAR
DEREK TAIT     Book Number: 93221
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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What became known as the Great War began on 4th August 1914. It triggered a wave of patriotism. Scotland led the way with 320,589 men voluntarily enlisting before conscription began in 1916. Sco...
LANCASTER IN THE GREAT WAR
JOHN FIDLER    Book Number: 93233
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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In the summer of 1914, Lancaster, the ancient county town of what is properly the County Palatine of Lancaster, remained essentially the market town it had been for centuries, having been granted a...
LEEDS'S MILITARY LEGACY
PAUL CHRYSTAL     Book Number: 93234
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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The City of Leeds has a rich and varied military heritage and this book charts that heritage from Roman times to the end of the Second World War. The City came into its own in the English Civil Wa...
MEMORIES OF SOUTHERN RAILWAYS
MIKE JACOBS    Book Number: 93237
Published price: £14.95
Bibliophile price: £5.50
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Readers are privileged to see Hampshire Railways in the 1940s, the same time as Mike Jacobs first saw a sailor carrying bananas at Portsmouth Station. Personal reminiscences are combined with accu...
MIDLANDS & SOUTHERN ENGLAND: Regional Tramways
PETER WALLER     Book Number: 93238
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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It was not until the Tramways Act of 1870 that a legal framework existed to permit the construction of street tramways. The American entrepreneur George Francis Train discovered this during the ea...
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE IN THE GREAT WAR
CRAIG ARMSTRONG     Book Number: 93242
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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The proud tradition of military service in the region was reflected in the huge numbers of Newcastle men and women who came forward to serve in the military or in nursing. The city was the recruit...
NORTHAMPTON IN THE GREAT WAR
KEVIN TURTON    Book Number: 93243
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £5.00
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Like other towns across the country, Northampton was changed forever in how people in the town lived, worked and endured the Great War of 1914-18. It changed the way industry operated, broke down ...
HERITAGE DIESELS: The Peaks
KEVIN DERRICK     Book Number: 93245
Published price: £9.95
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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From an exciting and modestly-priced series of railway books from Trams-Pennine Publishing packed with period colour photographs and a highly informative text telling the history of various diesel ...
RAILS ACROSS LONDON
JOHN GLOVER     Book Number: 93249
Published price: £25
Bibliophile price: £8.50
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This glossy paged, heavily illustrated volume explores and discusses the three biggest developments in London's railway for many years - the East-West Crossrail (Elizabeth) Line, the Thameslink Nor...
RAILWAYS IN AND AROUND NOTTINGHAM
BILL TAYLOR    Book Number: 93250
Published price: £17.95
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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Updated and enlarged edition of the Scenes from the Past 11A in the series, this is a truly nostalgic collection of archive images and the original 1991 text reproduced in facsimile, now a rather d...
SHEFFIELD'S MILITARY LEGACY
GERRY VAN TONDER     Book Number: 93254
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £4.50
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Steel production and downstream manufacturing would be perpetually embedded in the military legacy of this seat of industrial innovation and production. The Vickers steel foundry was established i...
SHREWSBURY TO CREWE LINE: A Detailed History
BOB YATE     Book Number: 93255
Published price: £23.99
Bibliophile price: £8.00
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Conceived in 1853 by the LNWR, the Shrewsbury to Crewe Line was a link for its traffic from the northwest of England to South Wales, linking with the independent Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway. T...
SWANSEA: Salute to a City Souvenir Edition
DAVID ROBERTS    Book Number: 93262
Published price: £18
Bibliophile price: £6.50
Product format: Hardback

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A large sized volume almost entirely pictorial in content with captions, there are rainy day parades, royal visits, a busy day at the Quadrant Bus Station in the early 1980s, a landward view of the...
TRAMS OF THE BRITISH ISLES 1945-1962
PETER WALLER     Book Number: 93264
Published price: £7.95
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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In the years leading up to the outbreak of war in September 1939 there had been a considerable decline in the number of tramway operators in the British Isles, but there still remained some 50 oper...
WALKS FOR ALL AGES: 20 Walks in Carmarthenshire
HUGH TAYLOR & MOIRA MCCROSSAN    Book Number: 93267
Published price: £5.99
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Covering Swansea and the beautiful Gower peninsular, the book includes 20 walks of up to six miles chosen to give you an enjoyable day or half day, and suitable for all members of the family. The ...
DREAMSTREETS: A Journey Through Britain's Village Utopias
JACQUELINE YALLOP     Book Number: 93281
Published price: £18.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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Sewage systems to sculpture, chocolate to coal, free trade to electoral emancipation, the book is a personal exploration of why and how village utopias came about, what they tell us about the past,...
ISLAND LONDON MAPPED: 34 POSTERS
STEPHEN WALTER    Book Number: 88946
Published price: $29.95
Bibliophile price: £6.25
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Like a huge jigsaw with pieces the size of the book (27.5 x 20cm) 34 pull out posters can be removed and perhaps even linked if you're clever! Or framed and admired for their astonishing detail and...
CROSSLEY ID GUIDE: Britain and Ireland
RICHARD CROSSLEY & D. COUZENS    Book Number: 93483
Published price: £20
Bibliophile price: £8.50
Product format: Paperback

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Billed as "The most user-friendly guide to the Birds of Britain and Ireland", this soft-backed chunky volume would just about fit in a capacious pocket, certainly a rucksack, and covers over 300 di...
POEMS OF LONDON: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
CHRISTOPHER REID    Book Number: 93498
Published price: £15.95
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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The Thames and other waterways as described by Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, Joyce Cary, William Wordsworth, D. H. Lawrence, Louis MacNeice, Wilfred Owen, T. S. Eliot; the City and Westminster in t...
ACCIDENTAL COUNTRYSIDE: Hidden Havens
STEPHEN MOSS    Book Number: 93555
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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This appealing journey through the British countryside takes us from place to place and back in time, starting with prehistoric Shetland where the red-necked phalarope has made a comeback and endin...
POSTCARD FROM THE PAST
TOM JACKSON    Book Number: 93588
Published price: £8.99
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'The second day Ian smashed a flowerpot. Bobby is not having anything to do with us.' 'Plenty of hippies on the pier, but they behaved.' 'Can't say we're having a good time.' 'I'm wasting time b...
ROUGH GUIDE TO DEVON & CORNWALL
ROBERT ANDREWS    Book Number: 93593
Published price: £13.99
Bibliophile price: £5.50
Product format: Paperback

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What to see, what not to miss, itineraries and more with pre-departure practical information, this is a superb in-depth guide to the area of Devon and Cornwall with highlights and full colour maps ...
COMING AWAY: Winslow Homer & England
ELIZABETH ATHENS & B. RUUD    Book Number: 90231
Published price: £30
Bibliophile price: £10.00
Product format: Hardback

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The celebrated American artist Winslow Homer spent 18 months in the village of Cullercoats, Northumbria, in 1881-1882, and during this time he engaged with English painters both living and dead, in...
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