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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.
| KATE WINKLER DAWSON Book Number: 93014 |
Published price: $27
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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...
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| JEREMY BLACK Book Number: 93076 |
Published price: £10.99
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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...
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| GUSTAV MILNE Book Number: 92273 |
Published price: £19.99
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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...
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| MARY COLWELL Book Number: 93152 |
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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...
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| PETE BROWN Book Number: 93154 |
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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...
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| SUSAN RICHARDSON Book Number: 93177 |
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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...
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| CRAIG ARMSTRONG Book Number: 93220 |
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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...
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| DEREK TAIT Book Number: 93221 |
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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...
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| JOHN FIDLER Book Number: 93233 |
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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...
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| PAUL CHRYSTAL Book Number: 93234 |
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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...
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| MIKE JACOBS Book Number: 93237 |
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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...
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| PETER WALLER Book Number: 93238 |
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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...
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| CRAIG ARMSTRONG Book Number: 93242 |
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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...
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| KEVIN TURTON Book Number: 93243 |
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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 ...
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| KEVIN DERRICK Book Number: 93245 |
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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 ...
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| JOHN GLOVER Book Number: 93249 |
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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...
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| BILL TAYLOR Book Number: 93250 |
Published price: £17.95
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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...
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| GERRY VAN TONDER Book Number: 93254 |
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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...
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| BOB YATE Book Number: 93255 |
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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...
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| DAVID ROBERTS Book Number: 93262 |
Published price: £18
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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...
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| PETER WALLER Book Number: 93264 |
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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...
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| HUGH TAYLOR & MOIRA MCCROSSAN Book Number: 93267 |
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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 ...
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| JACQUELINE YALLOP Book Number: 93281 |
Published price: £18.99
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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,...
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| STEPHEN WALTER Book Number: 88946 |
Published price: $29.95
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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...
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| RICHARD CROSSLEY & D. COUZENS Book Number: 93483 |
Published price: £20
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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...
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| CHRISTOPHER REID Book Number: 93498 |
Published price: £15.95
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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...
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| STEPHEN MOSS Book Number: 93555 |
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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...
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| TOM JACKSON Book Number: 93588 |
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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...
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| ROBERT ANDREWS Book Number: 93593 |
Published price: £13.99
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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 ...
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| ELIZABETH ATHENS & B. RUUD Book Number: 90231 |
Published price: £30
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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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