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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.
| TED SIMON Book Number: 74560 |
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Packed with gripping stories, extraordinary encounters and glorious depictions of the British countryside, this volume takes readers on an unforgettable trip by motor bike with a celebrated adventu...
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| JOHN PILLING & LORRAINE WOODS Book Number: 74897 |
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With the annual Regatta and other royal associations and its often stratospheric property prices it is hard to believe that Henley-on-Thames was once a down-at-heel town. Back in the 1840s, the bui...
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| GORDON HOME Book Number: 75492 |
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16 beautiful pencil sketches, one per right hand page in this facsimile reprint series by publisher A&C Black. Published in Spring, 1922, the images include Windermere from Bowness, Dove Cottage G...
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| JOHN PILLING Book Number: 75217 |
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Illustrating the changing face of this popular town, and providing a fascinating insight into its history, an Oxfordshire historian and a professional photographer have curated this stunning select...
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| DOROTHY WOLLARD Book Number: 75642 |
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First published in 1924, these sketches by a group of well-known artists, found in the archives of A & C Black of Soho Square London, present a fascinating look at London as it was almost 100 years...
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| JOSEPH PIKE Book Number: 75489 |
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24 exquisitely accurate pencil sketches, one per right hand page of some of the famous sights from the great city of Chester like the Tudor façades of houses in Bridge Street, salmon fishing boats ...
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| GARTH CHRISTIAN Book Number: 76072 |
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The author has written popular studies of bird migrations and an anthology illustrated by Eric Hosking, Wings of Light, and the first comprehensive study of the conservation of our countryside whic...
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| GEOFF SANDLES Book Number: 76378 |
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Almost 200 "then and now" photos reveal that the traditional English pub is alive and well and living in the Severn Valley - as if we were in any doubt about it. The charming ancient town of Tewkes...
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| STANLEY JENKINS Book Number: 76380 |
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It is like playing spot-the-difference with these then and now sepia and colour photographs contrasted on every page of this fascinating selection of images from this most picturesque county. Oxfo...
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| CHARLES CLOSE Book Number: 76465 |
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Buckingham is situated on a wide bend of the River Ouse, which is navigable from the town all the way through the Fens and to the Wash. This is what presumably led the Romans to settle here as when...
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| JOHN SATCHELL Book Number: 76390 |
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In a uniquely important glimpse of life in Kendal and the Lake District during Edwardian times, this remarkable collection of almost 200 photographs, taken mainly between 1900 and 1908, ranges from...
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| CHARLES CLOSE Book Number: 76482 |
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Winslow is a small market town 10 miles north of the County Town of Aylesbury and the Vale. It is situated on a low hill, and King Offa is believed to have had a palace there. In those days, it w...
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| ANNA MINTON Book Number: 76674 |
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Sub-titled 'Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First Century City' the Observer quote on the front cover says 'They sold our streets and nobody noticed...timely and powerful...revelatory.' In this a...
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| KAREN BOWMAN Book Number: 76823 |
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Henry VIII, Daniel Defoe and Wat Tyler, warriors, medicine men, seadogs, martyrs, felons like Dick Turpin, wizards, explorers, gentlemen of letters, smugglers, men of science and vision like Humphr...
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| H. C. IVISON Book Number: 76828 |
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A fine and famous salmon river, the Derwent was sometimes called 'The River of Saints and Sinners', as it was used by smugglers as well as clerics. One of the fastest rivers in Europe, it is also ...
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| STANLEY JENKINS Book Number: 76832 |
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The Witney & East Gloucestershire Railway was a classic rural branch line which followed the tranquil Upper Thames Valley for much of its length and served attractive Cotswold towns and villages su...
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| SIMON WEBB Book Number: 76838 |
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Do you remember when you could leave your back door open, when children played on traffic-free streets, the rag and bone man was a frequent visitor, you watched a man land on the Moon on television...
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| BERNARD DARWIN Book Number: 76669 |
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For collectors, this is one of the rarest and most sought-after books in the whole literature of golf, here reproduced in glamorous facsimile hardback. Harry Rountree's beautiful watercolour image...
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| MONA DUGGAN Book Number: 77132 |
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Drawing widely on documentary evidence as well as personal stories in the words of contemporaries, this vividly written volume brings to life the history of settlement in the Ormskirk area of Lanca...
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| BERNADETTE ROBINSON Book Number: 75853 |
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The dedication of this book, to all the people who as children had the ignominy of standing in the 'free dinners' queue, reveals a great deal - not only about the author but also about the rich per...
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| JEAN HOOD Book Number: 77417 |
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Written to accompany the BBC series presented by Dan Snow, this nostalgic and thoroughly engrossing volume takes readers on a journey through the allied Battle for Europe, unearthing a Spitfire bur...
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| WILLIAM FADEN Book Number: 77260 |
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In the Georgian era, some visitors to Oxford lauded the city and others described it as elegantly dull. First published in 1789, this map brought the city's long cartographic tradition up to date ...
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| GEOFFREY KICHENSIDE Book Number: 77277 |
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The East Coast Main Line was conceived as a series of short local railways in the 1840s and eventually amalgamated to form the North Eastern Railway in 1854. This map shows the route from King's C...
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| E. H. CARTER & R. A. F. MEARS Book Number: 77326 |
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Suited equally to adults who feel that they have forgotten all the history they ever learnt and to youngsters in need of more than dry-as-dust tomes to see them through their exams, here is a refre...
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| CHARLES BOWDEN Book Number: 77781 |
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Shepherds are as old as the hills, but very much an endangered species, their numbers falling rapidly. Mountain districts where there was once a shepherd on every hill are now ranched by one man a...
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| CLAIRE BALDING Book Number: 77704 |
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Following her bestselling 'My Animals and Other Family', the TV broadcaster and now OBE Claire Balding can carry off a hat and high heels when the event demands but is happier in a waterproof jacke...
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| Travis Elborough Book Number: 77950 |
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In 1968 the old 19th century London Bridge was transported to Arizona stone by stone and was welcomed in a high-profile ceremony by people in colourful folk costume, including Apache Indians and th...
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| RON FREETHY Book Number: 78239 |
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Behind the scenes, the people who lived in what is now modern Cumbria played a very important part in the defeat of Hitler. The Vickers shipyards and docks at Barrow built warships as fast as they...
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| COLIN MAGGS Book Number: 78242 |
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Written by a big name in trains and transport, we go steaming into the county of Hampshire to look at the buildings, running the railways, Southampton Docks, boat and other special trains, on to th...
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| NORMAN JACOBS Book Number: 78342 |
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Surprisingly few memoirs or biographies have been written by those who have spent their working lives in museums and art galleries. Here we are offered a glimpse of a rather different kind. Norma...
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