OS Explorer is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling The OS Explorer range now

Includes:: a digital version of the paper map accessed through the OS smartphone app OS Maps Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways

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The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery & magic where the past & the present meet ancient standing stones walk & burial mounds are the home of the trows Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk & mermaids & seals that are often far more than they appear to be Here Orkney witches raise storms & predict the outcomeof battles ghosts seek revenge & the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts & Vikings storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster how a giant built lochs & hills in his greed for fertile land & how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess ...

Written around AD 1200 by an unnamed Icelandic author the Orkneyinga Saga is an intriguing fusion of myth legend & history The only medieval chronicle to have Orkney as the central place of action it tells of an era when the islands were still part of the Viking world beginning with their conquest by the kings of Norway in the ninth century The saga describes the subsequent history of the Earldom of Orkney & the adventures of great Norsemen such as Sigurd the Powerful St Magnus the Martyr & Hrolf the conqueror of Normandy Savagely powerful & poetic this is a fascinating depiction of an age of brutal battles murder sorcery & bitter family feuds ...

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Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics The flower bloomed & faded The sun rose & sank The lover loved & went & what the poets said in rhyme the young translated into practice' Written for her lover Vita Sackville-West Orlando' is Woolf's playfully subversive take on a biography here tracing the fantastical life of Orlando As the novel spans centuries & continents gender & identity we follow Orlando's adventures in love
- from being a lord in the Elizabethan court to a lady in 1920s London First published in 1928 this tale of unrivalled imagination & wit quickly became the most famous work of women's fiction Sexuality destiny independence & desire
- all come to the fore in this highly influential novel that heralded a new era in women's writing

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Once described as the 'longest & most charming love-letter in literature' the Virginia Woolf's Orlando is edited by Brenda Lyons with an introduction & notes by Sandra M Gilbert in Penguin Classics Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend the charismatic writer Vita Sackville-West Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure immortal & ageless who changes sex & identity on a whim First masculine then feminine Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time A wry commentary on gender roles & modes of history Orlando is also in Woolf's own words a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in ambiguity & capriciousness Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed Orlando you might like Woolf's The Waves also available in Penguin Modern Classics'I read this book & believed it was a hallucinogenic interactive biography of my own life & future' Tilda Swinton ...

Orlando is a young Elizabethan nobleman whose wealth & status afford him an extravagant lifestyle Appointed ambassador in Constantinople he wakes one morning to find he is a woman Unperturbed by such a dramatic transformation & losing none of his flamboyance & ambition the newly female Orlando charges through life & English history so that by the end of this extraordinary biography she is a modern 1920s woman Virginia Woolf's wildly imaginative comic novel was inspired by the life of her lover Vita Sackville West This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Orlando is published with the original illustrations & with an introduction by the academic & novelist Professor Susan Sellers Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure ...

'I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books I want to kick up my heels & be off' Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history first as a man then as a woman; of hisher encounters with queens kings novelists playwrights & poets & of hisher struggle to find fame & immortality not through actions but through the written word At its heart are the life & works of Woolf's friend & lover Vita Sackville-West & Knole the historic home of the Sackvilles But as well as being a love letter to Vita Orlando mocks the conventions of biography & history teases the pretensions of contemporary men of letters & wryly examines sexual double standards This new edition discusses Woolf's stylistic aims the biographical parallels & the work's literary context &

Includes:: the original illustrations ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN DUNMOREAs his tale begins Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court By the close he will have transformed into a modern 36-year-old woman & three centuries will have passed Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Merry M Pawlowski Professor & Chair Department of English California State University Bakersfield Virginia Woolf's Orlando ' The longest & most charming love letter in literature' playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend & lover Vita Sackville-West Spanning three centuries the novel opens as Orlando a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England awaits a visit from the Queen & traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost At the midpoint of the novel Orlando now an ambassador in Costantinople awakes to find that he is a woman & the novel indulges in farce & irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th & 19th centuries As the novel ends in 1928 a year consonant with full suffrage for women Orlando now a wife & mother stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope & promise for women ...