Following the success of John Hunt's previous volumes on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway & the healthy on going demand for these volumes the desire for more is seemingly unabated! 160 pages c 150 colb&w Hunt John ...

This guidebook is a comprehensive pocket-sized guide to walking the pilgrimage routes through northern Spain to the sacred city of Santiago de Compostela The Camino del Norte is an 817km five-week coastal route from the town of Irun close to the French border Its alternatives are the Camino Primitivo (which splits from the Norte near Oviedo for the next 355km) & the Camino Ingles (a five-day 116km route from the city of Ferrol on the north-west coast) The guide gives stage-by-stage descriptions to all three routes & to the Camino de Finisterre (a three-day extension route from Santiago to the west coast) It features lots of advice including recommended gear useful information on all available pilgrim hostels & an extensive glossary in English Spanish & Euskera The Camino Frances is often referred to as the Camino de Santiago but it is actually along with these Northern Caminos part of a network of routes As the Frances is so popular however the Northern Caminos offer ideal conditions They are popular enough to offer sufficient facilities clear waymarking & a pilgrim community while plentiful cheap accommodation means no need to race for a bed ...

The ' Northern Crusades' inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War are less celebrated than those in the Middle East but they were also more successful vast new territories became & remain Christian such as Finland Estonia & Prussia Newly revised in the light of the recent developments in Baltic & Northern medieval research this authoritative overview provides a balanced & compelling account of a tumultuous era ...

The Northmen's Fury tells the Viking story from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France Britain & Ireland It recounts the epic voyages that took them across the Atlantic to the icy fjords of Greenland & to North America over four centuries before Columbus & east to the great rivers of Russia & the riches of the Byzantine empire One summer's day in 793 death arrived from the sea The raiders who sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne were the first Vikings sea-borne attackers who brought two centuries of terror to northern Europe Before long the sight of their dragon-prowed longships & the very name of Viking gave rise to fear & dread so much so that monks were reputed to pray each night for delivery from the Northmen's Fury' Yet for all their reputation as bloodthirsty warriors the Vikings possessed a sophisticated culture that produced art of great beauty literature of abiding power & kingdoms of surprising endurance The Northmen's Fury describes how & why a region at the edge of Europe came to dominate & to terrorise much of the rest of the continent for nearly three centuries & how in the end the coming of Christianity & the growing power of kings tempered the Viking ferocity & stemmed the tide of raids It relates the astonishing achievement of the Vikings in forging far-flung empires whose sinews were the sea & whose arteries were not roads but maritime trading routes The blood of the Vikings runs in millions of veins in Europe & the Americas & the tale of their conquests explorations & achievements continues to inspire people around the world ...

Published on the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Dominion of Canada & the 70th anniversary of Canadian citizenship In 1862 Viscount Milton & Dr Cheadle set off west across North America to find a route that could be used to transport the riches of the British Columbia goldfields back to British territory in the east thus avoiding the middle man'
- the US Behind that simple description lies one of the great nineteenth-century adventures The expedition was ludicrously ill-prepared & yet was instrumental in bringing the railroad from the east & ensuring that British Columbia became part of the Canadian Confederation in 1871 & not part of the US Author (and Arctic expedition leader) Ernest Coleman has followed the entire route of these foolhardy but brave amateurs & describes it in spectacular detail It was the Northwest passage overland & not the elusive sea route that fixed the political map of North America
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' Strangely enough I mistook it for a gentleman at first Fortunately I had my spectacles with me so I could see it was really a nose' With this pair of absurd comic stories Gogol indulges his imagination & delights readers Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) Gogol's works available in Penguin Classics are Dead Souls Diary of a Madman The Government Inspector & Selected Stories & The Night Before Christmas ...

MUM FEMINIST SIZE 26 SUPERMODEL LOUD PROUD BODY ACTIVIST BEAUTIFUL BUSINESS WOMAN HOMEMAKER CAT OWNER FUNNY OUTSPOKEN WIFE DAUGHTER LOVER FIGHTER SURVIVORTess Holliday is many things & perfect is not one of them But she loves her imperfections
- after all they've formed the woman she is today Tess's number one rule in life is to love yourself
- no matter who you are where you come from what your faults may be & what dress size you wear It's this discovery that has helped her through everything from a difficult childhood being abused & bullied about her weight to fending off social media trolls Now here in this amusingly candid account the woman at the forefront of the body positive movement who has been credited with transforming the fashion industry explains why you should be happy to make mistakes but learn from them love your imperfections & be comfortable in your own skin
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None of us are perfect in the way we love age or view the world The Not-Dead & the Saved offers us an opportunity for reinvention of ourselves those we have lost & the world in which we live From a man doomed to spend his life trying to find solutions to cancer; to a new mother haunted by a swaddling tablet-eating great-aunt; to an intrepid literary agent who travels to the Yorkshire Moors to discover the next big thing & ends up eating Anne Bronte's rock cakes we meet a host of characters who are desperately creatively & often hilariously trying to evade the underlying truths of their lives The Not-Dead & the Saved is a cascade of warm wise & insightful stories about human nature frank funny & sometimes desolating but always underpinned by tenderness & by a faith in enduring bonds of love ...

Love at first sight
- based on the true story of one girl & her 'train man' One very ordinary day Maya Flowers sees a new commuter
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The love story to end all love stories from the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling (Golden Globe winning & Oscar nominated star of La La Land) & Rachel Mc Adams' When it comes to tales about love Nicholas Sparks is one of the undisputed kings' Heat How far can love endure? Noah Calhoun has just returned from World War Two Attempting to escape the ghosts of battle he tries to concentrate on restoring an old plantation home to its former glory & yet he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met there fourteen years before a girl who captured his heart like no other But when these distant memories begin to slide into reality the passion that had lain still is ignited once more Though so much is in their way the miraculous force of their love refuses to fade ...