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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The anthologies feature outstanding teaching pieces that reveal the sweep of history through changing genres styles conventions forms techniques & materials The Seventh Edition

Includes:: new twentieth- & twenty-first-century works by Adams Bernstein Carter Golijov Higdon Revueltas Saariaho Strauss & Villa-Lobos

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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
- no matter how much you have!


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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 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Behind every great love is a great story Adapted from Nicholas Sparks& best-selling novel & directed by Nick Cassavetes (the son of legendary director John Cassavettes) A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook (James Garner) to a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands
- real-life mother of Nick Cassavetes) & The Notebook& follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds (Ryan Gosling & Rachel Mc Adams) Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion & he grew up in the kind of house where musicians strum on the porch that doesn&t stop Noah & Allie from spending one incredible summer together before they are separated first by her parents & then by WWII After the war is over everything is different Allie is engaged to a successful businessman & Noah lives alone with his 200-year-old house that he lovingly restores But when Allie reads a newspaper article about Noah&s handiwork She knows that she&s got to find him & make a decision once & for all about the path her life
- & her love
- must take Actors Ryan Gosling Rachel Mc Adams James Garner Gena Rowlands James Marsden Sam Shepard David Thornton Joan Allen Kevin Connolly Tim Ivey & Starletta Du Pois Director Nick Cassavetes Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 4 minutes (approx)


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Sweeping romance directed by Nick Cassavetes set in a small coastal town in the American South
- partly in the 1940s & partly in
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Behind every great love is a great story Adapted from Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel & directed by Nick Cassavetes (the son of legendary director John Cassavettes) A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook (James Garner) to a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands
- real-life mother of Nick Cassavetes) ' The Notebook' follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds (Ryan Gosling & Rachel Mc Adams) Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion & he grew up in the kind of house where musicians strum on the porch that doesn't stop Noah & Allie from spending one incredible summer together before they are separated first by her parents & then by WWII After the war is over everything is different Allie is engaged to a successful businessman & Noah lives alone with his 200-year-old house that he lovingly restores But when Allie reads a newspaper article about Noah's handiwork She knows that she's got to find him & make a decision once & for all about the path her life
- & her love
- must take Actors Ryan Gosling Rachel Mc Adams James Garner Gena Rowlands James Marsden Sam Shepard David Thornton Joan Allen Kevin Connolly Tim Ivey & Starletta Du Pois Director Nick Cassavetes Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 3 minutes (approx)



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