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From Norman Davies the acclaimed author of Europe A History comes the magical history of Europe's lost realms selected as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times Daily Telegraph New Statesman Independent Guardian & Financial Times Europe's history is littered with kingdoms duchies empires & republics which have now disappeared but which were once fixtures on the map of their age What happened to the once-great Mediterranean ' Empire of Aragon'? Where did the half-forgotten kingdoms of Burgundy go? Which current nations will one day become a distant memory too? This original & enthralling book peers through the cracks of history to discover the stories of lost realms across the centuries' Dazzling provocative & brilliant' Dominic Sandbrook Sunday Times Books of the Year 'A luminous account there are few better ways of understanding the multilayered splendours & horrors of Europe's past than through the pages of this wise humane & unfailingly engaging book' John Adamson Sunday Telegraph' Vanished Kingdoms is great history & also great art It is written with verve passion & profound empathy' David Marquand New Statesman Books of the Year'A magnificent achievement Brocaded with scholarship the book is unlikely ever to be equalled' Ian Thomson Independent ...
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He got on the train He didn't get off So where did he go? For millions of Londoners the morning of 17 December is just like any other But not for Sam Wren An hour after leaving home he gets onto a tube train
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' There was a smell in the air of tar & rope & rusted chain a smell of tidal water Down harbour around the point was the open sea Here was the freedom I desired long sought-for not yet known Freedom to write to walk to wander freedom to climb hills to pull a boat to be alone I for this & this for me' Daphne du Maurier lived in Cornwall for most of her life Its rugged coastline wild terrain & tumultuous weather inspired her imagination & many of her works are set there including Rebecca Jamaica Inn & Frenchman's Creek In Vanishing Cornwall she celebrates the land she loved exploring its legends its history & its people eloquently making a powerful plea for Cornwall's preservation ...
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Dara & Nick used to be inseparable but that was before the accident that left Dara's beautiful face scarred & the two sisters totally estranged When Dara vanishes on her birthday Nick thinks Dara is just playing around But another girl nine-year-old Madeline Snow has vanished too & Nick becomes increasingly convinced that the two disappearances are linked Now Nick has to find her sister before it's too late In this edgy & compelling novel Lauren Oliver creates a world of intrigue loss & suspicion as two sisters search to find themselves & each other ...
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Vanishing Ireland is a unique collection of portrait interviews looking at the dying ways & traditions of Irish life & taking us back to an Ireland virtually unrecognisable to today&s post-boom generation Illustrated with over a hundred evocative & stunning photographs we meet the people & customs that shaped the cultural identity of the Irish nation Through their own words & memories sixty-four men & women transport us back to a time when people lived off the land & the sea when music & storytelling were essential parts of life when a person was defined by their trade Divided into five parts
- Children of the Field Children of the Music Children of the Horse Children of the Trade & Children of the Water
- Vanishing Ireland brings together the stories of those who lived through Ireland&s formative years We hear of children harassed by the Black & Tans of ceilis in kitchens & the rigours of working in the fields of the wonder of electricity & the devastation of emigration From coalminers to saddlers farmers to fishermen along with horse dealers publicans housemaids & musicians
- these remarkably poignant interviews & photographs in their simplicity & honesty will make you laugh & cry but above all will provide a valuable chronicle that connects twenty-first century Ireland to a rapidly disappearing world


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This Kingdom Hearts 3 Vanitas Pop! Vinyl Figure comes packaged in a window display box & will stand around 3 34 inches tall! Perfect for any Pop! Collection! From Kingdom Hearts 3 Vanitas as a stylized POP vinyl from Funko! Stylized collectable stands 3 34; inches tall perfect for any Kingdom hearts 3 fan! Collect & display all Kingdom hearts 3 figures from Funko! Funko pop! is the 2017 toy of the year & people&s choice award winner ...
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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 Eve Matheson & Rebecca Saire lead the cast in this 16-part adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray s classic filmed entirely at the Pebble Mill Studios Set in the Napoleonic Wars Vanity Fair is a rich & resplendent satire of English society in which according to Thackeray there is great quantity of eating & drinking making love & jilting laughing & the contrary smoking cheating fighting dancing & fiddling Becky (Eve Matheson) the penniless orphaned daughter of an artist & a French opera dancer & Amelia Sedley (Rebecca Saire) the sheltered child of a rich City Merchant are unlikely but firm friends From the drawing rooms of Regency London to the fields of Waterloo Vanity Fair tells their story Becky an irrepressible schemer one of the most seductive social climbers of all time who will stop at nothing to get what she wants While her friend the meek & mild Amelia pursues the opposite course In the end both girls get what they want but not quite in the way they planned ...
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Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality & power art & commerce crisis & culture--both highbrow & low In the sumptuous 384-page coffee table book the editors of Vanity Fair have created the definitive history of the most talked-about magazine of our day From its inception in 1913 through the Jazz Age & the Depression to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years (after a 47-year hiatus) to the image-saturated Information Age Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded--using wit imagination peerless literary narrative & bold groundbreaking imagery The most innovative voices in popular culture are all compiled within these pages (from Robert Benchley Jacques Cocteau & Dorothy Parker to William Styron Christopher Hitchens & Dominick Dunne) along with the greatest magazine illustrators artists & photographers of all time--most notably Edward Steichen & Annie Leibovitz who through Vanity Fair virtually invented the modern celebrity portrait Writers Sam Kashner & Nancy Schoenberger contribute an essay on the incomparable Frank Crowninshield & the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair Jim Windolf chronicles the magazine's rebirth in 1983 & Frank Di Giacomo gives the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party ...
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Vanishing Point DVD

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Chase The Desert The Shack The Girl The Roadblock The End One man races against time against destiny against the road the ultimate car chase movie Kowalski is the last American hero He&s the lone stranger - a modern cowboy in a white Dodge Challenger who bets that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in fifteen hours Loaded with amphetamines and a full tank he takes to the open highway In his supercharged Challenger he breaks through every speed trap dragnet and roadblock in four states to become an instant cult hero Actors Barry Newman Cleavon Little Dean Jagger Victoria Medlin Paul Koslo & Timothy Scott Director Richard C Sarafian Certificate 18 years and over Year 1971
Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English - Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages French ; German ; Spanish Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; French ; German ; German for the hearing impaired ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour and 34 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Chase The Desert The Shack The Girl The Roadblock The End One man races against time against destiny against the road the ultimate car chase movie Kowalski is the last American hero He&s the lone stranger
- a modern cowboy in a white Dodge Challenger who bets that he can drive from Denver to San Francisco in fifteen hours Loaded with amphetamines & a full tank he takes to the open highway In his supercharged Challenger he breaks through every speed trap dragnet & roadblock in four states to become an instant cult hero Actors Barry Newman Cleavon Little Dean Jagger Victoria Medlin Paul Koslo & Timothy Scott Director Richard C Sarafian Certificate 18 years & over Year 1971 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages French ; German ; Spanish Subtitles Danish ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; French ; German ; German for the hearing impaired ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)

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White - A colour combining all colours
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Hour - A measurement of time, 60 minutes is equal to one hour
Spanish - The main language spoken in Spain and Latin America.
Car - A machine used for transport which runs on roads
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speed - A measurement of how fast an object travels between two points
Year - The time it takes the planet earth to orbit the sun. This takes around 365.25 days.
Road - a manmade lane or a path that is used to speed up travel.
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