Cherished as the birthplace of the American Revolution, the six states which make up the region known as New England are home to some of the oldest & most beautiful villages of the United States. From the fishing villages of the rocky Atlantic coast to the hardy upland communities of the Adirondack mountains, these places preserve & reflect America`s rich architectural & cultural legacy in public meeting halls & churches, 19th-century industrial mills & factories, seaside homes in weathered grey shingle, austerely white clapboard houses around village greens, & exuberent Victorian homes. This book presents over 25 villages & small towns, chosen for their beauty & historical significance & for the way they represent the region`s diverse landscape. The photographs aim to capture the phenomenon of New England`s seasons. It comes with a map & a traveller`s guide. ...

In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower & limited ammunition, a small group of officers & men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II. This is classic Shute: at once a thrilling adventure that will keep you on the edge of your seat, & a heartbreaking tale of the ravages of war. ...

Orford Ness was, for most of the twentieth century, a military research station so secret that nobody knew what went on there, & so remote that even now most people have never heard of it. Yet the contribution of its scientists, service & civilian, to the winning of the First World War, the Second World War & the Cold War places them on a par with the codebreakers of Bletchley Park. At this highly atmospheric & often inhospitable location on the Suffolk coast, the Royal Flying Corps (later RAF) conducted crucial experiments & trials, some brilliant, others futile, on effective gunnery, accurate bombing & enhanced navigational aids. It was the venue for Watson Watt`s early work on radar & for Barnes Wallis` enhanced Tallboy bomb. From 1953, the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment used it as the testing range for British nuclear bombs. In 1967 the world`s most powerful radar station, COBRA MIST, was constructed for the US Department of Defense. Why it was closed down is just one of many Orford Ness mysteries. Owned by the National Trust since 1993, Orford Ness is a National Nature Reserve of international significance. But its military history has proved no less important & its secrets highly intriguing. This book tells an incredible tale of ingenious, talented & brave men
- & women
- who operated with typically British patience & resourcefulness in often highly uncomfortable &, on occasions, fatal circumstances.

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Join the wonderfully funny & utterly endearing Mary Plain & her family & friends in her first ever adventure! Mary Plain is an orphan who lives with her relatives in the bear pits at Berne Zoo, Switzerl&. A delightful but rather unusual bear, with a huge personality & an appetite to match, you never quite know what escapades she`ll get up to next! Gwynedd Rae`s enchanting Mary Plain stories have an enduring, timeless appeal & Clara Vulliamy`s fresh, funny & energetic illustrations will introduce Mary Plain & friends to a whole new generation of readers. The original text is lovingly reproduced in this hardback foiled edition, with br&-new black & white artwork by renowned illustrator Clara Vulliamy, including a new heart-warming introduction from Clara Vulliamy about what the books mean to her. Welsh author Gwynedd Rae (1892-1977) was the creator of the much-loved Mary Plain series. The first book in the series, Mostly Mary, was published in 1930 & the last, Mary Plain`s Whodunnit, was published in 1965. The series

Includes:: 14 books about Mary`s adventures. Clara Vulliamy has illustrated over 35 children`s books & has been published by Harper Collins, Orchard Books, Random House, Walker Books & Kingfisher. She is the daughter of author & illustrator, Shirley Hughes & together they created the Dixie O` Day series. She lives in Twickenham with her husband & has two grown-up daughters.

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` However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps & letting go one`s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn & irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.` Mostly Mischief`s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by H.W. ` Bill` Tilman covering almost 25, 000 miles in both Arctic & Antarctic waters. The first sees the pilot cutter Mischief retracing the steps of Elizabethan explorer John Davis to the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage. Tilman & a companion land on the north coast & make the hazardous crossing of Bylot Island while the remainder of the crew make the eventful passage to the southern shore to recover the climbing party. Back in Engl&, Tilman refuses to accept the condemnation of Mischief`s surveyor, undertaking costly repairs before heading back to sea for a first encounter with the East Greenland ice. Between June 1964 & September 1965, Tilman is at sea almost without a break. Two eventful voyages to East Greenland in Mischief provide the entertaining bookends to his account of the five-month voyage in the Southern Ocean as skipper of the schooner Patanela. Tilman had been h&-picked by the expedition leader as the navigator best able to land a team of Australian & New Zealand climbers & scientists on Heard Isl&, a tiny volcanic speck in the Furious Fifties devoid of safe anchorages & capped by an unclimbed glaciated peak. In a separate account of this successful voyage, Colin Putt describes the expedition as unique-the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level. ...

Cycling routes in the Moststrasse region of Austria between the Danube, the Enns & the Ybbs presented at 1:75, 000 by Verlag Esterbauer with essential information on accommodation, repair facilities, etc. All the text is in GERMAN only but extensive map legend

Includes:: English, as shown on our sample image. Esterbauer’s Bikeline guides in this series can be used without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of similar products in English from other publishers. Each atlas

Includes:: a selection of local cycling routes & tours, presented on clear, easy to follow maps. The overprint highlighting the routes indicates road surface & density of motorized traffic. Gradients, intermediate distances, danger points & roads closed to cyclists are marked, & route profiles show the degree of difficulty for each cycle path. A wide range of symbols indicate everything from covered & lockable bicycle stands, repair workshops & bike rentals to viewpoints, nature parks, leisure & sport centres, local shopping facilities, emergency services, etc. The guides also give opening hours of museums & other local places of interest. A separate section at the end of each guide lists accommodation addresses with phone numbers. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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Mostviertel
- Mariazeller Land
- Vienna Woods Cycling Map at 1:100, 000 in a cycling series from Freytag & Berndt covering

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Mostviertel
- Strudengau
- Donauland
- Amstetten
- Waidhofen a.d. Ybbs
- Steyr area of eastern Austria presented at




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Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank & Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit & run accident caused by Jerry Lee, the novel goes back to tell the story of their unhappy lives. With intense feeling & compassion, Vlautin explores the frustrations & failed dreams of the two brothers
- one a natural storyteller, the other an artist
- & renders perfectly the sense of entrapment they feel. Will the kid`s death shock them out of their torpor or send them ever deeper into trouble? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer them any sort of redemption, however slim? Interspersed with drawings that come to form an integral part of the narrative, The Motel Life is a poetic, moving, beautifully naive & tragic fictional debut. Alongside such seminal works as Annie Proulx`s Postcards, Raymond Carver`s What we talk about when we talk about love & Denis Johnson`s Jesus` Son, it should come to be seen as a classic of downbeat American prose.

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