RHS Tales from the Tool Shed is an historical, horticultural journey told through fifty pieces of garden gear. A treasure trove of garden paraphernalia, it explores the roots & evolution of objects, names & places, covering everything from the humble spade to architectural ornaments. Practical insights into the usage & maintenance of each tool appear throughout, along with dozens of attractive photographs, etchings & botanical illustrations. Written by the author of the bestselling Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History, this is a book to cherish for all gardeners & garden lovers. ...

An anthology of the best garden writing from the pages of The Garden, the magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society. As well as revealing key moment from a time of intense change, this anthology paints a rich & intriguing picture of what gardening means today. The writers tell of plant-hunting & new gardening practices, fashion & growing food, whilst shedding light on the inner landscape of the thoughtful gardener. Collected & curated by Ursula Buchan, herself an anthologist, The Garden Anthology presents a narrative of thoughts & opinions for keen gardeners to help navigate the gardening year, & comprises the best writing from more than the last 100 years. This 320-page reading book

Includes:: short essays, opinions, thoughts & excerpts from 80 garden writers & designers including James Wong, Sir Roy Strong, Helen Dillon, Anna Pavord, E A Bowles, Gertrude Jekyll, John Brookes, Tim Richardson, Joy Larkcom, Hugh Johnson, Nigel Slater, Lia Leendertz, Ursula Buchan, Nigel Colborne & Mary Keen under the universally-appealing subjects of: the kitchen garden; wildlife & wildflowers; gardens; garden design; the environment; plants; people; seasons & the weather.

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Garden designer, lecturer & broadcaster Matt explores how to design an urban outdoor space, no matter the size or location
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In ” Rhumb Lines & Map Wars, ” Mark Monmonier offers an insightful, richly illustrated account of the controversies surrounding Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator`s legacy. He takes us back to 1569, when Mercator announced a clever method of portraying the earth on a flat surface, creating the first projection to take into account the earth`s roundness. As Monmonier shows, mariners benefited most from Mercator`s projection, which allowed for easy navigation of the high seas with rhumb lines--clear-cut routes with a constant compass bearing--for true direction. But the projection`s popularity among nineteenth-century sailors led to its overuse--often in inappropriate, non-navigational ways--for wall maps, world atlases, & geopolitical propaganda. Because it distorts the proportionate size of countries, the Mercator map was criticized for inflating Europe & North America in a promotion of colonialism. In 1974, German historian Arno Peters proffered his own map, on which countries were ostensibly drawn in true proportion to one another. In the ensuing ”map wars” of the 1970s & 1980s, these dueling projections vied for public support--with varying degrees of success. Widely acclaimed for his accessible, intelligent books on maps & mapping, Monmonier here examines the uses & limitations of one of cartography`s most significant innovations. With informed skepticism, he offers insightful interpretations of why well-intentioned clerics & development advocates rallied around the Peters projection, which flagrantly distorted the shape of Third World nations; why journalists covering the controversy ignored alternative world maps & other key issues; & how a few postmodern writers defended the Peters worldview with a self-serving overstatement of the power of maps. ” Rhumb Lines & Map Wars” is vintage Monmonier: historically rich, beautifully written, & fully engaged with the issues of our time. ...

I am not a historian. In fact, I wrote this poem in order to teach myself some history. I thought that sorting facts into verse form would concentrate my mind wonderfully. Which it did. Brought up with the iambic pentameters of Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses ringing in his ears, James Muirden's rhyming history is a long poem in an equally simple & jolly form. Irreverent, humorous & illustrated by David Eccles. ...

Rhymney South & Pontlottyn in 1899 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers the southern part of Rhymney & extends southward to Pontlottyn. Features include Rhymney Iron Works (disused), New Dyffryn Colliery, Rhymney Railway with Rhymney & Pontlottyn stations, The Lawn, southern part of Rhymney town, Terrace Colliery (disused), Maerdy Colliery, Brecon & Merthyr Railway with Rhymney station, St Tyfaelog church Pontlottyn, Mac Laren Colliery (No.2 Pit), Maerdy Houses, St John's RC church, Rhymney Limestone Railway, many mineral lines & sidings, etc. On the reverse is a 1906 directory of Pontlottyn. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Rhymney South & Pontlottyn in 1899 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the southern part of Rhymney & extends southward to Pontlottyn. Features include Rhymney Iron Works (disused), New Dyffryn Colliery, Rhymney Railway with Rhymney & Pontlottyn stations, The Lawn, southern part of Rhymney town, Terrace Colliery (disused), Maerdy Colliery, Brecon & Merthyr Railway with Rhymney station, St Tyfaelog church Pontlottyn, Mac Laren Colliery (No.2 Pit), Maerdy Houses, St John`s RC church, Rhymney Limestone Railway, many mineral lines & sidings, etc. On the reverse is a 1906 directory of Pontlottyn. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

The coast of Galicia between the towns of Pontevedra
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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