The Irish-American physicist, academic & traveller John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history & science before he died in 2017, aged 90. But It was Istanbul, where he emigrated with his family in 1960 to take up a post teaching physics at the American Robert College, that turned him into a writer. His first book, ` Strolling Through Istanbul`
- written with his fellow academic Hilary Sumner-Boyd
- was an instant success when it was published in 1972 & has never been out of print since. With the exception of Oguz, so thin that he was known as The Ghost because he barely cast a shadow, everyone in John Freely`s rumbustious memoir, including the author himself, is larger than life. Bohemian Istanbul was a haven for myriad misfits who found their feet in the city. Clamorous, glamorous, eccentric, cosmopolitan & frequently outrageous, they included the `berserker` Peter Pfeiffer, a resourceful exile with three passports; Aliye Berger, the beautiful queen of bohemian Pera; the writer James Baldwin &, fleetingly, the future Pope John XXIII. This elegy for a lost world encapsulates the flavour of their daily life & nightly excesses. Well lubricated with lemon vodka & Hill Cocktails served by Sumner-Boyd`s gloomy housekeeper, ` Monik Depressive`, the Freely crowd weave their way from the Galatasaray fish market & the taverns of Cicek Pasaji to the Russian restaurant Rejans, & frequently on to the Freely household on the Bosphorus hills, where a party will soon be in full swing & eggnog flowing freely. ` Stamboul Ghosts` is lllustrated with Ara Guler`s poignant black-&-white photographs, which make of Freely`s beloved city an evocative stage-set.

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Throughout the 1960`s John Freely & Hilary Sumner-Boyd explored every alley, cove & monument of their adopted home of Istanbul in between their teaching jobs. They created a legendary guidebook, covering 1, 500 years of Byzantine & Ottoman architecture, to a city that was still innocent of tourists. But the passages that were too personal, too capricious, too idiosyncratic, too indulgent of eccentric personalities, too melancholically obsessed with lost monuments, too wrapped up in the love of mid-afternoon banter, too indulgent of musicians, dancers, gypsies, dervish, drunks, beggars, fishermen, poets, fortune-tellers, folk healers, mimics & prostitutes were cut from their scholarly guidebook. Stamboul Sketches is a slim book compiled from these editorial floor off-cuts. Inspired by travelling in the footsteps of Evliya Celebi, the Puck-like Pepys who wrote about 17th century Istanbul, Stamboul Sketches is a beautiful, quirky portrait of a city caught like a bird on the wing, so much changed but so much the same. ...

Stamford in 1929 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 captures most of the historic town of Stamford, of which Hoskins wrote in 1951 If there is a more beautiful town in the whole of Engl&, I have yet to see it. Coverage stretches from Austin Street & St Peter's Street eastward to include all the town centre & about a mile beyond; & from Northfields southward to Burghley Lodges & part of Burghley Park. Features include the railway with LMS & LNER stations; River Well&, St Mary's Street, Broad Street, High Street, St Paul's Street, Saint Martin's, cattle market, infirmary, St Leonard's Priory, Poor Law Institution, Rutland Engineering Works, Hudds Mill, Newstead Mill (near top right corner of map), numerous churches, Barnhill House, etc. A directory of private inhabitants from a 1905 directory is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Stamford in 1929 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 captures most of the historic town of Stamford, of which Hoskins wrote in 1951 ” If there is a more beautiful town in the whole of Engl&, I have yet to see it”. Coverage stretches from Austin Street & St Peter`s Street eastward to include all the town centre & about a mile beyond; & from Northfields southward to Burghley Lodges & part of Burghley Park. Features include the railway with LMS & LNER stations, River Well&, St Mary`s Street, Broad Street, High Street, St Paul`s Street, Saint Martin`s, cattle market, infirmary, St Leonard`s Priory, Poor Law Institution, Rutland Engineering Works, Hudds Mill, Newstead Mill (near top right corner of map), numerous churches, Barnhill House, etc. A directory of private inhabitants from a 1905 directory is on the reverse. 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. ...

Stamford Hill in 1868 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 area is presented in three sepatare versions, stretching from Lordship Road eastward to Springfield Park, & from St Ann`s Road & Crowland Road southward to Manor Road & Windus Road, so covering the southern part of South Tottenham, much of Stamford Hill, & also the Clapton Common area. Stamford Hill, leading to High Road, runs south-north through the centre of the map. Features include West & East Reservoirs, Amhurst Park, the Tyssen Amhurst Estate, the Craven Estate, the Springfield Estate, South Tottenham & Stamford Hill stations, Tee-To-Tum Club, tramways & depot, Springfield House. The River Lea is at the east side of the map. 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. ...

Stamford Hill in 1913 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. Three versions have been published for this area, stretching from Lordship Road eastward to Springfield Park, & from St Ann`s Road & Crowland Road southward to Manor Road & Windus Road, covering the southern part of South Tottenham, much of Stamford Hill, & also the Clapton Common area. Stamford Hill, leading to High Road, runs south-north through the centre of the map. Features include West & East Reservoirs, Amhurst Park, the Tyssen Amhurst Estate, the Craven Estate, the Springfield Estate, South Tottenham & Stamford Hill stations, Tee-To-Tum Club, tramways & depot, Springfield House. The River Lea is at the east side of the map. 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. ...

Do you like to travel? With the Luckies Stamp Map world map you can keep track of where you`ve been & where you want to go. Record your travels in classic ink stamps, just like a passport with the ` Visited` stamp which also

Includes:: a space for the date.

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STAMPING GROUNDS follows the Liechtenstein national football team through their defeat-strewn qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup. Drawn in a group with Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Austria & mighty Spain, it was hard to see the principality`s part-time players scoring even one goal, never mind adding to its meagre international points total. So what motivates a nation of 30, 000 people & eleven villages to keep plugging away despite the inevitability of defeat? Travelling to all of Liechenstein`s qualifying matches, Charlie Connelly examines what motivates a team to take the field dressed proudly in the shirts of Liechtenstein despite the knowledge that they are, with notably few exceptions, in for a damn good hiding. Sampling the delights of Liechtenstein`s capital, Vaduz, such as the Postage Stamp Museum, the State Art Museum &, er, the Postage Stamp Museum again, Connelly provides an evocative & witty account of the land where every year on National Day the sovereign invites the entire population into his garden for a glass of wine. ...

Music-lovers Stan (a dog) & Mabel (a cat) live in a block of flats in the city. When their musician-neighbour goes to judge the auditions for the `best orchestra in the world`, they decide to follow her. Animals they meet along the way decide to join them. ...

Stanage is the queen of the Eastern Ridges, the finest crag on Grit, where beginners come for their first grapples & the top performers crank the hardest problems. Mile after mile of perfect rock, containing some of the best routes & boulder problems in the country, whatever the grade. Where busy VDiffs, heart-in-mouth highballs, desperate power problems, lonely leads & warm summer solos all sit shoulder to shoulder. It is the country`s favourite crag. & here is a guidebook to match
- published in 2007 by the BMC. It is a guide that reflects the richness & diversity of this great crag, that rejoices in the familiar & unearths the unexpected, that will lead you like a friend through the intimate corners. No matter how well you know the crag, this book is guaranteed to bring new surprises, to inspire & inform, to entertain & enlighten, all in a fun & friendly way. There are: 1300 routes from Moderate to E8; 400 boulder problems to V0 to V13; 140 full-colour action photos; 5 Fontainebleau-style bouldering circuits; Over 200 full-colour photo topos; 1st ascent list & climbing history; & original contributions from 40 authors.
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