Two hundred years ago, Napoleon Bonaparte dominated Europe & threatened Britain with invasion. Against him stood the Royal Navy & the already legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson. On 21 October 1805, a massive naval battle off the coast of Spain decided mastery of the seas. Then, over the following days & nights, the battleships & their exhausted crews endured a gale of awesome fury. As Captain Charles Tyler wrote to his wife Margaret, `the wind blew a perfect storm`. The authors of the bestselling FINEST HOUR tell this story not only through the diaries, letters & memoirs of the men who wrestled with the enemy & the elements, but also through the eyes of their wives & children. Whether you are already familiar with this period of history or are coming to it for the first time, TRAFALGAR is a book that will enthral as it illuminates an event whose repercussions still echo today. ...

This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain`s most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships. In an atmosphere of choking fumes from cannon & musket fire, amid noise so intense it was almost tangible, the crews of the British, French & Spanish ships did their best to carry out their allotted tasks. For over five hours they were in constant danger from a terrifying array of iron & lead missiles fired from enemy guns, as well as the deadly wooden splinters smashed from the ships` hulls by the cannon-balls. While the men manoeuvred the ships & kept the cannons firing, the women helped the surgeons tend the sick or helped the boys
- the `powder monkeys`
- in the hazardous job of carrying gunpowder cartridges from the central magazine to the gun decks. Trafalgar set the seal on British naval supremacy, which became the mainspring for the growth of the British Empire, & in the short term not only prevented Napoleon from invading Britain, but also enabled Britain & its Continental allies to mount the campaign that would eventually defeat the French Emperor: without Trafalgar there would be no Waterloo.

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Make learning fun with this stylish & tactile puzzle book, which introduces the key concepts of in front & behind. These six double-sided chunky puzzle pieces form two different floor puzzles, & feature favourite things that go, including a tractor, bus & fire engine! ...

Traffic-Free Cycle Trails details more than 400 cycle routes around Britain all of which are without the hazard of motorised traffic, including fun family rides & routes along railway & forest paths, as well as canal towpaths. Dividing Britain into 10 regions with overview locator maps, each of which is sub-divided into chapters on mountain biking, forestry commission l&, national cycle networks & trails, the guide explains individual routes, distances & categories. Details of starting points & parking are provided, with information boxes also detailing the nearest rail station, tourist information centre contact numbers, useful publications (such as the relevant Ordnance Survey maps) & websites & en-route refreshment options. ...

Illustrated guide to over 400 traffic-free cycle routes in Britain. The author has sought out railway paths, forest trails, routes round reservoirs & canal towpaths, as well as mountain biking areas for the adrenaline cyclist. It uses parts of trails from the established Sustrans network &

Includes:: distances, grade of difficulty, handy places to eat & drink, where to start, & precisely how to get there by public transport or road.

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Trafford Park in 1905 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 shows Trafford Park when it was still parkl&. Trafford Hall is near the centre of the map, & other features include Trafford Moss House, Manchester Ship Canal, Trafford Park Lake, Petrol Depots, sewage works, a short stretch of Bridgewater Canal, Warren Wood, Bentcliffe Bleach Works, Fish Pond, Albert Mill, Little Bolton Farm, railway across park, etc. On the reverse is a large extract from the 1895 edition of the map showing the area around Trafford Hall at that date. 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. ...

Trafford Park South in 1937 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 part of Trafford Park, plus some residential development along Barton Road to the south. Features include Metropolitan-Vickers Works, Park Road Works, Textilose Works, Dye Manufactory, other engineering & chemical works, Bridgewater Canal, short stretch of Manchester Ship Canal Railway, Trafford Park station etc. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries, including Ashburton Road, Eleventh Street, Third Avenue, Third Street, Trafford Park Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Trafford Park South in 1937 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 part of Trafford Park, plus some residential development along Barton Road to the south. Features include Metropolitan-Vickers Works, Park Road Works, Textilose Works, Dye Manufactory, other engineering & chemical works, Bridgewater Canal, short stretch of Manchester Ship Canal Railway, Trafford Park station, etc. On the reverse is a selection of street directory entries, including Ashburton Road, Eleventh Street, Third Avenue, Third Street & Trafford Park Road. 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. ...

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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`I have come to thank dark places for the light they bring to life.` Thomas Cook has always been drawn to dark places, for the powerful emotions they evoke & for what we can learn from them. These lessons are often unexpected & sometimes profoundly intimate, but they are never straightforward. With his wife & daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness
- from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in Kamukura, Japan. Along the way he reflects on what these sites may teach us, not only about human history, but about our own personal histories. During the course of a lifetime of traveling to some of earth`s most tragic shores, from the leper colony on Molokai to ground zero at Hiroshima, he finds not darkness alone, but a light that can illuminate the darkness within each of us. Written in vivid prose, this is at once a personal memoir of exploration (both external & internal), & a strangely heartening look at the radiance that may be found at the very heart of darkness.
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