In this series, a contemporary poet selects & introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems & by the personal & critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible & passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature. Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by. A sight so touching in its majesty... Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. ...

Here, newly edited from manuscripts held by The Wordsworth Trust, is an entirely new edition of The Prelude, the most resonant poem of the entire Romantic Era. Over the last 150 years this poetic autobiography has emerged as one of the most admired works in all of English literature & certainly as the pre-eminent long poem expressing a personal romantic spirit. It tells the story of the growth of imagination & love in the mind of one of the finest poets of the last 250 years. It recounts Wordsworth`s childhood & youth, his days at Cambridge, residence in London, walking tour of the Alps, his witnessing of the French Revolution, crisis & turmoil over the apparent failure of its revolutionary ideals, & the ultimate restoration of imaginative power. The poem is spiritual & inward, yet anchored in particulars of landscape & events of history. Marginal glosses, a unique feature of this edition, guide the reader through the design & flow of the poem. Succinct notes elucidate references & language needed for a full understanding. Also provided are a fresh critical Introduction, detailed & helpful Chronology, Bibliography, & specially commissioned color Maps. Wordsworth addressed his poem to Samuel Taylor Coleridge & read it aloud to him. Coleridge`s poetic response, To William Wordsworth, is also included. This is the first fully illustrated edition of The Prelude. More than 130 paintings, drawings, & works of art, all in full colour, illustrate its events, people, & settings in the English Lake District, Cambridge, London, Paris, the Alps, & Wales. There are works by Turner, Gainsborough, Constable, Blake, Canaletto, David, Millet, & many others. Almost all were created at or near the time that Wordsworth composed the poem, & we know he even saw a number of them personally. ...

Willington Quay in 1895 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 area north of the Tyne & stretches as far as to show Rosehill. Features include Wallsend Cemetery, Football Ground, St Pauls Church, Willington House, both Willinton Quay Station & Howden on Tyne Station & Railway Lines, but most of all, this map is packed with industry, showing the Shipbuilding Works, Cement Works, Wallsend Colliery, Chemical Works & Marine Engineering Works. On the reverse is an extract from a directory of 1909-10. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Willington Quay in 1895 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 area north of the Tyne & stretches to Rosehill. Features include Wallsend Cemetery, Football Ground, St Pauls Church, Willington House, both Willinton Quay Station & Howden on Tyne Station & Railway Lines; most of the map is packed with industry, showing the Shipbuilding Works, Cement Works, Wallsend Colliery, Chemical Works & Marine Engineering Works. On the reverse is an extract from a directory of 1909-10. 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. ...

Willisau – Sursee
- Lucerne area, map No. 5022, in the standard topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:50, 000 from Swisstopo,
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Willisau area, map No. 234T, at 1:50, 000 in a special hiking edition of the country’s topographic survey, published by Swisstopo in cooperation with the Swiss Hiking Federation. Cartography, identical to the standard version of the survey, is highly regarded for its superb use of graphic relief & hill shading to provide an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 20m intervals. An overprint highlights routes maintained by the SHF, distinguishing between hiking routes, mountain routes requiring proper footwear, & alpine routes where equipment is needed. Paths which are part of the national or regional network of long-distance hiking routes are specially marked & in the more recent editions are annotated with their official numbers. The maps show mountain huts, refuges & in remote areas also inns, plus roads with bus service & the positions of bus stops. All the maps have a 1-km grid of the Swiss national coordinates. For a list of all the titles in this series, please click on the series link. ...

Map No. 3120, Williston, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...

At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins
- wrecked by plague & civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision
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At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins
- wrecked by plague & civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision
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Perfect for reading together or for children who are just starting to read alone. Filled with gorgeous illustrations. Willow Valley is a very special place. Nestled in a hidden valley, trees of all shapes & sizes grew on the rolling green hills & pretty flowers dance in the meadows. Only the animals who live there know their way in & out, but they hardly ever want to lave because they're having too much fun! Riley the mouse, Starla the badger & Horatio the hedgehog are the best of friends. When they decide to camp out in Riley's garden they hadn't realised there would be so many scary noises. Who's afraid of the dark ...