Heavyweight bronze 30-minute hourglass on wood st&. This sandglass is hand tooled from solid brass & the glass is hand blown. Designed for the Age of Sail, now at home in any oval or executive office. Collectable because of their combined historical & practical value. Ship’s hourglasses were calibrated to the half hours of the ship’s watch, & if the helmsman didn’t turn the glass too early it actually doubled in defining longitude. Navigators tried to keep count of the hours: the galleons wrecked on the Western Australian reefs remind us of the perils of incorrectly kept time. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

18th C. industrial design 30 minute sandglass is made from bronze & wood & filled with fine white s&. Collectable because of their combined historical & practical value. Navigators tried to keep count of the hours: the galleons wrecked on the Western Australian reefs remind us of the perils of incorrectly kept time. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

“ Brooklyn” is another novel from Colm Toibin, author of the Booker shortlisted “ The Master” & “ The Blackwater Lightship”, this time a moving & authentic portrait of a young Irish girl far from home. It is Ireland in the early 1950s & for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family & her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home, & homesick. & just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, & perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Irel&. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma – a devastating choice between duty & one great love. ...

It is Ireland in the early 1950s & for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. & just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, & perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Irel&. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma
- a devastating choice between duty & one great love.
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It is Ireland in the early 1950s & for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family & her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home
- & homesick. & just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, & perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Irel&. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma
- a devastating choice between duty & one great love.

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The Not For Tourists Guide to Brooklyn is a neighborhood-by-neighborhood map based approach to New York's most dynamic borough. The Brooklyn guide covers sixteen neighbourhoods, with information on services & entertainment venues: everything from restaurants, movie theaters, bagel shops, & bars to landmarks, art galleries, transportation, & parks. This light & portable guide also features a fold-out map that covers the entire borough, including streets, subways, & buses. A map like this does not exist for purchase anywhere else, making this guide a must-have for all Brooklynites & their outta town visitors. ...

Brooklyn Noir is back, this time with a true-crime vengeance. Features brand new true crime stories by: Robert Leuci, Dennis R. Hawkins, Tim Mc Loughlin, Thomas Adcock, Adam Mansbach, Errol Louis, Denise Buffa, CJ Sullivan, Reed Farrel Coleman, Thane Rosenbaum, Aileen Gallagher, Christopher Musella, Robert Knightly, Jess Korman, Constance Casey, Rosemarie Yu & more. Tim Mc Loughlin was also the editor of Brooklyn Noir, first in the series, & Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics. ...

Brooklyn Photographs Now reflects the avant-garde spirit of the city s hippest borough, containing previously unpublished work by well-known & emerging contemporary artists. The book presents 250 images by more than seventy-five established & new artists, including Mark Seliger, Jamel Shabazz, Ryan Mc Ginley, Mathieu Bitton, & Michael Eastman, among many others. The book documents the physical & architectural landscape & reflects & explores an off-centred & therefore a less-seen & more innovative perspective of how artists view this borough in the twenty-first century. This is the now Brooklyn that we have yet to see in pictures: what might seem to be an alternative city but is actually the crux of how it visually functions in the present day. This unique collection of images is the perfect book for the photo lover & sophisticated tourist alike ...

Brooklyn borough of New York City on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Coverage

Includes:: Manhattan up to the Empire State Building. Communities covered by this map include Brighton Beach, Coney Isl&, Rockaway Point & Sheepshead Bay. Rand Mc Nally street plans provide coverage of cities with their outer suburbs, clearly indicating main traffic arteries: highways (distinguishing between free & toll access), plus primary & secondary routes. Road numbers and/or names are clearly displayed & exit numbers are indicated. Locations of service & rest areas are marked & one way streets are shown. Longer streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. The maps show railway, bus &, where appropriate, metro stations. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including cultural & academic institutions, various municipal facilities, golf courses, etc. The plans have extensive street indexes, supplemented by lists of points of interest, parks & recreational areas, shopping malls, stations, schools, etc.

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Brookwood & Pirbright 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 is double-sided & covers the area from Brookwood southward to Pirbright Green, & from Pirbright Camp eastward to Brookwood Cemetery. The principal feature is the massive Brookwood Cemetery, including the railway siding to the mortuary chapels. Other features include Brookwood station, with just the beginnings of a village nearby, Pirbright Common, Pirbright Green, St Michael`s church, Basingstoke Canal, West Heath (surrounded by War Department boundary stones); a small portion of Pirbright Camp is in the north-western corner. 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. ...