Darwen in 1909 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 Lancashire mill town of Darwen & the area south towards Spring Vale station. Much of the town is covered, with coverage extending from Vale Street & Robert Street southward to Melbourne Street, & from Sunnyhurst eastward to Turncroft. Features include Darwen station (at top of map), Spring Vale station, tramways, Market Square & town centre, Trinity church, Bold Venture Park, Thorny Height Quarry, Knowl Heights Plantation, Darwen Hill with Jubilee Tower, paper mills, Higher Sunnyhurst, Sniddle Hill, Radfield Head, Sough (bottom right corner), Pickup Fold, St John's church, Farther Flag Quarry, The Green. The many mills include Bowling Green, Hope, Britannia, Albert, Hampden, Darwen, Carr's, Holme, India, Bank Top, Belgrave, Woodside, New, Primrose, Progress & Starkie Mills. Extracts from a trade directory are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Darwin & Region in a series of maps from Hema presenting Australia’s main cities with three maps: a detailed street plan of the central area, a road map of the city with its outer suburbs, plus a map of the wider surrounding region for out-of-town excursions. The Darwin map has on one side a street plan of city centre highlighting locations of 17 places of interest & 28 hotels, plus an indexed map of the city & its suburbs at 1:25, 000, extending south to include the Charles Darwin National Park. On the reverse is a road map of the Darwin Region (not indexed) at approx. 1:1, 500, 000 including the whole of the Kakadu National Park & extending south along the Stuart Highway to Mataranka. This title in addition provides indexed maps of Palmerston (1:25, 000) & Howard Springs – Humpty Doo (1:75, 000). Both the suburban & the regional maps show the road network indicating unsurfaced roads & tracks. Symbols mark roadside rest areas, campsites, accredited information centres, places of interest, etc. Topography is indicated by names of mountain ranges & selected peaks, plus rivers & lakes; national & state parks, conservation areas & reserves are all highlighted. The suburban map also shows suburb names with their postal codes. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed 'southernmost city in the world, ' at the end of a long trip designed to put as much distance between himself & a frustrating post-college job as possible, writer Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle. Simons & two friends had just hiked the mountains overlooking Beagle Channel, & Simons found himself engrossed in Darwin's account. Like Simons, Darwin was in his mid-twenties when he travelled to the continent, having joined a five-year expedition designed to survey & map the coastline of South America, to serve as the expedition's naturalist. Simons found himself compelled to return to follow Darwin further into South America
- to stand where Darwin had, & to explore the histories, legends & people that had fascinated him two centuries before. Simons trekked to as many of the locations Darwin wrote about as he could find, to see if he could see these places through Darwin's eyes, & to see what South Americans know about Darwin.2009 is a double anniversary year for Darwin: The 200th anniversary of his birth in February, & the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species in November. Part travelogue, part insight into one of the greatest scientific minds in history, Darwin Slept Here will fascinate & enthral.
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One snowy day in Ushuaia, Argentina, the self-proclaimed `southernmost city in the world, ` at the end of a long trip designed to put as much distance between himself & a frustrating job as possible, writer Eric Simons picked up a copy of Charles Darwin`s Voyage of the Beagle. Simons had just hiked the mountains overlooking Beagle Channel, & found himself engrossed in Darwin`s account. Like Simons, Darwin was in his mid-twenties when he travelled to the continent, having joined a five-year expedition to survey & map the coastline of South America, as the expedition`s naturalist. Simons found himself compelled to follow Darwin further into South America
- to stand where Darwin had, & to explore the landscapes, legends & people that had fascinated Darwin two centuries before. Simons trekked to as many of the locations Darwin wrote about as he could find, to see if he could see these places through Darwin`s eyes, & to see what South Americans know about Darwin. Part travelogue, part insight into one of the greatest scientific minds in history, Darwin Slept Here will fascinate & enthral.
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In these extraordinary poems, using multiple viewpoints
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” If you`ve ever fantasized walking & conversing with the great scientist on the subjects that consumed him, & now wish to add the fullness of reality, read this book.” Edward O. Wilson James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin`s youth & travels on the HMS Beagle to Down House, his bustling home of forty years. To test his insights into evolution, Darwin devised an astonishing array of hands-on experiments using his garden & greenhouse, surrounding meadows & woodlands, even taking over the cellar, study, yard & hallways of his home-turned-field-station. Darwin engaged his children, friends & neighbours as assistants & encouraged fellow naturalists to follow his lead. His inventive experiments yielded universal truths about nature & evidence for his revolutionary arguments in On the Origin of Species & other watershed works. We accompany Darwin in his myriad pursuits against the backdrop of his enduring marriage, chronic illness, grief at the loss of three children, & joy in scientific revelation. At each chapter`s end, Costa shows how we too can investigate the wonders of nature at work, with directions on how to re-create Darwin`s experiments. ...

Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage & accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn`t his. Yet when he tried to trace his intellectual forebears, he found that history had already forgotten them... Rediscovering Aristotle on the shores of Lesbos & Leonardo da Vinci fossil hunting in the Tuscan hills, this is a masterful retelling of the collective daring of a few like-minded men, whose early theories flew in the face of prevailing political & religious orthodoxies & laid the foundations for Darwin`s revolutionary idea. ...

Intended to tell the story of his momentous voyage aboard the Beagle to his own children, this purports to be Darwin`s own notebook, packed with his discoveries. Featuring a route map, a cutaway of the Beagle, notes about life on board & navigation aids, an introduction to the Galapagos Islands & details of the species Darwin discovered, this is all you need to understand his theory of evolution. Packaged in a beautifully designed hardback with leather closing ties, ” Darwin`s Notebook” is the perfect gift for the inquiring young mind. It contains factual information on the journey of the Beagle & the theory of evolution. It is released to celebrate the anniversary of Charles Darwin`s birth in February 2009. Paper novelties & detailed artwork to bring Darwin`s discoveries to life. ...

In this remarkable book Adrian Desmond & James Moore, world authorities on Darwin, give a completely new explanation of how Darwin came to his famous view of evolution, which traced all life to an ancient common ancestor. Darwin was committed to the abolition of slavery, in part because of his family`s deeply held beliefs. It was his ` Sacred Cause` & at its core lay a belief in human racial unity. Desmond & Moore show how he extended to all life the idea of human brotherhood held by those who fought to abolish slavery, so developing our modern view of evolution. Desmond & Moore argue that only by understanding Darwin`s Christian abolitionist inheritance can we shed new light on the perplexing mix of personal drive, public hesitancy & scientific radicalism that led him finally in 1871 to publish ” The Descent of Man, & Selection in Relation to Sex”. The result is an epoch-making study of this eminent Victorian. ...

A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of The Broken Road. Handsome, spirited & erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero & one of the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy`s twenty-fifth birthday, the last when he was ninety-four. His correspondents include Deborah Devonshire, Ann Fleming, Nancy Mitford, Lawrence Durrell, Diana Cooper & his lifelong companion, Joan Rayner; he wrote his first letter to her in his cell at the monastery Saint Wandrille, the setting for his reflections on monastic life in A Time to Keep Silence. His letters exhibit many of his most engaging characteristics: his zest for life, his unending curiosity, his lyrical descriptive powers, his love of language, his exuberance & his tendency to get into scrapes
- particularly when drinking &, quite separately, driving. Here are plenty of extraordinary stories: the hunt for Byron`s slippers in one of the remotest regions of Greece; an ignominious dismissal from Somerset Maugham`s Villa Mauresque; hiding behind a bush to dub Dirk Bogarde into Greek during the shooting of Ill Met by Moonlight, the film based on the story of General Kreipe`s abduction; his extensive travels. Some letters contain glimpses of the great & the good, while others are included purely for the joy of the jokes.
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