Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today`s Near or Middle East &, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Donald Rayfield redresses this balance in Edge of Empires, focusing not merely on the post-Soviet era, like many other books on Georgia, but on the whole of its history, accessing a mass of new material from the country`s recently opened archives. The book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia & ends with today`s volatile President Saakashvili. It deals not only with the country`s internal politics, but with its complex struggles with the empires which have tried to control, fragment or even exterminate the country. All the world`s history
- Xenophon`s Greeks, the Arabs, the invading Turks, the Crusades, Chingiz Khan & Timur Lang, the Persian empire, the Russian empire, Soviet totalitarianism
- is reflected in Georgia`s history. Donald Rayfield describes Georgia`s swings between disintegration & unity, making full use of primary sources, many not available before in an English-language book. He examines the history of a country which, though small, stands at a crossroads between Russia & the Muslim world, between Eastern Europe & Central Asia, & is a dramatic example of state-building &, also, of tragic political mistakes.

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As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion, five families from across the globe are brought together in an unforgettable tale of passion & conflict during the Cold War. When Rebecca Hoffmann, a teacher in East Germany, finds herself pursued by the secret police, she discovers that she has been living a lie. Her younger brother, Walli, longs to escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain to become part of the burgeoning music scene. In the United States, George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration, is a fierce supporter of the Civil Rights movement
- as is the woman he is in love with, Verena, who works for Martin Luther King, Jr. Boarding a Greyhound bus in Washington to protest against segregation, they begin a fateful journey together. Russian activist, Tania Dvorkin, narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news sheet. Her actions are made all the more perilous as her brother, Dimka, is a rising star in the heart of the Communist Party in the Kremlin. From the deep south of America to the vast expanses of Siberia, from the shores of Cuba to the swinging streets of Sixties London, Edge of Eternity is a sweeping tale of the fight for individual freedom in a world gripped by the mightiest clash of superpowers anyone has ever known. *
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Five families. Three decades. One extraordinary era. As the decisions made in the corridors of power bring the world to the brink of oblivion, five families from across the globe are brought together in an unforgettable tale of passion & conflict during the Cold War. When Rebecca Hoffmann, a teacher in East Germany, finds herself pursued by the secret police, she discovers that she has been living a lie. Her younger brother, Walli, longs to escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain to become part of the burgeoning music scene. In the United States, George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in the Kennedy administration, is a fierce supporter of the Civil Rights movement
- as is the woman he is in love with, Verena, who works for Martin Luther King, Jr. Boarding a Greyhound bus in Washington to protest against segregation, they begin a fateful journey together. Russian activist, Tania Dvorkin, narrowly evades capture for producing an illegal news sheet. Her actions are made all the more perilous as her brother, Dimka, is a rising star in the heart of the Communist Party in the Kremlin. From the deep south of America to the vast expanses of Siberia, from the shores of Cuba to the swinging streets of Sixties` London, Ken Follett`s Edge of Eternity is a sweeping tale of the fight for individual freedom in a world gripped by the mightiest clash of superpowers anyone has ever known. *
Includes: family tree*

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This is an astonishing tale of survival; a poignant Robinson Crusoe story, based on true events. When Seth & his dog, Tucker, are washed overboard from his father`s fishing boat during a torrential storm, they are assumed drowned. But by good fortune, Seth & Tucker make it safely to one of the hundreds of islands that line the Alaskan coast. Over many months, the boy & his dog make their way, island by isl&, towards home, while Seth`s desperate father never gives up hope. Along the way, Seth learns many hard lessons about survival, & even harder lessons about himself. ...

In Edge of the Orison the visionary Iain Sinclair walks in the steps of poet John Clare. In 1841 the poet John Clare fled an asylum in Epping Forest & walked eighty miles to his home in Northborough. He was searching for his lost love, Mary Joyce
- a woman three years dead.. . In 2000 Iain Sinclair set out to recreate Clare`s walk away from madness. He wanted to understand his bond with the poet & escape the gravity of his London obsessions. Accompanied on this journey by his wife Anna (who shares a connection with Clare), the artist Brian Catling & magus Alan Moore
- as well as a host of literary ghosts, both visionary & romantic
- Sinclair`s quest for Clare becomes an investigation into madness, sanity & the nature of the poet`s muse. ” Brilliant.. .amusing, alarming & poignant. An elegy for an already lost English landscape. Magnificent & urgent”. (Robert Macfarlane, Times Literary Supplement). ”A sensitive, beautifully rendered portrait.. .a feast, a riddle, a slowly unravelling conundrum.. .a love-letter to British Romanticism”. (Independent).” Sinclair walks every inch of his wonderful novels & psychogeographies, pacing out huge word-courses like an architect laying out a city on an empty plain”. (J. G. Ballard, Observer). Iain Sinclair is the author of Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize & the Encore Award); Landor`s Tower; White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings; Lights Out for the Territory; Lud Heat; Rodinsky`s Room (with Rachel Lichtenstein); Radon Daughters; London Orbital, Dining on Stones, Hackney, that Rose-Red Empire, & Ghost Milk. He is also the editor of London: City of Disappearances.


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The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands
- those familiar
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Edgelands explores a wilderness that is much closer than you think: a debatable zone, neither the city nor the countryside, but a place in-between
- so familiar it is never seen for looking. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, ignored, the edgelands have become the great wild places on our doorsteps, places so difficult to acknowledge they barely exist. Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as 'wild', & allows our allotments, railways, motorways, wasteland & water a presence in the world, & a strange beauty all of their own. Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts
- both well-known poets
- have lived & worked & known these places all their lives, & in Edgelands their journeying prose fuses, in the anonymous tradition, to allow this in-between world to speak up for itself. They write about mobile masts & gravel pits, business parks & landfill sites in the same way the Romantic writers forged a way of looking at an overlooked
- but now familiar
- landscape of hills & lakes & rivers. Engl&, the first country to industrialise, now offers the world's most mature post-industrial terrain, & is still in a state of flux: Edgelands takes the reader on a journey through its forgotten spaces so that we can marvel at this richly mysterious, cheek-by-jowl region in our midst.




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Edgware 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. Two versions for this area have been published to show how it developed across the years. The map covers the town centre, stretching from Canons & Canons Park eastward to Farm Road & Highview Gardens, & from Whitchurch Lane northward to Edgware Way. Features include St Margaret`s church, GNR terminus, tramways, St Anthony`s RC church, Stonegrove Park, The Basin, Canons, etc. The 1895 version shows Edgware when it was really a village & also

Includes:: a section of the 1911 revision on the reverse. The 1935 version

Includes:: a list of private residents, entries A-G. 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.



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Edgware in 1935 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. Two versions for this area have been published to show how it developed across the years. The map covers the town centre, stretching from Canons & Canons Park eastward to Farm Road & Highview Gardens, & from Whitchurch Lane northward to Edgware Way. Features include St Margaret`s church, GNR terminus, tramways, St Anthony`s RC church, Stonegrove Park, The Basin, Canons, etc. The 1895 version shows Edgware when it was really a village & also

Includes:: a section of the 1911 revision on the reverse. The 1935 version

Includes:: a list of private residents, entries A-G. 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.



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Robert Eggle finds himself standing one day in a hole in the sidewalk, rain plastering his clothes to his body, with no memory of who he is, his former life as a food critic, how he got there, or where he should go next. Trying desperately not to be unknowing to people who seem to recognize him including his wife Margaret, he has to survive by holding on to what he tastes. He finds his preoccupations narrowed down to his loss of taste, & the puzzling gastronomic tales people regale him with. Why is it important not to be too gourmet A”? & what is the real purpose behind red sea salt? There is his ex-wife Margaret, who becomes the unwilling obsession of a man from Papa New Guinea with an unusual appetite, & Emma, his neurotic fan who sees a conspiracy in creme brulees. In this world where love is celebrated with peppered, slow-cooked menudo, & where friendships are forged over fat-free muffins, Edible Stories A” serves up a delectable tale of quirky individuals whose lives intersect in amusing, poignant, & surprisingly thrilling with a man who remembers nothing but the texture of the food he has eaten. ...