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. ...

This is the perfect companion guide for every budding forager. Exquisitely illustrated with full-colour paintings of all the plants & herbs in the book, ranging from dandelion & sorrel to sea beet & samphire, ” Edible Wild Plants & Herbs” is both a cookbook & field guide to the identification & use of foodstuffs from the wild. There are almost 400 recipes covering nearly 100 different plant varieties & the illustrations, drawn from life by one of the country`s leading botanical artists, show the edible parts of the plants at their peak time for picking. In addition, there is a calendar indicating what plants to look for at each season of the year, information on where the plants are found & how to identify them. In the past, the home kitchen provided a family with all its medicines & cosmetics as well as its food, wine, pickles & preserves. Our ancestors were resourceful & imaginative & very much in tune with nature; this book recaptures their harmonious, sustainable way of life by setting down for the modern reader all that knowledge & lore. There are recipes for soups, sauces, main dishes, salads, pickles, jams, sorbets, as well as teas, syrups & lotions. ...

Deyan Sudjic`s ” The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power” is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. Why do presidents & prime ministers, tycoons & tyrants share such a fascination with grand designs? Is it to impress or terrify, to wield state power, make a bid for immortality or just satisfy their egos? From Hitler`s vast Chancellery to Saddam Hussein`s Mother of all Battles mosque, from Olympic stadiums to Donald Trump`s excesses, Deyan Sudjic examines the murky relationship between buildings, money & politics, revealing the power of architecture
- & the architecture of power. ”A thrilling & passionately indignant trawl through vanity`s most polluted depths”. (” The Times”). ” An often frightening, sometimes hilarious set of stories of brutality, absurdity & occasionally beauty”. (” Evening Standard”). ” Punchily written.. .deftly amusing.. .a closely argued, brilliantly marshalled, important book”. (” Daily Mail”). ” Informed, lively & intelligent.. .an asylum of power-mad politicians & Croesus-rich patrons”. (” New Statesman”).” By turns funny, acidic, penetrating & provocative.. .as compelling a read as a popular novel”. (Norman Foster Director of the Design Museum). Deyan Sudjic was born in London of Yugoslav parents. He is a former architecture critic for the ” Observer”, & a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art. Sudjic was Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002 & is author of ” The Edifice Complex”, the much-praised ”100-Miles City”, the best-selling ” Architecture Pack”, ” The Language of Things” & monographs on John Pawson, Ron Arad & Richard Rogers.
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Map No. 66, Edinburgh, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, including North Berwick, Musselburgh, Dalkeith, Penicuik, Loanhead, Carlops, Waterheads, Oxton, Temple, Fala, Gorebridge, Balerno, Pathhead, Pencaitl&, Gifford, Haddington, Prestonpans, Londniddry, Drem, Gullane, Kinghorn, Butntisland & Aberdour, with Pentland Hills, Lammermuir Hills & Moorfoot Hills, Hartside Hill, Gladhouse Reservoir, Threipmuir Reservoir, the Firth of Forth, Aberlady Bay & Cramond Isl&. Edition C3; Publication date June 2010 This title is also available on our website in a waterproof & tear-resistant version. Maps in this series are only published folded. Stanfords can also print flat versions of Ordnance Survey maps through the OS Select system, centring the map on a location of your choice & with a picture provided by you on the cover. For more information please click on the link at the bottom of this description. About Ordnance Survey ...

With its rugged setting & vast collection of Medieval & Georgian architecture, Edinburgh is one of the most picturesque cities in Europe. The Old Town & New Town districts of Edinburgh were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 & there are over 4, 500 listed buildings within the city. One of Europe`s major tourist destinations, Edinburgh attracts around 13 million visitors a year, & is the second most visited tourist destination in the United Kingdom, after London. In Mark Denton`s extraordinary panoramic photographs of the city & its environs, landmarks such as Arthur`s Seat, the Forth Rail Bridge & the Scott Monument leap from the page, & new icons like the Scottish Parliament & the Musuem of Modern Art are vividly presented. The camera roams east to North Berwick & Bass Rock, west to Linlithgow, south to the Pentland Hills, & north to North Queensferry, & takes in the amazing & mysterious Rosslyn Chapel.

Includes:: an introduction on Edinburgh`s location, history, architecture, culture & society by Magnus Linklater, who was formerly editor of The Scotsman & now writes a column for Scotland on Sunday.

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Edinburgh street map from Nicolson Maps; coverage

Includes:: Leith. Nicolson Maps, Scotland’s premier cartographic

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Edinburgh & East Central Scotland County Street Atlas in an A4 spiral bound edition at Approx. 1:36, 000 from Philip’s, with larger scale mapping at 1:18, 000 of selected areas. Mapping shows street names clearly, with major roads highlighted with bold colouring; also displayed are postcode boundaries, car parks, railway & bus stations, post offices, schools, colleges, hospitals, police & fire stations, places of worship, leisure centres, footpaths & bridleways, camping & caravan sites, golf courses, & many other places of interest. The atlas index lists street names & postcodes, plus schools, hospitals, railway stations, shopping centres & other facilities.* This edition was published in 2010, with mapping sourced from Ordnance Survey data.* ...