There is `luxury & inconvenience on the one h&, liberty, hard living & filth on the other`. So Edward Lear described the mysterious & often misunderstood country of Albania. Edward Lear`s travels through Albania & Macedonia in 1848 came about when an outbreak of cholera closed off all other routes out of Salonica
- the port in which he arrives as these journals begin
- setting him off on this unusual adventure. His meticulous journals offer a unique insight into the Balkans in this period; the difficulties & romance of travelling in Albania
- especially as an Englishman, visiting places never previously seen by foreigners; & the profound effect of the landscape & its people on an artist`s mind. Lavishly illustrated with the artist`s own paintings & suffused with a unique charm, ” Edward Lear in Albania” catalogues his idiosyncratic observations of this beautiful & unknown l&. Including vivid insights into the environment, culture & politics of the period, these Journals offer an intimate portrait of a wild yet captivating corner of Europe.


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” Children swarmed to him like settlers. He became a l&.” W.H. Auden Edward Lear
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Dr. Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912) is widely regarded as one of the finest artists ever to have worked in the Antarctic. Sailing with Captain Scott aboard ` Discovery` (1901-1904), he became the last in a long tradition of `exploration artists` from an age when pencil & water-colour were the main methods of producing accurate scientific records of new lands & animal species. He combined scientific, topographical & landscape techniques to produce accurate & beautiful images of the last unknown continent. Such was the strength of his work that it also helped to found the tradition of modern wildlife painting. In particular Wilson captured the essence of the flight & motion of Southern Ocean sea-birds on paper. Returning with Captain Scott aboard ` Terra Nova` (1910-1913) as Chief of Scientific Staff, he continued to record the continent & its wildlife with extraordinary deftness. Chosen to accompany Captain Scott to the South Pole, his last drawings are from one of the most famous epic journeys in exploration history. Along with his scientific work, Wilson`s pencil recorded the finding of Roald Amundsen`s tent at the South Pole by Captain Scott. Wilson died, along with the other members of the British Pole Party, during the return journey, in March 1912. Many of the images in this book are rarely seen or are previously unpublished. The drawings & paintings were created at considerable personal cost in the freezing conditions in which Wilson worked. He often suffered severely from the cold whilst sketching & also from snow-blindness, or sunburn of the eye. They provide a remarkable testament to one of the great figures of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. The book has been produced as a companion volume to ` Edward Wilson`s Nature Notebooks` by two of Wilson`s great nephews, to mark the centenary of his death. ...

The ”PBS Masterpiece” series Downton Abbey has taken the world by storm. With 80 delicious recipes, this cookbook celebrates the phenomenal success of the series & the culinary wonders enjoyed by the aristocracy in Edwardian Engl&. Starting with an elegant array of savory tea sandwiches & sweets from traditional high tea, this book guides you through dinner at the Edwardian table with its: Infinite variety of breads-Dinner Biscuits, Estate Oat Bread, Downton Dinner Rolls, & many more; Soups-Majestic Potato Soup, Royal Cheddar Cheese Soup, Stilton Chowder; Side Dishes-Asparagus in Cider Sauce, Baked Creamed Turnips, Shredded Spiced Brussels Sprouts, Savory Caraway Cabbage; Entrees-Edwardian Leg of Lamb, Lobster Pudding, Oyster Roll, Leek Pie, Downton Pheasant Casserole, Pork Loaf with Apples. Dessert at the Abbey-Lemon Creme Souffle, Raspberries in Sherry Sabayon Sauce, Queen Victoria Rice Pudding, Downton Abbey Honey Cake With recipes adapted for the modern cook by Chef Larry Edwards, these dishes are as inspiring as they are easy to make. ...

Meet Jen, who works in a bookshop & likes the odd glass of Prosecco...oh, & she`s about to be branded The Most Dangerous Woman in Scotl&. Jen Carter is a failed writer with a crap boyfriend called Ed
- who she accidentally kills one night. Now that Ed`s dead, she has to decide what to do with his body, his drugs & a big pile of cash. &, more pressingly, how to escape the hitman who`s been sent to recover Ed`s stash. Soon Jen`s on the run from criminals, corrupt police officers & the prying eyes of the media. Who can she trust? & how can she convince them that the trail of corpses left in her wake are just accidental deaths? A modern noir that proves, once & for all, the female of the species really is more deadly than the male.
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EEL PIE ISLAND is the only inhabited island on the semi-tidal Thames. Its most famous contemporary resident, Trevor Baylis, OBE, inventor of the clockwork radio, has been heard to describe it (with some exaggeration) as 120 drunks clinging to a mudbank. It is a tiny place, just 600 yards long & barely 150 at its widest, but it has nearly fifty houses, some twenty houseboats, two boatyards & a score of small businesses & craft studios, two boating clubs & a nature reserve at each end, & it is connected to the rest of the world by an elegant footbridge. Named for the favoured snack of Henry VIII, who was said to stop here on his way to & from Windsor, the island has enjoyed two periods of special fame: in the nineteenth century it was a resort for Londoners who, like Charles Dickens, came by the newfangled steamboats to spend the day in the grounds of the hotel that dominated the island until 1969; & in the middle of the twentieth it was a venue for jazz & later English R&B groups, where the likes of Chris Barber or George Melly, & then the Rolling Stones or Rod Stewart, performed in the dancehall of the hotel.A surprising number of people all over Britain & beyond remember Eel Pie Island & its gigs
- usually with a nostalgic smile. Dan van der Vat & Michele Whitby tell the story of Eel Pie Island from the Stone Age to The Rolling Stones & beyond, illustrated with a wealth of rare archive images & atmospheric contemporary photography.
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Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane`s ” Effi Briest” is translated from the German by Hugh Rorrison with an introduction by Helen Chambers in ” Penguin Classics”. Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere & ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated & bored, Effi finds comfort & distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her
- with fatal consequences. In taut, ironic prose Fontane depicts a world where sexuality & the will to enjoy life are stifled by vain pretences of civilization, & the obligations of circumstance. Considered to be his greatest novel, this is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a young woman torn between her duties as a wife & mother & the instincts of her heart. Hugh Rorrison`s clear, modern translation is accompanied by an introduction by Helen Chambers, which compares Effi with other literary heroines such as Emma Bovary & Anna Karenina. Theodor Fontane (1819-98) was a German novelist & potitical reporter. Along with ” Effi Briest”, Fontane is remembered for ” Frau Jenny Treibel” (1892), an ironic criticism of middle-class hypocrisy & small-mindedness. If you enjoyed ” Effi Briest” you may like Leo Tolstoy`s ” Anna Karenina”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ”I have been haunted by it...as I am by those novels that seem to do more than they say, to induce strong emotions that can`t quite be accounted for”. (Hermione Lee, ” Sunday Times”).
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Eger in a series of street plans of Hungary’s main towns from Cartographia in Budapest. The plans cover the whole town with its outer suburbs &, where appropriate, have an enlargement for the central area. All the plans have a street index. Map legend varies; in plans of larger towns or popular tourist destinations it usually

Includes:: English. Many plans also include additional

Features: insets with plans of larger satellite developments or villages, lists of sights and/or various municipal offices & facilities, etc. Some titles include on the reverse a road map of the town’s environs or the administrative province.* In this title:* English map legend, an enlargement for the city centre at 1:7, 000, a road map of the province, plus street plans of Szarvasko & Felnemet at 1:12, 500.



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North-western Bohemia at 1:200, 000 from Höfer Verlag in a series of road maps of areas which used to be part of Germany or the Austro-Hungarian Empire, showing both current & the old German place names. In many places former settlements which now no longer exist are also named. Present road & rail networks are supplemented by historical information, e.g. former railway lines. There is no relief detail apart from spot heights. Forests, nature reserves, national park boundaries & locations of interest are marked, & symbols indicate campsites, historical sites, etc. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend

Includes:: English. As the maps have dual place names, the print is rather small, but each title comes with a special magnifying lens attached to the map cover. Also included is a booklet with separate, cross-referenced indexes for each set of names & a street plan of the central part of the area’s main city, showing both old & current street layout. In this title: street plans of central Karlovy Vary/ Karlsbad, Mariánské Lázne/ Marienbad & Cheb/ Eger.

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Map No. 10004, Egersund, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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