Farsley in 1915 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 covers the small town of Farsley, west of Leeds. Most of the town centre is shown & coverage

Includes:: Farsley Beck Bottom & Bagley, continuing north to the western tip of Rodley & westward to Woodhall Hill. Features include Sunny Bank Mill, St John`s church (at foot of map), Springfield Mills, The Green, Bank Bottom Mills, Wadlands Hall, Holly Park Mills (near top left corner), Peel Ings Foundry, Broom Mills, etc. On the reverse is a 1922 directory of Farsley. 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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Map No. 10001, Farsund, 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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A young boy, bewitched by his fathers unrelenting passion to fly; a desperate craving that absorbs his every waking minute, finds himself entranced by the dream. When his father goes to war & does not return it seems the spell is broken.. Much later, the boy, now a young man finds himself drawn once more to his fathers drawings & failed experiments. Finally able to make his fathers dream a reality he flies. Will his own son be visited by this unrelenting passion? ...

A young boy is entranced by his father`s ambition to fly. When his father goes off to war & doesn`t return, the boy takes up that dream & makes it come true. Grown up, & with a son of his own, he then wonders to what amazing places this dream, passed down from generation to generation, will take his son
- perhaps to the stars?
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Europe in 1884 on a cloth-backed reproduction of a map published by Edward Stanford, presenting the continent at the height of its great empires: imperial Russia with Finland & much of Pol&, united Germany including Alsace & part of Lorraine, the Austro-Hungarian Empire (although already post the Compromise, still shown here as one country) with north-western Balkans, & the Ottomans still with Albania & much of the present-day Greece. Hachures indicating the mountain ranges are in most places printed very faintly so names of towns & numerous geographical region marked on the map are easy to read. The map also has an unusually large number of names of smaller rivers. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5° intervals. Each individual cloth-backed map is sold folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper – no two cases are identical.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available as a wall map in two different sizes in the “ Stanfords Classics Collection of Historical Maps”. To see the list of all the titles in this series from the Old Folding Maps please click on the series link. ...

The debut of a brilliant young writer, Farthest Field tells the lost history of India`s Second World War narrated through the joys & tragedies of a single family, the author`s own. If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistry`s Fine Balance or Katherine Boo`s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, you will love this book. Three young men gazed at him from silver-framed photographs in his grandmother`s house, `beheld but not noticed, as angels are in a frieze full of mortal strugglers`. They had all been in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India
- & he thought that he had a good idea of both. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo-frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces & onto the front line. Manek, dashing & confident, was a pilot with India`s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby`s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq & the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939-45 might be the most revered, deplored & replayed in modern history. Yet India`s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself & from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family
- a story of love, rebellion, loyalty & uncertainty
- & with it, the greatest revelation that is India`s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India`s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma
- unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world & swept up in its violence.



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Described as `a masterpiece` by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives, heartbreaks & deaths of a single family. If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistry`s Fine Balance or Katherine Boo`s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, you will love this book. Three young men gazed at him from silver-framed photographs in his grandmother`s house, `beheld but not noticed, as angels are in a frieze full of mortal strugglers`. They had all been in the Second World War, a fact that surprised him. Indians had never figured in his idea of the war, nor the war in his idea of India
- & he thought that he had a good idea of both. One of them, Bobby, even looked a bit like him, but Raghu Karnad had not noticed until he was the same age as they were in their photo-frames. Then he learned about the Parsi boy from the sleepy south Indian coast, so eager to follow his brothers-in-law into the colonial forces & onto the front line. Manek, dashing & confident, was a pilot with India`s fledgling air force; gentle Ganny became an army doctor in the arid North-West Frontier. Bobby`s pursuit would carry him as far as the deserts of Iraq & the green hell of the Burma battlefront. The years 1939-45 might be the most revered, deplored & replayed in modern history. Yet India`s extraordinary role has been concealed, from itself & from the world. In riveting prose, Karnad retrieves the story of a single family
- a story of love, rebellion, loyalty & uncertainty
- & with it, the greatest revelation that is India`s Second World War. Farthest Field narrates the lost epic of India`s war, in which the largest volunteer army in history fought for the British Empire, even as its countrymen fought to be free of it. It carries us from Madras to Peshawar, Egypt to Burma
- unfolding the saga of a young family amazed by their swiftly changing world & swept up in its violence.



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The quest for the North Pole has long been one of the great adventure stories in the history of exploration. It has all the best ingredients
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Like a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount to suicide. Compact & nimble, his ship the Fram had been specially built to withstand the relentless, devastating pressure of the polar ice cap. At the right moment, he intended to strike out into the polar desert & finish the final leg by sledge. Nansen`s vivid memoir became an international phenomenon when, having been given up for dead, he emerged three years later. His epic struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger & the loneliness of the polar night would inspire young explorers such as Scott & Amundsen a generation later to make new conquests. This first unabridged edition since 1897

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Eight years after they overthrew Churchill & led Britain into a separate peace with Hitler, the upper-crust families of the ” Farthing set” are gathered for a weekend retreat. Among them is estranged Farthing scion Lucy Kahn, who can`t understand why her & her husband David`s presence was so forcefully requested. Then the country-house idyll is interrupted when the eminent Sir James Thirkie is found murdered
- with a yellow Star of David pinned to his chest. Lucy begins to realize that her Jewish husband is about to be framed for the crime
- an outcome that would be convenient for altogether too many of the various political machinations underway in Parliament in the coming week. But whoever`s behind the murder, & the frame-up, didn`t reckon on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being a man with very private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts & underdogs
- & prone to look beyond the obvious as a result. As the trap slowly shuts on Lucy & David, they begin to see a way out
- a way fraught with peril in a darkening world.



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