Fordingbridge in 1896 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 little town of Fordingbridge, sometimes thought to be the Silverbridge of Trollope`s Barchester novels, whose population had scarcely risen during the 19th century & stood at 3, 162 in 1901. The map covers the town centre & extends west to the station, Ashford Vineyard & Perry Farm. Features include Farinaceous Food Factory, Packham House, Oaklands, Parsonage Farm, High Street, Market Place, Town Mill, Salisbury Street, Bridge Street, Workhouse, brewery, Horseport, Burgate House. On the reverse is a small extract from sheet 62.07 & this extends coverage south to the church. A directory of 1899 is also included. 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. ...

Hoping to improve her Chinese & broaden her cultural horizons, Rachel De Woskin went to work for an American PR firm in China. Before she knew it, she was not just exploring, but making Chinese culture, as the sexy & aggressive, fearless Jiexi, star of a wildly successful soap opera. A Chinese counterpart to ” Sex & the City” revolving around Chinese-Western culture clashes, the show was called ` Foreign Babes in Beijing`. Living the clashes in real life while playing out a parallel version onscreen, Rachel forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China. In only a few years, billboards, stylish bars & discos, international restaurants, fashion shows, divorce, foreign visitors, & cross-cultural love affairs transform the face of China`s capital. ” Foreign Babes in Beijing” is as astute & informative as it is witty, moving & entertaining. ...

The collapse of her brief marriage has stalled Bea Nightingale`s life, leaving her middle-aged & alone, teaching in an impoverished borough of 1950s New York. A plea from her estranged brother gives Bea the excuse to escape, by leaving for Paris to retrieve a nephew she barely knows; but the siren call of Europe threatens to deafen Bea to the dangers of entangling herself in the lives of her brother`s family. By one of America`s great living writers, Foreign Bodies is a truly virtuosic novel. The story of Bea`s travails on the continent is a fierce & heartbreaking insight into the curious nature of love: how it can be commanded & abused; earned & cherished; or even lost altogether. ...

Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue
- but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across
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Peter Hopkirk’s “ Foreign Devils on the Silk Road” details the tales & adventures of western explorers who uncovered & claimed the lost treasures of Central Asia. The Silk road, which linked imperial Rome & distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it traveled precious cargoes of silk, gold & ivory as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art & learning. In time it began to decline. The traffic slowed, the merchants left & finally its towns vanished beneath the desert sands to be forgotten for a thousand years. But legends grew up of lost cities filled with treasures & guarded by demons. In the early years of the twentieth century foreign explorers began to investigate these legends, & very soon an international race began for the art treasures of the Silk Road. Huge wall paintings, sculptures & priceless manuscripts were carried away, literally by the tone, & are today scattered through the museums of a dozen countries. This book tells the story of the handful of intrepid men who, at great personal risk, led these long-range archeological raids, incurring the undying wrath of the Chinese. Peter Hopkirk is a veteran journalist & is widely recognized as an authority on the complex history of Central Asia. This is one of several books he has written on the region. ...

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In the wake of the phenomenal success of crime shows like CSI, forensic science has never been so popular. The obsessive attention that Grissom & his crew afford seemingly insignificant details, such as particles of dirt in a bullet wound & the presence of pollen in tyre tracks, have left audiences eager to know more about this field of study. In this fully revised & updated edition, real-life examples come under the scalpel as forensic scientist Jay Siegel follows the course of evidence all the way from the crime scene to the court judgement. In Forensic Science: A Beginner`s Guide, all major areas are covered, including drugs, trace evidence, pathology, entomology, odontology, anthropology, crime scene investigation & the law. ...

This beautiful book takes a wholly new approach to the description of the thirty-five species of trees which make up ninety per cent of the woodland & forest trees in Britain. The introductory section & illustrated identification key are followed by tree-by-tree information on origins, history, natural range & distribution, growth & management requirements, & uses of each species, written in a straightforward, non-technical style so as to be accessible to both the general reader & foresters & arboriculturalists. The exquisite colour photographs & line drawings are all taken for this book by the author, & range from vignettes of leaves & shoots to facilitate use of the key, to colour photograpghs of whole trees, flowers, & fruits, line drawings & winter silhouettes, & some unique photographs of split timber taken after the 1987 storm. A glossary of technical terms is included. This book is intended for general readers with an interest in natural history; students of forestry, arboriculture, landscape design, & environmental studies; schools; timber industry. ...

From the bestselling, twice Orange Prize-shortlisted, National Book Award-nominated author comes a vibrant tale of transformation: of a man in his later years & a woman novelist, each drawn to the Levant on a journey of self-discovery Jules Epstein has vanished from the world. He leaves no trace but a rundown flat patrolled by a solitary cockroach, & a monogrammed briefcase abandoned in the desert. To Epstein`s mystified family, the disappearance of a man whose drive & avidity have been a force to be reckoned with for sixty-eight years marks the conclusion of a gradual fading. This transformation began in the wake of Epstein`s parents` deaths, & continued with his divorce after more than thirty-five years of marriage, his retirement from a New York legal firm, & the rapid shedding of possessions he`d spent a lifetime accumulating. With the last of his wealth & a nebulous plan, he departs for the Tel Aviv Hilton. Meanwhile, a novelist leaves her husband & children behind in Brooklyn & checks into the same hotel, hoping that the view of the pool she used to swim in on childhood holidays will unlock her writer`s block. But when a man claiming to be a retired professor of literature recruits her for a project involving Kafka, she is drawn into a mystery that will take her on a metaphysical journey & change her in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life & humour, this is a profound, mesmerising, achingly beautiful novel of metamorphosis & self-realisation
- of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.
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