Four Counties Ring Pearson`s Canal Companion from Wayzgoose, showing sections of the Trent & Mersey Canal, the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal, the Shropshire Union, the Caldon Canal, the Trent Navigation, & the Weaver Navigation. Pearson’s Canal Companions have for over 30 year now been presenting Britain’s network of inland waterways on handy size, informative guides which combine practical information with interesting descriptions & facts about the surrounding countryside. The routes are shown in sections on maps at approx. 2” to 1 mile, & are annotated with locks, towpaths & nearby facilities. Rather than providing a more technical picture of each waterway (depth, clearance, etc), these guides are indeed true “companions” with the accompanying descriptions full of interesting historical or literary references, little know facts, etc. Where appropriate the maps are also accompanied by recommendations for eating & drinking, shopping, things to do, & public transport connections. Each guide also

Includes:: a boating directory with hire bases, boatyards, ferries, etc. Please note: Pearson’s Canal Companions sometimes indicate facilities and/or places of interest without showing detailed road access to them; it’s perhaps advisable to use these charming companions with proper road maps of the surrounding countryside.

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Being well camouflaged & unobtrusive, Nicholas keenly observed the comings & goings of three generations of his family & their animals in a remote area of the Isle of Mull. In the early 1950s life was basic, without mains water or electricity, as each day followed the next. But sometimes the routine was disrupted. Despite its isolation, the island was affected by Foot & Mouth disease while conflict raging in a foreign land caused separation in the family. Nothing escaped Nicholas' attention. As the family cat, his contact with humans & animals alike gave him a unique opportunity to record the events that concerned them all. This delightful account, written during a year in the life of the family, came to light after more than fifty years of neglect in a drawer. It will appeal to all ages, & to lovers of the simple life, of big open spaces, of country living, of farm animals
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` Touching, insightful & human
- this book demands a social &, above all, a political response` Jon Snow Tamsen Courtenay spent
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In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, & their natural & human histories. Four real fields
- walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable & knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested & changing. Four fields
- the oldest & simplest & truest measure of what a man needs in life
- looked at, thought about, worked in, lived with, written. Dee`s four fields, which he has known for more than twenty years, are the fen field at the bottom of his Cambridgeshire garden, a field in southern Zambia, a prairie field in Little Bighorn, Montana, USA, & a grass meadow in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live & how. He argues that we must attend to what we have made from the wild, to look at & think about the way we have messed things up but also to notice how we have kept going alongside nature, to listen to the conversation we have had with grass & fields. Four Fields is a profound, lyrical book by one of Britain`s very best writers about nature.


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In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the world: their grasses, their hedges, their birds, their skies, & their natural & human histories. Four real fields
- walkable, mappable, man-made, mowable & knowable, but also secretive, mysterious, wild, contested & changing. Four fields
- the oldest & simplest & truest measure of what a man needs in life
- looked at, thought about, worked in, lived with, written. Dee`s four fields, which he has known for more than twenty years, are the fen field at the bottom of his Cambridgeshire garden, a field in southern Zambia, a prairie field in Little Bighorn, Montana, USA, & a grass meadow in the exclusion zone at Chernobyl, Ukraine. Meditating on these four fields, Dee makes us look anew at where we live & how. He argues that we must attend to what we have made from the wild, to look at & think about the way we have messed things up but also to notice how we have kept going alongside nature, to listen to the conversation we have had with grass & fields. Four Fields is a profound, lyrical book by one of Britain`s very best writers about nature. It is shortlisted for the 2014 Ondaatje Prize.


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FOUR LIONS explores the changing landscape of postwar England through the careers of four iconic England football captains: Billy Wright, Bobby Moore, Gary Lineker & David Beckham. Between Wright, who fought in World War II, & Beckham, whose battles against Germany were played out on the football field, huge shifts in English society were mirrored by seismic changes to the national game as television transformed the way in which it is financed & consumed. In Engl&, more than any other nation, the man with the captain`s armband has symbolic significance: he embodies the nation. & these four lions embody half a century of change: Wright smoked a pipe & had a side parting; Moore, hero of `66, exuded the cool of his era but never found a role beyond football; the savvy, telegenic Lineker hung up his boots to become the face of BBC football; while in the tattooed body of Beckham can be read the impact of commercialisation, corporate sponsorship & the cult of celebrity. ...

Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen`s plays

Includes:: A Doll`s House,

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The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge & broke a world record along the way, proving it`s never too late to go on a life-changing adventure, experience the beauty & power of the elements, push the very limits of your abilities & rediscover who you are. Janette, Frances, Helen & Niki, though all from Yorkshire, were four very different women, all juggling full time jobs alongside being mothers to each of their 2 children. They could never be described as athletes, but they were determined to be busy & the local Saturday morning rowing club was the perfect place to go to have a laugh & a gossip, get the blood pumping in the open air, & feel invigorated. Brought together by their love of rowing, they quickly became firm friends, & it wasn`t long before they cooked up a crazy idea over a few glasses of wine: together, they were going to do something that fewer people than had gone into space or climbed Everest had succeeded in doing. They were going to cross 3, 000 miles of treacherous ocean in the toughest row in the world, The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Yes, they had children & husbands that they would be leaving behind for two months, yes they had businesses to run, mortgages to pay, responsibilities. & there was that little thing of them all being in their 40s & 50s. But two years of planning, preparation, fundraising, training & difficult conversations later, & they found themselves standing on the edge of the San Sebastian harbour in the Canary Islands, petrified, exhilarated & ready to head up the race of their lives. This is the story of how four friends together had the audacity to go on a wild, terrifying & beautiful adventure, not to escape life, but for life not to escape them. ...

Four Oaks in 1902 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 maps cover the Four Oaks area, north of Sutton Coldfield. Features include LNWR railway with Four Oaks station, Moor Hall & Park, Little Sutton (at top of map), Lady Wood, Doe Bank, Four Oaks Park, Moorhall Farm, etc. On the reverse are extracts from a 1921 directory & a railway timetable for the Birmingham-Lichfield line in 1897. 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. ...

` Never before had the world seen four such giants co-existing. Sometimes friends, more often enemies, always rivals, these four men together held Europe in the hollow of their hands.` Four great princes
- Henry VIII of Engl&, Francis I of France, Charles V of Spain & Suleiman the Magnificent
- were born within a single decade. Each looms large in his country`s history &, in this book, John Julius Norwich broadens the scope & shows how, against the rich background of the Renaissance & destruction of the Reformation, their wary obsession with one another laid the foundations for modern Europe. Individually, each man could hardly have been more different -- from the scandals of Henry`s six wives to Charles`s monasticism
- but, together, they dominated the world stage. From the Field of the Cloth of Gold, a pageant of jousting, feasting & general carousing so lavish that it nearly bankrupted both France & Engl&, to Suleiman`s celebratory pyramid of 2, 000 human heads (including those of seven Hungarian bishops) after the battle of Mohacs; from Anne Boleyn`s six-fingered hand (a potential sign of witchcraft) that had the pious nervously crossing themselves to the real story of the Maltese falcon, Four Princes is history at its vivid, entertaining best. With a cast list that extends from Leonardo da Vinci to Barbarossa, & from Joanna the Mad to le roi gr&-nez, John Julius Norwich offers the perfect guide to the most colourful century the world has ever known & brings the past to unforgettable life.


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