Fans of Giles will be thrilled to receive the latest annual treat from the archives of the celebrated cartoonist, whose work won him huge admiration & accolades including being voted the best cartoonist of the 20th century. The 2019 collection takes a wry look at how Giles observed the most seismic & superficial events of his time. From January to December throughout the years, the common threads of life then & now are scrupulously interrogated under his pen. Treating perennial occupations such as Christmas parties, royal weddings & petrol prices with the same rigour as space travel, nuclear anxieties & perpetual debates about the EU, Giles investigates the weighty & the whimsical in equal measure. Brilliantly witty & full of irreverent fun, this compilation is the ideal addition to your Giles collection. ...

Fans of Giles will be thrilled to receive the latest annual treat from the archives of the celebrated cartoonist, whose work won him huge popular admiration & accolades including being voted the best cartoonist of the 20th century. In this collection, Giles takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the views & antics of Grandma, with 150 cartoons taken from the Express & the --Sunday Express archives. Brilliantly witty & full of irreverent fun, this compilation is the ideal addition to your Giles collection. ...

From his no-frills childhood in the icy wastes of Minnesota, to some of the hottest water Hollywood had to offer, via the cutting edge of `60s & `70s counter-culture in New York, LA & London, Terry Gilliam`s life has been as vivid & unorthodox as one of his films. Telling his story for the first time, the director of Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys & Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
- not to mention co-founder of Monty Python`s Flying Circus
- recalls his life so far. Packed with never-before-seen artwork, photographs & commentary, Gilliamesque blends the visual & the verbal with scabrous wit & fascinating insights. Gilliam`s `pre-posthumous memoir` also features a cast of amazing supporting characters
- George Harrison, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Uma Thurman, Johnny Depp, Heath Ledger & all of the fellow Pythons
- as well as cameo appearances from some of the heaviest cultural hitters of modern times, from Woody Allen to Frank Zappa, Gloria Steinem to Robert Crumb, Richard Nixon to Hunter S Thompson. Gilliam`s encounters with the great & the not-so-good are revealing, funny & hugely entertaining. This book is an unrestrained look into a unique creative mind & an incomparable portrait of late twentieth-century popular culture.



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Gillingham in Dorset in 1900 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 is double-sided to provide maximum coverage. The main map covers the area from St Mary`s church & the town centre southward to Madjeston Bridge & eastward to Ham Common, Higher Ham Farm & the site of King`s Court Palace. Features include the station, River Lodden, cattle market, bacon & cheese factories, High Street, Wyke Street, Town Mills. On the reverse is a large section of sheet 3.04 extending coverage northward to Bay Lane, Lodbourn Farm, Peacemarsh & along the Shreen Water to Colesbrook. Purns Mills, about a mile north of the town centre, are at the top of the map. 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. ...

Robert Gillmor MBE is one of the best-known wildlife artists & printmakers in the UK. He has illustrated over 200 books since 1958 & was a founder member of the Society of Wildlife Artists (SWLA) in 1964. Following a move to North Norfolk in 1998, he resumed linocut printmaking. The cover, printed using archival inks to get the brightest finish possible, with a super soft cotton linen mix, & comes complete with the cushion pad washable at 30º. To see other cushion designs in this series please lick on the series link. ...

How do I get stronger? How can I train most effeciently? Which exercises make the most sense? These are only a few questions that we as trainers are confronted with during our daily routine. Throughout the last decade, climbing went through major developments especially in the realm of training where contents & methods have changed dramatically as far as sophistication goes. Our main target is to enrich the current knowledge of training with a selection of new & creative exercises. The focus of our program is a well-balanced & long term performance-gain. We want to avoid a one-sided physical burden through inappropriate training. How can I train in a well-rounded manner? What is it that I have to focus on during my exercises? What is the ideal extent of my training-activities? How do I combine them most productively? You can find the answers to all these questions on this DVD, which comes completed with an easy-to-understand practice-book. We have decided in favour of an additional learning video because we believe that it is the best way to communicate the complex forms of our exercises in a didactically appropriate manner. Apart from that it`s great to have a book too which you can easily take anywhere to have a quick look, so we found it necessary to provide you with this as well. There`s another thing which might be of interest for many of you: the answer to the question how pro-climbers train. We have put together a fine selection of interviews with some of them to provide you with some insight on what a few of the best of them understand by the term training. ...

Topographic survey of Sweden at 1:50, 000, the Terrängkartan, from the Lantmäteriet, covering most of the country in 244 double-sided maps. Please note: the mountainous regions of central & northern Sweden are not covered by this series but presented in a separate “ Fjällkartan
- Mountain Map” series also listed on our website. Each 1:50, 000 topographic survey map covers an area of 37.5 x 40km. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, plus relief shading & graphics for rocky outcrops & boulders. Further graphics and/or colouring show different types of land use or vegetation (forests, arable l&, orchards, marshes, peat bogs, etc). An unusual feature of this survey is the colouring indicating buildings below or above two storeys high & “leisure/holiday homes”. The maps indicate privately maintained roads & include all other information expected of topographic survey at this scale. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines 5’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. For coverage of the country’s most visited hiking areas in central & northern Sweden please see Lantmäteriet’s Mountain Map series, listed separately on our website.


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Sverigeserien is an outdoor map series consisting of 116 sheets with coverage of southern & central Sweden & the northern coastline. The map is suitable for outdoor activities such as hiking, excursions, trail running, hunting, fishing, riding, cycling, mountain biking, paddling, skating & much more. Every sheet covers an area of 45x 68km. These topographical maps in scale 1:50 000 contain all the information needed for outdoor activities: Terrain information, hiking trails, illuminated tracks, camping, shelters, golf courses, leisure baths, historical remains, roads in different categories, railway lines & much more. Easy to read topography with contour lines, vertical interval 5 m. Sverigeserien is a high-quality map series & is durable for frequent use! Updated content with map data from Lantmäteriet (National Land Survey of Sweden) & printed on Polyart which is water & tear resistant. This means that the map can be folded repeatedly without breaking & can withstand the challenging weather in Sweden during both winter & summer. Legend is in Swedish, English & German. ...

”A few faults are indispensable to a really popular monarch.” (George Bernard Shaw). Gimson`s Kings & Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs
- from 1066 & William the Conqueror right up to Queen Elizabeth II & the present-day
- to tell a tale of bastardy, courage, conquest, brutality, vanity, vulgarity, corruption, anarchy, absenteeism, piety, nobility, divorce, execution, civil war, madness, magnificence, profligacy, frugality, philately, abdication, dutifulness, family breakdown & family recovery. Written in Andrew Gimson`s inimitable style, & illustrated by Martin Rowson, Gimson`s Kings & Queens is both a primer & a refresher for anyone who can`t quite remember which were the good & bad Edwards or Henrys, or why so-&-so succeeded to the throne rather than his second cousin. Published in August 2015, to coincide with the moment (in September) when Elizabeth II will (barring accident or shock abdication) become the longest-serving English monarch ever, Gimson`s Kings & Queens will be the most entertaining & instructive book on the English monarchy you will ever read.

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Gin: A Toast to the Most Aromatic of Spirits celebrates the clear spirit in all its guises; as a straight drink, the increasingly popular flavoured brands, as a base for cocktails & a cooking ingredient. It describes the history of the spirit; how it is made & how the method of distillation has changed across the centuries; the variations of gin; classic cocktail recipes; where to buy the premier brands; & tasting notes. Lavishly illustrated & written in an easy-to-read style, this book will go down as well as the most lovingly created Gin & Tonic. Few drinks can trace its history back more than half a millennium, but the Dutch genever (or jenever) is a clear predecessor of the modern gin distilled today. Gin`s history makes for fascinating reading, from how it grew & faded in popularity through the ages to the types of people who drank it & the story of the G&T (surely the world`s best known cocktail). According to Henry Mc Nulty, Vogue`s legendary wine & spirits columnist, ` Gin is the bad boy of the spirits world.` He may be correct, but the fact remains that gin is one of the world`s most popular spirits. ...