In this thrilling & candid memoir, world record-holding & controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett Mc Namara chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth. Garrett Mc Namara-affectionately known as GMac-set the world record for the sport, surfing a seventy-eight-foot wave in Nazare, Portugal in 2011, a record he smashed two years later at the same break. Propelled by the challenge & promise of bigger, more difficult waves, this adrenaline-fueled loner & polarizing figure travels the globe to ride the most dangerous swells the oceans have to offer, from calving glaciers to hurricane swells. But what motivates Mc Namara to go to such extremes-to risk everything for one thrilling ride? Is riding giant waves the ultimate exercise in control or surrender? Personal & emotional, readers will know GMac as never before, seeing for the first time the personal alongside the professional in an exciting, intimate look at what drives this inventive, iconoclastic man. Surfing awesome giants isn`t just thrill seeking, he explains-it`s about vanquishing fears & defeating obstacles past & present. Surfers & non-surfers alike will embrace Mc Namara`s story-as they have William Finnegan`s Barbarian Days-an its intimate look at the enigmatic pursuit of riding waves, big & small. Hound of the Sea is a record of perseverance, passion, & healing. Thoughtful, suspenseful, & spiritually profound, Mc Namara reveals the beautiful soul of surfing through the eyes of one of its most daring & devoted disciples. ...

Hounslow, Richmond, Feltham & Twickenham coloured street map at 1:18, 103 from Geographers' A-Z Map Company covers an area extending to Hayes & Harlington & Southall Stations to the North, Heathrow Airport Terminals 1, 2, 3 & 4 to the west & Hammersmith Bridge & Teddington to the east & south respectively. The plan shows A & B roads annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. One way traffic, restricted access, pedestrianized streets, junction names, selected car parks are marked. Railway & Underground are shown with names. Colouring and/or symbols indicate public building, services & facilities, including shopping centres or market streets, industrial buildings, hospitals or healthcare, educational establishments, etc. Public toilets are marked, indicating those with facilities for the disabled. The map also shows local authority & postcode boundaries, plus safety camera locations with their maximum speed limit & national grid lines. The index printed on the reverse, lists streets, selected flats, walkways & places of interest, junction, place & area names, National Rail & London Underground stations, hospitals & hospices covered by this map. This is the 2008 edition of this map. ...

Hounslow in 1935 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. Two versions of the map have been published, showing how the area changed across the years. The south-western quarter of the 1894 map covers the centre of Hounslow, including High Street, Hanworth Road & Inwood Road; features include Holy Trinity church, Heston Hounslow station & Hounslow Town station (already shown here as disused). To the north Lampton Road leads up past Lampton House to Lampton. The London Road leads north-east to Spring Grove, an estate laid out in the 1850s by H.D. Davies; at the centre of this is Spring Grove Road, once home to the naturalist & traveller Sir Jospeh Banks, but by the 1890s remodelled for Andrew Pears, of the soap family. Nearby is Woodlands, including St John`s church, part of Isleworth; Spring Grove & Isleworth station is near the east end of the map. At the foot of the map are Worton Hall & Worton Farm. On the 1935 map include the tramway & the Worton or Interworld Film Studios, famous first for many silent films & later for films produced by Alexander Korda & others. On the reverse of this map is a list of private residents from a 1933 directory. 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. ...

Hounslow & Spring Grove in 1894 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. Two versions of the map have been published, showing how the area changed across the years. The south-western quarter of the 1894 map covers the centre of Hounslow, including High Street, Hanworth Road & Inwood Road; features include Holy Trinity church, Heston Hounslow station & Hounslow Town station (already shown here as disused). To the north Lampton Road leads up past Lampton House to Lampton. The London Road leads north-east to Spring Grove, an estate laid out in the 1850s by H.D. Davies; at the centre of this is Spring Grove Road, once home to the naturalist & traveller Sir Jospeh Banks, but by the 1890s remodelled for Andrew Pears, of the soap family. Nearby is Woodlands, including St John`s church, part of Isleworth; Spring Grove & Isleworth station is near the east end of the map. At the foot of the map are Worton Hall & Worton Farm. On the 1935 map include the tramway & the Worton or Interworld Film Studios, famous first for many silent films & later for films produced by Alexander Korda & others. On the reverse of this map is a list of private residents from a 1933 directory. 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. ...

Hounslow Heath in 1934 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 Hounslow Heath area, west of Hounslow, together with part of Feltham. Coverage stretches from Baber Bridge eastward to Cromwell Road, & from Connaught Avenue southward to Hounslow Cemetery. Features include Army Vocational Training Centre, Bishopsgate Works, Hounslow Heath, Feltham marshalling yard, Feltham & Hounslow Junctions, River Crane, Sparrow Farm etc. On the reverse are extracts from a 1933 commercial directory for Hounslow, entries A-E. 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. ...

Living in the slums of Rio & eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola & her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly & unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabea`s fate but comes to realize that, for all her outward misery, she is inwardly free. Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love & the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector`s audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

Blank inside, this card comes with a white envelope & is cello wrapped. The Coconut Tin Card Company is the creation of London based illustrator Finn Dean, award winning illustrator of evocative cityscapes & landscapes, which blend 20th century aesthetic with contemporary imagery. ...

Now available in a convenient pocket-sized mini format, this is the essential illustrated reference book for everyone interested in houses. Following the popular format of The Art Book, this title is a new & innovative presentation of houses & dwellings from all periods & all corners of the globe. It presents 500 houses classified by architect, designer, patron or cultural tribe & people in an A-Z format, with each house represented by a full-page reproduction & a text that describes the building, placing it & its designer in its historical context. The book also

Includes:: an easy-to-use glossary of technical terms & movements, & a directory of houses open to the public. The Mini House Book presents an interesting & fresh view of 500 iconic houses & tradititional dwellings, representing the most diverse selection of houses of all time from around the world. From Hadrian`s Villa & Palladio`s Villa Rotonda to Le Corbusier`s Villa Savoye & the contemporary houses of Richard Rogers or Frank Gehry, it features the widest range of architect-designed houses as well as traditional types of dwelling. Vanished buildings, such as Nonsuch Palace by Henry VIII, are illustrated by artists` impressions & rare illuminated manuscripts. Like The Art Book, it presents 500 houses listed in an A-Z format by architect, patron, cultural tribe or people that departs from the usual emphasis on genres & time periods, encouraging readers to contemplate the connections between social history, popular culture & design types. The houses selected represent a broad variety of styles, structures & aesthetics. Experts, as well as readers coming to an architectural survey for the first time, will find many well-loved & familiar houses, alongside others that are rarely explored in architectural books. The houses were carefully selected in an effort to choose the appropriate work for architecture around the world. Some of the houses will be acknowledged for their role in architectural history, others will be iconic for their individual features or structure, but all will be seminal forms of dwelling. The selection ranges from the palaces of kings to the individual huts of the Maasai tribe of East Africa. Technology has changed dramatically over the centuries, but the essential qualities of house or dwelling remain greatly unchanged. All of the houses provide shelter & protection, space to live in private & public, regardless of their budget or aesthetic. This book explores the concept of the house, around the world & across different cultures. Each entry is represented by a full-page image of a significant view & an accompanying text that describes the building & discusses the type of architecture & its role in the further development of the tradition. Each page

Includes:: cross-references to other designers working in a similar style, movement, or time period, as well as biographical information about the designer, & complete data on the house reproduced. The book also

Includes:: an easy-to-use glossary of architectural terms & movements, & a directory of houses open to the public.





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It is a good time for a beginner to set about finding out about his or her house. Popular television programmes are highlighting the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, & interest in the subject is growing. Archives, too, are becoming ever more accessible under the impetus of the internet. As the subject covers a broad field, the authors have set out to include advice on those aspects that usually apply to a project & others that will be of particular use for beginners. The reader is guided through every stage of research, from the first exploration of the archives to the completion of the project. Suggestions are also included on how to present the findings
- a house history makes a very attractive gift. The authors describe how to deduce the age of a property (it is very seldom directly recorded when a house was built) & characteristics of research on particular types of property
- such as cottages, manor houses, inns, mills, former church properties, & farms
- are discussed. In one example, research demonstrated that a farm was likely to have been a Domesday manor
- a discovery achieved using records accessible to any beginner.A wealth of other interesting & instructive examples is provided, showing the reader how the history of a house can also reveal much of our towns` & countryside`s history. The poet, Edmund Blunden, summed it up in ” Forefathers”: Names are gone
- what men they were, these their cottages declare. Written in an entertaining & informative style, & filled with fine illustrations, this book will act as an excellent reference book for those seeking to take up this rewarding hobby.




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