This captivating book, fully revised & updated & featuring more NT houses than ever before, is a guide to some of the greatest architectural treasures of Britain, encompassing both interior & exterior design. This new edition is fully revised & updated, &

Includes:: entries for eight new properties including: Dyffryn, Eyam Hall, Goddards, Leith Hill Place, Stoneywell, Allan Bank, Belmont Tower & Dapdune Wharf. An entirely updated entry for Clandon is also included & covers the recent restoration work. The houses covered include spectacular mansions such as Petworth House & Waddesdon Manor, & more lowly dwellings such as the Birmingham Back to Backs & estate villages like Blaise Hamlet, near Bristol. In addition to houses, the book also covers fascinating buildings as diverse as churches, windmills, dovecotes, castles, follies, barns & even pubs. The book also acts as an overview of the country`s architectural history, with every period covered, from the medieval stronghold of Bodiam Castle to the clean-lined Modernism of The Homewood. The book teems with stories of the people who lived & worked in these buildings: wealthy collectors (Charles Wade at Snowshill), captains of industry (William Armstrong at Cragside), prime ministers (Winston Churchill at Chartwell) & pop stars (John Lennon at Mendips). Written in evocative, imaginative prose & illustrated with glorious images from the National Trust`s photographic library, this book is an essential guide to the built heritage of Engl&, Wales & Northern Irel&.

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This gorgeous activity book tells the story of houses over time, from a fortified medieval manor, a Tudor farmhouse, a French chateau & Dutch merchant`s house, up to a suburban house during World War II & the Swinging Sixties. Take a look around the different houses & discover how people`s lives have changed over the centuries. ...

An enthusiast`s guide to exploring historic houses of Engl&, this informative book also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building, & understand why rooms are arranged in particular sequences, why window & chimney designs change through history, or why staircases are presented in a certain fashion. Color photography & informative line drawings illustrate the explanations & provide a rich visual history of domestic architecture from the earliest surviving dwellings to the most avant-garde developments. ...

Why is it that for many people ` England` has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the ` England` for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English that makes them constantly hanker for a vanished past, so that nostalgia has become a national characteristic? In March 1896 a small volume of sixty-three poems was published by the small British firm of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd in an edition of 500 copies, priced at half-a-crown each. The author was not a professional poet, but a thirty-seven-year-old professor of Latin at University College, London called Alfred Edward Housman who had been obliged to pay GBP30 towards the cost of publication. Although slow to sell at first, A Shropshire Lad went on to become one of the most popular books of poetry ever published & has never been out of print. As well as being a publishing phenomenon, the book has had an influence on English culture & notions of what ` England` means, both in England itself & abroad, out of all proportion to its apparent scope. Housman Country will not only look at how A Shropshire Lad came to be written & became a publishing & cultural phenomenon, but will use the poems as a prism through which to examine England & Englishness. The book contains a full transcript of A Shropshire lad itself, also making it a superb present. ...

Houston & the Texas Gulf Coast in the Moon Spotlight guide series; covering a range of specific local cities, districts, areas & regions in North, Central & South America & targeted at those seeking to travel to a specific area within a country. Each of the guides has been extracted in full from the relevant country Moon Handbook & individual titles focus on a particular city, region or notable area of the destination. Many of the guides in the series are unique in their coverage, although are limited in putting the destination into its wider geographical context that a more comprehensive guide would provide. Stylistically, Moon ...

Houston in Texas on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. Insets provide a more detailed street plan of downtown Houston, plus a road map of the city’s environs which

Includes:: part of the coastline between Beach City & Galveston. Coverage

Includes:: Houston’s George Bush International Airport; communities include Bellaire, Bunker Hill Village, Hedwig Village, Hilshire Village, Hunters Creek Village, Meadows Place, Piney Point Village, Spring Valley & West University Place.NEW STREET PLAN CARTOGRAPHY FROM RAND Mc NALLY: Rand Mc Nally are currently changing the cartography of their street plans to a more “ European” style. In many titles streets are now shown by parallel lines, providing a much clearer, easier to read presentation. Better use of colouring indicates different types of land use and/or institutions (parks, shopping centres, academic institutions, etc) &, in most titles, different administrative units. More streets are annotated with block numbers. Some new editions still retain the traditional American presentation of streets by a single line, but with more prominent marking for various institutions, facilities & places of interest. Our cartography sample indicates which style is used in this title.COVERAGE: Rand Mc Nally street plans cover cities with their outer suburbs, prominently highlighting principal traffic arteries & connecting main streets. Railway & subway stations are marked.



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Houston & the surrounding region on an indexed road map from Rand Mc Nally, with coverage extending to the Gulf of Mexico. Additional panels provide more detailed street plans of downtown Houston, the Galleria/ Post Oak & the Hobby Airport area, access to the Houston LBJ Space Centre & to the city’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, plus central Galveston. Coverage of the main map extends north to Lake Conroe & south to the Gulf, with a further panel on the reverse extending it further east to include Galveston & Port Arthur; coverage

Includes:: Baytown, Beaumont, Conroe, La Porte, Lake Jackson, League City, Missouri City, Pasadena, Pearl&, Sugar Land & Teas City. Maps in this series present the road network on a clear background with no relief shading to show the area’s topography, but with national or state parks, forests & other protected areas indicated by colouring. Roads are numbered and/or named, showing toll highways, exit numbers of interchanges, services & rest areas. Local airports are marked, but railways & other urban transport lines are not included unless specifically indicated in the individual description. Each town is presented in a different colour, providing those unfamiliar with the region a very clear picture of the area. Various places of interest & facilities are highlighted, including cultural & historical sites, educational institutions, sport & recreational facilities, etc. Each title is indexed. Several maps also include enlargements of the downtown area, plans of international airports, a mileage & driving times diagram for a much wider region than covered by the main map, etc
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Houston in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Houston in the Wallpaper* City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper* magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper* City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Houston in Texas on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. An inset provides a more detailed street plan of downtown Houston. Communities covered by this title include Bellaire, Bunker Hill Village, Hedwig Village, Hilshire Village, Hunters Creek Village, Meadows Place, Piney Point Village, Spring Valley & West University Place. Rand Mc Nally street plans provide coverage of cities with their outer suburbs, clearly indicating main traffic arteries: highways (distinguishing between free & toll access), plus primary & secondary routes. Road numbers and/or names are clearly displayed & exit numbers are indicated. Locations of service & rest areas are marked & one way streets are shown. Longer streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. The maps show railway, bus &, where appropriate, metro stations. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including cultural & academic institutions, various municipal facilities, golf courses, etc. The plans have extensive street indexes, supplemented by lists of points of interest, parks & recreational areas, shopping malls, stations, schools, etc. Descriptions of individual titles indicate if an enlargement of the downtown area or any other additional features are also provided. ...