“ Killing Dragons” is the most hair-raising, hilarious account of the birth of mountaineering ever written. Above the pastures of Switzerl&, it was long believed, dragons & ghosts inhabited the realms of ice & snow. No-one in their right mind considered climbing into these inhospitable regions
- & certainly not for pleasure. In the late enlightenment period, however, certain scientific gentlemen began to turn their minds to the highest places. What would they tell us about our atmosphere, about weather, about glaciers? & so they set off, armed with gallons of good wine, roast fowl, theodolites & barometers, walking in their ordinary clothes up the glaciers of Switzerland into the unknown. But then the British came on the scene, & mountain-climbing as an obsession, an art form & a sport was born. Public schoolboys, scientists, showmen, the daftly amateurish & the fiendishly competitive were all entranced by the majesty & challenge of the great mountains, which they vanquished peak by peak. By the end of the century only the suicidally dangerous north faces of the Eiger & Matterhorn remained to be climbed by protegés of Hitler & Mussolini.
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After breaking up with the man she thought she`d marry & losing her job as a magazine editor, Camas Davis felt totally lost. Out of love with her life & the world, she knew one thing: that she wanted to make a change. Camas had spent much of her career writing about food, but she had never forced herself to grapple with how it actually got to her plate. & so she set off for France. There, in the rolling countryside of Gascony, she was welcomed in by the Chapolard brothers, a family of pig-farmers & butchers. They would teach her the art of butchery, & with it the art of eating & drinking the Gascon way. Surrounded by farmers, producers, cooks & food-lovers, eating some of the world`s least processed & most lovingly made food, Camas discovered the very authenticity she`d longed for in her old life. She just needed to return to America, & bring what she`d learnt back with her... Killing It is a book about a woman doing something simultaneously extreme & unexpected, yet incredibly simple
- a return to a relationship with food we only lost a few decades ago. Funny, irreverent, & totally inspiring, this is a story about turning your life upside down & starting again, it is about falling in & out of love, & it is about understanding what it means to be human & what it means to be animal too.
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Get ready for saucepan solos, nosh pits & air guitar caviar
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Over then past fifty years the British countryside has changed out of all recognition. A wide range of wildlife species are disappearing
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The Number One bestselling, award-winning Queen of crime fiction Val Mc Dermid delivers a searing psychological suspense thriller. A serial killer is on the loose. His victims? Crime writers...A murderer is at large, hunting with a bloodlust that shatters all the conventional wisdom on how serial killers operate. Professor Fiona Cameron is a psychologist who uses computer technology to track serial offenders. She vowed never to work for the Met again after they went against her advice & screwed up an investigation as a result. But when her lover, thriller writer Kit Martin, tells her a fellow crime novelist has been murdered, Fiona can`t help taking an interest. With the killer striking again, Fiona is caught in a race against time, not only to save a life, but to bring herself redemption, both personal & professional. ...

Killingworth West Moor in 1895 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. 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. In this title: the map covers the West Moor area of Killingworth, stretching from Forest Hall station northward to Killingworth station on the East Coast main line. Further west, part of Gosforth racecourse is shown, plus much of Gosforth Lake. Other features include the disused West Moor Pit, Long Row, Cross Row, Crank Row, High Row, Quality Row, Killingworth Wagonway. Forest Hall station is in the bottom right corner. On the reverse is a directory of Killingworth, plus the race cards for Gosforth Park in 1893. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Killingworth West Moor in 1895 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 West Moor area of Killingworth, stretching from Forest Hall station northward to Killingworth station on the East Coast main line. Further west, part of Gosforth racecourse is shown, plus much of Gosforth Lake. Other features include the disused West Moor Pit, Long Row, Cross Row, Crank Row, High Row, Quality Row, Killingworth Wagonway, etc. Forest Hall station is in the bottom right corner. On the reverse is a directory of Killingworth, plus the race cards for Gosforth Park in 1893. 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. ...

Kilmarnock street map from Nicolson Maps; coverage

Includes:: Crookedholm, Crosshouse, Darvel, Dunlop,

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A detailed topographic map of Kilmarnock & Irvine from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Stewarton & Beith. Edition A1; Publication date November 2006 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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Kilmarnock, Irvine, Stewarton & Beith area on a detailed topographic & GPS compatible map No. 333, waterproof version, from the Ordnance Survey’s 1:25, 000 Explorer series. MOBILE DOWNLOADS: this title & all the other OS Explorer maps include a code for downloading after purchase the digital version onto your smartphone or tablet for viewing on the OS smartphone app.OS EXPLORER SERIES: to see the list of all the titles in the OS Explorer series, both paper & waterproof versions, please click on the series link. The Explorer series, Ordnance Survey’s most detailed maps recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities, provides topographic coverage of Great Britain at 1:25, 000 on GPS compatible maps with hiking trails, cycling routes & extensive tourist information. Each printed map is available either on paper or as a waterproof & tear-resistant OS Active Map, as indicated in its title. Britain’s National Parks & other areas of particular tourist interest are presented on often double-sided OL (Outdoor Leisure) maps, whilst most standard format Explorers cover an area of 30 x 20km (approx. 19 x 12 miles). All three versions (paper, waterproof & digital) are the same & provide plenty of recreational & tourist information, indicating the traditional public right of way paths (except in Scotland where different laws apply), including bridleways & byways. National Trails & other long-distance paths are marked, as well as permissive footpaths or bridleways & on-road or traffic-free cycle routes with, where appropriate, their National/ Regional Cycle Network numbers. Boundaries of access land are clearly marked. A wide range of symbols provides additional tourist information, highlighting camping & caravanning sites, information offices & visitors’ centres, parking & picnicking places, country pubs, sport & recreational facilities including cycle hire locations & mountain biking trails, historic buildings & museums, etc. Exceptionally clear presentation of the landscape is provided by contours at 5m or in the uplands at 10m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics for different types of woodlands, orchards, heath, marshl&, scree or boulders, & other topographic features. For GPS users the maps have British National Grid lines at 1km intervals, with latitude & longitude given by margin ticks at 1`. Clearly laid out map legend

Includes:: French & German translations for the tourist information symbols.

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