Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind. From an exploration of why women were barred from writing & under what conditions they might break free, to the solace derived from haunting London`s streets, these essays & stories present Woolf at her most impassioned, rendering the pursuit of liberty one of life`s most poetic adventures. Selected from the books A Room of One`s Own, The Waves & Street Haunting & Other Essays by Virginia Woolf. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Love by Jeanette Winterson; Home by Salman Rushdie; Language by Xiaolu Guo; &, Race by Toni Morrison. ...

` More than just a work of first-class scholarship, Liberty`s Exiles is a deeply moving masterpiece that fulfils the historian`s most challenging ambition: to revivify past experience.` Niall Ferguson Liberty`s Exiles was shortlisted for the 2011 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. Early in the afternoon of 25 November 1783, the American Revolution was finally over; the British were gone, the patriots were back & a key moment inscribed itself in the annals of the emerging United States. Territorial independence from Great Britain had effectively begun. In ` Liberty`s Exiles`, Maya Jasanoff examines the realities of the end of the Revolution, through looking at the lives of the Loyalist refugees
- those men & women who took Britain`s side. She tells the story of Elizabeth Johnston from Savannah, whose family went on to settle in St Augustine, Scotl&, Jamaica & Nova Scotia; Reverend Jacob Bailey, who fled from New England across rough seas to Canada with his family & little more than the clothes on his back; five-year-old Catherine Skinner
- the daughter of a loyalist
- who was trapped as a prisoner in her home, hiding from the gunshots of rebel raiders. Their experiences speak eloquently of a larger history of exile, mobility & the shaping of the British Empire in the wake of the American War. Beautifully written & rich with source material, ` Liberty`s Exiles` is a history of the American Revolution unlike any before.


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Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

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. ...

An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don De Lillo`s ” Libra” contains an introduction by the author in ” Penguin Modern Classics”. In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Don De Lillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald`s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When ”history” presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. Don De Lillo (b.1936) was born & raised in New York City. ” Americana” (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, & the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive & compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. De Lillo`s comic gifts come to the fore in ” White Noise” (1985), which won the National Book Award, ” Underworld” (1997), hailed by Martin Amis as `the ascension of a great writer`, ” Cosmopolis” (2003), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, due to be released later this year, & ” Falling Man” (2007), a novel about the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York. If you enjoyed ” Libra”, you might like De Lillo`s ” Americana”, also available in ” Penguin Modern Classics”. ” Don De Lillo`s apocalyptic imagination takes on the assassination of John F. Kennedy... Breathtaking”. (” Newsday”). ...

Handcrafted globe with French finished st&. Our 32 cm (12.5”) globe with floor stand is the classical form used over the centuries. No Renaissance library, reception room, or merchant’s office was complete without a large globe on a st&. Mapmakers & globe publishers issued new globes every year, keeping clients up to date on the latest discoveries & explorations. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Made of cherry wood & hand rubbed slightly distressed dark honey French finish. Like a real Library Ladder this one folds on brass hinges & is easily installed. The top & bottom have brass sleeves on all four sides. Flush inlaid brass hardware, hefty bronze drawer handles. This bookcase will survive centuries. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Made of cherry wood & hand rubbed slightly distressed ivory French finish. Like a real Library Ladder this one folds on brass hinges & is easily installed. Flush inlaid brass hardware

Includes:: hefty bronzed drawer handles. This bookcase will survive for centuries. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk

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The Peculiar Children are back in the third instalment in the bestselling series of YA novels by Ransom Riggs. Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose, & their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, it`s up to Jacob Portman to channel his newfound abilities & defeat Caul before he loses his friends--and their world--forever. This action-packed adventure features all-new Peculiar photographs from times & places all over the world. ...

Librazhdi Prefecture at 1:110, 000 in a series of handy size, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible road maps from the Tirana-based publishers Vektor. Landscape is presented by altitude colouring & contours lines at 100m intervals, with spot heights & a few more names of topographic features than found on Vektor’s 200K road maps of the country. National parks & nature reserves are prominently highlighted. The prefecture maps appear to show the same small local dirt roads as in the 200K series, but given the increase in scale do so with greater clarity & also provide more detailed GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals), useful when travelling across the more remote parts of the country. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols highlight campsites, beaches, archaeological & historical sites, caves, etc. The maps also show subdivisions of prefectures & names of the communes, & indicate administrative status of towns. Map legend

Includes:: English. Please note: border crossings are prominently marked but beyond topographic colouring no road or other information is provided outside the country’s borders.

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