Lost London is the story of the city as told through the buildings, parks & palaces that are no longer with us. Places like the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, the leading venue for public entertainment in the city for over 200 years, or the Palace of Whitehall whose 1500 rooms made it the largest royal residence in Europe until it was destroyed by fire at the end of the 17th century. From bull rings to ice fairs, plague pits to molly houses, this is a fascinating journey through London's forgotten past, unearthing the extraordinary stories that lie beneath familiar streets as well as shining a light in the city's darkest corners. ...

Lost London is the story of the city as told through the buildings, parks & palaces that are no longer with us. Places like the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, the leading venue for public entertainment in the city for over 200 years, or the Palace of Whitehall whose 1500 rooms made it the largest royal residence in Europe until it was destroyed by fire at the end of the 17th century. From bull rings to ice fairs, plague pits to molly houses, this is a fascinating journey through London`s forgotten past, unearthing the extraordinary stories that lie beneath familiar streets as well as shining a light in the city`s darkest corners. ...

Lost London 1870-1945 is a collection of more than 500 black-&-white images of the capital, arranged by region & compiled from the archive, now held by English Heritage, of the former London County Council. Most of these images have never been published before; they were taken to provide a visual-historical record of whole districts in London as they were vanishing & are displayed here in full plate images, with text provided by English Heritage’s Planning & Development Director for London & South-East Engl&, Philip Davies, & a foreword written by HRH The Duke of Gloucester. The photographs truly depict a London in transition
- from the late Victorian age through to wartime devastation. Images depict all social strata, from Marshalsea Prison lodgings to the Prime Minister’s bedroom, from squalid slums to aristocratic mansions.
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This fascinating compilation of early London photographs takes us on a tour of one of the world`s greatest cities, but rather than picturing the historic scenes dating back to the 1850s in the traditional sepia & black & white monochrome, new realism is given here by reproducing the images in full colour. We can therefore explore not only some of London`s world renowned landmarks but also less frequently pictured aspects of the capital including its street characters, local markets, shops, theatres & early cinema, & the historic River Thames by whose banks London began as a Roman town nearly 2000 years ago. There is also a look at some of the local neighbourhoods where Londoners live, & at the city`s transport as horse & steam traction gives way to electricity & the internal combustion engine. Great exhibitions & royal events are featured as are wartime photographs recalling the inferno of the Blitz in the 1940s, while a further sequence recalls London`s old docklands. Principally sourced from ancient albums & private collections, Lost London in Colour unites a wealth of rare & unpublished images to reveal that the London of a century & more ago was as colourful & vibrant a city as it is in the present day. ...

Christof, Christophe, Christopher & Cristofol are four brothers
- sons of the same father & four very different mothers, yet
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' Last night my son wanted to appease me because of some annoyance he had caused. Show me your desert things, he said, show me your crystals & stones. However tired & grumpy I might be, he knew how to revive me. I unwrapped everything from its newspaper roll. The chipped flint knives, the silica glass arrowheads, ancient porous pottery shards I'd found in the Gilf, fossils, the jawbone of a gazelle, palm nuts so desiccated they were like stone.. .' Robert Twigger's latest journey is in search of paradise: a desert adventure in the footsteps of seasoned explorers such as Theodore Almasy (the Inspiration for THE ENGLISH PATIENT) who tried to locate the lost oasis of Zezura, reportedly home to hoards of treasure, flocks of birds & a lush, verdant valley. The Egyptian Sahara is one of the most arid & hostile environments on earth. But it is also a wonder of desolate beauty, where in the ultra-clear light of the desert you can see for miles. Armed with plenty of water & a homemade wooden trolley (his Lada being too heavy for the sand), Twigger embarks on a desert trip ilke no other.. . ...

Featuring beautiful selections from Johanna Basford`s Lost Ocean, this set of 50 loose postcards in a premium gift box with a ribbon invites you to colour in shoals of exotic fish, curious octopuses, delicately penned seahorses & more
- all while exploring the magical depths of the sea. Perfect to colour, keep & share.
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This is a beautiful new colouring book that takes you on a magical journey beneath the waves, from the creator of the worldwide bestsellers, Secret Garden & Enchanted Forest. With Lost Ocean, Johanna Basford invites colour-inners of all ages to discover an enchanting underwater world hidden within the depths of the sea. With intricate pen & ink illustrations to complete, colour & embellish, readers will meet shoals of exotic fish, curious octopuses & delicately penned seahorses, visit coral reefs & barnacle-studded shipwrecks, & discover intricate shells & pirate treasure. Secret Garden & Enchanted Forest fans & newcomers alike will delight in this creative journey into an inky new world. It also features a large double-sided pull-out poster to colour & keep. ...

Alma & Almut share a fascination for Australia & its ancient peoples; their ceremonies, sand drawings & body paintings. After Alma suffers a traumatic attack, they board a cheap flight from Sao Paulo to Sydney, & together begin their journey across their secret continent. Alma slowly recovers through a brief love affair with an Aboriginal artist, & both women become involved with the Angel Project in Perth, where actors dressed as angels are concealed around the city for the public to discover. In a seemingly unconnected story, a man staying at a remote Alpine spa unexpectedly meets a woman he encountered years before & with whom he shared a single night. It was in a faraway city & she was dressed as an angel. ...

From the great cathedral-like railways stations of the steam age to obscure lines built through spectacular landscapes to open up countries before the advent of motorised road transport, this book is a celebration of our lost railway heritage & the lines that can no longer be travelled. Through stunning images, Lost Railway Journeysfrom Around the World evokes the romance & drama of these journeys, taking the reader as close as they can possibly get to this lost world of dining cars, sleeping cars, station porters & international rail travel. Organised by continent, all of these routes have stories to tell & the lost journeys are captured in the old postcards & posters that accompany photographs drawn from collections & archives across the world. ...