Claude Monet`s water lily paintings are among the most iconic & beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil & sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King`s Mad Enchantment tells the full story for the first time &, in the process, presents a compelling & original portrait of one of our most popular & cherished artists. By the outbreak of war in 1914, Monet, then in his mid-seventies, was one of the world`s most famous & successful painters, with a large house in the country, a fleet of automobiles & a colossal reputation. However, he had virtually given up painting following the death of his wife Alice in 1911 & the onset of blindness a year later. Nonetheless, it was during this period of sorrow, ill health & creative uncertainty that
- as the guns roared on the Western Front
- he began the most demanding & innovative paintings he had ever attempted. Encouraged by close friends such as Georges Clemenceau, France`s dauntless prime minister, Monet would work on these magnificent paintings throughout the war years & then for the rest of his life. So obsessed with his monumental task that the village barber was summoned to clip his hair as he worked beside his pond, he covered hundreds of yards of canvas with shimmering layers of pigment. As his ambitions expanded with his paintings, he began planning what he intended to be his legacy to the world: the ` Musee Claude Monet` in the Orangerie in Paris. Drawing on letters & memoirs & focusing on this remarkable period in the artist`s life, Mad Enchantment gives an intimate portrayal of Claude Monet in all his tumultuous complexity, & firmly places his water lily paintings among the greatest achievements in the history of art.

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This title takes the reader on a tour of the country that no other tour guide could do. This is Britain as seen from the underworld: the sites of murders, the stories of killings & grand thefts that places record, the memories of gangsters long, & not so long, dead. In this book, Frankie looks at crime sites the length & breadth of the UK, from Glasgow & the Bible John killer, through Newcastle & the Sibbett murder, through Manchester & the double murderer Walter Rowl&, & on to the Isle of Wight. Frank covers Britain as he takes us on a tour of prisons
- & those he met inside them
- that he spent time in. &, as crime is no respecter of borders, Frank also visits Dublin. All the while Frank details crimes that he personally knew about; famous crimes that were part of the stories that set Frank on his way; & crimes as yet unsolved, that Frank can shed his own light upon, based on his lifelong experience of crime.

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The inspirational story of the man who rescued Brighton & Hove Albion FC from oblivion, a 15 year struggle that saw the homeless club battling for survival until the triumphant opening of their brand new Amex Stadium in August 2011. The inside story of a saga that captured the hearts & minds of football supporters up & down the country, Mad Man explains how advertising executive & lifelong Albion fan, Dick Knight, took over the club after its ground had been sold to property developers, rescued it from immediate extinction & then began the long & tortuous battle to find a new home. Galvanising the local community, Knight`s incredible triumph was to mobilise & maximise fan power & use it to defeat the greed & opportunism of a small number of businessmen, & then overcome the monumental hurdles of bureaucracy & planning that stood in the way of the new home that was essential to securing the future of the club. Told with immense humour & packed with hilarious anecdotes, Mad Manis a football feelgood story from the heart & soul of the game. ...

Sir Ranulph Fiennes is often described as the world’s greatest living explorer, & “ Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know” shows that as his life story stands, this is no exaggeration. From his early military career & his time in the Special Forces to his many expeditions, his life of extraordinary achievement has been characterised by courage, determination against all odds & a streak for compulsive rebelliousness. He has travelled to the most dangerous & inaccessible places on earth, almost died many times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity & been awarded a polar medal & an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a best-selling author & nearly replaced Sean Connery as James Bond. Here he describes how he led expeditions all over the world & became the first person to travel to both poles on l&. He tells of how he discovered the lost city of Ubar in Oman & attempted to walk solo & unsupported to the North Pole
- the expedition that cost him several fingers & very nearly his life. Now out in paperback, this autobiography is an enthralling read; a candid look inside the mind & the achievements of a great British adventurer & hero. Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Fiennes OBE, 3rd Baronet, looks back on a life lived at the very limits of human endeavour.
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`A father...is a necessary evil.` Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland`s greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats & James Joyce, & their earliest influences: their fathers. From Wilde`s doctor father, a brilliant statistician & amateur archaeologist, who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange premonition of what would happen to his son; to Yeats` father, an impoverished artist & brilliant letter-writer who could never finish apainting; to John Stanislus Joyce, a singer, drinker & story-teller, a man unwilling to provide for his large family, whom his son James memorialised in his work. Colm Toibin illuminates not only the complex relationships between three of the greatest writers in the English language & their fathers, but also illustrates the surprising ways they surface in their work. ...

Madagascar at 1:800, 000 is an indexed map with additional street plans & enlargements of popular regions on the reverse. The publisher has chosen to concentrate on creating a map which will primarily be of use for a tourist navigating between main points of interest as opposed to stressing more detailed cartography. Tarred & untarred national & main roads & minor roads are clearly marked, as are airports & ferry routes. Provincial boundaries are demarcated. In keeping with the publisher ...

Madagascar at 1:1, 250, 000 from the IGN with cartography from Mair Dumont, with more smaller settlements than on other maps of the whole country. Very effective relief shading, altitude colouring & spot heights present the topography, with colouring and/or graphics for seasonal lakes & swamps, mangrove, sand dunes, rice fields, waterfalls, etc. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. The map indicates unpaved roads &

Includes:: local tracks, showing routes closed to motorized traffic. No intermediate distances are marked. Railway lines & local airports or aerodromes are included. Symbols show various places of interest including campsites, beaches, diving & windsurfing sites, shipwrecks, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1

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Madagascar on a large, double-sided, indexed road map with tourist information, a plan of central Antananarivo & an inset showing the Comoros Islands. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted on a base map with topography shown by bold relief shading with spot heights. Road network

Includes:: seasonal tracks & shows locations of petrol stations & driving distances on main routes. Railways, local airports & ferry routes are marked & the map shows the country

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Indexed, waterproof & tear-resistant road map Madagascar with topographic & tourist information, published by Reise Know-How as part of their highly acclaimed World Mapping Project. The map is double-sided to provide the best balance between a good scale & a convenient size sheet. Coverage

Includes:: the Comoros Islands & Mayotte. Topography is indicated by altitude colouring with spot heights & mountain passes, names of mountain ranges & plateaux, seasonal rivers & lakes, mangroves & coral reefs. Road information

Includes:: seasonal tracks & indicates intermediate driving distances on main & secondary roads & locations of petrol stations. Railways, local airfields & coastal ferry connections are also shown, as well as internal administrative boundaries. National parks & protected areas are marked & symbols highlight various places of interest: selected accommodation including campsites, UNESCO world heritage sites, rovas (former royal palaces), beaches, surfing & diving locations, viewpoints, wells, medical facilities, etc. The map has a latitude/longitude grid at intervals of 1



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Clear & detailed road map with a plan of Antananarivo. Hill shading & selected spot heights show the topography. National parks & natural protected areas, waterfalls, reservoirs, mangroves & coral reefs are indicated, as wells as places of interest, viewpoints, various kinds of accommodation including campsites, restaurants, monuments & museums, mosques & churches, interesting buildings, caves, beaches, spas & campsites. The map shows seven different types of roads with intermediate driving distances, plus tracks & trails. Also marked are administrative boundaries, airports, railways, shipping routes & ports. Longitude & latitude lines are drawn at 2 ...