Media Valle del Serchio: Gafragnana
- Val di Lima, map no. 20, in a series of walking maps covering the Ligurian Alps & the coast,
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112-page logbook for recording medical treatment given.

Includes:: requirements for a ship`s medical chest

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A unique, stunningly-presented guide to London`s past & a treasure trove of information for historians, residents, medical professionals & tourists, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments & cures have played in the city`s sprawling story. It also reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions & practices of modern medicine. Medical London comprises three parts: A volume of essays exploring some of the threads that medicine has woven through London life, from its earliest beginnings to the multicultural metropolis of today: its roles in contagion & sanitation, in wealth & its consumption, in empire & immigration, in pleasure & in madness. A definitive guide to London`s medical landscape: its museums & hospitals, its grand monuments & secret corners, & the characters & events that lie behind them. Six elegantly designed maps for self-guided walks, from Daniel Defoe`s Plague Year wanderings to the druggists of Soho`s night haunts, the homeopaths of bohemian Chelsea to the naval surgeons of maritime Greenwich. Published in collaboration with Wellcome Collection. ...

This indispensable guide to the Medicinal Plants of Britain & Europe is part of the new Black`s Nature Guide series. Over 350 species of plants are covered, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings & clear photographs. The images not only show you what the medicinal plant looks like in its habitat, but also focus in on specific features such as the leaves, flower head or berries to aid identification. Clear & concise information is provided, such as when the plant is in flower, the approximate petal size & preferred habitat. ...

Provides expert information for hikers, climbers, boaters, skiers
- or anyone else whose activities place them more than 24
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Designed to dominate the surrounding area, to house powerful garrisons, offer sumptuous quarters for local nobility, & to discourage & repel enemy attacks, castles dominated England & Wales for more than half a millennium. Though some were built before 1066, the Norman Conquest left a lasting legacy in the form of fortifications ranging from small earthworks now barely discernible, to mighty & dominating stone fortresses. This book examines why castles were so essential to medieval warfare, their importance in domestic politics, & the day-to-day lives of those who lived & worked within them. It also shows how the development of new technologies affected their construction & design, & why they eventually fell into disrepair in the late Middle Ages. Beautifully illustrated with stunning photographs, this is the perfect guide for any castle enthusiast seeking to discover more about medieval fortifications & their inhabitants. ...

` The definitive book on the archaeology of Irish castles.`
- Terry Barry, Trinity College Dublin. The great age of Irish castle-building
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A spirited & thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1, 000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire & the Reformation was a long & hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, & he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises & moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne`s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, & the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, & political circumstances affected individual lives & international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe`s medieval period & a provocative revision of exactly how & why the Middle Ages matter. ...

A spirited & thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1, 000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire & the Reformation was a long & hugely transformative period-one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, & he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages across Europe, Wickham focuses on important changes century by century, including such pivotal crises & moments as the fall of the western Roman Empire, Charlemagne`s reforms, the feudal revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late medieval states, & the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes that underscore how shifting social, economic, & political circumstances affected individual lives & international events. Wickham offers both a new conception of Europe`s medieval period & a provocative revision of exactly how & why the Middle Ages matter. ...

For centuries carved writings & artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms, curses, windmills, word puzzles, architectural plans & heraldic designs. Drawing on examples from surviving medieval churches in Engl&, the author gives a voice to the secret graffiti artists: from the lord of the manor & the parish priest to the people who built the church itself. Here are strange medieval beasts, knights battling unseen dragons, ships sailing across lime-washed oceans & demons who stalk the walls. Latin prayers for the dead jostle with medieval curses, builders accounts & slanderous comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon. Strange & complex geometric designs, created to ward off the `evil eye` & thwart the works of the devil, share church pillars with the heraldic shields of England`s medieval nobility. ...