Back in 1947 someone called S.N. Pike
- we know nothing more about him
- published three little pamphlets, each mapping in

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Travel back in time on a journey across Britain`s main-line railways on the eve of nationalisation. The views from the carriage windows are conveyed through finely detailed, h&-drawn maps, each a rich reminder of the linesides bursting with activity in an era of technical progress, glamour & prestige. Speed along the LNER`s racing track from King`s Cross to Newcastle upon Tyne & Edinburgh; from next-door St Pancras through the Peak District to Manchester; from Waterloo to Plymouth (with some pleasant seaside diversions on the way); from Euston through the industrial heartlands of the West Midlands & the north-west to the seaport of Liverpool; & from Paddington along Brunel`s `bowling green` railway to Bristol, Exeter & Penzance. Mile by Mile faithfully reproduces the three original route maps drafted in 1947 by S.N. Pike, & adds a new one for the Great Western Railway to complete its coverage of the so-called ` Big Four` railway firms formed in the aftermath of the First World War. New introductions describe how the ` Big Four` came about, the passengers & goods they conveyed, the key personalities that shaped them
- engineers, managers, even publicists
- & the trains & locomotives that gave each its unique character. Climb aboard, sit back & take a ride to a special period in the history of Britain`s railways.

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Erected to inform travellers how far they have come & how far they still have to go, milestones are a relic of a time when life moved more slowly. This book tells the story of milestones & the technology they reflect, as well as road measurement. It uses the great variety of designs & styles to argue the historical importance of conservation & to illustrate the compelling fascination of the subject. Mervyn Benford has worked in education all his professional life & has a consuming interest in history. Concerned at the rate at which evidence of the past disappears, often inadequately recorded, he believes that the understanding of history, the ability to understand cause & effect, to interpret evidence & to recognise what changes & what does not, are all central to an effective society. ...

The 17 walks in Milestones to Millstones each focus on one mill or more in Oxfordshire & just beyond. The mills & the walks are very varied, such as: windmills on Warwickshire hilltops; or an Archimedes screw using the flow of the river beside an ancient watermill; & a steam mill attracting visitors of all ages. Part of the charm of the book is the explanation of milling idioms that are still in everyday use such as ” Keep your nose to the grindstone” or ” Come to a grinding halt”. All have suggested access points for shorter distances, information about public transport, & a list of teashops, pubs & accommodation. Each walk

Includes:: the relevant section of the Ordnance Survey map & is vividly illustrated throughout, giving archaeological, historical, botanical & local detail.

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One of the titles in a series of topographic maps of popular walking & recreational areas of New Zealand with contours at 20m intervals & relief shading. Perennial snow & ice contours are marked in blue & terrain information

Includes:: cliffs, saddles, moraine, scree, forest, scrub, etc. The maps show tracks & footpaths, with some paths indicating walking distances between marked points. A range of symbols depict campsites, huts, shelters, toilets & parking areas, fuel supplies, places of interest, etc. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 1' intervals, & the New Zealand Map Grid is printed over the map. In this title: two of New Zealand

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Milford Track in the Fiordland National Park on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible map at 1:38, 000 in a series from New Topo NZ Ltd, with exceptionally vivid presentation of the terrain, routes clearly highlighted, & symbols to show locations of various facilities. The map highlights the course of the 53.5-km long Milford Track from Lake Te Anau to the Milford Sound, indicting walking & tramping sections. Contour interval is 20m. Maps in the series from New Topo NZ Ltd cover the country’s popular hiking & tramping areas. The maps have contours (20m in most titles
- please confirm in the individual description) enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to indicate various types of the terrain & vegetation: glaciers, scree, lava flows, shingle, s&, swamps, exotic forest, scrub, native bush, etc. The overprint for the routes distinguishes, as appropriate, between tramping tracks & routes, walking tracks, & waymarked or unmarked trails. Symbols show facilities such huts, campsites, public toilets, viewpoints, car parks, etc. Where useful, the maps also have brief notes about hut reservations. All the titles are GPS compatible, most with a 1-km NZ national grid (GPS users can uses WGS84). To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Interstate Drive Times & Distances Map (IDT &D) of United States from the Kappa Map Group, showing the country’s interstate highways annotated with distances in miles & driving times. On the reverse is a table showing driving distances between main towns using the interstate routes. Also provided is a separate list of the interstate highways shown on the map & an explanation of their numbering system. The map itself is very simple, but the information on it would come very useful for anyone planning a longer trip across the States, if only to avoid a mistake like the one once made by the writer of this description who innocently planed a day drive equivalent of a London – Edinburgh – Dublin – London round trip! ...

1 New York Times bestseller Milk & Honey is a collection of poetry & prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, & femininity. The book is divided into four chapters, & each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. Milk & Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life & finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look. ...

` Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most exciting & dangerous plants in the world. Telling the story of opium tells us much about our faults & foibles as humans
- our willingness to experiment; our ability to become addicts; our pursuit of money. This book tells us more than about opium; it tells us about ourselves.`
- Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads` The only thing that is good is poppies. They are gold.` Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the ` Milk of Paradise` for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain
- & hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport & refine, & subject to an insatiable global dem&. No other substance in the world is as simple to produce or as profitable. It is the basis of a gargantuan industry built upon a shady underworld, but ultimately it is a farm-gate material that lives many lives before it reaches the branded blister packet, the intravenous drip or the scorched & filthy spoon. Many of us will end our lives dependent on it. In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America & Afghanistan, from Sanskrit to pop, from poppy tears to smack, from morphine to today`s synthetic opiates. It is a tale of addiction, trade, crime, sex, war, literature, medicine &, above all, money. &, as this ambitious, wide-ranging & compelling account vividly shows, the history of opium is our history & it speaks to us of who we are.


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Mark Kurlansky`s first global food history since the bestselling Cod & Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, & culinary story of milk & all things dairy--with recipes throughout. According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera`s breast milk became our galaxy, the Milky Way. But while mother`s milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is the milk of other mammals that humans have cultivated ever since the domestication of animals more than 10, 000 years ago, originally as a source of cheese, yogurt, kefir, & all manner of edible innovations that rendered lactose digestible, & then, when genetic mutation made some of us lactose-tolerant, milk itself. Before the industrial revolution, it was common for families to keep dairy cows & produce their own milk. But during the nineteenth century mass production & urbanization made milk safety a leading issue of the day, with milk-borne illnesses a common cause of death. Pasteurization slowly became a legislative matter. & today milk is a test case in the most pressing issues in food politics, from industrial farming & animal rights to GMOs, the locavore movement, & advocates for raw milk, who controversially reject pasteurization. Profoundly intertwined with human civilization, milk has a compelling & a surprisingly global story to tell, & historian Mark Kurlansky is the perfect person to tell it. Tracing the liquid`s diverse history from antiquity to the present, he details its curious & crucial role in cultural evolution, religion, nutrition, politics, & economics. ...