After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita & The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England & went to the United States to reinvent themselves. Her travel companions include Fanny Trollope, mother of Anthony & author of the biting Domestic Manners of the Americans; the actress Fanny Kemble, who shocked the nation with her passionate first-hand indictment of slavery; the prolifically pamphleteering economist Harriet Martineau; the homesteader Rebecca Burlend, who had never been more than twelve miles from her Yorkshire village before she sailed to the New World; the traveller Isabella Bird, whose many ailments remained in check as long as she was scaling the Rockies; & the novelist Catherine Hubback, niece of Jane Austen, who deposited her husband in a madhouse & rode the br&-new rails to San Francisco. Tough-minded outsiders, these women's truest qualities emerged in a country as incomplete & tentative as their native land was staid & settled. & they discovered second acts for themselves at a time when the world expected them to disappear politely. From the swampy heat of Georgia's Sea Islands to the icy purity of the Cascades, Sara Wheeler finds their path, & her own. ...

After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita & The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England & went to the United States to reinvent themselves. Her travel companions include Fanny Trollope, mother of Anthony & author of the biting Domestic Manners of the Americans; the actress Fanny Kemble, who shocked the nation with her passionate first-hand indictment of slavery; the prolifically pamphleteering economist Harriet Martineau; the homesteader Rebecca Burlend, who had never been more than twelve miles from her Yorkshire village before she sailed to the New World; the traveller Isabella Bird, whose many ailments remained in check as long as she was scaling the Rockies; & the novelist Catherine Hubback, niece of Jane Austen, who deposited her husband in a madhouse & rode the br&-new rails to San Francisco. Tough-minded outsiders, these women`s truest qualities emerged in a country as incomplete & tentative as their native land was staid & settled. & they discovered second acts for themselves at a time when the world expected them to disappear politely. From the swampy heat of Georgia`s Sea Islands to the icy purity of the Cascades, Sara Wheeler finds their path, & her own. ...

O Pioneers is a Pulitzer-prize winning novel by American literary legend Willa Cather. It is a tale of murder, love & money, as people struggle to carve out a life in the wilderness while battling ever-duplicitous human nature. Alexandra Bergson`s father, John, is dying. He entrusts his farmstead on a desolate stretch of plain to her rather than to her brothers. Faced with the rigours of frontier living, droughts & penury, Alexandra only becomes more determined to carry on her father`s legacy & battles through remortgaging the farm & adopting new techniques. Fast forward sixteen years, her hard work has paid off, her brothers Lou & Oscar have both created prosperous farms & under Alexandra`s management the original farm has thrived. When childhood friend Carl Linstrum returns from travelling though it appears that romance is on the cards & Lou & Oscar drive him out of town, fearing that their sister`s marriage would disinherit their own children. The community begins to unravel as jealousy spills out into murder. Although born in Virginia, Willa Cather`s family moved to Nebraska & her writing reflects her upbringing in the prairie lands steeped in history. Prairie living, & its accompanying literature, was viewed as embodying the quintessential American experience. The power of the land itself, the resilience of its inhabitants & the flow of history over the land all tied in with Romantic notions embedded in the nature of pioneer expansion. ...

` For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love & yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich & strong & glorious.` Willa Cather`s second novel, O Pioneers! (1913) tells the story of Alexandra Bergson & her determination to save her immigrant family`s Nebraska farm. Clear-headed & fiercely independent, Alexandra`s passionate faith in the prairie makes her a wealthy landowner. By placing a strong, self-reliant woman at the centre of her tale, Cather gives the quintessentially American novel of the soil a radical cast. Yet, although influenced by the democratic utopianism of Walt Whitman & the serene regionalism of Sarah Orne Jewett, O Pioneers! is more than merely an elegy for the lost glories of America`s pioneer past. In its rage for order & efficiency, the novel testifies to the cultural politics of the Progressive Era, the period of massive social & economic transformations that helped to modernize the United States in the years between the Civil War & World War.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World`s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford`s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, & much more. ...

` She had felt as if her heart were hiding down there, somewhere, with the quail & the plover & all the little wild things that crooned or buzzed in the sun...` A rapturous work of savage beauty, Willa Cather`s 1913 tale of a pioneer woman who tames the wild, hostile lands of the Nebraskan prairie is also the story of what it means to be American. It is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin`s original covers. ...

Oahu at 1:80, 000 with a street plan of Honolulu from the Pearl Harbour to the Waikiki Beach & the Diamond Head Crater, plus the Big island at 1:200, 00 with plans of Hilo & Kailua-Kona on a waterproof & tear-resistant, double-side map from ITMB. Topography of the two islands is vividly presented by altitude colouring with numerous spot heights (both in feet); on the Big Island numerous crates are highlighted. The network of roads & local tracks indicates routes practical only for 4WD vehicles & shows locations of petrol stations. Symbols highlight various places of interest & tourist facilities, including botanical gardens & nature reserves, hot springs & waterfalls, historic sites, etc. Latitude & longitude are shown by lines at 0.4ºon Oahu & 0.2ºon the Big Isl&. Each island has a separate index & brief descriptions of various sights. The map of Oahu clearly indicates which area is covered by the plan of Honolulu at 1:35, 000 which extends along the coast to both sides of the downtown area: to the Honolulu International Airport & beyond it to the historic monuments in Pearl Harbour, & south-west to the Waikiki district & the Diamond Head Crater. Plans of Hilo & Kailua-Kona are at 1:30, 000 &, like the Honolulu plan, highlight hotels & other tourist accommodation, shopping centres, etc. To see other regional titles from ITMB covering USA please click on the series link. ...

The magic & mystery of the woods are embedded in British culture, from ancient folklore to modern literature. They offer us refuge: a place to play, a place to think. They are the generous providers of fuel, timber, energy & life. They let us dream of other ways of living. Yet we now face a future where taking a walk in the woods is consigned to the tales we tell our children. Threatened by development, neglect & climate chaos, they are emptier
- of flora & fauna, but also of people
- than they have ever been. Immersing himself in the beauty of Britain`s woodlands & the art & writing they have inspired, Peter Fiennes explores our long relationship with the woods & the sad & violent story of how so many have been lost. Just as we need them, our woods need us too. But who, if anyone, is looking out for them? Fiennes journeys to Croft Castle & Parkland (Herefordshire), Clapham Common, Northfield Wood, The Weald, Knockwood & Secret Wood (Tenterden), Windsor Great Park, Runnymede (Surrey), Sherwood Forest, Cranborne Chase (Dorset), Kingley Vale (W. Sussex), Kipling`s house (South Downs), Wistman`s Wood (Dartmoor), Wayland Wood (Norfolk), Queen`s Wood (Highgate), Hardcastle Crags (W. Yorkshire), Glover`s Wood (Sussex), Smithy Wood (Sheffield).

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A Guardian Best Nature Book of the Year The magic & mystery of the woods are embedded in culture, from ancient folklore to modern literature. They offer us refuge: a place to play, a place to think. They are the generous providers of timber & energy. They let us dream of other ways of living. Yet we now face a future where taking a walk in the woods is consigned to the tales we tell our children. Immersing himself in the beauty of woodland Britain, Peter Fiennes explores our long relationship with the woods & the sad & violent story of how so many have been lost. Just as we need them, our woods need us too. But who, if anyone, is looking out for them? ...

Oakengates South in 1901 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the southern part of the town & stretches south to include Pudley Hill Colliery & Forge Row just south of Hollinswood. From west to east coverage

Includes:: Mossey Green & Snowhill. Features include Snedhill Barracks, St Peter`s Church, Steel Works, Pudleyhill Colliery, Holy Trinity Church, Oakengates Station & GWR Railway Line. On the reverse is an extract from a commercial directory. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Oakenshaw, Low Moor & Wyke in 1905 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map the southern part of Low Moor & northern part of Wyke, & extends eastward to Oakenshaw. Features include railways with Low Moor station, several mineral lines, Oakenshaw village, St Andrew`s church, Lower Woodlands, Salt Horn, Oakenshaw Mills, The Towers Dyeworks, Low Moor Chemical Works, Fearnley Farm, Pearson Fold, Ben Ing Pit, Raw Nook, Storr Hill, New Works Furnaces, part of Low Moor Iron Works, St Mark`s church, New Road Side, Upper Wyke, City Shed, etc About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...