Grangemouth in 1896 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. 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. In this title: the map is double-sided. The main map covers the centre & south of the town, stretching from the Old Dock southward to Abbotsgrange, & from Carron Old Wharf eastward to Oxgang. Features include much of Grangemouth Docks, Old Dock, Upper Dock, Caledonian Saw Mills, Town Hall, Caledonian Railway Grangemouth Branch with station, sidings, timber basin, much of Old Harbour, Eastend, Newhouse, Granbge Burn, Carronflats, site of Abbots Grange, Avon Hall, etc. On the reverse is a section of the adjacent sheet 25.09 extending coverage north to include New Dock, Forth & Clyde Canal, locks, River Carron, Heuck, Grangemouth Colliery Barony No.3 Pit, quay, etc. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

It is not as widely known as it should be that Britain has the most varied geology of any country in the world. This book is a celebration in words & pictures of what its mountains are made from, & how they got there. This in turn determines what they`re like to climb, scramble on, or walk over. Why is Skiddaw slate so slippery? How do tors form? Why is gritstone so difficult? Why is Lakeland so picturesque, & the granite lands so grim & forbidding? Geology is destiny, whether it`s the rubbishy nature of gullies & screes, the sculpting of valleys by ice or the landslip weirdness of Quiraing on the Isle of Skye. British mountains contain many interesting & different ingredients: gneiss & granite & gabbro; limestone & sandstone; schist & slate; the product & the debris of tectonic shifts, volcanoes, earthquakes & glaciers over many millennia. This book explains all this to the layman, from an expert but personal perspective, & will add immeasurably to the fun & satisfaction to be gained from any day in the hills. ...

In this captivating sequel to their highly-successful Above Edinburgh & South-East Scotl&, Angus & Patricia Macdonald turn their attention to the North-East of the country, from the Tay to the northern isles. As in the previous volume, a highly informative & thought-provoking text accompanied by superb aerial photographs show us the wide range of beautiful landscapes which make up the area. ...

It is not as widely known as it should be that Britain has the most varied geology of any country in the world. This book is a celebration in words & pictures of what its mountains are made from, & how they got there. This in turn determines what they`re like to climb, scramble on, or walk over. Why is Skiddaw slate so slippery? How do tors form? Why is gritstone so difficult? Why is Lakeland so picturesque, & the granite lands so grim & forbidding? Geology is destiny, whether it`s the rubbishy nature of gullies & screes, the sculpting of valleys by ice or the landslip weirdness of Quiraing on the Isle of Skye. British mountains contain many interesting & different ingredients: gneiss & granite & gabbro; limestone & sandstone; schist & slate; the product & the debris of tectonic shifts, volcanoes, earthquakes & glaciers over many millennia. This book explains all this to the layman, from an expert but personal perspective, & will add immeasurably to the fun & satisfaction to be gained from any day in the hills. ...

` Get away from here before you`re completely bewitched & enslaved...` Dorothy Carrington was told, while sitting in a fisherman`s cafe at the magically quiet midday hour. But enslaved she was. Granite Isl&, much more than a travel book, grew out of years spent in Corsica & is an incomparably vivid & delightful portrait. For the first time Corsica is brought to light as a vital element in Europe: a highly individualistic island culture whose people have nurtured their love of freedom & political justice, as well as their pride, hospitality & poetry. ...

Packed with almost 200 million people speaking nearly sixty languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion, but wracked with deep separatist fissures & the destabilizing forces of ongoing conflicts in Iran, Afghanistan & Kashmir, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world today. From the writers who are living outside the country
- Daniyal Mueenuddin, Kamila Shamsie & Nadeem Aslam
- to those going back
- Mohsin Hamid & Mohammed Hanif
- to those who are living there & writing in Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Baluchi & English, there is a startling opportunity to draw together an exciting collection of voices at the forefront of a literary renaissance. Granta 112: Pakistan will seize this moment, bringing to life the landscape & culture of the country in fiction, reportage, memoir, travelogue & poetry. Like the magazine`s issues on India & Australia, its release will be a watershed moment critically & a chance to celebrate the corona of talent which has burst onto the English language publishing world in recent years.



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First there was the traveller; then the word was emigrants. In America, they turned into immigrants. & today -- in many parts of the world -- they are (we are) aliens. From somewhere else. At odds with & yet fully inside of another culture. At home nowhere. This new issue of Granta features tales from the constantly shifting terrain of alien culture. Mark Gevisser writes of two closeted gay South African men, whose friendship has lasted five decades, dating back to a regime determined to keep black & white apart. Dinaw Mengestu writes of a war being waged in Sierra Leone by exiles managing it from afar in France. Robert Mac Farlane goes for a walk in Palestine, & meets families who can no longer return to their own homes. Nami Mun conjures a couple who feel like strangers in the wake of a terrible betrayal. Whether it`s the closely observed ecology of marriage life or the violent acts of criminals, this issue of Granta will draw into focus one of the most pressing issues of our time: Who do we call outsiders? ...

In 2012, Britain is a nation in flux, managing difficult socioeconomic realities, contending with new political alliances & negotiating shifting demographics. Yet it is a country that is still perceived as being bound by tradition & class structures. With new fiction, memoir, poetry, photography & art, Granta`s Britain explores landscape, identities & stories of the British Isles. In ` Silt`, Robert Macfarlane writes of the beauty & danger of a stretch of coastline in Essex. Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa tells the story of Irish revolutionary nationalist Roger Casement, executed at Pentonville Prison in 1916. Memoirs by Gary Younge, Andrea Stuart & Nikolai Khalezin & Natalia Kaliada focus on the upheavals & migrations that brought them & their families to (and from) Britain. Rachel Seiffert, Ross Raisin, Cynan Jones & Jim Crace provide extracts of their new novels: Seiffert describes Glasgow & Northern Ireland in the 1990s; Raisin paints a portrait of a young footballer struggling with his identity; Jones follows a boy on a strange, dangerous outing with his father; Crace shows how the lives of English farmers changed during the Enclosures in the late 1700s & early 1800s. The issue

Includes:: original short fiction by Adam Foulds, Mark Haddon, Tania James & Jon Mc Gregor as well as poems by Simon Armitage, Jamie Mc Kendrick, Don Paterson & Robin Robertson. It also introduces a new voice, Sam Byers, with an extract from his darkly comic debut novel, Idiopathy.

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Since Granta`s inaugural list of the Best of Young British Novelists in 1983
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Hari Kunzru travels to Chernobyl, Detroit, & Japan to investigate the phenomenon of disaster tourism. Policeman-turned-detective-turned-writer A Yi describes life as a provincial gumshoe in China. Physician Siddhartha Mukherjee visits a government hospital in New Delhi, where he meets Madha Sengupta, at the end of his life & on the frontiers of medicine. Robert Macfarlane explores the limestone world beneath the Peak District. & Haruki Murakami revisits his walk to Kobe in the aftermath of the 1995 earthquake.
In this issue--which

Includes:: poems by Charles Simic & Ellen Bryant Voigt, a story by Miroslav Penkov, & non-fiction by David Searcy, Teju Cole, & Hector Abad--GRANTA presents a panoramic view of our shared landscape & investigates our motivations for exploring it. ” One`s destination is never a place, ” Henry Miller wrote, ”but a new way of seeing things.”


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