Themed tours of Podhale, the highland area north of the Tatra mountains famous for its distinctive wooden churches & national costume. Introductory chapters cover: Agriculture, housing, costume, cookery, folklore, music & dance. Appendices provide further details about Polish Highlanders in America. Written for Polish Americans visiting their native l&. ...

A series of maps, following the trail of the most beautiful cycling routes across Poland at 1:100, 000 scale, include:
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A thick white blanket covers the wide slopes of the band of hills some call the Razorback Downs. Podkin One-Ear is a legend: a fearsome warrior rabbit whose reputation for cunning & triumph in battle has travelled the ages. But how did he become such a mighty fighter? The answer may surprise you... When a travelling bard arrives at Thornwood warren on Midwinter night, he is warmly welcomed. In return for food & lodging, he settles down to tell the tale of Podkin One-Ear
- & soon the rabbits are enthralled to hear the story of how one lost little rabbit overcame the cruellest enemy imaginable, & became the greatest warrior their land has ever known.
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Map No. 113, Podkrknosi, in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps of the Czech Republic at 1:75.000 from Shocart highlighting both signposted cycling routes & other local cycling paths, with route profiles & additional tourist information. Relief is shown by contour lines, spot heights, & subtle hill-shading. The maps show roads, tracks, railways, cable cars, chairlifts, & a range of natural landscape features & landmarks. Coloured symbols depict plenty of additional tourist features e.g. information centres, places of interest, antiquities, shelters, campsites, accommodation, bicycle services etc. An overprint highlights both signposted routes & other recommended routes which have no terrain markers. For all bike routes intermediate distances are shown. Hiking paths are also highlighted. Latitude & longitude margin ticks are at 5' intervals. Each map is accompanied by a booklet containing general information on the Czech cycle route network, elevation profile diagram for selected routes, plus an index for locations of historical & geographical interest, bicycle service workshops, information centres, & tourist attractions. Map legend & text are in English, German & Czech. ...

Map No. 164, Podyji
- Thayantal, in a series of GPS compatible topographic maps of the Czech Republic at 1:75.000 from Shocart
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There has always been love, & we have been writing poetry about it for over 4, 000 years. A complex & truly timeless emotion, love
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Poems from the Second World War is a moving & powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts & family & friends who experienced WWII from different standpoints. The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 to collect & display material relating to the ` Great War`, which was still being fought. Today IWM is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain & the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present. They seek to provide for, & to encourage, the study & understanding of the history of modern war & wartime experience. ...

The arc of poetry of the South, from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads, from Reconstruction turmoil to the Agrarian movement to the dazzling poetry of the New South, is richly varied & historically vibrant. No other region of the United States has been as mythologized as the South, nor contained as many fascinating, beguiling, & sometimes infuriating contradictions. Poems of the American South

Includes:: poems both by Southerners & by famous observers of the South who hailed from elsewhere. These range from Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, & Francis Scott Key through Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, & Donald Justice, & include a host of living poets as well: Wendell Berry, Rita Dove, Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, C. D. Wright, Natasha Trethewey, & many more. Organized thematically, the anthology places poems from past centuries in fruitful dialogue with a diverse array of modern voices who are redefining the South with a verve that is reinvigorating American poetry as a whole.

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Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind`s nautical fears, dreams, & longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates & mermaids, phantom ships & the sunken city of Atlantis-have inspired as many imaginations as have the realities of lighthouses & shipwrecks, of icebergs & frothing foam & seaweed. This marvelous collection

Includes:: classics old & new, from Homer & Milton to Plath & Merwin. Here are Tennyson`s seductive sea-fairies next to Poe`s beloved Annabel Lee. Here is Coleridge`s darkly brooding ” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” alongside the grandeur of Shakespeare`s ” Full Fathom Five.” & here is Masefield`s ”I must go down to the seas again” alongside Cavafy`s ” Ithaka” & Stevens`s ” The Idea of Order at Key West.” In the wide variety of lyrics collected here
- sonnets & sea chanteys, ballads & hymns & prayers
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This beautiful new edition of ” Poems on the Underground” is published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Underground in 2013. Here 230 poems old & new, romantic, comic & sublime explore such diverse topics as love, London, exile, families, dreams, war, music & the seasons, & feature poets from Sappho to Carol Ann Duffy & Wendy Cope, including Chaucer & Shakespeare, Milton, Blake & Shelley, Whitman & Dickinson, Yeats & Auden, Seamus Heaney & Derek Walcott & a host of younger poets. It

Includes:: a new foreword & over two dozen poems not included in previous anthologies.

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