This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation`s longest-running & best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare`s `pale splendour of the winter sun` to John Keats` ` Season of mists & mellow fruitfulness`, by way of Larkin`s `young-leafed June` & Gerard Manley Hopkins` `glassy peartree leaves & blooms` when ` Nothing is so beautiful as Spring`. As the year changes, so we change with it. Our daily lives have been shaped & directed by the seasons, & it is here that we find poems about harvest & hardship, growth & new life, the warmth of the life-giving sun, Christmas & the closing of the year. Poetry Please: Seasonal Poems is a vital & generous gathering to treasure. ...

Gilbert Highet was a legendary teacher at Columbia University, admired for his scholarship & his charisma as a lecturer. Poets in a Landscape is his delightful exploration of both Latin literature & the Italian landscape. As Highet writes in his introduction, ”I have endeavored to recall some of the greatest Roman poets by describing the places were they lived, recreating their characters & evoking the essence of their work.” The poets are Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, & Juvenal. Highet sketches the stories of the poets` lives & fills in the historical background, while offering crisp modern translations of their finest work & memorably vivid descriptions of the natural world. The result is an entirely sui generis amalgam of travel writing, biography, criticism, & pure poetry-altogether an unexcelled introduction to the world of the classics. ...

A literary ” Cheers”--filled with British charm & wit Comprised of an entertaining series of vignettes that occur at the Pelican Pub in Downish, Engl&, ” Poet`s Pub” is a humor-filled collection of stories by award winner Eric Linklater--one of the original titles commissioned by Penguin Classics founder Allen Lane--and again available to American readers. When an Oxford poet named Saturday Keith assumes control of the Pelican Pub, what he desires most is the peace & freedom to craft his poems without being disturbed. This is the least of what happens, for the local watering hole soon becomes an out-&-out attraction for various eccentric characters ranging from uncouth rogues to members of academia. ...

Map No. 2918, Pofadder, in South Africa’s official topographic survey at 1:250, 000 from the country’s national survey organization, the Chief Directorate of Surveys & Mapping. The maps have altitude colouring & contours at 50m or 100m intervals, depending on the map edition, plus spot heights. Deserts, marshes, dry pans, perennial & seasonal water features, etc, as well as protected areas are shown. The maps present the country’s road & rail networks & include the usual information expected on topographic mapping at this scale, although in more rapidly developing areas road information may not necessarily be up to date. Also indicated are magisterial district & provincial boundaries. Latitude & longitude values are shown in the margins at 5` intervals together with South African grid co-ordinates. Typically, each sheet covers an area of one degree of latitude & two degrees of longitude. The projection used is Gauss Conformal. The legend is in English & Afrikaans. ...

Pogórze Ciezkowickie in a series of detailed maps of Poland’s most popular recreational areas, showing waymarked hiking & cycling routes & various types of overnight accommodation, including local hotels, youth hostels, shelters & mountain huts, campsites, camping on local farms, etc. The maps also show various sport & recreational facilities: swimming pools, equestrian & watersport centres, etc. A wide range of other symbols highlight places of interest, local restaurants & bars, fuels supplies & other facilities. The base map is contoured (interval 5m, 10m, or 20m depending on the terrain), with, where appropriate, relief shading & graphic relief to enhance the presentation of the terrain. The maps also indicate various types of vegetation or land use. Road network

Includes:: unsurfaced country tracks & railway lines show local stations. The maps have 1km UTM grid. * Map legend

Includes:: English*.* In this title:* Pogórze Ciezkowickie, an interesting hiking area between Tarnów in the north-west & Jaslo in the south-east, bordered by the Biala & the Wisloka rivers.



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So shattering were the after-effects of Kishinev, the rampage that broke out in Russia in April 1903, that one historian remarked that it was ”nothing less than a prototype for the Holocaust itself”. In three days of violence, 49 Jews were killed & 600 raped or wounded, whilst more than 1, 000 Jewish-owned houses & stores were ransacked & destroyed. Recounted in lurid detail by newspapers throughout the Western world, the pre-Easter attacks seized the imagination of an international public, quickly becoming the prototype for what would become known as a ”pogrom” & providing the impetus for efforts as varied as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion & the NAACP. With new evidence from Russia, Israel & Europe, Steven J. Zipperstein brings historical insight & clarity to a much-misunderstood event. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

Pohorje in a series of double-sided maps at 1:40, 000 from Kartografija in Ljubljana, accompanied by an 87-page bilingual Slovenian/ English colour booklet with 60 pages of descriptions of the region’s numerous places of interest, plus brief descriptions of 29 recommended hiking trails & of 12 cycling routes, from 30km to 45km long & accompanied by route profiles. The maps in this series have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading & graphics to provide a very effective picture of the topography. Waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes are prominently highlighted & cross-referenced to their descriptions in the accompanying guides. A wide range of symbols provide information on various types of accommodation (rural hotels, motels, farms, mountain huts, campsites), recreational facilities, picturesque locations, etc. For drivers, locations of petrol stations are marked. Each map is double-sided, with a good overlap between the sides, & has latitude & longitude lines at 2’ intervals. The accompanying pocket guides are bilingual, Slovenian/ English, with around 60 to 80 pages. Approx. half are descriptions of places of interest, illustrated by colour photos. Descriptions of hiking routes give timings & the degree of difficulty, as do notes for cycling routes which are also accompanied by route profiles. Also provided is a list of mountain huts. Map legends & all the text include English. ...

Pohorje area at 1:50, 000 in a series of contoured, GPS compatible recreational maps from Planinska zveza Slovenie
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Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceaseless combat, wherever the French army fought its fiercest battles: Artois, Flanders, Champagne, Verdun, the Somme, the Argonne. Barthas` riveting wartime narrative, first published in France in 1978, presents the vivid, immediate experiences of a frontline soldier. This excellent new translation brings Barthas` wartime writings to English-language readers for the first time. His notebooks & letters represent the quintessential memoir of a ”poilu”, or ”hairy one”, as the untidy, unshaven French infantryman of the fighting trenches was familiarly known. Upon Barthas` return home in 1919, he painstakingly transcribed his day-to-day writings into nineteen notebooks, preserving not only his own story but also the larger story of the unnumbered soldiers who never returned. Recounting bloody battles & endless exhaustion, the deaths of comrades, the infuriating incompetence & tyranny of his own officers, Barthas also describes spontaneous acts of camaraderie between French poilus & their German foes in trenches just a few paces apart. An eloquent witness & keen observer, Barthas takes his readers directly into the heart of the Great War. ...