Portobello Road is London`s most iconic street & a unique place to live & visit. Despite the waves of gentrification, soaring rents & the recent arrival of High Street chains, its Bohemian, anarchic, creative spirit still survives. Julian Mash, a former bookseller at the famous Travel Bookshop, meets the traders & shopkeepers, film-makers & fashionistas, punks, promoters & poets who make Portobello what it is. From his encounters with famous residents like Damon Albarn & life-long market traders like Peter Cain there emerges a vivid & sometimes surprising picture of one of Britain`s most famous neighbourhoods. This fascinatingly illustrated book explores how Portobello Road has been at the centre of trends as diverse as racial integration, health food, vintage fashion, the property boom & the life & death of record shops. ...

Portobello Road is London`s most iconic street & a unique place to live & visit. Despite the waves of gentrification, soaring rents & the recent arrival of High Street chains, its Bohemian, anarchic, creative spirit still survives. Julian Mash, a former bookseller at the famous Travel Bookshop, meets the traders & shopkeepers, film-makers & fashionistas, punks, promoters & poets who make Portobello what it is. From his encounters with famous residents like Damon Albarn & life-long market traders like Peter Cain there emerges a vivid & sometimes surprising picture of one of Britain`s most famous neighbourhoods. This fascinatingly illustrated book explores how Portobello Road has been at the centre of trends as diverse as racial integration, health food, vintage fashion, the property boom & the life & death of record shops. ...

Portobello Market has been going since 1860. It boasts the largest antiques street market in the world, is a source of inspiration for fashion designers, song writers & film directors, receives over a million visitors a year.. .and is at risk. In Portobello Voices, Blanche Girouard introduces us to the intoxicating mix of characters that make the market buzz
- from the antique dealer to rubbish collector, sausage seller to fur coat vendor, Afghan battery seller to public school entrepreneur. Listening to their stories, learn how to spot a fake, store a fur & make a tin pan; find out what lies behind an obsession with collecting, a passion for buttons & the gusset in boxer shorts & hear how experiences of loss, abandonment & estrangement lead to a life as a market trader. Read the book, rediscover the market & become part of the solution to preserving the wonder that is Portobello.
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Portobello West area of Edinburgh 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 eastern tip of Edinburgh & western part of Portobello, stretching from Wolseley Crescent & Piershill Barracks eastward to Lee Crescent. Features include NBR railway with Piershill station (at western edge of map), Portobello station, engineering works, Jock's Lodge area, Restalrig, Edinburgh & Portobello Cemetery, tramway & depot, Rosebank area, Brighton Park, Portobello High Street, Harbour Green, Duddingston Mills, Cauvin's Hospital, etc. On the reverse is most of the adjacent sheet 4.01 extending coverage northward to Restalrig House, Craigentinny Meadows, NBR South Leith Branch, Seafield, Seafield Cemetery. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico Português, the country’s civilian survey organisation. The maps have contours at 25m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of vegetation (vineyards, olive groves, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5miles approx). The maps have latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1’ intervals & UTM coordinates for the map corners – each sheet also shows conversion details from BBLx (Bessel-Bonnie system, Datum Lisbon) to UTM. Map legend is in Portuguese only.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series have now been updated in the 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming & cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this portrait of a `young woman affronting her destiny`, Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, & a story of intense poignancy. ...

Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster`s blood on his hands. The motive for this murder? A perversion of artistic ambition. After a lifetime lived in the shadows, he has strayed too close to the sun. Fittingly for such an enigmatic writer, Portrait of a Man is both Perec`s first novel & his last. Frustrated in his efforts to find a publisher, he put it aside, telling a friend: ”I`ll go back to it in ten years when it`ll turn into a masterpiece, or else I`ll wait in my grave until one of my faithful exegetes comes across it in an old trunk.” An apt coda to one of the brightest literary careers of the twentieth century, it is
- in the words of David Bellos, the ”faithful exegete” who brought it to light
- ”connected by a hundred threads to every part of the literary universe that Perec went on to create
- but it`s not like anything else that he wrote”.


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Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 & met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931. Thus begins a classic crime novel published in 1933, a riveting portrait of the psychology of a murderer. Each December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family to stay at his lonely house, Kings Poplars. None of Gray`s six surviving children is fond of him; several have cause to wish him dead. The family gathers on Christmas Eve
- & by the following morning, their wish has been granted. This fascinating & unusual novel tells the story of what happened that dark Christmas night; & what the murderer did next.
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Portrait of a Turkish Family is a masterpiece of memoir writing. Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a harem, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother was an eccentric autocrat, determined at all costs to maintain her traditional habits. But the First World War changed everything. Death & financial disaster reigned, the Sultan was overthrown & Turkey became a republic. The family was forced to adapt to an unimaginably impoverished life. In 1941 Irfan Orga arrived in London, & seven years later he wrote this almost painfully honest portrait of the extraordinary story of his family`s survival. It is a compelling read, beautifully written, & full of insights into both ancient traditions & the changes brought about by war & revolution. ...