A. N. Wilson`s powerful new novel explores the life & times of one of the greatest British explorers, Captain Cook, & the golden age of Britain`s period of expansion & exploration. Wilson`s protagonist, witness to Cook`s brilliance & wisdom, is George Forster, who travelled with Cook as botanist on board the HMS Resolution, on Cook`s second expedition to the southern hemisphere, & penned a famous account of the journey. Resolution moves back & forth across time, to depict Forster`s time with Cook, & his extraordinary later life, which ended with his death in Paris, during the French Revolution. Wilson once again demonstrates his great powers as a master craftsman of the historical & the human in this richly evoked novel, which brings to life the real & the extraordinary, brilliantly drawing together a remarkable cast of characters in order to look at human endeavour, ingenuity & valour. ...

John Manners, Marquis of Granby, famously led a cavalry charge during the Seven Years War in 1760, losing both hat & wig. A commander of skill & courage, he was cherished by his men & lauded by the British public as an authentic military hero. Granby predeceased his father, the 3rd Duke of Rutl&, & never inherited his title, but left two sons whose contrasting fortunes & tragically short lives are the subject of this meticulously researched & richly illustrated book. Charles became 4th Duke in 1779, sought reconciliation with the American colonies & was Viceroy of Ireland; Robert embarked on a naval career, became flag captain of the Resolution & died of injuries sustained at the Battle of the Saintes. Based upon the detailed archives held at Belvoir Castle, Resolution is both an enthralling saga of two generations of the Manners family & a finely delineated portrait of aristocratic, political & naval life in mid-Georgian Engl&. ...

The 30th session of the IMO Assembly took place at the Headquarters of the Organization from 27 November to 6 December 2017. This publication contains, amongst others, resolutions pertaining to:• Revised Guidelines on the Implementation of the International Safety Management (ISM) Code by Administrations• Procedures for port State control, 2017• Code for the transport & handling of hazardous & noxious liquid substances in bulk on offshore support vessels (OSV Chemical Code)• Survey Guidelines under the Harmonized System of Surveyand Certification (HSSC), 2017• 2017 Non-exhaustive list of obligations under instruments relevant to the IMO Instruments Implementation Code (III Code). ...

Side A is a full length map of the Maldives showing atolls, resorts & islands. It has an index of resorts with a grid reference for easy location. The map also

Includes:: Protected Marine Areas. Side B

Includes:: a fish poster map showing 12 common sharks & rays, & 83 common fish species.



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Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of ...

` Pithy & provoking, spiced with the personal` Hilary Mantel Lynsey Hanley grew up part of the `respectable working class`. At university, she discovered that social mobility is not all it seems. This book is about what it means to cross class divides, what we leave behind in order to get on, & how class affects all of us today. ` There is fury contained within the pages & between the lines of Respectable.. .intelligent & important` Colin Grant, Guardian ` Honest, brave & moving` Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level ` Lynsey Hanley is such a crucial voice. When she writes about class, she is writing about lived experience` Owen Jones, New Statesman ` Hanley vividly describes the ”risky, lonely journey” she undertook from one class to another.. . She is tremendous at detailing her personal transition` Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday ...

Society is often talked about as a ladder, from which you can climb from bottom to top. The walls are less talked about. This book is about how people try to get over them, whether they manage to or not. In autumn 1992, growing up on a vast Birmingham estate, the sixteen-year-old Lynsey Hanley went to sixth-form college. She knew that it would change her life, but was entirely unprepared for the price she would have to pay: to leave behind her working-class world & become middle class. Class remains resolutely with us, as strongly as it did fifty years ago, & with it the idea of aspiration, of social mobility, which received wisdom tells us is an unequivocally positive phenomenon, for individuals & for society as a whole. Yet for the many millions who experience it, changing class is like emigrating from one side of the world to another: a lonely, anxious, psychologically disruptive process of uprooting, which leaves people divided between the place they left & the place they have to inhabit in order to get on. In this empathic, wry & passionate exploration of class in Britain today, Lynsey Hanley looks at how people are kept apart, & keep themselves apart
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This publication provides Guidelines on international offers of assistance (IOA) in response to a marine oil pollution incident & is designed for use by any country, particularly parties to the International Convention on Oil Pollution Preparedness, Response & Co-operation, 1990 (OPRC 1990), as a tool to assist in managing requests for spill response resources & offers of assistance from other countries & organizations when confronted with large, complex or significant oil spill incidents. Although developed by a technical group of the IMO, these guidelines could be used during large, complex or significant oil spills within inland areas as well as marine or coastal environments. While these guidelines can play an important role in the implementation of the OPRC 1990 Convention, they are not prescriptive or legally binding, & are meant as a tool to assist as needed. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

In the long run, we`re all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated & even filed away in a lawyer`s office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs & nether regions have embarked on voyages that criss-cross the globe & stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln`s corpse. Einstein`s brain went on a cross-country road trip. & after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy
- which they drank. From Mozart to Hitler, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious & horrifying adventures of their corpses, & traces the evolution of cultural attitudes towards death.
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