Samson is the star of Fleabag`s Circus
- this strong-flea can lift a match, he can lift a pea, he can lift lovely flea Amelie.
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Samtskhe-Javakheti
- Shida Kartli Regions of Georgia at 1:200, 000 on double-sided road map from Geoland with topographic & tourist
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This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, centres on Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), the famous diarist & the greatest administrator of the Stuart Age. Not only a passionate diarist, Pepys was also a prolific correspondent who lived through & wrote about all the key events & leading individuals of his time: the Restoration of Charles II, the Great Plague, the Fire of London, the raid of the Dutch fleet in the river Medway, the Kings mistresses. Through a series of essays by leading experts, this publication reveals the rich diversity of his career & interests from the theatre, to advances in science & development of the Royal Navy. His life was so utterly entwined with the extraordinary period he lived through he was even a witness to the beheading of Charles I that the book becomes a portrait of the age. Each chapter has two or three essays followed by discussion of specific objects & paintings. ...

WINNER OF THE 2002 WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDIn Samuel Pepys
- The Unequalled Self, Claire Tomalin brings a brilliantly
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Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year. Immaculately well done. Tomalin has managed to unearth a wealth of material about the uncharted life of Samuel Pepys. (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday). Sex, drink, plague, fire, music, marital conflict, the fall of kings, corruption & courage in public life, wars, navies, public execution, incarceration in the Tower: Samuel Pepys' life is full of irresistible material, & Claire Tomalin seizes it with both hands. Fast, vivid, accessible. (Hermione Lee, Guardian). A rich, thoughtful & deeply satisfying account. It takes us behind & beyond the diary
- which means that, on finishing it, we can reread the diary with greater pleasure & understanding then ever before. (Noel Malcolm, Evening Standard). In Claire Tomalin, Pepys has found the biographer he deserves. Her perceptive, level-headed book finally restores to the life of the diarist its weight & dignity. (Lisa Jardine, New Statesman). A great achievement & a huge pleasure. A vivid chronicle of contemporary history seen through the all too human preoccupations of this ordinary & extraordinary man. (Diana Souhami, Independent). From the acclaimed author of Charles Dickens: A Life & The Invisible Woman, this celebrated biography casts new light on the remarkable diaries of Pepys & brings his story vividly to life once more. Claire Tomalin is the award-winning author of eight highly acclaimed biographies, including: The Life & Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; Shelley & His World; Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life; The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan & Charles Dickens; Mrs Jordan's Profession; Jane Austen: A Life; Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self; Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man &, most recently, Charles Dickens: A Life. A former literary editor of the New Statesman & the Sunday Times, she is married to the playwright & novelist Michael Frayn.
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Samurai Castles features hundreds of stunning color photographs & little-known details about the most important & well-preserved ...

See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it
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In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the the East India Trading Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of ships bound for Asia, & he had washed up in the forbidden land of Japan. The traders were even more amazed to learn that, rather than be horrified by this strange country, Adams had fallen in love with the barbaric splendour of Japan
- & decided to settle. He had forged a close friendship with the ruthless Shogun, taken a Japanese wife & sired a new, mixed-race family. Adams` letter fired up the London merchants to plan a new expedition to the Far East, with designs to trade with the Japanese & use Adams` contacts there to forge new commercial links. SAMURAI WILLIAM brilliantly illuminates a world whose horizons were rapidly expanding eastwards.
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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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Topographic coverage of the Balearic Islands at 1:25, 000 published by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional – Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic mapping at this scale: detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. The majority of the titles have been published since late 1990s. Map legend is in Spanish only.COVERAGE: each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter, & IV = SE quarter. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...