Sevastopol (Sebastopol) street plan from Kartografija Kiev, with additional coverage of Balaklava, in a Cyrillic edition but with English map legend. An enlargement shows the city centre of Sevastopol at 1:12, 000 & a road map of south-western Crimea is also provided. Main traffic arteries are highlighted & streets are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. A wide range of symbols highlight various facilities & places of interest, e.g. hotels, cultural institutions, places of worship, markets, petrol stations, etc. An enlargement shows the city centre of Sevastopol at 1:12, 000 in greater detail, & a separate inset covers Balaklava at the same scale of 1:20, 000 as the main map. On the reverse is a street index, plus extensive lists of various services & places of interest. Also included is a road map showing south-western Crimea with the coast to Yalta at 1:300, 000, plus notes on the history of Sevastopol Map legends for the plan & the road map include English. All additional text is in Ukrainian only. ...

In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge & romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil & change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of Louis-Napoleon & Eugenie, & the First World War & De Gaulle. Interweaving historical narrative with telling detail, this is a fluent & definitive work of social & cultural history. ...

Seven Days is a story of adventure & spirituality as father & son travel the ” Rue du Bonjour” across the pilgrim route of the high Pyrenees. It is a journey with a writer grappling with some of the questions of modern life, his love for the mountains, his beliefs & aspirations & examples set both by his father & the enigmatic fellow traveller they meet in a remote auberge who comes to symbolise & shadow their sojourn, a man he nicknames Hemingway, although he is neither a writer nor an American.A wonderfully engaging work of travel, discovery, & contemplation by an exciting new voice. ...

Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies. Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. The search for the house`s absent owners brings Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne, where he finds more than one motive to stay & investigate. Seven Dead is an atmospheric crime novel first published in 1939. ...

When Lance Armstrong fought back from life-threatening cancer to win the 1999 Tour de France
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The Argentines grill more meat per capita than any nation on earth. Francis Mallmann was raised in the mountains of Patagonia, trained in the great kitchens of Europe, & returned home to become the top chef in Buenos Aires & the biggest star on South American food television. In 1995 he gave up cooking fancy food & applied all the lessons of haute cuisine to maximizing flavor & texture with wood-fired cookery. His food is astoundingly bright & vivid with burnt, crusty tastes both rustic & refined. Recipes range across the menu, including non-grilled recipes for what to eat while you`re building the fire. Most recipes are adapted for cooking indoors, so this is a cookbook for any season, any kitchen. Francis` seven fires are: Chapa
- a cast iron griddle or skillet (the form most used in this book); Little Hell
- cooking with fire above & below the food; Parilla
- basically what`s called barbecuing or grilling in the US; Horno de Barro
- cooking in a wood-fired clay oven; Rescoldo
- cooking food by burying in hot embers & ashes; Asador
- cooking whole pigs or lambs affixed to an iron cross that faces a bonfire; &, Caldero
- cooking in an iron cauldron or Dutch oven.






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The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip & orchid: seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises & secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle yet powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power & how did it develop? Why have these particular plants become the focus of gardens, literature & art? In order to find the answers, author & horticultural historian Jennifer Potter tracks this septet of flowers across the globe as she examines the influence they have had on civilizations through the ages. These are both histories & detective stories, full of incident & unexpected revelations. Here are the flowers of life & death; of purity & passion; of greed, envy & virtue; of hope & consolation; of the beauty that drives men wild. All seven demonstrate the enduring ability of flowers to speak metaphorically
- if we could only decode what they have to say. Please click on this link to view the full reference notes to Seven Flowers: http://atlantic-books.co.uk/content/notes-seven-flower
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Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics & dreamers inhabit the bizarre & exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany & Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love & desire
- from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, & Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.
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5 Seven Kings in 1894 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. Two versions have been published for this area to show how it developed across the years
- the two maps are from different series, Essex Old & New Series, & so the sheetlines are somewhat different The Seven Kings 1894 map covers an area from Queen`s Road & Sams Green eastward to Goodmayes Lodge & Goodmayes Lane; & from Ilford Cemetery northward to Wards Lane & Stump Cross. Newbury Park branch has not been built & Seven Kings station has not been opened. Features include Seven Kings Farm, Aldborough Cottages, St Mary`s church, Cauliflower Road, Ash Grove. The map show an area somewhat to the north, although overlapping with the later 1915 map. The Goodmayes 1915 map captures the eastern side of Ilford, extending to Goodmayes: an area that stretches from Sunnyside Road & Connaught Road eastward to Hazeldene Road & Colinton Road at Goodmayes, & from Cambridge Road & Seven Kings station southward to Mortlake Road & Longbridge Road. Features include the GER main line & Newbury Park Junction, St Mary`s church, Ilford Cemetery, South Park, All Saints church Goodmayes, Goodmayes Farm. The southern half of the map is still quite rural, with Goodmayes Lane winding its way across the map, but the northern half is already lined with streets. This version links more conveniently with the London series. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: 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. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.
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`I had been commissioned to go anywhere in the world I wished & write whatever pleased me. My only orders were to move fast, visit strange places, to meet whomever was interesting
- & to start at once, ` Richard Halliburton`s fifth & last book, Seven League boots illustrates how he followed these orders with passion & abandon. America`s favorite adventurer dined with Haile Selassie & rode the Rhinoceros Express in Ethiopia; he had an audience with King Ibn Saud outside the gates of Mecca (which he had tried to sneak into) & finally rode an elephant over the Alps in the tracks of another great adventurer, Hannibal. This is Halliburton at his best: reckless & romantic. It is also the last chapter of a life that had, at its end, grown tragic. Nearing forty, physically exhausted, & in financial trouble, Halliburton thought to roll the dice once again, hoping that the charm which had always saved him in the past would materialize one more time. But it was not to be. His last journey was fatal. Soon after finishing this book, he attempted to sail a junk across the Pacific, but never returned.
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