This beautiful Solitaire Game is colorful, educational & decorative. The glass marbles have been hand cut & hand polished. They truly stand out against the beautiful mahogany h&-turned board.

Includes:: 38 hand made marbles. Even when you`re not playing the game, it is decorative enough to be placed on a coffee table & it becomes a conversation piece. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk

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The Black Solitaire Maglite AAA flashlight combines powerful performance, quality & durability with a stylish look. The case is made from rugged machined aluminium & it is anodised inside & out for corrosion resistance & durability, its beam can reach up to 20 metres & brightness of 2 lumens. Features include:- A punctured hole in the tail cap for key ring.- Key ring & string.- Adjustable beam from flood to spot.- Powered by 1 AAA batteries which is included.- Spare lamp inside the tail cap.- Manufacturer Warranty. Maglite flashlights are known for their high performance, quality, durability & their compact, yet stylish design. Packaged in a black hard case, with 5 different colours & 3 different sizes to choose from, there is one for any occasion, taste & use. ...

The Blue Solitaire Maglite AAA flashlight combines powerful performance, quality & durability with a stylish look. The case is made from rugged machined aluminium & it is anodised inside & out for corrosion resistance & durability, its beam can reach up to 20 metres & brightness of 2 lumens. Features include:- A punctured hole in the tail cap for key ring.- Key ring & string.- Adjustable beam from flood to spot.- Powered by 1 AAA batteries which is included.- Spare lamp inside the tail cap.- Manufacturer Warranty. Maglite flashlights are known for their high performance, quality, durability & their compact, yet stylish design. Packaged in a black hard case, with 5 different colours & 3 different sizes to choose from, there is one for any occasion, taste & use. ...

The Grey Solitaire Maglite AAA flashlight combines powerful performance, quality & durability with a stylish look. The case is made from rugged machined aluminium & it is anodised inside & out for corrosion resistance & durability, its beam can reach up to 20 metres & brightness of 2 lumens. Features include:- A punctured hole in the tail cap for key ring.- Key ring & string.- Adjustable beam from flood to spot.- Powered by 1 AAA batteries which is included.- Spare lamp inside the tail cap.- Manufacturer Warranty. Maglite flashlights are known for their high performance, quality, durability & their compact, yet stylish design. Packaged in a black hard case, with 5 different colours & 3 different sizes to choose from, there is one for any occasion, taste & use. ...

The Red Solitaire Maglite AAA flashlight combines powerful performance, quality & durability with a stylish look. The case is made from rugged machined aluminium & it is anodised inside & out for corrosion resistance & durability, its beam can reach up to 20 metres & brightness of 2 lumens. Features include:- A punctured hole in the tail cap for key ring.- Key ring & string.- Adjustable beam from flood to spot.- Powered by 1 AAA batteries which is included.- Spare lamp inside the tail cap.- Manufacturer Warranty. Maglite flashlights are known for their high performance, quality, durability & their compact, yet stylish design. Packaged in a black hard case, with 5 different colours & 3 different sizes to choose from, there is one for any occasion, taste & use. ...

Les Powles only had 8 hours of sailing experience when he decided to sail solo around the world. Many novices would be content to just dream of such an adventure, & maybe get as far as a solo Channel crossing a couple of years down the line. Not so Les Powles, one of the twentieth century`s most extraordinary & eccentric sailors. Les was in his 50s when he built himself a yacht with little prior knowledge of boatbuilding. Remarkably he made it across the Atlantic, though his navigation skills didn`t match his boatbuilding abilities; his first landfall was Brazil. He`d been aiming for Barbados
- 100 miles north, & in a different hemisphere! Three complete solo circumnavigations followed, all of them full of incident. The last one saw him given up for dead when he hadn`t been heard from for four months. His boat had been damaged in a storm, he`d lost all communications & had virtually run out of food. When he sailed up the Lymington River (aged 70) in a skeletal state his arrival caused a media frenzy. Lymington Yacht Haven subsequently gave him a free berth for life.A terrific achiever who has beaten the odds, Les Powles tells his story in a lively, entertaining, humorous & compelling way. It will resonate with sailors & non sailors alike, & may inspire one of them to become the twenty-first century`s Les Powles.
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TO SAVE HER OWN LIFE, WILL SHE SACRIFICE ANOTHER? June 1940: the first summer of the war. Berlin is being bombed & nightly blackouts suffocate the city. Then France falls & a shadow descends. A shadow has fallen over Clara Vine`s own life, too. She is an Anglo-German woman in a country that hates Engl&. Then she is summoned to meet the Propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, who has decided that Clara should adopt a new role
- as his spy. Much as she dislikes the idea, Clara realises this might be the chance to find an escape route to Engl&. But Goebbels has other ideas & soon Clara is drawn into a web that threatens to destroy her. As everything she holds dear is taken as ransom, she must fight to protect her family
- & to survive... Solitaire delivers brilliantly engrossing wartime fiction for fans of Sadie Jones, Rosie Thomas & Irene Nemirovsky. Praise for Jane Thynne`s Clara Vine novels: ` An absolute cracker of a read...fast-paced & gripping from the start` Sunday Times `A thoroughly enjoyable read: fast-paced, atmospheric & genuinely suspenseful` Mail on Sunday ` Terrific` Elizabeth Buchan

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This first thoroughly researched biography of the most famous of all sailors reveals many aspects of his personality which were not evident in his autobiography. This is more than a chronological record; it is also a psychological investigation of a man representative of his era. ...

A collection of poems which capture the experience of solitude- by day or night, in the city or in the country, in waking or in dreams. There are contented reveries, expressions of loneliness & despair, reflections on mind & soul, & meditations recorded in the stillness of the night. Poets can be said to be the custodians of the interior life, & from Sappho`s ” Tonight I`ve watched” to Emily Dickinson`s ”I`m Nobody! Who are you?” & from Yeats`s communion with `the deep heart`s core` in ” The Lake Isle of Innisfree” to Bei Dao`s veneration of ” Ordinary Days”, some of the most indelible poems from every time & culture have grown out of the aloneness inherent in the poet`s art. & for readers who either seek or escape from solitude, all of the poets in this anthology
- from Sappho & Callimachus to Mark Strand & Richard Wilbur
- offer words to console & inspire. They remind us that in cultivating solitude we explore the limits of our imaginations & realize our mostprofound feelings & needs.

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`A compelling study of the subtle ways in which modern life & technologies have transformed our behaviour & sense of self.` Times Literary Supplement In a world of social media & smartphones, true solitude has become increasingly hard to find. In this timely & important book, award-winning writer Michael Harris reveals why our hyper-connected society makes time alone more crucial than ever. He delves into the latest neuroscience to examine the way innovations like Google Maps & Facebook are eroding our ability to be by ourselves. He tells the stories of the remarkable people
- from pioneering computer scientists to great nineteenth-century novelists
- who managed to find solitude in the most unexpected of places. & he explores how solitude can bring clarity & creativity to each of our inner lives. Urgent, eloquent & beautifully argued, Solitude might just change the way you think about being alone.` Speaks to a long-overdue conversation we still haven`t properly had in our society.` Vice`A timely, elegant provocation to daydream & wander.` Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall`A poetic, contemplative journey into the benefits of solo sojourning.` Elle

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