We are able to source a wide range flags in many sizes, sewn or printed on 100% Ministry Of Defence Standard Woven & Knitted Polyester. Flags are supplied with rope & toggle. If you would like more information, have a custom size request or cannot find a desired product, please email us at maritime@stanfords.co.uk. We will be glad to help! ...

Sublime landscapes, tranquil urban scenes, frolicking children; who would associate these images with Palestine. All too often the Western media show the country`s gloomy side, & Palestinians as aggressors. It is this that makes identifying with them very difficult. The Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers & designers to map their country as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human expressions of the landscape & the architecture, the cuisine, the music & the poetry of thought & expression. The drawings, maps & photographs made for the atals reveal individual life experiences; from preparing chickpeas to a manual on water pipe smoking, from historic dress to modern music. Pages containing humorous & caustic newspaper cartoons & invented Palestinian currency alternate with colourful cultural diaries & moving letters from prisoners. ...

Another luxury for everyday use from Paperblanks, the cover of this high quality midi format address book was inspired by ...

Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed (” Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner”) & his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, ”a hippy-looking twonk”, he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity
- before he turns sixteeen
- to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine & find out...

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In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersive to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense & enduring romance... ...

Londoners & visitors alike are fascinated by the life of the capital beneath their feet. Lost Rivers, pipes of many kinds, sewers, crypts & catacombs, tunnels used or abandoned, ring mains, railways, secret bunkers & pneumatic tubes are all there in a sometimes complex arrangement. This book tells the reader what can be found & seen right up to date, including the considerable engineering achievements of the past & present; the Roman amphitheatre under Guildhall; the first tunnel beneath the Thames, the world`s first underground railway, & the first proper sewerage system installed in any city. ...

Peel back the layers under a London street & you`ll discover a haunting, dreamlike world of h&-laid brick sewers, forgotten tube stations, World War II evacuation shelters, secret government bunkers, & tunnel boring machines laying new sewer, communication & transport grids. Bradley L. Garrett has worked with explorers of subterranean London to collect an astonishing array of images documenting forbidden infiltrations into the secret bowels of the city. This book takes readers through progressively deeper levels of London`s historical & contemporary architecture below the streets. Beautifully designed to allow for detailed viewing & featuring bespoke illustrations by artist Stephen Walter, Subterranean London reveals the locations few dare to go, & even fewer succeed in accessing. ...

Under the monumental Rome lies another Rome with its fascinating & unsuspected treasures of art & history. There are nympheums, places of pleasure & physical & spiritual refreshment; columbaria with their astonishing funerary architecture; & hypogeums & underground passages that still preserve precious works of art beneath churches, palaces & even in the basements of unpromising-looking houses. However, subterranean Rome does not consist only of mysterious & sacred places, for we also find urban & secular structures like the quarters of the Seventh Cohort of Guards, or the famous Golden House, the Domus Aurea. This text provides a cross-section that best embodies the variegated panorama of subterranean Rome. ...

Subterraneans is another frenetically typed (in three days) ride into the world of Jack Kerouac, for although classed as fiction The Subterraneans is, like all of his work, closely related to his own life while encapsulating his great vision of America. Leo Percepied, aspiring writer & self-styled free-wheeling bum, gravitates to the subterraneans, impoverished intellectuals who haunt the bars of San Francisco. One of them is Mardou Fox, part Negro, part Cherokee, beautiful & a little crazy, whose dark eyes full of suffering & sweetness find recognition in Leo. But, afraid of his growing involvement, Leo sets out to destroy their love through betrayal & drunkenness. ...

A selection of the finest stories by this female Chekhov Teffi`s genius with the short form made her a literary star in pre-revolutionary Russia, beloved by Tsar Nicholas II & Vladimir Lenin alike. These stories, taken from the whole of her career, show the full range of her gifts. Extremely funny
- a wry, scathing observer of society
- she is also capable, as capable even as Chekhov, of miraculous subtlety & depth of character. There are stories here from her own life (as a child, going to meet Tolstoy to plead for the life of War & Peace`s Prince Bolkonsky, or, much later, her strange, charged meetings with the already-legendary Rasputin). There are stories of emigre society, its members held together by mutual repulsion. There are stories of people misunderstanding each other or misrepresenting themselves. & throughout there is a sly, sardonic wit & a deep, compelling intelligence. Teffi was a phenomenally popular writer in pre-revolutionary Russia
- a favourite of Tsar Nicholas II & Vladimir Lenin alike. She was born in 1872 into a prominent St Petersburg family & emigrated from Bolshevik Russia in 1919. She eventually settled in Paris, where she became an important figure in the emigre literary scene, & where she lived until her death in 1952. A master of the short form, in her lifetime Teffi published countless stories, plays & feuilletons. After her death, she was gradually forgotten, but the collapse of the Soviet Union brought about her rediscovery by Russian readers. Now, nearly a century after her emigration, she once again enjoys critical acclaim & a wide readership in her motherl&. ` Made me fall in love...[ Teffi] can write in more registers than you might think, & is capable of being heartbreaking as well as very funny. I wish she were still alive, & I could have met her. But then I realised she would have seen right through me. I can`t recommend her strongly enough` Nicholas Lezard, Guardian, Book of the Week


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