An inspiring book about intense physical & personal experience. Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of temporary escape from a failing marriage, a stifling religious environment & a series of health problems. Over four years, her encounters with the sea & all its weathers, the friendships she made, the wild creatures she encountered, combined to transform her life. This book is a love letter, to the beach where she swims regularly & its microcosmic world, to the ever-changing cold waters where the North Sea & the Atlantic Ocean meet, & to the seals, her constant companions. ...

This is a memoir of intense physical & personal experience, exploring how swimming with seals, gulls & orcas in the cold waters off Orkney provided Victoria Whitworth with an escape from a series of life crises & helped her to deal with intolerable loss. It is also a treasure chest of history & myth, local folklore & archaeological clues, giving us tantalising glimpses of Pictish & Viking men & women, those people lost to history, whose long-hidden secrets are sometimes yielded up by the land & sea. ...

Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. & then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector. Joris immersed himself in the City for a few years, speaking to over 200 people
- from the competitive investment bankers & elite hedge-fund managers to downtrodden back-office staff, reviled HR managers & those made redundant in the regular `culls`. Breaking the strictly imposed code of secrecy & silence, these insiders talked to Joris about what they actually do all day, how they see themselves & what makes them tick. They opened up about the toxic hiring & firing culture. They confessed to being overwhelmed by technological & mathematical opacity. They admitted that when Lehman Brothers went down in 2008 they hoarded food, put their money in gold & prepared to evacuate their children to the countryside. They agreed that nothing has changed since the crash. Joris had a chilling realisation. What if the bankers themselves aren`t the real enemy? What if the truth about global finance is more sinister than that?
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Is there anything quite so exhilarating as swimming in wild water? This is a joyful swimming tour of Britain, a frog`s-eye view of the country`s best bathing holes
- the rivers, rock pools, lakes, ponds, lochs & sea that define a watery isl&. Charming, funny, inspiring, an assertion of the native swimmer`s right to roam, a celebration of the magic of water
- this book will indeed make you want to strip off & leap in. Selected from the book Waterlog by Roger Deakin.

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Deep in the sea there lives a school of little fish. Their watery world is full of wonders, but there is also danger, & the little fish are afraid to come out of hiding...until Swimmy comes along. Swimmy shows his friends that, with ingenuity & team work, they can beat any bully. ...

Street by Street Swindon Midi has been fully updated with a stylish new cover design, in a handy glovebox size. Quick to navigate & easy-to-use, the maps clearly show AA recommended restaurants, pubs, hotels, one-way streets & car parks. Featuring a clever use of colour to ensure they can be read under street lighting, & National Grid referencing, the Street by Street Swindon Midi map is all you need to keep you on the move. ...

Map No. 173, Swindon & Devizes, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000 including Marlborough, Cricklade, Stanton Fitzwarren, Wroughton, Rockley, Uffcott, Clench Commeon, Pewsey, Rushall, Chirton, All Cannings, Bishops Cannongs, Avebury, Cherhill, Winterbourne Bassett, Wotton Bassett, Hook, Purton, Minety, Charlton, Brinkworth, Malmesbury, Hankerton, Oaksey, Tetbury, Leigherton, Didmarton, Sherston, Hullavington, Castle Combe, Dauntsey, Kington Langley, Ford, Chippenham, Colerne, Bremhill, Corsham, Box, Lacock, Monkton Farleigh, Calne, Melsham, Bromham, Bishops Canning, Seend, Keevil, Potterne, Urchfont, Bradford-on-Avon & Trowbridge, with the Vale of Pewsay, Cotswold Hills, the western section of the Ridgeway & part of the Thames Path. Edition D2; Revised for selected changes 2009; Copyright date 2009 This title is also available on our website in a waterproof & tear-resistant version. Maps in this series are only published folded. Stanfords can also print flat versions of Ordnance Survey maps through the OS Select system, centring the map on a location of your choice & with a picture provided by you on the cover. For more information please click on the link at the bottom of this description. About Ordnance Survey ...

Map No. 173, Swindon & Devizes 1817-1830, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. * Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc.* New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Marlborough, Cricklade, Stanton Fitzwarren, Wroughton, Rockley, Uffcott, Clench Commeon, Pewsey, Rushall, Chirton, All Cannings, Bishops Cannongs, Avebury, Cherhill, Winterbourne Bassett, Wotton Bassett, Hook, Purton, Minety, Charlton, Brinkworth, Malmesbury, Hankerton, Oaksey, Tetbury, Leigherton, Didmarton, Sherston, Hullavington, Castle Combe, Dauntsey, Kington Langley, Ford, Chippenham, Colerne, Bremhill, Corsham, Box, Lacock, Monkton Farleigh, Calne, Melsham, Bromham, Bishops Canning, Seend, Keevil, Potterne, Urchfont, Bradford-on-Avon & Trowbridge, with the Vale of Pewsay & the Cotswold Hills.* PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.



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Map No. 173, Swindon & Devizes 1817-1919 (3-map set), in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring. Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines. Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Marlborough, Cricklade, Stanton Fitzwarren, Wroughton, Rockley, Uffcott, Clench Commeon, Pewsey, Rushall, Chirton, All Cannings, Bishops Cannongs, Avebury, Cherhill, Winterbourne Bassett, Wotton Bassett, Hook, Purton, Minety, Charlton, Brinkworth, Malmesbury, Hankerton, Oaksey, Tetbury, Leigherton, Didmarton, Sherston, Hullavington, Castle Combe, Dauntsey, Kington Langley, Ford, Chippenham, Colerne, Bremhill, Corsham, Box, Lacock, Monkton Farleigh, Calne, Melsham, Bromham, Bishops Canning, Seend, Keevil, Potterne, Urchfont, Bradford-on-Avon & Trowbridge, with the Vale of Pewsay & the Cotswold Hills. PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series centring the map on a location of your choice. For more information please click on the link below.



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Map No. 173, Swindon & Devizes 1898-1899, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. * Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc.* New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: present day Marlborough, Cricklade, Stanton Fitzwarren, Wroughton, Rockley, Uffcott, Clench Commeon, Pewsey, Rushall, Chirton, All Cannings, Bishops Cannongs, Avebury, Cherhill, Winterbourne Bassett, Wotton Bassett, Hook, Purton, Minety, Charlton, Brinkworth, Malmesbury, Hankerton, Oaksey, Tetbury, Leigherton, Didmarton, Sherston, Hullavington, Castle Combe, Dauntsey, Kington Langley, Ford, Chippenham, Colerne, Bremhill, Corsham, Box, Lacock, Monkton Farleigh, Calne, Melsham, Bromham, Bishops Canning, Seend, Keevil, Potterne, Urchfont, Bradford-on-Avon & Trowbridge, with the Vale of Pewsay & the Cotswold Hills.* PLEASE NOTE: Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all four series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.



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