This guide is a celebration of the beauty of birds & the British & Irish countryside. Aimed at beginner & intermediate birders, yet suitable for all levels, this new volume in the groundbreaking Crossley ID Guide series is the most user-friendly guide to the birds of Britain & Irel&. Following The Crossley ID Guides` award-winning design, this book looks at all regularly occurring species in Britain & Irel&, & shows readers how to identify birds in their natural habitats using size, structure, shape, probability, & behavior
- just like the experts do! stunning images are accompanied by the colorful & compelling text of Dominic Couzens, one of Britain`s leading nature writers. This unique book treats more than 300 species
- all the regularly occurring birds likely to be encountered by observers
- & the guide`s attractive pages provide a real-life approach to bird identification. Beautiful, in-focus scenes present birds in various plumages & in lifelike poses set in identifiable British & Irish habitats. The plates also illustrate how a bird`s appearance changes with distance. Organising images in cohesive, easy-to-understand plates rather than as separate photographs, this book also sets itself apart by containing more images that demonstrate flight, behavior, habitat, & plumages than any other volume available. Not only is this field guide a reference book, it is also a spectacular teaching resource that makes it easy for nature enthusiasts to see & appreciate the big picture of bird identification.

Features: the most user-friendly guide to the birds of Britain & Ireland; a close look at more than 300 regularly occurring species; award-winning Crossley ID Guide design; lifelike images of birds from near to far; a celebration of the British & Irish countryside; a teaching & field guide & essential reference; & concise & compelling text by Dominic Couzens & Richard Crossley.




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Cristiano is thirteen. Home life is far from perfect. When his father & two friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance of a better life. As a tremendous storm brews that night, Cristiano will have to put childhood behind him once & for all, & the perfect crime will have shocking consequences. ...

A BBC Radio 4 ` Book of the Week` in 2018. In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the journey after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him. For ten months he hiked alone on ancient paths, crossing ten countries & more than 5, 500 kilometres. The Crossway is an account of this extraordinary adventure. Having left home on New Year’s Day, Stagg climbed over the Alps in midwinter, spent Easter in Rome with a new pope, joined mass protests in Istanbul & survived a terrorist attack in Lebanon. Travelling without support, he had to rely each night on the generosity of strangers, staying with monks & nuns, priests & families. As a result, he gained a unique insight into the lives of contemporary believers & learnt the fascinating stories of the soldiers & saints, missionaries & martyrs who had followed these paths before him. The Crossway is a book full of wonders, mixing travel & memoir, history & current affairs. At once intimate & epic, it charts the author’s struggle to walk towards recovery, & asks whether religion can still have meaning for those without faith. ...

This is the international thriller sensation. It starts with just one body
- the hands bound, the skin covered in marks. Detective
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From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. ` It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach`s Mass in B Minor, & I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.` Prentice Mc Hoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the Mc Hoan past, present & future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God & illegal substances... ...

Arthur Miller`s classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692
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Based on the author`s own vivid experiences, The Cruel Sea is the nail-biting story of the crew of HMS Compass Rose, a corvette assigned to protect convoys in World War Two. Darting back & forth across the icy North Atlantic, Compass Rose played a deadly cat & mouse game with packs of German U-boats lying in wait beneath the ocean waves. Packed with tension & vivid descriptions of agonizing U-boat hunts, this tale of the most bitter & chilling campaign of the war tells of ordinary, heroic men who had to face a brutal menace which would strike without warning from the deep... ...

From the bestselling & prize-winning author of `A Brilliant Little Operation` comes the long neglected D-Day story of the largest action by the French Resistance during WWII, published to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings. In early 1941, three separate groups of plotters
- one military, one political, one intellectual
- began to organise & plan on & around the forbidding mountainous plateau near Grenoble
- the Vercors. The aims of the groups were the same: to hasten the departure of the German occupiers; to restore the pride of France after its fall & the humiliations of the puppet Vichy government which followed; & to build a new France. The overwhelming desire to get rid of the Germans would unite them. Their different views of the France they hoped for in the future would divide them. Over the next three years these sparks of resistance would grow to challenge the might of the hated German occupiers. As the Allied troops stormed the D-Day beaches, the Vercors rose up to fight the Nazis in a planned rearguard action. It was to prove not only the largest Resistance action of the entire war but also, in the severity of the German response, the most brutal crushing of resistance forces in Western Europe. For the men & women of Vercors, aided & abetted by the Free French forces of General de Gaulle & SOE operatives from London, the events on the Vercors took them on a journey from early idealism through hope, misjudgement, folly, despair, sacrifice & slaughter to a kind of cruel victory. The tragedy drew the attention of those at the highest level of the Allied war effort & placed the Vercors deep into the heart of the history of modern France in a way which resonates still in the country`s daily life & politics. Long overlooked by English language histories, this magnificent book sets the story in the context of D-Day, the muddle of politics & many misjudgements of D-Day planners in both London & Algiers, &
- most importantly
- it gives voice to the many Maquisards fighters who fought to gain a voice in their country`s future.




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In an early series of journalistic pieces for an American magazine, Motor, F. Scott Fitzgerald described a journey he took with his wife Zelda from Connecticut to Alabama in a clapped out automobile which he called the ` Rolling Junk`. It is a piece of writing whose style, in free-ranging alternation of fact & fiction, has been compared to Jerome K. Jerome`s Three Men in a Boat. This book collects together the articles as one text, illustrated with the original illustrations of Fitzgerald, Zelda & the ` Junk`. ...

The Cruising Log book provides ample space for recording information about your nautical excursions. It also contains a guest registry & quick reference pages that provide information on such topics as: rules of the road, radio procedures, distress signals & weather references. Every boat captain needs a log book on board to record critical information. The Cruising Log book provides ample space for recording information bout your nautical excursions. It also contains a guest registry & quick reference pages that provide information on such topics as: rules of the road, radio procedures, distress signals & weather references. The Cruising Log book has an attractive, embossed cover made from heavy, flexible waterproof material. Its spiral binding allows pages to open flat for ease in recording information. It is one of six different log books that are all designed to fit inside our teak & leather covers for an impressive presentation. ...