A poignant story of love & redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts. No man`s land is a place in the heart: pitted, cratered & empty as the moon... Hidden in a soldier`s tin box are a painting, a pocket watch, & a dance card
- keepsakes of three lives. It is 1914. George Farrell cycles through the tranquil Cumberland fells to deliver a letter, unaware that it will change his life. George has fallen for the rich & beautiful daughter at the Manor House, Miss violet, but when she lets slip the contents of the letter George is heartbroken to find that she is already promised to another man. George escapes his heartbreak by joining the patriotic rush to war, but his past is not so easily avoided. His rite of passage into adulthood leaves him believing that no woman will be able to love the man he has become. A poignant story of love & redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence in a war that destroys everything except the bonds of the human heart.
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The Moon Globe is recreated in masterful detail with this official 30cm (12”) NASA model; designating the first American & Russian unmanned landing sites & the first Apollo manned landing location. Detail of craters, seas, mountains & plains gives this globe a striking three-dimensional effect. Developed under the auspices of NASA, this globe also

Includes:: the ” Story of The Moon” handbook & study projects.

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Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany`s power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered & the conquerors. Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside & betrayal from within the close-knit community. As he delves into the motivations & emotions of the enemy, Steinbeck uncovers profound & often unsettling truths both about war & human nature. ...

The Moon on a large folded map from Hallwag showing both the visible & the far side at 1:5, 000, 000 with on the reverse an index of craters & other lunar formations, an explanation of the phases, notes on the Apollo space program, etc. On one side are photographs showing the visible & the far side of the moon with the diameter of 66cm at its equator. Numerous craters, seas & other lunar features are named. Each side shows the lines of latitude & longitude at 10 ...

The Soviet-American race to land the first man on the moon was a technical challenge unlike any other in recent human history. Reginald Turnill, the BBC's Aerospace Correspondent, covered the entire story first-h&, & his reports were heard & seen by millions around the world. With unparalleled access to the politicians, scientists & technicians involved in the race to the moon, Turnill got to know all the early astronauts
- Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
- as they pioneered the techniques that made the moon landings possible. He became a friend of Dr Wernher von Braun, the German rocket pioneer & mastermind behind it all. This eyewitness account of one of the most thrilling adventures of the twentieth Century is written in a lucid style, packed with action & drama, & is a fascinating read for all those interested in the story of the race to the moon.

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” The Moonstone” is one of the first true works of detective fiction, in which Wilkie Collins established the groundwork for the genre itself. This ” Penguin Classics” edition is edited with an introduction by Sandra Kemp. ” The Moonstone”, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple & maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend & suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff & the Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream & as deceptive as the nearby Shivering S&. The intricate plot & modern technique of multiple narrators made Wilkie Collins` 1868 work a huge success in the Victorian sensation genre. With a reconstruction of the crime, red herrings & a `locked-room` puzzle, ” The Moonstone” was also a major precursor of the modern mystery novel. In her introduction Sandra Kemp explores ” The Moonstone`s” the detective elements of Collins` writing, & reveals how Collins` sensibilities were untypical of his era. Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter William Collins. In 1846 he was entered to read for the bar at Lincoln`s Inn, where he gained the knowledge that was to give him much of the material for his writing. From the early 1850s he was a friend of Charles Dickens, who produced & acted in two melodramas written by Collins, ” The Lighthouse” & ” The Frozen Deep”. Of his novels, Collins is best remembered for ” The Woman in White” (1859), ” No Name” (1862), ” Armadale” (1866) & ” The Moonstone” (1868). If you enjoyed ” The Moonstone” you might like Collins` ” The Woman in White”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ” Probably the very finest detective story ever written.” (Dorothy L. Sayers). ” The first, the longest & the best of modern modern English detective novels.” (T.S. Eliot). ...

Exactly 150 years since its publication in 1868, this reissue of Collins` popular Detective Club edition of The Moonstone offers crime fiction fans the chance to read the book that is acclaimed as the very first detective novel in the English language. At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, unaware that it was plundered from a sacred Indian shrine fifty years earlier. When the jewel goes missing later that night, suspicions are raised & accusations fly in all directions. Sifting through divergent accounts of what happened, the indomitable Sergeant Cuff must find the Moonstone & the truth about its mysterious disappearance. Recognised as the very first detective novel in the English language, The Moonstone (1868) earned Wilkie Collins the reputation of the godfather of the classic English detective story, with Dorothy L. Sayers declaring, ` Nothing human is perfection, but The Moonstone comes about as near perfection as anything of the kind ever can.` For 150 years its intricate locked-room puzzle & multiple narrators have influenced generations of mystery authors. This Detective Club classic reproduces Collins` slightly abridged version of the novel, originally designed to make the long nineteenth-century text more accessible. It is introduced by the iconic crime writing duo G.D.H. & M. Cole, who analyse the popularity of Wilkie Collins` groundbreaking sensation novel. ...

In this deeply personal journey across our nation`s most forbidding & most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue & natural history, & an exploration of moorland`s uniquely captivating position in our literature, history & psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past & present: murderers & monks, smugglers & priests, gamekeepers & ramblers, miners & poets, developers & environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights & The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting & defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country & the people who live in it
- a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.
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In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding & most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue & natural history, & an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history & psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past & present: murderers & monks, smugglers & priests, gamekeepers & ramblers, miners & poets, developers & environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights & The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting & defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country & the people who live in it
- a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.
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In 1527 the Spanish conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida with hundreds of settlers, & claimed the region for Spain. Almost immediately, the expedition was decimated by a combination of navigational errors, disease, starvation & fierce resistance from indigenous tribes. Within a year, only four survivors remained: three noblemen & a Moroccan slave called ” Estebanico”. The official record, set down after a reunion with Spanish forces in 1536, contains only the three freemen`s accounts. The fourth, to which the title of Laila Lalami`s masterful novel alludes, is Estebanico`s own. Lalami gives us Estebanico as history never did: as Mustafa, the vibrant merchant from Azemmur forced into slavery & a new name, & reborn as the first black explorer of the Americas, discovering & being discovered by various tribes both hostile & compassionate. In Estebanico`s telling, the survivors` journey across great swathes of the New World transforms would-be conquerors into humble servants & fearful outcasts into faith healers. He remains ever-observant, resourceful & hopeful that he might one day find his way back to his family, even as he experiences an unexpected (if ambiguous) camaraderie with his masters. The Moor`s Account illuminates the ways in which stories can transmigrate into history, & how storytelling can offer a chance for redemption, reinvention & survival. ...