The Solent is one of Britain's most popular sailing spots, which offers a varied & interesting cruising ground. In this latest edition, Derek Aslett provides an authoritative companion that helps you make the most of your visit. Covering the area from Keyhaven & Yarmouth in the west to Chichester & Bembridge in the east, the Solent Cruising Companion 2nd Edition provides comprehensive pilotage & nautical information, as well as suggestions of where to eat & what to do ashore. Also this Cruising Companion incorporates a valuable insight into the history of the Solent, the book is enhanced with colour charts & detailed photography, including many spectacular aerial shots. The Solent Cruising Companion certainly helps make a more interesting & exciting stay in this most famous of cruising areas & will prove to be an essential addition to your ship's library. PORT GUIDES Useful information about berthing facilities, marina charges, fuel, showers, launderettes, chandlers, maintenance & repairs in addition to a complete guide to restaurants, shops & local attractions. PILOTAGE Clear pilotage directions & invaluable local knowledge of Solent harbours. Buoyage, tides, waypoints, VHF channels, harbour regulations & hazards. CHARTLETS Easy to read, full colour charts along with informative town plans. WEATHER Sources for detailed local weather forecasts. ...

Isle of Wight with the Southampton
- Portsmouth area, including part of the New Forest National Park & a section of the E9 European
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Isle of Wight with the Southampton
- Portsmouth area, including part of the New Forest National Park & a section of the E9 European
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August, 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic, but now must begin the long journey home. Only one man stays behind: Thomas Cave makes a wager to remain here, alone, until the next season. No man has yet been known to survive a winter this far north. As the light recedes & the ice begins to close in, Cave pits himself against blizzards, avalanches, bears
- & his own demons. For in this wilderness that is without human history his past returns to him: the woman he had loved, the grief that drove him to the ice.
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An epic masterpiece of world literature, in a magnificent new translation by one if the most acclaimed translators of our time. A towering figure of the Renaissance, Luis de Gongora pioneered poetic forms so radically different from the dominant aesthetic of his time that he was derided as ”the Prince of Darkness”. ” The Solitudes”, his magnum opus, is an intoxicatingly lush novel-in-verse that follows the wanderings of a shipwrecked man who has been spurned by his lover. Wrenched from civilization & its attendant madness, the desolate hero is transported into a natural world that is at once menacing & sublime. In this stunning edition Edith Grossman captures the breathtaking beauty of a work that represents one of the high points of poetic achievement in any language. Luis de Gongora (1561-1627) is among the most prominent figures of the Spanish Golden Age. Edith Grossman is the acclaimed translator of Don Quixote, as well as books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, & Carlos Fuentes. She is the recipient of the inaugural Queen Sofia Spanish Institute Translation Prize, the PEN/ Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, & a Guggenheim fellowship. Alberto Manguel is the bestselling author of dozens of books, including ”A History of Reading” & ” The Dictionary of Imaginary Places”. ...

Verdun & the Somme were two of the most cataclysmic battles of the First World War on the Western Front. The carnage on that front in 1916 was unprecedented for all sides, & had a profound effect on the eventual outcome of the war. On the first day of the Somme, Britain & her Commonwealth suffered almost 60, 000 casualties, the worst day`s loss in British military history. Many people think of the battle solely in terms of that first disastrous day. In fact it lasted for four & a half months & would witness the arrival of the tank on the battlefield. Likewise Verdun lasted ten months & the steadfastness of the French soldiers remains legendary to this day. Relive & appreciate this shocking period in history by examining rare items of memorabilia such as maps, diary extracts, letters, sketches, secret memos & reports which had been filed away in museums & other collections around the world. Julian Thompson explains the battle in & engaging & informative way, with over 200 photographs from the Imperial War Museum, French & German museums. ...

Somme battlefields of the Western Front presented on three map panels showing present-day road network overprinted with WWI-related information: front lines from different stages of the conflict, cemeteries, private memorials, preserved tranches, bunkers, demarcation stones, etc, all cross-referenced to extensive lists. The main, more detailed map shows the area between Albert & Bapaume at 1:40, 000. British & German front lines on 1st July 1916 are marked, also corps & divisional boundaries between different units of the British Army, as well as ground taken during the 1st July offensive & ground held on 17th November 1916. Extensive overprint gives, where necessary, 1914-1918 place names & colour-coded markers are cross-referenced to information lists on the other side of the map. On the reverse, a map at 1:70, 000 shows a wider area, extending west to Amiens & across the Somme, including locations of General Haig’s & British Fourth Army’s headquarters. A small inset at 1:400, 000 shows the 1918 Sector along the Avre, around Moreuil, Aubvillers & Montdidier. This side also provides separate indexes for each panel, & list of war cemeteries, winners of the Victoria Cross buried or commemorated on the Somme, bunkers, etc. The markers on the maps & their corresponding lists are colour-coded for easier reference. Also provided is a list of 15 key locations with their GPS coordinates. ...

` The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But here is a book that almost tells it... Mr Gristwood has had the relentless simplicity to recall things as they were; he was as nearly dead as he could be without dying, & he has smelt the stench of his own corruption. This is the story of millions of men
- of millions.`
- H. G. Wells, from the preface In The Somme & its companion The Coward, first published in 1927, the heroics of war & noble self-sacrifice are completely absent; replaced by the gritty realism of life in WWI for the ordinary soldier, & the unflinching portrayal of the horrors of war. Written under the guidance of the master storyteller H. G. Wells, they are classics of the genre. The Somme revolves around a futile attack in 1916 during the Somme campaign. Everitt, the central protagonist is wounded & moved back through a series of dressing stations to the General Hospital at Rouen. Both in & out of the line he behaves selfishly & unheroically, but despite this his circumstances & the conditions around him make his actions easy to underst&. Based on A D Gristwood`s own wartime experiences, critics have said that few other accounts of the war give such an accurate picture of trench life. The Coward concerns a man who shoots himself in the hand to escape the war, during the March 1918 retreat
- an offence punishable by death. He gets away with it, but is haunted by fear of discovery & self-loathing.


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A contemporary map of the area of the Somme battlefields in 1916 created by cartographer & artist Richard Chandler, with an overprint indicating the two front lines, various places of interest & the cemeteries from World War I. The map covers an area between Albert & Bapaume, showing present day road network for access to the numerous WWI sites. An overprint shows the British & the German front lines in 1st July 1916 from Hébuterne in the north, across Beaumont-Hamel, Thiepval, la Boiselle, Fricourt & Mametz, to Maricourt in the south. Also marked is the ground gained during the initial offensive & the front line by 18th November 1916. The map highlights locations of 16 present day museums, memorials, trench remains, etc. as well as locations of 85 cemeteries looked after the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, plus two French cemeteries & one German. ...

On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets & the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of survival
- even before they departed for France, a member of Jim`s unit had been found dead. During the st&-off that follows, Jim & his comrades must operate by night the vitally important trains carrying munitions to the Front, through a ghostly landscape of shattered trees where high explosive & shrapnel shells rain down. Close co-operation & trust are vital. Yet proof piles up of an enemy within, & as a ferocious military policeman pursues his investigation into the original killing, the finger of accusation begins to point towards Jim himself...
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