In October 1887 the writer & translator Lafcadio Hearn sailed from New York to Martinique. Intending to stay for a few months, he remained for two years. He viewed French-ruled Martinique as an exotic fusion of European, African & Asian influences, the Creole society par exellence. Describing the island`s landscape, its flora & fauna, its colonial architecture & rural villages, he provides a picture of a Caribbean colony where slavery was a recent memory & race an all-importan matter of identity. First published in 1890, this work also offers an evocation of the doomed city of Saint Pierre, devastated 12 years later in a volcanic eruption. Hearn also presents insights into the daily lives of Martinicans. Exploring their folk tales, music & Creole language, he portrays a world of sensuality & mystery, in which traditional storytelling conjures up a dimension of sorcery, ghosts & zombies. ...

During its 600 year history 50, 000 sould were executed on the gallows at Tyburn somewhere near where Oxford Street meets the Edgware Road. Many thousands of victims remain buried nearby in anonymous graves. Many of the condemned made their final journey from Newgate Prison three miles distant. The condemned travelled in a cart seated on his or her coffin, stopping frequently for refreshments. Sometimes the condemned survived hanging. What was it like to be hanged? This book examines contemporary accounts. Most of those executed at Tyburn were from London`s underclass. An exception was Earl Ferrers on 5 May 1760 who wore the same white suit with silver trimmings that he had worn at his wedding. He travelled from the Tower to Tyburn in his own carriage but the crowds were so thick that the journey took nearly three hours. In addition to Tyburn, this book identifies a number of london`s lesser known places of execution such as Shepherds Bush Green, Cricklewood, Hampstead Heath & the City of London. ...

Tyldesley & Atherton South East in 1905 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers most of the town of Tyldesley, with a portion of Atherton in the north-western corner. Features in Tyldesley include railway with station, St George`s Bank Colliery, St George`s church, Barnfield Cotton Mills, Yew Tee Colliery, Green`s Siding, Shakerley Colliery (Wellington Pit & Nelson Pit), Eckersley Farm, Hope Cotton Mill, Field Cotton Mill, Fulwell House, Shuttle Street, Westfield Mill, Chanters Colliery, several mineral lines, tramways, Shakerley Road. At Atherton features include St John`s church, Unitarian Chapel, etc. A 1918 directory of Tyldesley is on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Tyne & Wear Cycle Map at 1:110, 000 from Sustrans, including Sea to Sea route, Hadrian`s Wall Cycleway, Reivers Route, Coast & Castles South route, & Three Rivers route, plus five day rides: Hexam Loop, Amble Loop, Bardon Mill Loop, Morpeth Loop, & Chester-le-Street Loop. Street plans show Newcastle-on-Tyne & Gateshead, Sunderl&, Chester-le-Street, Consett & Hexam. Maps is this Sustrans series show all the National & Regional Cycle Network routes clearly numbered & have the colouring distinguishing between the on-road & traffic-free sections. The publishers’ own recommendations are shown in contrasting colour &, in most titles, are in addition presented on the reverse side on separate panels where each circuit is annotated with useful notes. The maps have contours & altitude colouring to show the topography, with additional gradient markings. Towns along the routes are annotated with symbols indicating what facilities can be found there. Also marked are various places of interest, on or near the routes, & railway lines are shown with stations for access to the routes by rail. On the reverse each title also provides large, clear city centre street plans of main towns, highlighting the Cycle Network and/or the recommended routes. Also included are contact details of tourist information centres. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Tyne & Wear Street Atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in a spiral-bound format slightly smaller than A4 & covering the whole metropolitan county plus the northern part of County Durham at 1:14, 908 (4.25” to 1 mile). More detailed mapping at 1:10, 560 (6” to 1 mile) shows central Newcastle with Gateshead, plus at 1:7, 454 (8.5” to 1 mile) central Sunderland & Durham. Current edition of this title was published in 2014. To see other titles in this series of A-Z county street atlases please click on the series link. A-Z also publish street atlases in a smaller A5 paperback format covering towns & cities with their surrounding areas
- for a list of titles in that series please search for SI00000932. Most A-Z county street atlases are in a spiral-bound format just smaller than A4 size, Most titles offer coverage of only the built-up areas, with selected titles covering the whole county
- as indicated in the individual descriptions & our area coverage images. Motorways plus A & B roads are highlighted by colouring & show route numbers. One way or restricted access streets, Park & Ride facilities & selected car parks are marked, as are locations of speed cameras. Also shown are selected cycleway routes. Where appropriate, A & B roads are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Railway lines are shown with stations & level crossings. Colouring indicates different types of buildings: educational, hospitals & healthcare, industrial, leisure & recreational, shopping centres & markets, public buildings, & places of interest. Symbols mark locations of facilities usually indicated on street mapping: post offices, emergency services, public toilets, etc. Also marked are postcode & local authority boundaries. Each page has the lines & coordinates of the British National Grid. All the titles have a comprehensive index including, unless specified to the contrary in the description, separate entries for places of interest such as cultural & sport or recreational facilities, historical sites, nature reserves & gardens. Many titles include a separate list of hospitals & hospices in the area covered by the atlas.

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Tyneside & Wearside in 1878 in a series of reproductions of Ordnance Survey’s famous ” Inch to the Mile” maps published in the Alan Godfrey Editions to provide a historical record of England & Wales in the second half of 19th & early 20th century. The map is double-sided. Sheet 20 is on one side & covers the area from Corbridge eastward to Newcastle, & southward to Consett; on the reverse sheet 21 covers the area onward to Sunderl&, Seaham & the coast. Each map has a brief introduction. Other locations covered by this title includ: in Co. DURHAM Annfield Plain, Bishopwearmouth, Blaydon, Boldon, Burnopfield, Chester-le-Street, Dalton-le-Dale, Dipton, Ebchester, Gateshead, Hebburn, Herrington, Houghton le Spring, Jarrow, Leadgate, Monkwearmouth, Pelton, Ryton, South Shields, Stanley, Tanfield, Washington, Whickham, Whitburn & Winlaton; plus in NORTHUMBERLAND Bywell, Edmondbyers, Heddon on the Wall, Newburn, Ovingham, Prudhoe, Shotleyfield, Throckley, Walbottle, Walker, Wallsend & Wylam. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the OS Inch to the Mile Maps: the maps provide an invaluable overview of a wider area, typically 18 x 12 miles (29 x 19 kms approx.), & offer historical mapping for small towns & villages not covered by the more detailed series for which the Godfrey Editions are better known. On the reverse all the maps have historical notes & most titles also include a more detailed, large scale map of a small town or a village in the area. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

In these four stories, written between 1900 & 1902, Joseph Conrad bid gradual farewell to his adventurous life at sea & began to confront the more daunting complexities of life on land in the twentieth century. In ” Typhoon” Conrad reveals, in the steadfast courage of an undemonstrative captain & the imaginative readiness of his young first mate, the differences between instinct & intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival. ” Falk”, the companion sea-story, contrasts, as Conrad once put it, `common sentimentalism with the frank standpoint of a more or less primitive man`, a man with a conscience, however, about the girl he desires. In one of the `l&-stories` Conrad explores the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England; in the other, the plight of a woman ironically trapped by the unwitting alliance of two retired widowers
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In Tyrannosaur, military vet & amateur fossil hunter Monty Fitzgibbon follows his dream & sets off in the footsteps of Barnum Brown, palaeontologist & discoverer of the first T. Rex remains. Preparing a journal of his adventures, Monty illuminates the history of the early fossil hunters & makes some incredible discoveries of his own. Find inside Monty’s ready-to-build full-colour Tyrannosaur model! ...

Everyone knows that tyrannosauruses are big & scary, so when a placid duckbill dinosaur`s egg ends up in the wrong nest confusion is sure to ensue! When the baby dinosaur hatches out, he`s so out of place that his grisly big sisters call him Tyrannosaurus Drip. Poor little Drip: all he wants is a quiet life munching on water weed.. . ...

Aptanagramy, antigrams, acronyms, bacronyms, palimdromes, paraprosdokians, semordnilaps, paradoxical statements, oxymora, pangrams, malapropisms, eggcorns, oronyms, mondegreens, homophones, grammagrams, chemograms, piano words, euonyms, pleonasms, alternades, kangaroo words, tautonyms, portmanteau words, beheadments, contronyms, heteronyms, capitonyms, & much, much more! This unusual, interesting, fascinating, informative, perplexing book of words has thousands of tricks & words you may, or perhaps may not, already know: how to change black to white in a word chain, what are the longest words in common use, or in Shakespeare, or in the Guinness Book of Records, etc. James Joyce’s two 100-letter words from Finnegans Wake are, of course, there, as is the official 1, 185 letter name of the molecule Carbon 785 Hydrogen 1220 Nitorgen 212 Oxygen 248 Sulfur 2 (sorry, we can`t do subscript!). & why is couscous unusual. & what are the 112 different spellings according to the US Library of Congress and/or used by the New York Times & the Associated Press for the name of the late & unlamented Libyan dictator. Words useful & some maybe not so, words weird & wonderful, words short & very, very long – every page has something for you to discover, unless you are, of course, Rod L. Evans, the book’s author. ...