The countryside is filled with beauty & wonder in these imaginative, idiosyncratic writings, but also cruelty & hardship. They describe the texture of an owl's feather, the colours of autumn & the sound of rooks' wings sweeping across the sky. Yet here too is the grinding toil of reaping the harvest, & the discovery of a gamekeeper's bloody kill. Brimming with intense feeling, these pieces show an acute awareness of the l&, & the people on it. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside
- but it has profoundly shaped us too. It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians & people who live & work on the land
- as well as those who are travelling through it. English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie & country churches, to man's relationship with nature & songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts & love-struck soldiers).

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Walks in Western Kos by Lance Chilton is a compact walking guide to over 10 walks exploring the lively beaches & the historical areas around Kamari & Kefalos in the western tip of Kos. Intended for the active walkers the booklet

Includes:: an introductory section describing the region, providing advice on how to prepare for the walks & stay safe in the hills & information on local transports. For each walk you will find route times & detailed instructions referenced in hand drawn localised map extracts. The booklet is accompanied by a folded hand drawn map of the area measuring 30x 42cm when opened.

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London is one of the world`s great cities for the visual arts. Walks of Art in London has been put together for everyone curious about London & about the place of modern & contemporary art in it. It takes you on a walking tour of public works of art created by famous & by less well-known artists. It introduces you to places connected to art
- museums & galleries housing great collections, public squares & parks, churches, secular buildings, & sometimes more hidden locations. & it walks you by some of the places where the artists lived, worked, studied & socialised. Each walk is designed to take about an hour, plus time to stop & view the works.
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Walks on The Isle of Bute in a series of maps from Footprint covering popular hiking areas of Britain. 8 circular routes, from one to 10 miles long, are presented on separate panels, with half mile marking along each trail indicating the map scale. Each title in the Footprint series presents several routes within easy reach of one base. The walks include easy strolls & keep to well-used tracks & public footpaths. Each walk is presented on its own panel which can be viewed with the whole map refolded & placed in its plastic sleeve for protection. The walks are clearly highlighted on contoured maps, indicate sections where the path is indistinct on the ground, & have one or half mile markings. Symbols indicate local facilities such as pubs, youth hostels or car parks. Printed along side the map are route directions. Most titles also provide useful addresses of tourist information centres, youth hostels & other relevant organizations &, where appropriate, include a small street plan of the main town in the area covered by it. ...

Twenty five circular trails range from five to ten miles long around some of the most unspoilt & spectacular scenery in England on waymarked public footpaths, bridleways, old coach roads & an occasional tarmac lane. Most routes feature a particular landmark, viewpoint, monument or preserved antiquity, touching the more familiar long distance trails in passing, but creating new viewpoints for the present from some perspectives of the past. ...

” Walks Through Lost Paris” chronicles Paris`s great periods of urban reconstruction through four enlightening walking tours. Detailed maps lead the traveller on an itinerary to the perspectives of the photographers & artists who captured Paris through with their lenses & pens decades ago. In full-colour, hundreds of photos, diagrams, & engravings further bring to life the massive transformation that resulted in the Paris we know today. When he discovered that the city he lived in for many years was actually a city rebuilt during the mid-1800s, Leonard Pitt plunged head first into Paris`s history, & began photographing what he learned had changed. Eventually, he lead tours & gave lectures on the demolition & reconstruction that changed Paris forever. With a special focus on the work of Georges-Eugene Haussmann, each site is provided a history along with the motives behind the urban redesign & the reactions of Parisians who witnessed it. Comparing today`s Paris with images of a Paris that no longer exists, the traveller can experience first hand the dramatic evolution & discover the impact of succeeding generations. This book is for the Francophile, travel-minded, history buff, architecturally-curious-or anyone interested in learning about one of the world`s great cities. ...

This attractive & cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the finest walks to the best pubs in the Pembrokeshire National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview & introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb eye-grabbingpanoramic photographs, & interpretation of points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity & ease-of-use. Featured walks include: The Golden Lion, Newport, Tafarn Sinc, Rosebush, Dyffryn Arms, Pontfaen, Sloop Inn, Porthgain, The Harbour Inn, Solva, The Druidstone, Druidston Haven, The Old Point House, Angle, Cresselly Arms, Cresswell Quay, St Govans Country Inn, Bosherston & the Cross Inn, Penally ...

This attractive & cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the finest walks to the ten most spectacular lighthouses in Wales in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview & introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb eye-grabbingpanoramic photographs, & interpretation of points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity & ease-of-use. ...

This attractive & cleverly structured guide gives walkers the ten best walks to the most stunning viewpoints in the Peak District ...

This attractive & cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the finest walks to the most amazing viewpoints in the Lake District National Park in a popular, pocketable format. With clear information, an overview & introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, & interpretation of points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard in clarity & ease-of-use. Featured walks include: Gummer`s How, Carron Crag, Orrest Head, Wastwater, Rannerdale Knotts, Low Fell, Hallin Fell, Walla Crag, Latrigg & Great Mell Fell. ...