The world's walls are supposed to be coming down. We speak of globalization, international markets & global villages; barriers to trade keep falling, & it is now possible to communicate instantly from nearly anywhere in the world. But just as these virtual walls come down, real walls rise. In this evocative blend of travel writing, history & politics, Marcello Di Cintio visits the world's most disputed edges to meet those who live alongside the razor wire, concrete & steel. Along the way he shares tea with refugees on the wrong side of Morocco's desert wall; he encounters illegal immigrants circumventing high-tech fencing around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta & Melilla; he walks Arizona's migrant trails, visits fenced-in villages in India, & stands with those who protest against Israel's security barrier to understand what these structures say about those who build them, & how they influence the cultures that they pen in. Venturing beyond politics, he encounters the infiltrators who circumvent the walls, the artists who transform them, & the fenced-in ignored & forgotten people who live in their shadow. The walls discussed are: 1.' The Wall of Shame' in the Western Sahara, built by the Morrocans in 1987 following their defeat by the Spanish. 2. A high-tech 'fence' around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta & Meilla. 3. The Indo Bangladesh 'fence', erected in 1947. 4. The West Bank Wall. 5. The 'green line' that separates the Greek from the Turkish-Cypriot quarters in Nicosia, the capital of Cypress, & Lefkosa, the capital of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 6. The US-Mexico border. 7. The various barriers throughout Belfast. 8. The l' Acadie fence in Montreal, erected as a wall built of chains in 1960. ...

The world's walls are supposed to be coming down. We speak of globalization, international markets & global villages; barriers to trade keep falling, & it is now possible to communicate instantly from nearly anywhere in the world. But just as these virtual walls come down, real walls rise. In this evocative blend of travel writing, history & politics, Marcello Di Cintio visits the world's most disputed edges to meet those who live alongside the razor wire, concrete & steel. Along the way he shares tea with refugees on the wrong side of Morocco's desert wall; he encounters illegal immigrants circumventing high-tech fencing around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta & Melilla; he walks Arizona's migrant trails, visits fenced-in villages in India, & stands with those who protest against Israel's security barrier to understand what these structures say about those who build them, & how they influence the cultures that they pen in. Venturing beyond politics, he encounters the infiltrators who circumvent the walls, the artists who transform them, & the fenced-in ignored & forgotten people who live in their shadow. The walls discussed are: 1.' The Wall of Shame' in the Western Sahara, built by the Morrocans in 1987 following their defeat by the Spanish. 2. A high-tech 'fence' around the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta & Meilla. 3. The Indo Bangladesh 'fence', erected in 1947. 4. The West Bank Wall. 5. The 'green line' that separates the Greek from the Turkish-Cypriot quarters in Nicosia, the capital of Cypress, & Lefkosa, the capital of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 6. The US-Mexico border. 7. The various barriers throughout Belfast. 8. The l' Acadie fence in Montreal, erected as a wall built of chains in 1960. ...

For thousands of years, humans have built walls & assaulted them, admired walls & reviled them. Great Walls have appeared on nearly every continent, the handiwork of people from Persia, Rome, China, Central America, & beyond. They have accompanied the rise of cities, nations, & empires. & yet they rarely appear in our history books. Spanning centuries & millennia, drawing on archaeological digs to evidence from Berlin & Hollywood, David Frye uncovers the story of walls & asks questions that are both intriguing & profound. Did walls make civilization possible? Can we live without them? This is more than a tale of bricks & stone: Frye reveals the startling link between what we build & how we live, who we are & how we came to be. It is nothing less than the story of civilization. ...

Wallsend in 1913 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. 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. In this title: the map covers the area from Hall Farm & Wallsend Park down to Carville Station & Buddle Street. Coverage extends westward to include Bigges Main & St Andrew's Church. Features include the Football Ground, Wallsend Station & Railway Line, St Aidan's Church & Borough Theatre. Main Streets on the map are Shields Road, High Street, Park Road, North Road & Hadrian Road. On the reverse of the map is an extract from a directory for Wallsend in 1913. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Walney to Wear Cycle Route, a 245km/153 mile coast to coast cycle route between Walney Island just outside Burrow-in-Furness, across Kendal, Barnard Castle, Bishop Auckland & Durham, to the mouth of the River Wear in Sunderl&, presented in five sections on a map from Footprint. The route is highlighted on mapping with altitude colouring at 1:100, 000 or on street plans of towns it passes through, & is annotated with mile markers, gradients, & symbols indicating difficult sections & points. Symbols mark locations of tourist information offices, youth hostels & campsites, pubs & cafes, grocery shops, cycle shops or hire, public toilets & historical sites or tourist attractions. No coordinates are provided for GSP users. Also provided is a list of cycle shops near the routes & tourist information centres. The map is printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. ...

Walsall & Sutton Coldfield in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Aldridge, Bloxwich, Brownhills, Kingstanding, Sutton Park, Shenstone & Streetly. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey’s historical editions: the Old Series, the Revised New Series & the Popular Edition, enlarged from their original inch-to-the-mile to match the 1:50, 000 scale of the present-day Landranger extract shown in the fourth panel.* Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. National Grid lines are shown on all four panels for easy comparison across the four time periods. Historical notes, details of the original maps used & web-links for local history societies & other sources of information are also provided. *PLEASE NOTE:** Reproductions from the Ordnance Survey’s historical series are also available as maps of a wider area, with each title corresponding in its coverage to a present day Landranger map. Please see Great Britain: Cassini Historical Reproductions of Ordnance Survey One-Inch Maps series.* Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all the series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.

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Walsall North East in 1913 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. 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. In this title: the map covers the north-eastern area of Walsall, extending from Duncalfe Street eastward to Calder Fields Farm & from Walhouse Street northward to the Cemetery. Features include LNWR railway with engine shed, Ryecroft Junction & stretch of South Staffordshire line; Midland Railway incl Lichfield Junction, grammar school, Hatherton Lake, Arboretum, Albion Tannery, Oal Tannery, Ryecroft area, tramways, Moss Closs Farm, Rushall Hall, St Michael's church, short stretch of Daw End Branch canal etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Borneo Street, Cecil Street, Eastbourne Street, Lichfield Road, Littleton Street, Mellish Road, Persehouse Street & Westbourne Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Walsall North East in 1913 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 the north-eastern area of Walsall, extending from Duncalfe Street eastward to Calder Fields Farm & from Walhouse Street northward to the Cemetery. Features include LNWR railway with engine shed, Ryecroft Junction & stretch of South Staffordshire line; Midland Railway incl Lichfield Junction, grammar school, Hatherton Lake, Arboretum, Albion Tannery, Oal Tannery, Ryecroft area, tramways, Moss Closs Farm, Rushall Hall, St Michael`s church, short stretch of Daw End Branch canal, etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Borneo Street, Cecil Street, Eastbourne Street, Lichfield Road, Littleton Street, Mellish Road, Persehouse Street & Westbourne Road. 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. ...

Walsall North West in 1902 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 the north-western area of Walsall including Birchills Ward, extending from Stafford Road westward to Pouk Hill & from Wolverhampton Road northward to Pratt`s Mill Bridge. Features include MR Walsall-Wolverhampton railway with North Walsall station, Bentley Colliery, Reeds Wood Park, Anson Branch canal, Pouk Hill quarry, Bentley Moor House, Wyrley & Essington Canal with Birchills Junction, Birchills Furnaces, Staffordshire Iron Works, St Andrew`s church, Green Lane Foundry, iron works, St Peter`s church, Bentley Moor area, etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Bloxwich Road, Green Lane & Stafford Street. 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. ...

Walsall North West in 1902 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. 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. In this title: the map covers the north-western area of Walsall including Birchills Ward, extending from Stafford Road westward to Pouk Hill & from Wolverhampton Road northward to Pratt's Mill Bridge. Features include MR Walsall-Wolverhampton railway with North Walsall station, Bentley Colliery, Reeds Wood Park, Anson Branch canal, Pouk Hill quarry, Bentley Moor House, Wyrley & Essington Canal with Birchills Junction, Birchills Furnaces, Staffordshire Iron Works, St Andrew's church, Green Lane Foundry, iron works, St Peter's church, Bentley Moor area etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Bloxwich Road, Green Lane, Stafford Street. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...