The consummate Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) produced a body of work perhaps unparalleled in history. His sketches & copious notes give us a glimpse into the mind of a genius, as he carefully recorded his environment & experiences in his distinctive mirror-image cursive handwriting & superb sketches. The cover of this luxurious notebook pays homage to Leonardo’s fascination with the concepts of grace & the geometric structure of the universe by reproducing some of his notes on water motion & the moon. The intrinsic beauty of serpentine flow was valued artistically as the most graceful of figurative movements & in his diagram of the light of the moon relative to the brilliance of the sun recorded in the Codex Leicester, we can still see his dedication to the ideal of precision & beauty. Take a leaf out of Leonardo’s book with this superb notebook; be infused with the man’s indomitable curiosity for life’s wonders & grace, & his commitment to note, record & attempt to describe its workings. Smythe sewn wrap; ultra format; 144 lined pages; 180 x 230mm;

Includes:: memento pouch & ribbon marker.

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For a hundred & fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains & the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city & the urban into the countryside, & changed the lives of everyone. & then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction & repurposed as a `slow highways` network, a peaceful & countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday. Writer & slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain`s waterways on foot & by bike, in a kayak & on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of `wet roads & water streets` he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage & history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races & remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people & met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers & eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, & reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light. ...

Remarkable satellite photographs show where water is
- or isn`t
- & how we are using it. Water is in crisis. We are in crisis.

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Short Story Day Africa presents its annual anthology. The stories explore true & alternative African culture through a competition on the theme of Water. The third in the SSDA collection of anthologies which aim to break the one-dimensional view of African storytelling & fiction writing. Short Story Day Africa brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers, & school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop, & discuss stories. Karina Szczurek is an editor of fiction & non-fiction. She writes short stories novels, poetry & plays. Nick Mulgrew is a freelance editor & a columnist for the ” Sunday Times, ” South Africa. ...

Following the tradition of Delacroix, Le Corbusier & Picasso, these new watercolor notebooks are ideal for capturing moments of inspiration in color. Catering to new trends in expression, the Moleskine Watercolor Notebooks feature a heavy paper, 200 gsm
- 25 per cent cotton fiber
- cold pressed, identical on both sides, & specially created for Moleskine. The Moleskine Watercolor Notebooks are bound in cardboard, with a 'moleskine' cover having rounded corners & an elastic enclosure. Each notebook has an expandable inner note holder made from cardboard & cloth.

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Waterfoot in 1908 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 Rossendale village of Waterfoot, stretching from Hurdles Quarry eastward to Rake Head & Brandwood, & from St Nicholas church (Newchurch) southward to Cowpe. Features include the LYR Bacup Branch with Waterfoot station, Hugh Mill, Lumb Holes Mill, Green Bridge Print Works, Carr Lane Mill, Bridge End Felt Works, Thrutch Plantation, Glen Top Brewery, Warth Mill, Vale Mill, Holt Holme Saw Mill, smallpox hospital, Myrtle Grove Mill, Union Works, Hareholme, Staghills, Booth Fold, Higher Lench, Waterfoot Bridge, Siss Clough, Fearns, Waterbarn, Glen Top, Gaghills Slipper Factory, St James church, etc. Directories of Waterfoot & Newchurch-in-Rossendale are 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. ...

Waterford on an indexed street plan at 1:11, 000 from the Ordnance Survey of Irel&. An enlargement shows the city centre in greater detail, highlighting 17 places of interest and/or facilities. The index is in a separate booklet attached to the map cover. The index is on the same side as the plan.OSI street plans highlight main traffic arteries in each town: national primary & secondary routes, regional roads & main streets, with one way & pedestrianized streets. Colouring indicates public buildings, highlighting the more important ones, railway/bus stations & medical centres. A range of symbols indicate various facilities, including An ...

Map No. 75, Waterford North in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. The maps have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An ...

Map No. 82, Waterford South-East in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. Current 3rd edition of this map was published in January 2012. Maps in the Discovery series have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An Óige & independent), tourist offices, parking & picnic places, & viewpoints. Golf courses indicate the number of holes. The maps also highlight antiquities & historical sites such as megalithic tombs, standing stones, battlefields, etc. Road network grades third class roads according to their widths &

Includes:: local tracks. Railways are shown with stations & the maps include other details expected of topographic mapping at this scale. Where appropriate, place names are given in both Irish & English. Each map covers an area of 40 x 30km (25 x 19 miles approximately) & has a 1km ITM (Irish Transverse Mercator) grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Irish & English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Map No. 82, Waterford South-East in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. The maps have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An ...