This book is not just funny (or sad) stories of campervan trips in Scotland; it is not just ` Zen & the art of campervan maintenance` (with stories of sweetness & light that will entertain or make you cry); & it is not just nature writing (with observations of wildlife in the western Scottish Highlands). But if you enjoy reading about how books are written & about recovery stories from relationship breakdowns, & if you like reading about women travelling alone & all the things that can go wrong (and right), about strategies for facing fear, dealing with creepy crawlies & noises in the night, & about surviving all that life throws at you (especially when you are over a certain age), then you will probably enjoy this book. Writing on the Road is by Sue Reid Sexton, who, while writing two novels (Mavis`s Shoe & Rue End Street) over the past six years, needed to escape from her hectic household to create some space to write them. As the mother of two & a step-mum of four, Sue realised her only real option was to get into her campervan & have it function as a mobile office. Whether she camped by a beach overlooking the Atlantic in the Kintyre peninsula with buzzards, golden eagles, deer, seals, surfers, other campervanners & dead fish for company, or in the hills around Glasgow, or on Skye, Morvern, the Cowal peninsula or even in southern France, her main aim was to switch off her phone, get out her laptop & write. Sue has made countless journeys in campervans in the last few years & thanks to her practice of taking notes as she travels, we, too, can enjoy her campervan experiences. In Writing on the Road Sue also writes about the many & varied practical difficulties of campervan life that she has had to overcome. They include locking herself out of the campervan at night miles from home; coping with local byelaws & negative attitudes to campervans & to women travelling solo; driving a hundred miles with a window open before she could empty a cracked toilet; & finding out the wrong (and the right) way to buy a campervan. We hope this book will inspire anyone looking for encouragement in the expressive arts to get creative & persuade any would-be campervanners to get out there & enjoy the campervan life. ...

Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that `the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book`. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river`s story through the remarkable prose, poetry & illustration that it has inspired. In eight themed chapters it features historical events such as Julius Caesar`s crossing in 55 BCE & Elizabeth I`s stand against the Spanish at Tilbury, explorations of topographers who mapped, drew & painted the river & the many congenial riverside retreats for authors ranging from Francis Bacon, Thomas More & Alexander Pope to Thomas Love Peacock, William Morris & Henry James. A chapter on messing about in boats tells the story of William Hogarth`s impulsive five-day river trip with four inebriated friends & features satirical novels making fun of frenetic rowers (Zuleika Dobson) & young London men-about-town on camping holidays (Three Men in a Boat). The river has also inspired some of the best children`s literature (The Wind in the Willows) & naturalists such as Richard Jeffries & C.J. Cornish (A Naturalist on the Thames) have recorded the richness of its wildlife. But there are also dark undercurrents: Charles Dickens`s use of its waters as a symbol of death, Sax Rohmer`s Limehouse villain Dr Fu Manchu, & the many fictional criminals who dispose of corpses in its sinister depths in detective novels ranging from Sherlock Holmes to Inspector Morse. Beautifully illustrated, this book celebrates the writers who have helped to make England`s greatest river an enduring legend. ...

When Emmett Till was murdered aged fourteen for allegedly whistling at a white woman, photographs of his destroyed face became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. A decade earlier Emmett`s father, Louis, had also been killed
- court-martialled & hanged. Though the circumstances could hardly have been more different, behind both deaths stood the same crime, of being black. In Writing to Save a Life, John Edgar Wideman, born the same year as Emmett Till, investigates the tragic fates of father & son. Mixing research, memoir & imagination, this book is an essential commentary on racism in America
- illuminating, humane & profound.

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` Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered` In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs & temple walls, coffins & statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a unique insight into the life of the Egyptian mind. For this remarkable new collection, Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson has freshly translated a rich & diverse range of ancient Egyptian writings into modern English, including tales of shipwreck & wonder, first-hand accounts of battles & natural disasters, obelisk inscriptions, mortuary spells, funeral hymns, songs, satires & advice on life from a pharaoh to his son. Spanning over two millennia, with many pieces appearing in a general anthology for the first time, this is the essential guide to a complex, sophisticated culture. Translated with an introduction by Toby Wilkinson ...

WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture & personal life. Acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects over one hundred letters from ancient times to the twenty-first century: some are noble & inspiring, some despicable & unsettling; some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse & frankly outrageous; many are erotic, others heartbreaking. The writers vary from Elizabeth I, Rameses the Great & Leonard Cohen to Emmeline Pankhurst, Mandela, Stalin, Michelangelo, Suleiman the Magnificent & unknown people in extraordinary circumstances
- from love letters to calls for liberation, declarations of war to reflections on death. In the colourful, accessible style of a master storyteller, Montefiore shows why these letters are essential reading: how they enlighten our past, enrich the way we live now
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Wrockwardine Wood, Wombridge & St George`s in 1901 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 area from The Whitehorse Inn Public House & Teagues Bridge to Market Street & St George`s Church in the south, including the railway line & station, Newyard Engineering Works, Gas Works, St Mary & St Leonard`s Church, Wombridge Iron Works (disused) & Shropshire Iron Works. There are also numerous old coal shafts & quarries. On the reverse is an extract from a street directory. 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. ...

Wroclaw & its immediate environs at 1:20, 000 from Michal Kasprowski providing an excellent illustration how to present history & development of a city by overprinting an old (here a per-1945) map with current information. The base is a pre-1945 German map at 1:20, 000 of Breslau, as the city was then called, with showing the street network, railways, parks & woodlands, etc, & even the flight paths from the city’s airport, with street, district & other place names as they were at the time of publication. Added to it is finely presented overprint showing streets built in the suburbs in the post-war years with their current names. All suburb names are given in the pre-1945 & current versions plus, where appropriate, their old pre-1900 names. The map retains its old, simple & self-explanatory German legend. On the reverse are three index lists: German pre-1945 names with their current Polish equivalents, current Polish names with their old German versions, plus names of streets added since 1945. ...

Wroclaw (Wroclaw) is a slim guidebook to the Polish city, generously illustrated with over 900 pictures. The aim when compiling the guide was for it to be an interesting & practical aid in moving about Wroclaw both in space & time. The guide contains many descriptions of sites accompanied by both contemporary & historic images in a generous attempt to present the city ...

Wroclaw on an indexed, double-sided street plan at 1:22, 500 from Express Map with enlargement showing the town centre in greater detail, a diagram of the city’s night bus lines, plus a road map of Wroclaw’s environs. Express Map street plans provide coverage of cities within their administrative boundary, spread across the two sides of the map. Bus & tram routes are shown with stops & line numbers. For drivers, main traffic arteries are highlighted, one way streets are marked & the plans also show traffic lights, petrol stations, car parks & restricted entry streets or zones. Streets are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Names of suburbs & of larger housing estates are clearly marked. Symbols highlight various facilities & places of interest, including museums & other cultural institutions & historical sites, 24-hrs pharmacies, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Where more than one town is covered, each has a separate index. Map legend

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Wroclaw Top 20 Map from Daunpol, laminated & waterproof, & presenting an indexed street plan of the city with an enlargement of its historic centre, both annotated with 20 top sights, plus lists of 20 best hotels, clubs, restaurants & shops. The plan shows Wroclaw including its more interesting outer districts of Sepolno & Krzyki, at 1:18, 000, with a detailed enlargement covering the city ...