Ye Gods! is a light & humorous read as Jill Dudley travels around Greece, touching on the myths & legends of the old gods & how the early Greek Orthodox Church emerged from its pagan past. It is also her own & sometimes comical search for enlightenment. Jill is accompanied by her husband Harry whose reluctance to travel & probe the unknown is the perfect foil for her enthusiastic explorations. It is ideal for anyone interested in Greece who would like to learn about its myths & legends whilst being entertained; the ten chapters take the reader from Athens, up Mount Olympus, to Mt. Athos (the Holy Mountain), to the islands, & ends in Greek Cyprus, covering not only the wonderful & interesting people they meet, but also a humorous & insightful look into Dudley ...

Ye Gods! II follows naturally on from her popular first book Ye Gods!, where Jill Dudley explored the ancient sanctuaries of Greece. Ye Gods! II is a mixture of pagan & Christian legends, & her fascination with how Christianity took over from the old Olympian gods & absorbed certain things from the pagan past. Accompanied by her somewhat reluctant travel companion & husb&, Harry, Jill Dudley takes the reader to the ancient temples, monasteries & Byzantine churches of Greece. ...

Art thou in need of hearty ale & a bed safe from brigands as you ply the highways & byways of Britain? Then Ye Olde Good Inn Guide is for you
- the essential handbook for the Tudor traveller. Packed with the finest hostelries to grace the 16th century & written with all the flavour of the language of the day, this witty & meticulously researched tome covers every county in the land & directs you to all the celebrated & charming pubs, many of which still exist today. With all the information you need, from the quality of the beer & accommodation, the merriment on offer & even the local etiquette of the day, Ye Olde Good Inn Guide is an invaluable aid to both the pub historian & the drinker who yearn for the lost age of the trusty tavern.
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Yeading in 1894 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 parts of three Middlesex parishes: Northolt to the top, Hayes to the south, & Southall in the south-east. It is an entirely rural map, showing the hamlet of Yeading, with its Manor Farm & Industry pub in the south-western quarter of the map, & a stretch of the Grand Junction Canal with various docks for the brickfields running north-south near the eastern side of the map. On the reverse are directories for Hayes & Northolt, plus a plan of the New Patent Brick Co & its canal access. Please note that the eastern half of this map, covering the canal area, is also included on the Greenford map 15.07. 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. ...

Yeadon in 1906 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 town of Yeadon, a few miles north of Leeds. Yeadon itself is in the top half of the map & coverage extends south to the northern tip of Rawdon, around Little Moor, Quakers` Lane, Benton Park Farm & Canada. Features include Yeadon town centre, railway branch with station, Green Lane Mill, Nether Yeadon, Henshaw, Yeadon & Guiseley Gas Works, Leafield Mills, Kirk Lane Mills, High Henshaw, Westfield Mill, Manor Mills, Hawthorn Terrace, St Andrew`s church, Town Hall Square, Albert Mill, Waterside Dye Works, Moorfield Mills, etc. On the reverse is a directory of Yeadon in 1889. 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. ...

Photographer Rob Beighton presents a magnificent selection of photographs of North Cornwall through the seasons, an area that boasts some of the most spectacular scenery in the British Isles, coupled with the most romantic history & traditions. Among the key locations on the coast are St. Ives, voted Britain`s Best Seaside Town by the Guardian in 2007; Newquay, now a major tourist & surfing destination; Padstow, a fishing village that has become a high-profile resort, yet maintains its yearly pagan festivals; Tintagel, with its dramatically situated thirteenth-century castle, said to be the birthplace of King Arthur; & Boscastle, a picturesque village with a dramatic natural harbour. ...

A Year in Nature is a beautiful, unique introduction to the seasons. The book opens out into a stunning four-part carousel, ...

Once the hunting reserve of kings & princes, today the Forest of Bowland is both a recreational haven for the public & a biodiverse region of international importance. This lavishly illustrated book focuses on the sweeping fells which form the very heart of a 312 square mile Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This celebration of nature, landscape & recreation would be incomplete without some exploration of the area's two most popular activities: walking & bird watching. The author tackles both in entertaining essays on the freedom to roam, for families as well as serious fell-walkers, & on an intriguing tale of dark deeds among feathered friends & foes. In this stunning book, Andy Stansfield fills the pages with evocative images which capture the changes in colour & character throughout the seasons, picking out telling details as well as magnificent panoramas. ...

Like Winchester`s ” Krakatoa, ” The Year Without Summer” reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history In the tradition of ” Krakatoa, ” ” The World Without Us, ” & ” Guns, Germs & Steel ”comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-&-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year--mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, & snowfall through much of the Northeastern U.S. & Europe in the summer of 1816. In the U.S., the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, & extensive migration from New England to the Midwest. In Europe, the cold & wet summer led to famine, food riots, the transformation of stable communities into wandering beggars, & one of the worst typhus epidemics in history. 1816 was the year ” Frankenstein” was written. It was also the year Turner painted his fiery sunsets. All of these things are linked to global climate change--something we are quite aware of now, but that was utterly mysterious to people in the nineteenth century, who concocted all sorts of reasons for such an ungenial season. Making use of a wealth of source material & employing a compelling narrative approach featuring peasants & royalty, politicians, writers, & scientists, ” The Year Without Summer” by William K. Klingaman & Nicholas P. Klingaman examines not only the climate change engendered by this event, but also its effects on politics, the economy, the arts, & social structures. ...

” Many books have been written, & continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration & resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath of the worldwide catastrophe. Drawing on hundreds of eye-witness accounts & personal stories, this sweeping book examines the seven months (in Europe) & four months (in Asia) that followed the surrender of the Axis powers, from the fate of Holocaust survivors liberated from the concentration camps, & the formation of the state of Israel, to the incipient civil war in China, & the allied occupation of Japan. It was a time when terrible revenge was taken on collaborators & their former masters; of ubiquitous black markets, war crime tribunals; & the servicing of millions of occupation troops, former foes in some places, liberators in others. But Year Zero is not just a story of vengeance. It was also a new beginning, of democratic restorations in Japan & West Germany, of social democracy in Britain & of a new world order under the United Nations. If construction follows destruction, Year Zero describes that extraordinary moment in between, when people faced the wreckage, full of despair, as well as great hope. An old world had been destroyed; a new one was yet to be built.” ...