A diverse & entertaining collection of writing examining & celebrating the British Countryside, from falconry to foraging & from the musings of a nighttime angler to tips for seasonal drinking. LAND Stuart Maconie (Radio 2) on hill walking / Wainwright walks Nick Small (CAUGHT BY THE RIVER regular) how to get nature into your garden, no matter how urban it is Richard King (Loops magazine editor) on the Winter Solstice & on the Summer Solstice John Wright (www.wild-food.net/ on the basics of getting started in foraging Bill Drummond (Damsons in Distress) Dan Kieran (Crap Towns/I Fought The Law) on falconry RIVER / INLAND WATERS John Andrews (CAUGHT BY THE RIVER regular) on winter pike fishing Jon Berry (CAUGHT BY THE RIVER regular) writing about the night from a fishermen's perspective, the sounds, shadows, the hallucinatory effects of sleep deprivation when the sun rises COASTLINE Ian Vince (The Lie of the Land) on the Jurassic coast & fossils Martin Noble (British Sea Power) the Exmoor to Dartmoor coastal walk Nick Hand (http://www.slowcoast.co.uk/) on what you see when cycling the entire coastline of the UK Michael Smith (BBC4 Drivetime) on the coastline in the north of England ISLAND LIFE Sarah Boden (The Observer) on fleeing London to move & become a sheep farmer on Eigg ...

Alberti`s " Della Pittura" was the first modern analytical study of painting. A systematic description of the one-point perspective construction, it was designed to persuade both patron & painter in the Renaissance to discard the old tastes in painting for the new. ...

A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience & reality. It develops the concept of 'transparency'. It features six essays including " In Plato's Cave, which explores how the image has affected society. ...

Photographs are everywhere. They have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia & act as a memorial, & they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. This title examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality & authority in our lives. ...

New Mexico's Pajarito Plateau encompasses the Bandelier National Monument & the atomic city of Los Alamos. This book tells what happens when native cultures & Euro-American commercial interests interact in such a remote area with limited resources. ...

Explores the human propensity for gossip & storytelling, & discusses how our fears & hopes can work against common sense. This book also investigates the way that the internet can entrench our false beliefs even deeper, & how the wish to conform, our natural biases & even our basic emotions can cause us to fall for untrue accounts. ...

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin & unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans & the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India & the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new & more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told in epic detail & for the first time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller Greenmantle, recounted through the adventures & misadventures of the secret agents & others who took part in it. It is an ominously topical tale today in view of the continuing turmoil in this volatile region where the Great Game has never really ceased. This book has 431 pages & is 15.9 x 2.7 x 24.1 cm ...

Celebrated writer & historian Maria Graham must make the treacherous voyage from Brazil to London to deliver her latest book to her publisher.

Having come to terms with the loss of her beloved husb&, Maria now has renewed hope for the future & is determined to live her life as she pleases, free from the smothering constraints of Georgian society.

For a woman travelling alone its a journey fraught with danger, & as civil war rages around her, the only ship prepared to take Maria belongs to roguish smuggler Captain James Henderson. Onboard, all is well until Maria makes two shocking discoveries the first a deadly secret, the second an irresistible attraction to the enigmatic captain.

With Henderson on a journey of his own & determined to finally put his life of crime behind him, he & Maria grow ever closer.

But can Henderson escape his illicit past or will the scandalous secret hes hiding ruin them both?

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781785300387
• Format: Paperback
• Author: Sara Sheridan
• Publisher: Black & White
• Pages: 440
• Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.7 x 3cm

















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