These Somerset tales, newly collected or retold with a strong sense of the land & the waters that shaped them, reflect our enduring interest in the natural landscape. Let these stories from the Summer Lands take you on a journey: across wind-wild moors that plummet to treacherous tides traversed by sea morgans; on a scramble from gorges shaped by the Devil's spite to caves dwelled in by bitter witches. Discover ancient mines & dragons' haunts, & emerge into forests & fields to be befriended by bees or bedevilled by fairies; then stroll beside ancient waterways, where willows walk & orchards talk. From Gwyn ap Neath to Joseph of Arimathea, your travelling companions will meet you from legend, history & living memory
- from the places where they were once known best. Sharon Jacksties has a sharp eye for the landscape of Somerset & the seen & unseen stories that it holds, a sympathetic ear for the dialect of the South West, & a playful wit that brings this collection of tales to vivid & delightful life.
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The landscape of Somerset has changed in many ways over the last century. From Glastonbury to the Quantax, Somerset Then & Now provides a fascinating snapshot of the county in days gone by. The older photographs in this book were taken by local photographer Henry Montague Cooper between 1904 & 1906. Cooper owned one of the county's first motorcars, & used it to tour extensively with his camera. His photographic record of Somerset surpasses that of every other local photographer. Comparing his Somerset to the modern county of today reveals many changes: the mechanisation of farming has resulted in the loss of hedgerows, & flail cutting in the loss of trees in hedges bordering roads. Somerset's traditional industries have now gone, & many ways of life with them. However, much still remains unaltered in the heart of this sleepy rural county, & this book celebrates the unchanging beauty of 'the land of summer'. ...

From the misty Levels to the heights of Exmoor & the Mendips, the Somerset landscape in enriched by buildings of outstanding quality & interest. This expertly revised & enlarged survey is a suitable architectural companion to one of England's most beautiful regions. ...

The serene & tranquil countryside of Somerset is an unlikely setting for a rich military history that stretches back thousands of years.

Somerset has it all, from Iron Age hill forts to castles constructed in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest of England in the eleventh century & from the memorials & memories of the First World War to the vast range of buildings & structures constructed during the Second World War.

This book looks at the role & locations of the many features, buildings & structures that still stand proud today.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781445676982
• Author: Andrew Powell-Thomas
• Publisher: Amberley Books
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 96
• Dimensions: 23.5 x 16.5 x 1cm











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Accompany the author on a series of spellbinding journeys that capture the true flavour of Britain. While enjoying witty & discerning travel writing combined with a ragbag of thrilling tales & colourful childhood memories. Discover iconic landscapes redefined in breathtaking pictures & uniquely engaging prose. ...

Something Beginning with P is a collection of new poems for children including poems from leading Irish poets: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Maighread Medbh * Paula Meehan * Brendan Kennelly * Michael Longley * Rita Ann Higgins * Matthew Sweeney * Biddy Jenkinson * Desmond O' Grady * Richard Murphy * Nuala ni Dhomhnaill * Celia de Freine * Cathal O Searcaigh * Frank Mc Guinness * Julie O' Callaghan * Tom Mc Intyre * Paul Muldoon * Dermot Bolger * Eilean Ni Chuilleanain * Frank Ormsby * Siobhan Campbell * Dennis O' Driscoll * John Montague * Moya Cannon * Peter Fallon * Mary O' Malley * Micheal O' Siadhail * John F Deane Published by The O' Brien Press in association with Poetry Irel&. Supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Irel&. ...

Somewhere, not so far away, theres a cave filled with wonderful creatures.

They’re called the Little Somethings, which

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One minute, 11-year-old Carmen is watching her hippy mum put curlers in for the first time, the next she is being dragged with her sister through LA airport with her mother muttering about 'the patriarchy' under her breath. The three of them board a plane that takes them to Peru, next door to the Chile from which the family had fled after Pinochet's coup. Eight days after landing in Lima, & still perplexed by their mother's disguises & lies, they're off again, on a bus bound they know not where. They are then to spend most of the next decade, the 1980s, moving from dictatorship to dictatorship, evading capture, torture & peril at every turn. It is no way to spend your teenage years, until, overnight, it becomes the way Carmen herself chooses. ...

This is the first Blandings novel, In whuch P.G. Wodehouse intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his log-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, & Beach the Blandings butler. As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this... ...

Bob Slocum was a promising executive. His life was settled & ordered; he had conformed & society demanded he be happy
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