Britain's Cold War Bombers explores the creation & development of the jet bomber tracing the emergence of the first jet designs (the Valiant & Vulcan) through to the first-generation jets which entered service with the RAF & Fleet Air Arm. Each aircraft type is examined looking at how the design was created & how this translated into an operational aircraft. The basic development & service history of each type is explained with a narrative which links the linear appearance of each new design leading to the present day & the latest generation of Typhoon aircraft. Other aircraft types covered are the Canberra Sperrin Victor Scimitar Buccaneer Nimrod Phantom Sea Harrier Jaguar Tornado GR1/4 & Typhoon. ...

This is a comprehensive photographic field guide to the dragonflies & damselflies of Britain & Irel&. This completely revised second edition covers in detail the identification of all 56 species that have been recorded as well as 7 potential vagrants. It aims to help the dragonfly-watcher
- beginner or expert
- to identify any species they encounter. It
Includes:: stunning color plates of all species
- showing males females immatures & color forms; innovative beautifully detailed & easy-to-use identification charts summarizing the key features of both adults & larvae; detailed species profiles covering adult identification distribution (with up-to-date maps) flight periods eggs & larvae behavior habitat requirements status & conservation; & sections on biology habitats tips on how & where to watch dragonflies & other useful information. It is a guide on when & where to find each species. A companion iPhone/iPad/iPod touch app is available for this guide.



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Britain hosts a diversity of freshwater environments from torrential hill streams & lowland rivers to lakes & reservoirs ponds & canals & ditches & estuaries. Britain's Freshwater Fishes covers more than 50 species of freshwater & brackish fish found in these waters. This beautifully illustrated guide features in-the-hand & in-the-water photographs throughout & accessible & informative overviews of topics such as fish biology & life cycles. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features with information on status size & weight habitat ecology & conservation. The book also

Includes:: a glossary & suggestions for further reading. This easy-to-use field guide will be invaluable to anyone interested in Britain's freshwater fish life from naturalists & academics to students & anglers. Covers all of Britain's freshwater fishes Features beautiful photos throughout

Includes:: detailed information on more than 50 species the places they inhabit & their roles in Britain's ecosystems Attractively designed & easy to use



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Britain's Holiest Places is now a major six part BBC4 Series Pagans & Pilgrims: Britain's Holiest Places. Britain's Holiest Places reveals the astonishing spiritual heritage lying hidden in every corner of our country. The result of a five-year journey from Orkney to the Channel Islands it opens up a remarkable landscape shaped by centuries of faith. There is something to surprise & enlighten anyone with a sense of the sacred
- from miraculous healing pools astounding works of devotional art mysterious natural features world-famous shrines grand cathedrals to the humblest of country churches. It

Includes:: 500 places in England Wales & Scotl&. Each listing is illustrated & made easily accessible to the visitor with much to inspire as well as much to challenge modern understanding of spiritual experience. The book encompasses the entire spectrum of church & even folk traditions: Anglican Catholic Celtic Orthodox Non-Conformist Presbyterian Quaker & many others. Written with a keen eye for the surreal as well as the sacred the absurd as well as the serious this book is the first complete survey of our islands sacred history.


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Britain's Hoverflies" is a beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to all the genera of hoverflies found in Britain focusing on the species most likely to be identified. Accessible & designed to appeal to a wide audience the book contains more than 500 remarkable photographs exploring the various life stages of all 69 hoverfly genera & the 164 most commonly seen species. Easy-to-use species accounts highlight key identification features including status behavior & habitat requirements. The book also contains distribution maps phenology charts & introductory chapters that examine hoverfly biology. This guide is the perfect companion for wildlife enthusiasts professional ecologists & anyone with an interest in this unique insect family. I

Includes:: more than 500 remarkable photographs depict all 69 hoverfly genera & the 164 most commonly seen species in Britain that can be identified by eye or with a magnifying glass. It offers introductory chapters that explore hoverfly biology. Species accounts highlight key features of each genus & species including status behavior & habitat. Maps & phenology charts examine hoverfly distribution. It is a complete list of the 281 hoverfly species recorded in Britain to date with degrees of identification difficulty."

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Fully illustrated with stunning photographs of dray horses coopers & grand Victorian architecture an elegy for the loss of ...

From county grounds where Denis Compton hit a century to the smallest village field Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds movingly shows how picturesque greenery gave way to shopping malls & housing estates. The cricket ground is as much a part of the British landscape as the parish church. Hastings used to have a historic ground in the middle of the town surrounded by elegant houses
- but then recently it disappeared under a shopping precinct with a branch of River Island where the wicket used to be. Yorkshire used to play at Sheffield's Bramall Lane
- until the football club built grandstands over it. Like so many companies with works grounds Guinness have closed their cricket ground at Park Royal & sold it for an industrial estate. Now in a further addition to Aurum's successful ' Lost' series following Britain's Lost Cities & Lost Victorian Britain Guardian journalist Chris Arnot tours the country in search of our most lamented lost cricket grounds hearing reminiscences from former players & spectators & finding what if anything is left nowadays apart from the poignant photographs of their picturesque heyday that make this a nostalgic & rueful trip back in time.

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A striking photographic record of how the Beeching cuts & modernisation saw our grand terminal stations soaring viaducts & cavernous locomotive works wiped from the landscape The current restoration of St Pancras Station & its Midland Hotel is a glorious exception to a melancholy rule
- that the finer our railway architecture the more likely it was to be demolished in the name of progress. Who would know that the ugly low concrete bunker of Birmingham New Street station replaced a handsome glass-roofed train shed or that until the 1960s the stupendously high Belah viaduct swept across a remote Cumbrian valley
- or that the outlet mall in Swindon selling cheap designer clothing used to be he great GWR locomotive works?
- or that on little bucolic branch lines in the West Country or Essex an old bus body was the waiting-room? In over 200 fascinating & often rare images John Minnis documents the remarkably rich architectural heritage of our railways from quaint country halts to distinguished railway hotels
- all of which exists now only in photographs.



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A handy-sized photographic field guide that aims to help both beginners & experts alike to learn more about some of the conspicuous picturesque & even bizarre galls & what causes them in the first place. The book

Features: * stunning colour plates showing typical views of each type of gall featured. Approx. 200 photos & 2 illustrations. * Detailed gall profiles covering key identification features & on what tree or plant to look. * Split into three sections covering galls on Oaks on other trees & shrubs & on herbaceous plants. * Details of other reading for those who wish to take the subject further. * A handy index of host plants Prepared by members of the British Plant Gall Society with the aim of encouraging an augmented interest in the topic & an increase in younger naturalists who will continue studying this fascinating subject into the future. Readership: Naturalists students land managers those interested in the interaction between insect & plant-life.

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The majestic architecture of nineteenth-and early twentieth-century railway buildings reflected the pride of the railway companies who commissioned them. The structures themselves from classically-designed stations to mighty viaducts tunnels & bridges inspired awe in a travelling public receptive to the splendour of a new kind of tranpsort that was changing their lives. Today helped along by the popularity of preserved steam railways these wonderful examples of railway architecture are widely appreciated for their beauty & the role they played in our social & industrial past. In this highly-illustrated book filled with his own photographs & detailed drawings Trevor Yorke describes the huge range of buildings associated with the golden age of steam including waiting rooms booking halls stations large & small & hotels. He explains the dynamics of their construction the materials used & the myriad of styles employed by leading architects & engineers of the day. For anyone with an interest in the world of steam railways this book will prove an invaluable guide o the architectural legacy it has left to us. ...