* From bestselling author John Griffiths. * Jam packed with over one hundred years of strange rugby history! * The perfect gift for the rugby fan in your family! Rugby fans will delight in this extraordinary collection of astonishing but true stories from the past 130 years which reveal a bizarre & hitherto uncelebrated side to the sport. Here youll find amongst many other bizarre events the Irish international who arranged his marriage in order to play against England the match in which a team of top soccer players beat their rugby counterparts at their own game the riotous encounter that meant that particular fixture was subsequently abandoned for seven years the international match in which an entire Wales side were sent off & the unknown player who was capped for his country due to an administrative mistake. Rugbys Strangest Matches is a fascinating compendium that is sure to amuse & entertain. Other titles in the series: Footballs Strangest Matches (9781907554087) Crickets Strangest Matches (9781907554094) & Golfs Strangest Rounds (9781907554070) ...

The remarkable story of two women the first in the world to drive the length of Africa & the first to cross the Sahara on a motorcycle. London to Cape Town overland by motorcycle & sidecar pulling a trailer. No roads no back up
- just straight across the Sahara through equatorial Africa & South to the Cape
- in 1934/35 without even a compass! Undeterred by nomads sand drifts heat rain rivers breakdowns & politics Theresa Wallach & Florence Blenkiron completed a journey that might well defeat a modern motorcycle & Florence even rode back as far as the Sahara! From oasis to oasis arguing with the French Foreign Legion for permission to continue & winning; fashioning a tow hitch for the trailer when it broke in the desert; rebuilding the entire engine from scratch in Agadez: meeting gorillas lions & snakes on the road staying in African villages & meeting an amazing variety of friendly & helpful people. Not to mention having an accident in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) with the only car seen on the road. This second edition contains rather more information on the life of Theresa Wallach & especially her travels in the USA after here amazing journey to Cape Town. It also contains a few additional photos & where new information has come to light this has also been included.

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Covers both traditional & contemporary hooking techniques. Step-by-step instructions for hooking over 40 different flowers. Beautiful botanical drawings by the author. Easy-to-follow shaded diagrams illustrate values in flowers to guide your hooking.

Includes:: techniques for both finely shaded & primitive floral rugs.

Includes:: the author's signature dye recipes. Free pull-out pattern.



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Through a series of mishaps Henry Warren a recently divorced City financier ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by the fate of the towns inhabitants Warren risks his fortune & reputation to save the shipyard & restore the town to its former prosperity. In seeking to change the fate of the town he radically changes his own. ...

Keep your enemies close & your sons closer... The story of the third great Moghul Emperor Akbar leader of a triumphant dynasty which contained the seeds of its own destruction. Akbar ruler of a sixth of the worlds people colossally rich & utterly ruthless was a contemporary of Elizabeth I but infinitely more powerful. His reign began in bloodshed when he strangled his treacherous milk-brother but it ended in glory. Akbar extended his rule over much of Asia skillfully commanding tens of thousands of men elephants & innovative technology yet despite the unimaginable bloodshed which resulted his empire was based on universal religious tolerance. However Akbars homelife was more complicated. He defied family nobles & mullahs to marry a beautiful Rajput princess whose people he had conquered; but she hated Akbar & turned Salim his eldest son against him. Whats more as any Moghul prince could inherit his fathers crown & become Emperor his sons were brought up to be intensely competitive & suspicious of each other: to see eachother as rivals for the greatest prize of all. & as Salim grew to manhood the relationship between father & son became tainted by rebellion & competition to be the greatest Moghul of them all. ...

This bestselling pocket-sized racing rules book is unique in covering the rules by race situation. It explains the rules affecting each part of the race course from the start line round the marks & on to the finish line & clear diagrams show which boat is in the right or the wrong. The entire 2013-2016 racing rules are also included in this edition. This book is ideal for all racers because the rules are explained by race situation using explanatory diagrams to show the rules that apply all around the race course. The rules are graded for all levels of competition
- club national & international championship. This unique method of presentation has proved extremely popular with racers over ten editions.
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A proper understanding of the racing rules is crucial to success on the water & there is no better guide to the latest rules than Bryan Willis. Bryan has been chairman of the jury & chief umpire for some of the most prestigious sailing events in the world including the America's Cup & Olympics. He has served on International Sailing Federation (ISAF) Racing Rules Committee for over 25 years. Who better to explain how to put the rules into practice? Sailors are taken through a wide range of scenarios with a clear explanation of what rule applies & how it should be interpreted. Colour diagrams make everything crystal clear. As well as going through the latest rules changes for 2013-2016 Bryan also guides you through the knowledge needed to come out at the front of the fleet at every stage of the race & every mark. An appendix

Includes:: the rules in full making this an essential reference as well as an invaluable guide.

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Luvvies. Tyrannical directors. Useless agents. Less job security than an England football manager. Who'd be an actor? Michael Simkins isn't sure even though he's been one himself for over thirty years. Join him backstage as he examines that business called showbusiness from am dram to Hollywood & from Shakespeare to ads for flatulence pills. In a career that started as a plump teenager in ballet tights at RADA Michael has appeared in countless West End plays & musicals presented safety training workshops for sewage workers & when resting worked as a crate smasher at a car factory. He's done movies soaps ads & voice-overs & worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Kelly Osbourne. As the ultimate jobbing actor he's flirted with triumph & oblivion without ever quite managing either. In The Rules of Acting he shares his hard-won wisdom. Covering everything from learning your lines to tilting for Oscar success in Hollywood surviving a flop to why it's advisable to read the whole script if you wish to avoid improper relations with a pig it's the ultimate survival guide for anyone contemplating a life in showbiz. Throw out An Actor Prepares! Michael Simkins' book tells actors all they need to know about the realities of the acting profession; the passion the struggle the noble idealism & the heartache". (Helen Mirren). " It is thrilling that Micahel Simkins is having such success as a writer
- anything to keep him off the stage". (Ian Mckellen)."
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The Rule Book of The FA from 1863 is one of the most important books ever published
- according to the writer & broadcaster Melvyn
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