This fantastic activity guide from the AA tells you the best places to visit in Devon &

Includes:: mapped walks

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Walking is one of Britains favourite leisure activities & this guide features a variety of mapped walks to suit all abilities. The book features all the practical detail you need accompanied by fascinating background reading on the history & wildlife of Devon as well as other local points of interest. All walks are annotated with places to visit along the way including tea rooms & pubs with extra details on their character & the food on offer. Every walk is given a summary of distance time gradient level of difficulty type of surface & access landscape dog friendliness parking & public toilets. ...

If you are on holiday & looking for a simple map containing all the information you need to make the most of your visit the Tour maps are for you. These easy-to-read maps are packed with essential tourist information town plans & scenic areas in addition to roads rail cycle routes & ground height information. ...

During the Second World War Devon was reputedly the most militarized county in the country. This was particularly so just before D-Day when every town & village was bursting with American troops preparing to take part in the liberation of occupied Europe. But the story of Devon at War begins long before that & in this book we visit places that were affected at different stages of the conflict. We learn how Plymouth & Exeter experienced some of the most devastating air attacks outside London while even smaller communities along the South Coast suffered from the shock tactics of tip & run raids. We see the crucial part that the countys ports & harbours played in keeping Britains Navy afloat & at the forefront of operations. & perhaps most important of all we acknowledge the countys incalculable contribution to all aspects of Operation Overlord on land at sea or in the air. Of course every community has its own story to tell but it would be impossible to include them all. The examples chosen give a good summary of what took place in Devon during those dark days when the country as a whole was fighting for its very survival. ...

Nobody knows southwest England like Lonely Planet. Whether youre after subdued beaches or countryside walks subtropical gardens or ancient monuments a romantic hotel or a top restaurant this book gives you everything you need for an unforgettable trip. Tailor-make the perfect trip with our h&-picked inspiring itineraries. Immerse yourself: local tips & insights get you to the heart of the region. Detailed maps & driving tours make independent exploration easy. ...

Discover the darker side of Devon with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the county. Legendary north Devon highwayman Tom Faggus (featured in the classic novel Lorna Doone) east Devon smuggler Jack Rattenbury (known as ' The Rob Roy of the West') south Devon murderer John Lee (' The Man They Could Not Hang') & west Devon fraudster Charles De Ville Wells (immortalised for his gambling exploits in the music hall song ' The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo') are featured among the infamous rogues rascals & reprobates in this veritable who's who of the county's most notorious villains. Drawing on a wide variety of historical sources & containing many cases which have never before been published Devon Villains will fascinate everyone interested in true crime & the history of Devon. ...

The story of the Devonshires is the story of Britain. William Cavendish the father of the first Earl dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess his second wife was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in Engl&. Arbella Stuart their granddaughter was a heartbeat away from the throne of England & their grandson Lord General of the North fought to save the crown for Charles I. Fifty years later the First Duke of Devonshire conspired to depose James II & make William of Orange king. For the next two centuries the Devonshires were at the heart of fashionable society & the centre of political power. The Fourth Duke became prime minister & Georgiana wife of the Fifth scandalised even the Regency. Spencer Compton the last of the great Devonshires was three times offered the preimership & three times refused it. Even the Devonshire servants made history. Joseph Paxton was their gardner & Thomas Hobbes was the family tutor. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made & lost fortunes fought & fornicated built great houses patronised the arts & pioneered the railways made great scientific discoveries & in the end came to terms with changing times. It is popular history at its very best. ...

If youre a developer trying to figure out why your application is not responding at 3 am you need this book! This is now my go-to book when diagnosing production issues. It has saved me hours in troubleshooting complicated operations problems." -Trotter Cashion cofounder Mashion Dev Ops can help developers QAs & admins work together to solve Linux server problems far more rapidly significantly improving IT performance availability & efficiency. To gain these benefits however team members need common troubleshooting skills & practices. In Dev Ops Troubleshooting: Linux Server Best Practices award-winning Linux expert Kyle Rankin brings together all the standardized repeatable techniques your team needs to stop finger-pointing collaborate effectively & quickly solve virtually any Linux server problem. Rankin walks you through using Dev Ops techniques to troubleshoot everything from boot failures & corrupt disks to lost email & downed websites. Youll master indispensable skills for diagnosing high-load systems & network problems in production environments. Rankin shows how to * Master Dev Ops approach to troubleshooting & proven Linux server problem-solving principles* Diagnose slow servers & applications by identifying CPU RAM & Disk I/O bottlenecks* Understand healthy boots so you can identify failure points & fix them* Solve full or corrupt disk issues that prevent disk writes* Track down the sources of network problems* Troubleshoot DNS email & other network services* Isolate & diagnose Apache & Nginx Web server failures & slowdowns* Solve problems with My SQL & Postgres database servers & queries* Identify hardware failures-even notoriously elusive intermittent failures" ...

Museum visitors today usually see pre-16th-century Italian painted altarpieces exhibited alone as single paintings. Yet this beautiful catalogue shows that these works were once part of decorative integrated schemes & the original experience for viewers of the paintings was significantly different from our own. Focusing on Italian altarpieces from the second half of the 13th century to the very end of the 15th the book investigates the original functions & locations of altarpieces as well as the circumstances of their dislocations dismantlings & reconstructions. Regional variations are also analyzed & the author examines altarpieces formal & typological development taking into account the wealth of related scholarship undertaken in the past thirty years. ...

London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing & discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping the known world in terrible & unimaginable ways. When the glamorous Lady Bessingham is found murdered in her bedroom surrounded by her vast collection of fossils & tribal masks Professor Adolphus Hatton & his morgue assistant Albert Roumande are called in to examine the crime scene
- & the body. In the new & suspicious world of forensics & autopsy examinations Hatton & Roumande are the best. But the crime scene is not confined to one room. In their efforts to help the infamous Scotland Yard detective Inspector Adams track down the Ladys killer Hatton & Roumande uncover a trail of murders connected to a packet of seditious letters that if published would change the face of society & religion irrevocably. D.E. Merediths measured prose & eye for exquisite detail moves seamlessly from the filthy docks on the Isle of Dogs to the jungles of Borneo & the drawing rooms of Londons upper class. Her slow-burning mystery builds to a shocking conclusion consuming Victorian London
- & victims
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