The modern visitor to Devon travelling west into the region is greeted by a panorama of the high ground & rocky outcrops of Dartmoor. In a county renowned for its rolling hills Dartmoors high moors topped by granite tors preside over the massive folds of its peripheral valleys incised by the fast-moving moorland rivers & streams as they flow towards the hinterl&. Dartmoor was designated as one of Englands first National Parks in 1951. It is this natural beauty & tranquil rural landscape that initially attracts visitors but a fuller appreciation of this landscape is enhanced by knowledge of its cultural past. Dartmoor is southern Englands largest upland tract often promoted as Englands last wilderness. Nevertheless it is a maintained landscape. Its management began with traditional forms of hill farming & woodland management in the Neolithic & continues to the present day. The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor describes & narrates Dartmoors landscape history from 4000 BC to the present analysing & summarising archaeological & historical studies from the 19th century onwards. A brief section describes Dartmoors geological shape. Then its prehistoric settlement Romano-British organisation medieval character & early tin industry are described in turn. Next Dartmoors 19th- & 20th-century industrial landscape & heritage (tin copper silver-lead & China clay) & how they co-existed with traditional forms of upland farming are described. Subsidiary industries (peat gunpowder mills ice works & tramways) & the moors use for military training bring the narrative up to the present. A concluding summary assesses Dartmoors history & ponders its future. ...

Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon & grew up in the fields of the English countryside. In this beautiful & evocative memoir she recounts her life within a loving extended family & small but close-knit community. From early memories of her father bringing home oranges during the war to the simple beauty of a field full of butterflies on a hot summer's day Rosemary's stunningly elegant narrative captures the love & losses hopes & struggles traditions & prejudices that bound her to her family & helped her adapt to a fast-changing world. Rosemary's story is a moving testament to a forgotten world & a rapidly disappearing way of life. ...

A man doesn't work for his enemies unless he has little choice in the matter.' So says Bernie Gunther. It is 1954 & Bernie is in Cuba. Tiring of his increasingly dangerous work spying on Meyer Lansky Bernie acquires a boat & a beautiful companion & quits the isl&. But the US Navy has other ideas & soon he finds himself in a place with which he is all too familiar
- a prison cell. After exhaustive questioning he is flown back to Berlin & yet another prison cell with a proposition: work for French intelligence or hang for murder. The job is simple: he is to meet & greet POWs returning to Germany & to look out for one in particular a French war criminal & member of the French SS who has been posing as a German Wehrmacht officer. The French are anxious to catch up with this man & deal with him in their own ruthless way. But Bernie's past as a German POW in Russia is about to catch up with him
- in a way he could never have foreseen. Bernie Gunther's seventh outing delivers more of the fast-paced & quick-witted action that we have come to expect from Philip Kerr. Set in Cuba a Soviet POW camp Paris & Berlin & ranging over a period of twenty years from the Thirties to the Fifties Field Grey is an outstanding thriller by a writer at the top of his game.

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We are very proud (and a bit wary) to announce the publication of The Spiderwick Chronicles. But beware the faeries will use all their power to stop you from reading these books. Book 1 of The Spiderwick Chronicles in which Mallory Simon & Jared get acquainted with their new home but find many unexpected things. It all starts when Jared Grace find their great uncles book Arthur Spiderwicks Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You." & realises that are not alone in their new house. Now the Grace kids want to tell their story but the faeries will do everything to stop them... Its up to you to spread the word about their discovery. But heed their warnings wear some red turn your clothes inside out
- all anti-faerie devices
- & get ready to enter a world that you never knew existed... Its closer than you think!"

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This is a completely revised & expanded edition of the international bestseller. If you met a werewolf in a forest at night would you be able to tell what he really was? Could you resist the dark charms of a vampire or the lure of a fallen angel? Seductive thrilling & often highly dangerous you may recognize these inhuman beings in books & movies
- but if you came across one in real life would you know how to escape their clutches? We have already been sucked in by vampires & eaten up by zombies & this year angels werewolves & demons of all kinds are poised to cast their spells over us. No self-respecting lover the otherworldly can afford to be without this indispensable guide which will help you navigate the shadowy realms of these subversive spirits & tell apart the mysterious from the mischievous; & the virtuous from the vengeful.
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The ultimate breed resource this volume provides detailed descriptions of more that twenty goat breeds from the popular Nubian Pygmy & Boer to the rare & beautiful Golden Guernsey. Illustrated with 150 colour photographs this convenient easy-to-use field guide

Includes:: exhaustive information about behaviour characteristics breeding history as well as a glossary of caprine terms & a list of breed associations.

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Southern Africa has a wealth of mammal species a total of 337
- all of which are covered in this fully revised comprehensive field
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What is unique about Richard Nortons book is that it is both a field guide to observing meteors & also a field guide to locating preparing & analysing meteorites. In addition to giving the reader information about observing techniques for meteors this book also provides a fully detailed account of the types of meteorites how & where to find them how to prepare & analyse them. The book provides everything the amateur astronomer (or geologist!) needs to know about meteors & meteorites. It is thus the only complete book on the subject available at present. ...

This handy pocket-sized guide provides quick accurate & easy identification of over 200 European fungi species. Identifying colours & symbols it classifies the species according to shape. It contains 320 colour photos that show each species with its characteristic features in its natural habitat. It also features 320 graphics that highlight the typical identifying features of each species & a calendar wheel which helps identify the time of year when each species can be found. ...

This handy & comprehensive guide is the essential companion to bird-watching for use in the field or at home. The guide features 500 species of birds found in Britain & also

Includes:: Europes resident birds & regular migrants & key vagrants from North America & Asia. Background information on bird structure & topography fieldcraft habitats bird orders & families is provided & each species entry

Includes:: at least one full-colour illustration beautifully presented by leading bird artists & a full yet concise species description plus other details e.g. habitat voice length wingspan & behavioural characteristics. A glossary of technical terms is included & there is an index of English & Latin names. The guide also

Includes:: 10 species comparison spreads to aid identification of harder to spot species & advice on the best times & places to view the more secretive or rarer birds.





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