In 1948 on the Isle of Anglesey the first prototype Land Rover was put through its paces. It was a utilitarian four wheel-drive vehicle designed for farmers who could use it for a multitude of purposes. The vehicle made to be simple & rugged had an aluminium alloy body with a steel chassis. Intended as a simple stopgap for Rover while post-war car production restarted the Land Rover has proved to be an enduring British icon advertised as the best 4x 4 x far. Infinitely flexible Land Rovers have appeared in short medium & long wheelbase variants with a host of body styles & conversions to everything from six-wheeled fire engines to motor homes. Over sixty years after the prototype was built the Land Rover of today still resembles the original
- although creature comforts may be more evident on the current Defender. Whatever form it takes the Land Rover is still one of the few vehicles that can be found on every continent of the world & well over 50 per cent of all Land Rovers made are still in daily use. From the Outback to the Sahara from the plains of America to the mountains of Norway from the savanna of Africa to the jungles of Borneo Land Rovers are still the best 4x 4 x far.
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'A required book for anyone who wishes to understand the Argentine situation before & after the Falklands War' GRAHAM GREENE Jimmy Burns was the only full-time British foreign correspondent to remain in Argentina covering the Falklands War. In The Land that Lost Its Heroes he gives a detailed account of the military planning of the invasion exposing not only the hidden motives & nature of Argentina's military regime but also the pitifully inadequate reactions of both British diplomacy & intelligence. Burns exposes the duplicity of other Western nations & the international banking community & gives a vivid first-hand account of the end of the regime the debt crisis & the return to democracy under Raul Alfonsin. ...

On childhood holidays to the western coast Tim Wintons days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings the sun & surf kept him outside in the water. In the afternoons as the horizon wobbled with mirages & the wind came in from the ocean he was driven inside to books. In the simple peculiar shack that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books a world unto itself. In this beautifully delicate memoir Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore about diving dunes beachcombing & the sense of being on the precarious wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. It is a book about the ebb & flow that became a way of life & that shaped one of our finest writers. Both a serial romantic & a truly gifted novelist Mariella Frostrup Mail on Sunday ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed folding map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities including walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the OS Explorer map series details information essential in the great outdoors including youth hostels pubs & visitor information. Rights of way fences permissive paths & bridleways are clearly shown ensuring you have the best information to get the most out of your time in the countryside. ...

Having been invited to spend Christmas in the country fishing for pike Gently finds himself hunting a completely different predator when a guest at Merely Hall a nearby stately home is found dead at the foot of the grand staircase on Christmas morning. At first the tragedy is assumed to be a simple accident but Gently is not one to jump to conclusions & is soon in no doubt whatsoever that this was murder. Merely produces the finest tapestries in England but the threads that Gently must unravel in his investigation are more complex than any weavers design with everyone from the lord of the manor to his most lowly servant falling under suspicion. Praise for Alan Hunters Gently books: It is always a pleasure to look forward to another Gently book by Alan Hunter
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For Ibn Batuttah of Tangier being medieval didn't mean sitting at home waiting for renaissances enlightenments & easy Jet. It meant travelling the known world to its limits. Seven centuries on Tim Mackintosh-Smith's passionate pursuit of the fourteenth-century traveller takes him to landfalls in remote tropical islands torrid Indian Ocean ports & dusty towns on the shores of the Saharan s&-sea. His zigzag itinerary across time & space leads from Zanzibar to the Alhambra (via the Maldives Sri Lanka China Mauritania & Guinea) & to a climactic conclusion to his quest for the man he calls 'IB'
- a man who out-travelled Marco Polo by a factor of three who spent his days with saints & sultans & his nights with an intercontinental string of slave-concubines. Tim's journey is a search for survivals from IB's world
- material human spiritual edible
- however when your fellow traveller has a 700-year head start familiar notions don't always work.


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From the bestselling author of Headlong "and " Spies " "an unconditional triumph" (" The Washington Post Book World)" For fifteen years ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty there have been rumors. So Brian Jessel a young member of the Cabinet Office is diverted from his routine work & asked to prepare an internal report. Slowly from the archives in the Cabinet Office Registry Jessel begins to reconstruct Summerchilds last months. It begins to emerge that at a time when America had just put men on the moon the British were involved in an even bolder project & that Summerchild was investigating a phenomenon as common as sunlight but as powerful & dangerous as any of the forces that modern science has known. The secret world into which Brian Jessel stumbles turns out to be even more extraordinary than his department had feared." ...

Landlord & Tenant Law" is an easily accessible introductory text. The clear concise style allows the authors to cover the subject in admirable breadth & depth. Summaries exercises & workshops concluding each chapter help the reader to make sense of a complex area of Law. This is an extensively revised fifth edition of this popular text particularly in terms of its coverage of the effects of covenants in leases & also in an expanded section on business tenancies which deals fully with the important changes to the security of tenure of business tenants that took effect in 2004." ...

This new work a successor to the authors earlier book (co-written with Geoff Gilbert) Landlord & Tenant Law: The Nature of Tenancies (1995) though now the work of a single author & completely up-dated & rewritten shares the same aim of setting leases in their wider context by weaving together matters of law & policy. The book provides a clear understanding of the main principles of landlord & tenant law in each sector. The style of this book is distinctive. First of all it explains the law of landlord & tenant law by showing how the statutory & common law rules have been shaped by wider commercial social economic & policy considerations by the growth in human rights law & by changing concepts of community & justice. The other innovative feature of the book is that the law is explained by reference to the different stages of the relationship; entering a lease regulating leases managing leasehold property & so on. The stages of the relationship provide the structure for the book. Most landlord & tenant books set out the common law rules in the opening chapters & then deal with the legislative regime for each individual sector later in the book. By instead setting the law in the different stages of the relationship this book is able to show where the shared issues faced by landlord & tenant receive a common legal response & where the different context of the leasehold relationship has led to a variety in legal rules. Landlord & tenant law is now very different from the common law of 100 years ago. In describing the modern law (or laws) the unique style of this book enables the reader to see how the commonalities & the contrasts between the law in the different sectors can be explained by reference to the way that leases are differently used & regulated. ...