Whether you want to explore the historical towns of Normandy contemplate the evocative relics of war at the Landing Beaches or sip the finest Calvados in picturesque rusticity Footprint Focus proves an invaluable guide. This compact yet concise book will steer you towards the most interesting sights that Normandy's coast has to offer as well as ensuring you enjoy undiscovered corners too. Comprehensive listings of the best food drink & accommodation will help you make the most of your trip. * Essentials section with useful advice on getting to & around the Normandy Coast Caen the Landing Beaches & Mont St Michel * Comprehensive up-to-date listings of where to eat sleep & play. *

Includes:: information on tour operators & activities from sampling Normandy cider to climbing the magnificent Mont St Michel. * Detailed maps for the Normandy Coast & other key destinations. * Slim enough to fit in your pocket. With detailed information on all the main sights plus many lesser-known attractions Footprint Focus Normandy Coast (
Includes: Caen the Landing Beaches & Mont St Michel) provides concise & comprehensive coverage of one of France's most historically fascinating regions. The content of the Footprint Focus Normandy Coast (
Includes: Caen the Landing Beaches & Mont St Michel) guide has been extracted from Footprint's Normandy Full-Color Guide.



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Founded by Vikings in the 9th century Normandy has fantastic culture history & heritage just waiting to be explored. Great ports Cherbourg & Le Havre picturesque fishing harbours like Honfleur or Dieppe chic resorts & long sandy beaches all resonate with memories linking Normandy to its neighbour across the Channel. You can discover an astonishing artistic heritage from the cartoon-like Tapestry in Bayeux & Gothic masterpieces in Rouen & strange Mont St Michel to Impressionist shrines like Monet's home beside the Seine. Normandy's rustic interior has picture-book charm with thatched cottages lanes & hedges orchards & small farms. Dine in hearty local style on tripes a la mode de Caen succulent salt-meadow lamb famous creme fraiche & strong cheeses & enjoy a tot of Normandy's powerful apple brandy Calvados. All this & more is covered in Footprint's fantasic new full-colour guide. What the locals say: Suggestions from local people on where to go & what to do A year in the region: Month-by-month guide to pros & cons of visiting at certain times of the year Great days out: A series of great driving routes & city walks Favourite things: The author's personal recommendations of a place of an activity Pick of the picnic spots: Where to picnic & the best places to buy your goodies ...

With this collection first published in 1975 Heaney located a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Irel&--its people history & landscape--and which gave his poems direction cohesion & cumulative power. In North " the Irish experience is refracted through images drawn from different parts of the Northern European experience & the idea of the north allows the poet to contemplate the violence on his home ground in relation to memories of the Scandinavian & English invasions which have marked Irish history so indelibly." ...

Here is the north this is where it lies where it belongs full of itself high up above everything else surrounded by everything that isn't the north that's off the page somewhere else... Paul Morley grew up in Reddish less than five miles from Manchester & even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age of seven old enough to form an identity but too young to be aware that 'southern' was a category Morley has always thought of himself as a northerner. What that meant he wasn't entirely sure. It was for him as it is for millions of others in England an absolute indisputable truth. But he wondered why when as a child he was so ready to abandon his Cheshire roots & support the much more successful Lancashire cricket team & when as an adult he found he could travel between London & Manchester in less than two hours he continued to say he was from the North. Forty years after walking down grey pavements on his way to school Paul explores what it means to be northern & why those who consider themselves to be believe it so strongly. Like industrial towns dotted across great green landscapes of hills & valleys Morley breaks up his own history with fragments of his region's own social & cultural background. Stories of his Dad spreading margarine on Weetabix stand alongside those about northern England's first fish & chip shop in Mossley near Oldham. & out of these lyrical memories rise many disconnected voices of the north; Wordsworth's poetry Larkin's reflections & Formby's guitar. Morley maps the entire history of northern England through its people & the places they call home
- from the frozen landscapes of the Ice Age to the Norman invasion to the construction of the Blackpool tower
- to show that the differences go deeper than just an accent. Ambitiously sweeping & beautifully impressionistic without ever losing touch with the minute details of life above the M25 The North is an extraordinary mixture of memoir & history a unique insight into how we as a nation classify the unclassifiable.

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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. ...

Set in the mid-19th century & written from the author's first-hand experience North & South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth Gaskell's skilful narrative uses an unusual love story to show how personal & public lives were woven together in a newly industrial society. This is a tale of hard-won triumphs
- of rational thought over prejudice & of humane care over blind deference to the market. Readers in the twenty-first century will find themselves absorbed as this Victorian novel traces the origins of problems & possibilities which are still challenging a hundred & fifty years later: the complex relationships public & private between men & women of different classes.
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This book comes with an introduction by Jenny Uglow. Milton is a sooty noisy northern town centred around the cotton mills that employ most of its inhabitants. Arriving from a rural idyll in the south Margaret Hale is initially shocked by the social unrest & poverty she finds in her new hometown. However as she begins to befriend her neighbours & her stormy relationship with the mill-owner John Thornton develops she starts to see Milton in a different light. ...

As relevant now as when it was first published Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South" skilfully weaves a compelling love story into a clash between the pursuit of profit & humanitarian ideals. This " Penguin Classics" edition is edited with an introduction by Patricia Ingham. When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of Engl&. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton Margaret becomes aware of the poverty & suffering of local mill workers & develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner & self-made man John Thornton as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction. In " North & South" Gaskell skilfully fused individual feeling with social concern & in Margaret Hale created one of the most original heroines of Victorian literature. In her introduction Patricia Ingham examines Elizabeth Gaskell's treatment of geographical economic & class differences & the male & female roles portrayed in the novel. This edition also

Includes:: further reading notes & a useful glossary. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-65) was born in London but grew up in the north of England in the village of Knutsford. In 1832 she married the Reverend William Gaskell & had four daughters & one son who died in infancy. Her first novel " Mary Barton" was published in 1848 winning the attention of Charles Dickens & most of her later work was published in his journals including " Cranford" (1853) serialised in Dickens' " Household Words". She was also a lifelong friend of Charlotte Bronte whose biography she wrote. If you enjoyed " North & South" you might like Jane Austen's " Persuasion" also available in " Penguin Classics". "[ An] admirable story...full of character & power." (Charles Dickens)."

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The north & south of the title are the Satanic mills of the industrial north & the leisured life of London society & rural Hampshire. When her father leaves the Church Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of Engl&. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton Margaret becomes aware of the poverty & suffering of local mill workers & develops a passionate sense of social justice & a turbulent relationship with mill-owner John Thornton. North & South" depicts a young woman discovering herself in a nuanced portrayal of what divides people & what brings them together." ...