Benedict Morland's comfortable life is overset when an old enemy's dying wish leaves him guardian of an orphaned boy. No-one including his wife Sibella can understand why Benedict accepts Lennox Mynott into his household & amid growing hostility at Morland Place he takes the boy to America to join his daughter Mary at Twelvetrees Plantation. Here Benedict as well as Lennox fall in love with the Southern way of life just at the moment when bitter civil war is about to destroy it forever. ...

On a fateful night in 1860 Thadius Grady realises too late that he has made a grave mistake. In blind faith he has put himself & his daughter Emma at the mercy of his sister & her conniving husband Caleb Crowther
- for he has entrusted to them his entire fortune & the daughter he adores. With his dying breath he pleads to see his daughter one last time
- but Caleb's heart is made from stone. A feared Lancashire Justice Caleb Crowther is a womaniser & a gambler & now the inheritance due to Emma is as much in his hands as is the beautiful Emma Grady herself. But Caleb lives in fear of the past for how did Emma's mother mysteriously die? & what made Thadius & Caleb hate the river people so intensely? History seems likely to repeat itself when Emma falls helplessly in love with Marlow Tanner a young bargee. For Marlow & Emma it is an impossible love
- a love made in Heaven but which could carry them both to Hell...


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As the Byzantine & German emperors plot war against each other Venice's future rests in the hands of three unwilling people: The newly knighted Sir Tycho. An ex-slave & trained assassin who defeated the Mamluk navy but cannot make the woman he loves love him back. Tortured by secrets afraid of the daylight he sees no reason to save a city he hates. The grieving Lady Giulietta. Impossibly rich deeply spoilt. A virgin a mother a widow.. . Both emperors want her hand for their sons in marriage. All she wants is to retire from the poisonous world of the Venetian court to mourn her husband in peace. & finally a naked mud-strewn girl who crawls from a paupers' grave on an island in the Venetian lagoon & begins by killing the men who buried her. ...

Ferret Swartt Sixclaw & badger Sunflash the Mace are arch enemies who have sworn a pledge of death upon each other. Meanwhile the Abbess of Redwall has banished a young creature from her Abbey. This harsh sentence forces a heart-breaking decision upon a young Redwall mousemaid & ultimately links her destiny to...the Outcast of Redwall. ...

Outcomes" is a completely new general English course in which: natural real-world grammar & vocabulary help students to succeed in social professional & academic settings; CEF goals are the focus of communication activities where students learn & practise the language they need to have conversations in English; clear outcomes in every lesson of every unit provide students with a sense of achievement as they progress through the course." ...

Outdoor education offers children special contexts for play & exploration real experiences & contact with the natural world & the community. To help ensure young children thrive & develop in your care this book provides essential information on how to make learning outdoors a rich & valuable part of their daily life. Written by a team of experts in the field this book focuses on the core values of effective outdoor provision & is packed with ideas to try out in practice. Topics covered include: the role of play in learning outdoors; meaningful experiences for children outdoors; the role of the adult outdoors; creating a dynamic & flexible outdoor environment; dealing with challenge risk & safety; & including every child in outdoor learning. There are case studies of successful strategies in action covering the Birth to 5 age range. Outdoor provision needs to be thoughtfully planned well organised & appropriately supported by adults & this book will help practitioners & students to lead good practice with complete confidence so that they respond to the needs & interests of young children. ...

Whether you are an accompllshed adventurer or new to exploring the wilderness & wheather youre travelling alone or as part of a group The Outdoor Survival Handbook will provide you with all the essential support for your expedition whether on dry land or at sea. It contains all of the techniques diagrams instructions & advice needed to ensure a safe enjoyable experience in the great outdoors. Each chapter shows you how to prepare for or deal with a specific situation including how to cope with bad weather; travel in the dark; what do if you lose your bearings; how to navigate without the aid of a map or compass; how to deal with injuries both major & minor; where to forage for food; & how to collect & purify water in all types of environments. The Outdoor Survival Handbooks clear simple structure makes it easy to find the relevant information in an instant & it is designed to keep you safe & out of troube in the first place. ...

This title is presented with a Foreword by Bear Grylls. More people today are choosing to shun personal comfort when they travel to remote destinations instead seeking challenges that test their ability to survive in hostile & often extreme environments. Former Royal Marine Commando & outdoor survival expert Dave Pearce has travelled worldwide visiting some of the most inhospitable environments. His survival skills are based on having been there & done it. Dave's practical guide for intrepid survivalists offers planned & improvised survival skills for a weekend away in the woods or for the most extreme environments on earth. ...

By the author of the critically acclaimed Border Trilogy Outer Dark is a novel at once mythic & starkly evocative set in an unspecified place in Appalachia sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brothers child a boy; the brother leaves the baby in the woods & tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brothers lie she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother & sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying & elusive strangers headlong toward an eerie apocalyptic resolution. Mc Carthy is a master stylist perhaps without equal in American letters.. . In his hands everything is done with consummate skill Village Voice A master in perfect command of his medium Washington Post A true American original Newsweek ...

The Outer Hebrides is Malcolm Mac Gregors second book of landscape photography in Scotl&. Here travels throughout the islands in pursuit of Atlantic light. The photographic journey on the edge of Scotland takes him from the majestic beaches of North Lewis via the mountainous tops of Harris to the awe-inspiring cliffs on Mingulay in the south. The photographs in this book cover remote mountains hills coastline & deserted islands. in addition he photographs churches ruined castles ancient graveyards fishing vessels Harris tweed factories & standing stones bringing a different perspective to the Outer Hebrides. ...