Taking its inspiration from Shakespeare's idea of the 'seven ages' of a human life this new anthology brings together the best-loved poems in English to inspire comfort & delight readers for a lifetime. Beginning with babies the book is divided into sections on childhood growing up making a living & making love family life getting older & approaching death ending with poems of mourning & commemoration. Ranging from Chaucer to Carol Ann Duffy via Shakespeare Keats & Lemn Sissay this book offers something for each of those moments in life
- whether falling in love finding your first grey hair or saying your final goodbyes
- when only a poem will do.

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Where do penguins live? What do they eat & how do they catch their food? Beginner readers can find answers to these questions & more in this colourful information book. It is illustrated with stunning photographs & illustrations accompanied by short informative text developed with reading experts. It

Includes:: carefully selected internet links to exciting websites about penguins.

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The vibrant & exciting world of penguins is shown in all its glory in this new book from renowned wildlife photographer David Tipling who has trekked to remote & beautiful locations to capture birds in their natural habitat going about their daily lives. Moments rarely caught by humans have been preserved on film & reproduced in glorious full-colour images. Penguins: Close Encounters showcases 140 amazing photographs of birds in the wild & a short description accompanies each image. The book has coverage of all of the world's 17 penguin species
- including a comprehensive 'penguin fact file' section at the end
- & chapters cover all aspects of their lives & behaviour. This book is a celebration of these birds & a photographic study that is sure to captivate any bird lover or wildlife photography enthusiast.

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With the worldwide success of the movie March of the Penguins these fascinating flightless birds have become a symbol of the fragile nature of our ecosystem. Faced with global warming invasive tourism pollution & loss of habitat penguins need our help more than ever to survive. Over the last 18 years Wayne Lynch has travelled thousands of miles to Antarctica the Galapagos Islands Argentina Chile New Zealand & a dozen remote island clusters in the tempestuous Southern Ocean to study & photograph the 17 species of penguins in their natural habitats. In Penguins of the World he documents the extraordinary life cycle of these tough resourceful & beautiful birds in some of the harshest environments imaginable. Lynchs prose is engaging & easy-to-read & his beautiful photographs capture the birds in a wide variety of activities & behaviours. Penguins of the World is a book not to be missed by anyone interested in the future of life on this planet. ...

It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except
- hold on a minute
- that's not a simple idea at all. & when you throw in incompetent airline officials amorous Argentine Colonels' wives cunning Bajan drug dealers gay Australian waiters overzealous American anti-terrorist police idiot Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus Archbishop Desmond Tutu & whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins you quickly arrive at a whole lot more than you bargained for. Harry Thompson's hilarious book tells the story of one of those great idiotic enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up & only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.

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The Peninsular War saw some of the bloodiest fighting of the Napoleonic Wars. Despite the exposure given this theatre the soldiers who fought there have received little public recognition. The bicentennial commemorations of this war aim to bring the war to wider recognition bringing the Spanish Portuguese & British together in remembering the dead & re-examining the war in a balanced way. This atlas has been put together over the last decade by Colonel Nick Lipscombe of the British Army who is based in Spain & is the chairman for the official organisation in charge of the commemorations. His 30 years of military service have allowed him to bring a unique perspective to this first complete atlas of the war. The mapping is of very high standard & he has re-evaluated several battles in collaboration with Spanish authorities & academics & presents new interpretations of the sources. The 160 maps are accompanied by a text narrating the entire war. This title is a must for anyone interested in Napoleonic history. ...

Every year Penland the innovative school where crafters from around the world come to hone their skills offers a master class in the art of bookmaking thats simply without equal. Fortunately its available to everyone thanks to this technical & inspirational guide that showcases ten contemporary book artists who have taught at the institution. 400 illuminating photographs highlight the crafters as each one demonstrates all the details of his or her particular expertise. Marvel at the beauty of Dolph Smiths sculptural books the exquisite structure of Jim Crofts carved wood covers & metal closures & the intricacies of Barbara Mauriellos handmade boxes & slipcases. This book

Includes:: reflective essays by all the artists.

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We all want what we cannot have but when Mark Castallack sees his longed-for inheritance Penmarric a gothic mansion on the bleak cliffs of Cornwall & the mysterious mesmerising Janna he knows that he will make them his & nothing will stand in his way. Yet when Mark realizes his dreams Penmarric only brings a legacy of conflict jealousy infidelity & betrayal. Spanning the Victorian era to the Second World War this gripping story of one man & his two feuding families chronicles the tempestuous clashes between warring sons wives & mistresses & between a house divided against itself. ...

The original Boogie reluctant hero of the South West Peninsular Path was the Mongrel from hell. Mark Wallington's New Boogie like New Labour appears a much trendier & more wholesome incarnation -until that is Mark gets him on the Pennine Way. This is the big one in every sense. Clearly Boogie will do fine -but will Mark be up to the task? ...

To replace its previous two-volume guide to the Pennine Way Aurum now publishes an entirely new one-volume guide for the 21st-century walker. The Pennine Way is Britain's toughest long-distance path running 268 miles from Derbyshire's Peak District up through the Yorkshire Dales Cumbria & Northumberland into the Scottish Borders. Until now Aurum's Trail Guide has covered it in two volumes where our competitors publish one & those volumes have been bulked out with circular day walks which no-one essaying the arduous task of walking even a stretch of the Path will realistically want to divert to do. Now Damian Hall one of Country Walking's senior contributors has written a completely new guide giving all the information the modern walker requires: GPS references gradients of each section public transport links extensive details of the wildlife & flora to be seen along the way & a guide for occasional walkers to the real highlight stretches of the path. ...