A timeless classic beautifully rejacketed. BACKSTORY: Test your knowledge of the book & its characters & learn more about water dowsing! Reunited for the summer the Swallows & Amazons with Dick & Dorothea launch a prospecting expedition to find the lost gold mine of the high hills above the lake. But the mining camp runs into all sorts of trouble: not only the danger of fire in the drought ridden countryside but also scary encounters with unsafe tunnels. Worst of all is the sinister Squashy Hat who appears to be a rival prospector & who's certainly a spy -- how can they keep working without him discovering what they've found? ...

' Barbecued billygoats!' Can you imagine finding gold? That's just what the Swallows & Amazons & Dick & Dorothea decide to hunt for in the hills high above the lake. But it's a hot & dry summer & water is in scarce supply. Worse still for the troubled campers they have competition: Squashy Hat. Anybody can see he is a prospector. & talk about squashy hats! The children have never seen squashier. Just who is he & what sort of traps is he laying? Using pigeons to carry messages braving dangerous mines & fires the Swallows Amazons & D's Mining Company must stake their claim before their dreaded rival...
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Material: In ' The Backstory' you can test your knowledge of the book & learn all about homing pigeons! Vintage Children's Classics is a twenty-first century classics list aimed at 8-12 year olds & the adults in their lives. Discover timeless favourites from The Jungle Book & Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to modern classics such as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.


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In recent years changes in farming practices have meant that pigeons have increased in enormous numbers. As a result of this pigeon shooting has grown hugely in popularity & necessity & this completely updated edition of THE PIGEON SHOOTER contains all the latest information on decoys hides & the new pigeon magnets. John Batley is a leading authority on the subject of woodpigeon & this book also contains details on how to obtain sport the guns & equipment required the current legal position the use of dogs & invaluable hands-on instruction. ...

This comprehensive book is essential reading for all those interested in pigeon shooting whether for pest control or for sport. It examines the use of decoy pigeons the control of feral pigeons shooting around buildings where birds are roosting & the use of shotguns. It also covers in depth pigeon shooting with air rifles & live fire rifles. Attention is also paid to building hides gun safety gun care & the practicalities of shooting. This is the definitive modern guide to pigeon shooting. ...

This guide covers keeping pigeons in polecotes wallcotes & aviaries beginners breeds types of housing pigeons & gardens how to set up a breeding colony breeding & management pigeon predators & health. There are chapters on the origin & history of the domestic pigeon. ...

This is a Blandings novel. Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood Beach the butler & others have put their shirt on this & for Lord Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham the new sow of Sir Gregory Parsloe Bart. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate? In this classic Blandings novel pigs rise above their bulk to vanish & reappear in the most unlikely places while young lovers are crossed & recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle. ...

As of this moment in time nobody has died nobody has given birth & nobody has escaped. All 57 pigs 18 sheep 46 chickens two ducks two geese (the terrorists of the chicken field) two wild cats two horses four goslings two goats & a one-eyed sheepdog. All where they should be. But it wasn't always like this.. ." This is the true story of a Londoner who gives up his job as an estate agent in the city moves to the wilds of Exmoor starts a smallholding & becomes self-sufficient with a few bumps along the way. Simon's journey from urbanite to self-sufficient smallholder is brimming with incidents
- some funny & some tragic
- leading him to question Mother Nature himself the food he eats & his role in it all. Which makes the transition from city life to self-sufficient smallholder slow emotional & for him often confusing but it is also beautiful warming & laugh-out-loud funny. So if you would like to spend time with an accidental smallholder who completely changed one drunken night in Devon then join Simon his wife & their extended family as they learn the truth of what it takes to live a self-sufficient life before eventually becoming as happy as the proverbial pigs in clover."

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Continuing the story begun in The Bean Trees" this novel features the characters Taylor & Turtle as they witness an event whose repercussions will change their lives forever. By the author of " Animal Dreams" & " Homeland"." ...

Mark Blakes history of Pink Floyd
- the first for fifteen years
- has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable

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Interest in Pink Floyd remains as intense as ever even 40 years after the release of Dark Side of the Moon with lavish box-sets collecting demos & out-takes & Roger Waters' world tours of The Wall playing to packed stadiums. Now Mark Blake's superbly comprehensive & engrossing history of the group rightly acclaimed as the definitive book on the band has been fully revised & extended with new interviews to bring the story up to date with the recent appearances of David Gilmour & Nick Mason with Roger Waters at a London date on his The Wall tour. ...