Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composers artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age & gives us the first detailed & comprehensive study of the close links between Wagner & the philosophers
- from the pre-Marxist socialists to Feuerbach & Schopenhauer. Magee explores the relationship between words & music between the conscious & the unconscious mind between art & philosophy. It tackles soberly & judiciously the Wagner whose paranoia egocentricity & anti-semitism are repugnant as well as the Wagner of artistic genius. The resulting text illuminates Wagner & the music-dramas in altogether new ways.
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In all the sagas of human migration none can top the drama of the journey by mid-Western farmers to Oregon & California in the years 1840-49. Seeking the promised land these travellers trekked two thousand miles by covered wagon from Missouri to their destination on the Pacific. Although they used mountain men as guides they went almost literally into the unknown braving dangers from hunger thirst disease drowning & Indians. Left far behind them were the extended family schools doctors churches stores & the rule of law. The early overlanders got through only after Herculean efforts but later in the decade complacency set in & the result was disaster especially in the case of the Donner party marooned in the snows & reduced to cannibalism. Using the original diaries & memoirs Frank Mc Lynn underscores the incredible heroism & dangerous folly on the overland trails. His year-by-year narrative

Includes:: many thematic investigations: the wagons & animals used by the pioneers the role of women relations with Indians crime & punishment beyond the pale of civilisation & much else. The narrative builds to a climax with the dreadful tale of the Donner party but achieves closure with the triumphant story of Brigham Young & the Mormons. Sandwiched between the era of the fur trappers & the post-1849 gold fever this account of the pioneering years in the overland trails highlights & explains a unique experience both in American & world history.

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The next time you hit the shops take a closer look at the hands of the girls around you & you'll notice one thing: everyone seems to have crazy nails! Thanks to celebrities like Katy Perry Rihanna & Lady Gaga nail art has become one of THE must-have affordable accessories & it's only set to get bigger & bigger. From simple techniques like zebra & leopard print to the tricker designs like roses glitterface & more Sharmadean Reid shares 25 of her most in-demand nail designs as requested at her hip London salon WAH Nails. Filled with step-by-step instructions & cheats techniques on how to make your nails pop The WAH Nails Book of Nail Art will make you ensure you're super-cool all-year-round from your fingers to your toes. It also

Includes:: an exclusive WAH Nails sticker sheet.

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' Thomasina Miers is bringing a large slice of genuine Mexico to the mainstream' Independent Eat your way around the markets of Mexico with this collection of over 130 mind-blowing recipes from Thomasina Miers co-founder of the award-winning Wahaca restaurants. Inspired by the flavours of Mexico but using ingredients easily found in Britain Wahaca
- Mexican Food at Home is all about cooking authentic Mexican food in your own kitchen. Mexican cooking is fresh colourful & full of flavour with breakfasts to get you through the day hearty dinners sensational puddings & zingy cocktails. Follow Tommi on her trip through the markets cantinas & fiestas of Mexico to discover recipes bursting with flavour you'll want to eat & share.
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The Wainwright Companion is a fully illustrated collection of fascinating facts statistics trivia & opinion based on A Wainwrights legendary guidebooks to the English Lake District. Which fell has most waterfalls? The longest ridges? The roughest ascent? The best views? The wettest path? The only ascent description that starts with a descent? & what did AW ever do for the Romans? All these questions & hundreds more are answered in this book about the books
- the seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells & their companion The Outlying Fells of Lakel&.
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Wainwright Family Walks brings together for the first time twenty of the easiest & best walks in the southern Lake District from Alfred Wainwrights classic collection of guides. Ideal for those with children & those just starting on their Lake District walking adventures alike it is a perfect accessible introduction to Wainwright. With the emphasis on the lower peaks & manageable climbs here is a selection of wonderful fell walks for all abilities. Sketches & notes from Wainwrights timeless guides are reproduced in their entirety for each of the walks so you can enjoy his peerless commentary on the Lakeland fells while detailed & up-to-date directions guide you along some of Wainwrights recommended routes. There is also plenty of practical advice for getting to the start of each walk & family-friendly facilities nearby plus map & GPS references. With starting points across the southern Lake District & walks ranging from simple strolls to more challenging climbs all that is left to do is lace up your familys boots & walk! A second volume of Wainwright Family Walks covering fells in the northern half of the Lake District will be available soon. ...

The Wainwright Memorial Walk is the 102-mile route through the Lake District that A. Wainwright
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This handsome pocket diary featuring the illustrations of A. Wainwright is bound with real cloth & has gold blocking on the cover & spine. Illustrated throughout with Alfred Wainwrights sketches of the Lakes & his Coast to Coast walk it has a week to a view & a ribbon marker & is individually shrinkwrapped. ...

All the 17 walks shown on the television series plus a bonus from the Outlying Fells are covered in full in this handy book bringing together more than 250 pages from the brilliantly revised & updated Second Edition of Wainwrights Pictorial Guides. Wainwrights old friend Eric Robson sets the scene for each walk with stories from the days he spent filming with the great fell-walker adding his own personal impressions of the fell & the chosen ascent. Practical sections give the length of each route the ascent in feet the best O.S. map to take along how to get to the start of the walk & suggestions for the best route down. Freshly updated instructions & maps with the routes picked out in red plus information on car parking & campsites. Here is all you need to get out & enjoy the Lakeland landscape
- & who better to take along as your guide than the one & only Alfred Wainwright
- much-loved British character & fell-walking legend.

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Wainwright's Way is a journey on foot through Wainwright's life from Lancashire to the Lakes. This walking guide charts a 126-mile long-distance route linking the place where Wainwright was born
- a Victorian terraced house in Audley Range Blackburn
- with his final resting place on Haystacks his heavenly corner of Lakel&. Along the way the walk split into ten day stages literally follows in the footsteps of Wainwright at work linking the sights he sketched & wrote about in a succession of Lancashire guides: A Ribble Sketchbook A Bowland Sketchbook & A Lune Sketchbook. Continuing northwards the walk arrives in the county Wainwright knew best as celebrated in his books Westmorland Heritage & Three Westmorland Rivers. Spending time in Kendal where Wainwright lived for 50 years the route stops to enjoy a unique circular town walk linking all the places associated with AW
- from the Museum & Library to the Town Hall where he worked to his two residences at Castle Grove & Kendal Green. From here the walker enters Wainwright's 'earthly paradise' & takes a meandering course across Lakeland from Kendal to Buttermere through the territory made so familiar by AW's intimate Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. The route visits some of the lesser known valleys passes & peaks recorded in The Far Eastern Eastern Central & Western Fells guides & stops in Borrowdale one of Wainwright's favourite valleys taking in a section of his Coast to Coast Walk along the way. The climax of the walk follows the final journey of Wainwright himself as his ashes were carried onto Haystacks from Honister Pass to be scattered by the side of Innominate Tarn. From here the walker drops down to the shores of Buttermere & visits the final memorial to Wainwright
- the window on to the fells in the tiny roadside church of St. James. It is a fitting end to both a memorable walk completed
- & a memorable life fulfilled. Much more than a route guide this book uncovers the history landscape & characters of many of the places sketched by Wainwright. It is a walk through some of the most spectacular scenery in the North of England
- including a surprising Lancashire a county of dramatic river valleys high moors & lonely woodland cloughs. This trek unites the two contrasting lives of the master fell walker
- his industrial Lancashire life & his Lakeland life. It takes in paths on the edge of mill town Blackburn that Wainwright is known to have walked along himself during his youthful sojourns into the Lancashire countryside.






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