Bear Adventure is the next authorised Willard Price book by award-winning author Anthony Mc Gowan for 8+ readers looking for action adventure & animals! Amazon & her cousin Frazer are members of TRACKS. Normally they protect the world's rarest animals but their mission just got personal. Amazon's parents have been lost in a tragic plane crash
- her only hope is that they are wondering the wild forests of Canada. But they are not alone in the brutal wilderness. Two Spirit Bears a mother & her cub are searching for food. When a boy is attacked these beautiful creatures become the hunted. Can Amazon & Fraser save their family & the bears? & what is the mysterious predator that waits for them? The good old-fashioned adventure romp brought up to date without losing the fun or the thrills". (Independent). About the author: Anthony Mc Gowan is a multi-award-winning author of books for adults teenagers & younger children. He has a life-long obsession with the natural world & has travelled widely to study & observe it. He has also written feature articles & travel journalism for The Times Guardian Daily Telegraph Evening Standard & Mail on Sunday. Also available: Willard Price: Leopard Adventure & Willard Price: Shark Adventure."
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This special Royal Wedding souvenir guide celebrates the most joyful prestigious social event of 2011 & tells the story of a genuinely romantic true-love match between William & Catherine the worlds most famous royal couple. Inspiring words & spectacular pictures capture every detail of the royal wedding day & reveal the public & private faces of the husband & wife who will one day become King & Queen & are now the image of a thoroughly modern monarchy. ...

Traditional photography books put me to sleep
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Magician of the North is the first full-scale biography of this extraordinary man. William George Armstrong was a visionary inventor engineer & businessman who bestrode the 19th-century world like a colossus bringing global renown to his great Elswick works on the Tyne while adding lustre to Britains imperial might. In its heyday Elswick employed 25 000 people in the manufacture of hydraulic cranes warships & armaments. He created Cragside in Northumberland the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity & planted in its grounds seven million trees. At Cragside his guests included the Shah of Persia the King of Siam the Prime Minister of China & the future kings Edward VII & George V. This book is much more however than the life of one man. It is the story of Britain at the height of empire riding the crest of industrial success a country awash with scientific & technological achievements bursting with hopes & dreams. It will appeal as much to lovers of romance as to more practically inclined readers. The Queen & the Prince Consort played a vital role in fostering the scientific ferment but so did characters such as Michael Faraday Charles Darwin & Thomas Huxley. It was the era of the self-made man & no one personified Samuel Smiless doctrine of self-help more clearly than William Armstrong. ...

William is always ready to offer his services to his country. But why is it that his enthusiastic contribution is so seldom appreciated? William is determined to do his bit but unfortunately no one else thinks hed make a hero.. . Ten wonderful wartime stories where William proves himself just as dangerous unpredictable & downright troublesome as the Enemy! ...

William Burges (1827-81) was arguably the greatest of all Victorian architects. But he was more than just the creator of a modest number of fabulous & fabulously expensive buildings. He dreamed of hundreds more designed dozens & in addition created some of the most remarkable furniture & jewellery of all time. He was an art-architect. Rich clever well connected & short lived he was uncompromising profoundly learned skilled in every process of design & explosively inventive. A brilliant talker pungent critic & hilarious companion he was one of Victorian Londons great eccentrics & networkers though he was bewitched by the Middle Ages. The great buildings that he completed include Cork Cathedral Cardiff Castle & the even more eccentric Castell Coch the great Yorkshire churches of Skelton & Studley Royal the magnificent country houses of Knightshayes in Devon & Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute & his own astonishing Tower House in Kensington. His furniture fabric & jewellery designs & his unrealised projects were also hugely influential & the former are now enthusiastically collected. This book was a landmark in Victorian studies when first published in 1981 & is now completely revised & re-illustrated substantially in colour. ...

THE knight of all knights: this is William Marshal as portrayed by David Crouch in his classic biography of the Marshal. International sportsman career courtier & highly capable & professional soldier William Marshal challenges many of our assumptions about boneheaded & unfeeling warrior knights. This illustrated new edition expands & upgrades William Marshals epic life-story in light of recent discoveries about his career & character. ...

Now available in paperback Pamela Todds book celebrates William Morris genius presenting a thorough overview of his life & career while setting out his guiding principles so that a modern audience can recreate the Arts & Crafts style in their own homes. A series of Case Studies explores six contemporary houses from a modern London townhouse to a traditional Arts & Crafts home in Massachusetts that have followed & adapted Morris dicta brilliantly demonstrating how the style can be applied to our environment today. The book concludes with a comprehensive style-sourcing section as well as a gazetteer of places to visit for inspiration. An excellent book". (" The Times"). " The definitive source book for anyone interested in the Arts & Crafts style.. .stunning". (" Period Living & Traditional Homes"). " Gorgeous.. .packed with intelligently researched information & more than 200 exquisite illustrations... Get this if youre tempted to introduce the true spirit of Morris to your home". (" Grand Designs")." ...

William Morris Textiles was the first comprehensive survey of the many hundreds of original colourful textiles produced by William Morris & the two commercial companies he founded & managed. To this day it remains the authority in the field & this revised edition has been completely rewritten & expanded with beautiful new photography. Linda Parry provides new insight into the embroideries printed & woven textiles carpets & tapestries produced by Morris & Co. giving in-depth information about their design & manufacture. The varied often highly specialized processes involved are discussed in detail as are Morris's working methods. ...

The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself. William Pitt the Younger was one of the most extraordinary figures in British history. Prime minister at the age of twenty-four he went on to dominate British politics for two decades presiding over such complex & treacherous national crises as the madness of King George III the beleaguered union with Ireland the fallout from the French Revolution & the trauma of the Napoleonic Wars. With the keen eye of an experienced politician William Hague examines the enigmatic life & tumultuous times of a man capable of both wit & arrogance economic genius & financial mismanagement. A rich cast of characters & a vivid backdrop of global conflict make this riveting biography of Pitt the Younger compulsive reading. ...