An A - Z guide to 700 of the most interesting and attractive villages in Britain. In Abbots Bromley, the annual Horn Dance covers a circuit of 8 miles; East Hendred has a church that houses the oldest timepiece (that still chimes the hours) and which is invisible; the village of Mells may be the home of 'Jack Horner' of the nursery rhyme; and Hertingfordbury boasts a churchyard so steep that some of the inhabitants must have been buried vertically! There's plenty of interest in this volume; facts, history, traditions and ancient myths and legends. Illustrated with beautiful photographs and paintings.
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When 65-year-old Francis Chichester set sail on his solitary,eastward journey around the world in 1966,many believed he wouldn't return alive. But when the old man returned in his 53-foot ketch Gypsy Moth IV nine months later, he had made history's fastest circumnavigation. Gipsy Moth Circles The World was an international best-seller when it appeared in 1967. It inspired the first solo around-the-world race and remains a timeless testament to the spirit of adventure. With black and white photos. -
On the Hebridean island of Bruach, life among the crofters is as happy and full of humour as ever. Beckwith tells enchanting tales about the islanders' wit, their canny resourcefulness and their gossipy interest in outsiders. There is Flora and the fancy dress dance, beachcombing, whelk gathering, Highland cattle and a stag - among many other characters and animals. Based on Beckwith's own experiences. -
This is the book the late Clive James (1939 - 2019) always wanted to write: an almanac combining a comprehensive survey of modern culture with an annotated index of who-was-who and what-was-what. It is his always-unique take on the places and the faces that shaped the twentieth-century. From Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Tacitus to Thatcher, this varied and unfailingly absorbing book is both story and history, both public memoir and personal record – and provides an essential field-guide to the vast movements of taste, intellect, politics and delusion that helped to prepare the times we live in now. Not to be read at one sitting! -
The Dominance of the Duke of Northumberland. Edward VI (b. 1537; reigned 1547 - 1553) was not yet 10 years old when he ascended England's throne; the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and England's first monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a regency council because he never reached maturity. The council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick (1550–1553), who from 1551 was Duke of Northumberland. Edward's reign was marked by economic problems and social unrest that in 1549 erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland and Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the Church of England into a recognisably Protestant body also occurred under Edward, who took great interest in religious matters. His short reign was, from start to finish, ruled by more than 30 counsellors and executors appointed by Henry VIII's will, causing a bitter power struggle. Edward VI named his cousin Lady Jane Grey as his successor, completely bypassing his half-sisters Anne and Elizabeth; Jane's reign lasted nine days before she was deposed by Mary. -
A detailed history of the heavy metal greats, chronicled from their beginnings as The New Yardbirds, the changes wrought over the years and the influences of the blues music from the early 1900s as well as the fantasy images from Tolkien that made Led Zeppelin the most unique rock band in music history. Includes interviews with band members and the author, previously unseen photographs and a unique double image cover. -
The correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher of Kilverstone. Volume I: The Making of an Admiral, 1854 - 1904. -
A book about the birth, life and loss of an Australian community. Yallourn was designed in the 1920s as a 'garden town laid on on hygienic and aesthetic principles'. It became a thriving and close knit community, home to several generations of State Electricity Commission workers and their families. By the 1960s it was surplus to requirements - an area to be 'cleared.' The Save Yallourn Campaign was long and bitterly fought but the residents' efforts were in vain. Yet Yallourn still exists vividly in memory and imagination. With wonderful historic black and white photographs. -
The coming crisis in the world food industry. Large scale food production has given us super abundance - but at a very costly and unsustainable price. More than a billion people are overweight or obese, yet just as many are malnourished. Over-populated countries are already planning for tightened global food supplies. Roberts explores the vulnerable miracle of our modern food economy and pinpoints the decisions that must be made to avoid the coming meltdown. Fist published in 2008, this book is more valid than ever.
