Seamanship: A Voyage Along the Wild Coasts of the British Isles, Paperback - Adam Nicolson

Reducere. From Land's End to Cape Clear, past Roaringwater Bay and Cod's Head, on past Inishvickillane and Inishtooskert, up through the Hebrides, to Orkney ...

This new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts...

Tied into the KS1 science curriculum, this book takes a lively, attractive look at British trees. Using lots of familiar examples, along with some ...

Though beautiful contemporary maps and charts, the book explores sea ports, harbors, naval bases and dockyard that have supported local life in Bri...

A fantastic illustrated directory and natural-history guide, with descriptions and details of habitat and distribution.

Reducere. Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-...

One of Britain's foremost writers of place takes an evocative journey along the western coast of Ireland and Scotland to chart the perennial allure...

A comprehensive look at the history and practices of rural English witchcraft

This book examines the evidence for the measures taken to make church buildings secure or defensible from their earliest times until the later medi...

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley LtdAuthor(s): DKNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 261 x 307 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Reducere. Not Angels but Anglicans traces the history and development of Christianity in Britain from Roman times through twenty often turbulent centuries. L...

The very best of British and Irish nature writing selected by the natural history writer Patrick Barkham.Editor(s): Patrick Barkham

Updated version of our Road Map 2, 1/250000 scale route mapping based on Ordnance Survey data. Covering the Outer Hebrides and West coast of Scotla...

This book is a primarily pictorial overview of the great variety of works trams that served the first generation of tramways in the British Isles.

Focusing on the eight islands or chains that that form part of the British Isles, this book tells the often forgotten stories of Shetland, Orkney, ...

Publisher: Seekers PressAuthor(s): Stephen LaddNumber of pages: 241Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Publisher: Field Studies CouncilAuthor(s): Richard LewingtonIllustration(s): 71 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 8Publication date: 2012Dimensi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Tied into the KS1 science curriculum, this book takes a lively, attractive look at British birds. Using lots of familiar examples, along with some ...

Publisher: Field Studies CouncilAuthor(s): Remy WareIllustration(s): 43 colour illustrations, 3 mono illustrationsNumber of pages: 8Publication dat...

This book leads the modern traveller along some of the key medieval walking routes of Britain, taking in world-famous sites such as Canterbury and ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

What sort of Brit are you? A hilarious illustrated guide to the unique inhabitants of these isles

A week on a beach, a day at a spa, a hike in the hills -- tourism is taken for granted today, but over the past 500 years, it has played a signific...

Publisher: Quilliam Press LtdNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 227 x 228 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Abdal Ha...

Publisher: Field Studies CouncilAuthor(s): Remy PolandIllustration(s): 41 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 8Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 1...

Publisher: Field Studies CouncilAuthor(s): Bernard NauIllustration(s): Ill.(some col.)ch.Number of pages: 8Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 90 x 7...

Sissinghurst is one of the jewels of the National Trust, with Vita Sackville-West's garden drawing thousands of visitors a year. It is also the hom...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off from Dawson, Yukon Territory, onetime site of the Klondike gold rush, to trace the ...

Reducere. Common lore is that you cannot sail the northwest coast - the winds are too fickle so you must motor along the Inside Passage. The author knows tha...

(Edward Stourton)From much-loved historian Neil Oliver, comes this beautifully written, kaleidoscopic history of a place with a story like no other...

Having inherited his father's Outer Hebridean islands, known as the Shiants, Nicolson set about discovering the his own and the islands' story. The...

Reducere. As command module pilot of Apollo 17, the last crewed flight to the moon, Ron Evans combined precision flying and painstaking geological observatio...

Reducere. A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot...

Reducere. 015Over the course of thirty years, Will Vaus has journeyed to the British Isles many times to walk in the footsteps of C. S. Lewis. His private ph...

A Voyage Within. Representations of the Self in Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Leon Wieseltier - Cristina Nicolae