Expertly crafted, bronze dry compass, hand colored reproduction compass cards. Hand aged & hand polished. Not that long ago people actually lived by sundial time. Every village & town functioned on local time, depending on local latitude. Our travel sundial needs a compass to find north. Raising the triangular gnomon upright while pointing the compass needle North will show the time. The correct time will show only if the local latitude corresponds to angle of gnomon. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

Official charts for the coast of Denmark produced by the Danish Hydrographic Office. The charts are ordered upon customer dem&, therefore please contact us if you require the charts urgently. For any further information, you can contact maritime@stanfords.co.uk. ...

1912 was an incredible year, marking the height of the Heroic Age of Exploration. Curiosity about Antarctica was at fever pitch, & between 1910 & 1914 five teams of intrepid explorers embarked on the greatest race of the era, to travel beyond the edges of the known world & conquer this last great frontier. Pitted against each other were Captain Robert Falcon Scott for Britain, Roald Amundsen for Norway, Sir Douglas Mawson for Australasia, Wilhelm Filchner for Germany & Nobu Shirase for Japan. ` Conquest of the South Pole!` trumpeted the world`s newspapers in March 1912. Amundsen had won. But behind all the headlines, there was a much bigger story. The exploits of these larger-than-life explorers, often narrated in their own words, thrilled & enthralled the world; the limits of our planet were pushed all the way to the South Pole & the door to Antarctica flung wide open. Drawing on his own polar experiences, Chris Turney reveals why 1912 witnessed the dawn of a new age in our understanding of the natural world. The tales of endurance, self-sacrifice & technological innovation that marked 1912 laid the foundation for modern scientific exploration & have continued to inspire future generations. 1912 is an awe-inspiring journey
- part nail-biting adventure, part scientific history
- through an ancient & fascinating l&.

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Forever in the shadow of the war which followed, 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features
- last summers in grand aristocratic residences, a flurry of extravagant social engagements
- or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the anxieties of a period of accelerated change, the social fear of revolution, the violence in the Balkans. Our images of the times are too often dominated by the faded pastels of upper-class indulgence or by the unmitigated blackness of a world rushing headlong into the abyss of an inevitable war. 1913: The World before the Great War proposes a strikingly different portrait, returning the world in that year to its contemporary freshness, its future still undecided, its outlook still open. Told through the stories of twenty-three cities
- Europe's capitals at the height of their global reach, the emerging metropolises of America, the imperial cities of Asia & Africa, the boomtowns of Australia & the Americas
- Charles Emmerson presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai & from Los Angeles to Jerusalem. What emerges is a rich & complex world, more familiar than we expect, connected as never before, on the threshold of events which would change the course of global history.



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Forever in the shadow of the war which followed, 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features
- last summers in grand aristocratic residences, a flurry of extravagant social engagements
- or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the anxieties of a period of accelerated change, the social fear of revolution, the violence in the Balkans. Our images of the times are too often dominated by the faded pastels of upper-class indulgence or by the unmitigated blackness of a world rushing headlong into the abyss of an inevitable war. 1913: The World before the Great War proposes a strikingly different portrait, returning the world in that year to its contemporary freshness, its future still undecided, its outlook still open. Told through the stories of twenty-three cities
- Europe`s capitals at the height of their global reach, the emerging metropolises of America, the imperial cities of Asia & Africa, the boomtowns of Australia & the Americas
- Charles Emmerson presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai & from Los Angeles to Jerusalem. What emerges is a rich & complex world, more familiar than we expect, connected as never before, on the threshold of events which would change the course of global history.



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In August 1914, the European powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems & set the world on course for the bloodiest century in human history. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, Ham takes the reader on a journey into the labyrinth, to reveal the complexity, the layered motives, the flawed & disturbed minds that drove the world to war. What emerges is a clear sense of what happened & why. ` To understand the past, ` Ham concludes, `and share that understanding, is the chief role of the historian. To understand the past is to liberate ourselves from its awful shadow & steel ourselves against it happening again.` ...

The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries & North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, & events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations & shows how they reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such as Gallipoli, Verdun & the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia & Russia, where the killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country`s empire. &, in charting a wide range of wartime experience, he studies the `intelligence war`, naval engagements at Jutland & elsewhere, as well as the political consequences that ensued from the momentous US presidential election. Using an extraordinary range of military, social & cultural sources, & relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider developments, these are the stories lost to history, the conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Europe & the moments that transformed the war. ...

The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries & North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, & events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations & shows how they reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such as Gallipoli, Verdun & the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia & Russia, where the killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country`s empire. &, in charting a wide range of wartime experience, he studies the `intelligence war`, naval engagements at Jutland & elsewhere, as well as the political consequences that ensued from the momentous United States presidential election. Using an extraordinary range of military, social & cultural sources, & relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider developments, these are the stories lost to history, the conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Europe & the moments that transformed the war. ...

The 1916 Easter Rising & its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government`s execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks & troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 went on to plan a new
- & ultimately successful
- struggle for Ireland`s independence, shaping their country`s destiny for the century to come. But what sort of country did they create? & to what extent does post-1916 Ireland measure up to the hopes & aspirations of ` Mac Donagh & Mac Bride / & Connolly & Pearse`? Best-selling historian Tim Pat Coogan offers a strongly personal perspective on the Irish century that followed the Rising
- charting a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption & institutional & clerical abuse, as it is by the sacrifices & nation-building achievements of the Republic`s founding fathers.


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100 years since the Russian Revolution: the 20th century`s greatest Russian writers respond ` This is the last of you, old world
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