` Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people & creatures` Robert Macfarlane Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape & gradually discover the minds, beliefs & cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you. Travelling the length & breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, & a lost Roman road. He ponders the features of the natural world that occupied ancient minds: the night sky, shooting stars, the rising & setting sun. Wandering to the furthest reaches of the islands, he finds an undeciphered standing stone north of Aberdeen & follows the first footsteps on the edge of a long-lost Ice Age land in the North Sea. As Canton walks the modern terrain, slowly understanding the ancient signs that lie within & beneath it, he weaves a gentle tale of discovery, showing how, beyond the superficial differences of life-style & culture, the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles were much closer to the present-day one than we might imagine. ...

Ancient Wonders
- Then & Now introduces children to some of history`s most famous civilisations & the amazing palaces, temples
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Accompanying the major BBC TV series, Richard Miles` ” Ancient Worlds” tells the epic story of civilization, & the cities that made us who we are. The path of human progress is one of enlightenment & cruelty, achievement & bloodshed, creation & destruction. Here Richard Miles reaches back into our distant past to bring alive its most glorious & terrible people & places: from the first ever city in Mesopotamia to the death cults of Egypt, from the Phoenician seafarers who invented the alphabet to the brutal Assyrian empire, & on to the great city-states of Athens & Rome. By choosing to live together with strangers in vast urban settings, Miles shows, humans harnessed the very best & the worst of ourselves, setting civilization in motion & forging the modern world. ” Epic & compelling”. (” Daily Mail”). ” An epic, spanning five millennia & half the globe”. (” Daily Telegraph”). ” Engaging.. .full of interesting things about the radical social experiment of the city-state, & the new ways of living it permitted”. (” Independent”). ”” Ancient Worlds” really does put flesh on the bones of history & Richard Miles brings long lost cities to life”. (” Observer”). Richard Miles is the author of ” Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise & Fall of an Ancient Civilization”. A six-part TV series of ” Ancient Worlds” was broadcast on BBC2 in 2011. He teaches classics at the University of Sydney & was previously a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics & Fellow & Director of Studies at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. ...

”A bold & imaginative page-turner that challenges ideas about the world of antiquity.” (Peter Frankopan (The Silk Roads)). ” This vivid & engaging book brings to life some of the most important moments in ancient history, moments that have shaped not only the politics & culture of bygone eras, but the institutions, thoughts & fantasies of our time.” (Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens)). ” As panoramic as it is learned, this is ancient history for our globalised world.” (Tom Holland (Dynasty, Rubicon)). Acclaimed historian & TV presenter Michael Scott guides us through an epic story spanning ten centuries to create a bold new reading of the classical era for our globalised world. Scott challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past, connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers & empires that swept across Central Asia to India & China
- resulting in a truly global vision of ancient history. With stunning range & richness Ancient Worlds illustrates how the great powers & characters of antiquity shared ambitions & crises, ways of thinking & forms of governing: connections that only grew stronger over the centuries as political systems evolved, mighty armies clashed, universal religions were born & our modern world was foreshadowed. Scott focuses on three epochal `moments` across the ancient globe, & their profound wider significance: from 509-8 BCE (birth of Athenian democracy & Rome`s republic, also the age of Confucius` teachings in China); to 218 BCE (when Hannibal of Carthage challenged Rome & China saw its first emperor); to 312 CE, when Constantine sought to impose Christianity on the Roman world even as Buddhism was pervading China via the vast trading routes we now know as the ` Silk Roads.` A major work of global history, Michael Scott`s enthralling journey challenges the way we think about our past, re-draws the map of the classical age to reveal its hidden connections, & shows us how ancient history has lessons for our own times.
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Ancona at 1:7, 500 on indexed street plan from Litografia Artistica Cartografica. 40 monuments including historic buildings & churches, cultural or educational institutions, & important municipal buildings or facilities are numbered & listed next to the plan. An inset at 1:10, 000 extends coverage further south to Tavernelle & the city ...

Ancona Province in a series of handy size road maps from Litografia Artistica Cartografica (LAC) with more minor local roads & tracks than can be found on most regional maps. The series is gradually being changed to a new style of digitally derived cartography, so presentation of adjoining titles may vary. All the maps have hill shading to represent the general relief with spot heights for selected peaks, & show a few more local roads & rough tracks than the other road map series. Intermediate road distances are indicated. Regional, provincial & communal borders are marked, & railways, funiculars, airports, sea ferry links & campsites are shown. The legend is in Italian only. The new, digitally produced editions are indexed & have enhanced, more finely drawn cartography: the hill-shading is less bold, motorway service areas are marked, natural parks are highlighted & an expanded range of symbols indicates various landmarks & sites, e.g. antiquities, churches, etc. Two styles of the new cartography are produced, differing only in the colour of the predominant background shading: grey or yellow/green. Some of the new editions include geographical coordinates for the map corners. The index of localities is on the reverse. This title is still produced in the traditional cartographic style. ...

Now revised, updated, & with new recipes, & a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits & cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history of rum & the Americas alike, revealing that the homely spirit once distilled from the industrial waste of the booming sugar trade has managed to infiltrate every stratum of New World society. Curtis takes us from the taverns of the American colonies, where rum delivered both a cheap wallop & cash for the Revolution; to the plundering pirate ships off the coast of Central America; to the watering holes of pre-Castro Cuba; & to the kitsch-laden tiki bars of 1950s America. Here are sugar barons & their armies conquering the Caribbean, Paul Revere stopping for a nip during his famous ride, Prohibitionists marching against ”demon rum, ” Hemingway fattening his liver with Havana daiquiris, & today`s bartenders reviving old favorites like Planter`s Punch. In an age of microbrewed beer & single-malt whiskeys, rum--once the swill of the common man--has found its way into the tasting rooms of the most discriminating drinkers. Complete with cocktail recipes for would-be epicurean time-travelers, this is history at its most intoxicating. ...

The landscape of the British Isles is filled with history, much of which we miss as it flashes past the car window. Do we even realise that we`re following the same path as the Tolpuddle Martyrs, or that we`re driving past the exact spot where King Harold was killed, shot through the eye with an arrow? As a lover of both history & the British countryside, Charlie Connelly decided to rectify this, & set out on a series of walks that recreate famous historical journeys. En route he retells the story of the original trip while discovering who & what now inhabit these iconic routes. Walking in Engl&, Scotl&, Ireland & Wales, Charlie journeys alongside Boudicca`s ghost in Norfolk, relives Bonnie Prince Charlie`s flight to Skye disguised as Flora Mac Donald`s maid & takes the same 32-mile round trip as the starving Louisburgh famine walkers. He suffers broken toes, becomes trapped in the Scottish Parliament & encounters dead poets & a surprisingly high number of mad old women in woolly hats. Told with Charlie`s customary charm & wit, & Did Those Feet will reveal the historical secrets hidden in the much-loved coastal, country & urban landscapes of Britain. ...

Aimée Crocker was an heiress to gold & railroad fortunes & a daughter of Judge Edwin B. Crocker (1818-1875), legal counsel for the Central Pacific Railroad, Justice of the California Supreme Court in 1865 & founder of the Crocker Art Museum. Her father was a brother of Charles Crocker, one of the `big four` California railroad barons. Aimée had a tale or two to tell. Aside from lavish parties, husbands & lovers, she travelled widely in the Far East. She tells of escaping headhunters in Borneo, poisoning in Hong Kong, & avoided murder by servants in Shanghai. While away, she was christened Princess Palaikalani Bliss of Heaven by King David Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii, & then Princess Galitzine when she wed her fifth & final husb&, Prince Mstislav Galitzine. And I`d Do It Again is her autobiography. ...

With the world at her feet & Californian railroad fortunes in her purse, Aimee had a tale or two to tell. Here, she boldly delivers her hilarious memoirs of escaping headhunters in Borneo, avoiding poisoning in Hong Kong & outwitting murder in Shanghai. Not remotely cowered by her skirmishes with sin, shame or vice, Aimee celebrates her quintet of unfortunate husbands including a Russian prince almost forty years her junior & King Kalakaua of Hawaii, emboldened by her forcefulness to hold sway over the faint of heart. Aimee was a woman of means, not always a lady & never what you might call `proper`. In this laugh-out-loud story of her life, she recounts her adventures with flair, invincibility & unapologetic gusto. ...