Abbeys & priories are both types of monastery & the author traces the history of monasteries in Britain from Anglo-Saxon times to the Dissolution under Henry VIII. He describes the different monastic orders, the running of the monasteries & the daily life of the monks & nuns, the layout of monastic buildings, the influence of the religious houses on life in medieval times & their effect on the landscape, all with references to examples accessible to the public. This new edition has been enlarged into the ` Discovering Handbook` series & is fully illustrated in colour. ...

Discovering Britain`s First Railways from the History Press is a handy-size, illustrated book devoted to the history, rediscovery & exploration of Britain’s first railways by examining the network of over 1, 500 miles of horse-drawn tramroads & waggonways, illustrated with black & white or colour photos of their present day remains, as well as with pictures from the days when still in use. Approx. a third of the guide’s 142 pages cover various aspects of the history of this unique form of transport, including construction & operating methods. The rest of the book is devoted to exploring present-day remains of 40 old routes, with accompanying illustrations showing how what often appears to be just an ordinary footpath or a country lane has had very interesting history. Descriptions are grouped by region; the bulk of the entries are in England & Wales, with just two in Scotl&. ...

There are forty-eight Anglican cathedrals in England & Wales. Some of them are ancient places of worship, rich in history & of grand proportions; others are more recent structures of the best of contemporary craftsmanship. There are chapters on the major cathedral-building periods & descriptions of all forty-eight English & Welsh Anglican cathedrals: these comprise brief tours highlighting major features, guiding the reader through the building with the aid of a sketch plan. Roman Catholic cathedrals are also briefly described, but those of Westminster & Liverpool are more fully covered. There are brief descriptions of the ancient Scottish cathedrals, now mainly ruinous, & lists the cathedrals of the Episcopal & Roman Catholic churches in Scotl&. ...

More poeple than ever are visiting churchs, but they are often baffled by the architectural & technical terms that abound in guidebooks. This book helps to identify ecclesiastical architecture. It is a dictionary explaining in simple language over 600 terms likely to be encountered on a church visits & is illustrated with more than 300 drawings. ...

This is the the most thrilling, adventure book, ever! Written by a real-life adventurer, Simon Chapman, be prepared to live your dream & imagine you discovered the dinosaurs. It`s your chance to battle blizzards with swarms of vipers in the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, join the race across the the Wild West of America with bone-hunters Cope & Marsh. Along the trail of discovery you`ll unearth a time when monsters really did rule the world
- DINOSAURS. You will find them all in here: Triceratops, Pteradactyls, Iguanodon, Stegosaurus, Diplodocus & many more. It`s crammed full of stats, wild pictures, a brilliant pop-up (don`t get eaten!), realistic artworks, journals, flaps & even the insides of dinosaurs. You`ll discover what makes a dinosaur, when & where they lived, what they ate, why they fought & why they became extinct. Be a know-it-all. WOW! Tyrannosaurus Rex had huge bone crunching jaws with 50
- 60 teeth & could eat up to 500lbs of meat in one crunch. That`s like 3 whole cows! Or a Triceratops! Feathered Fiend! The size of a turkey, the velociraptor had feathers, but couldn`t fly. It could run like the wind, well a 40mph wind! Wipe Out! The rock that hit the earth 65 million years ago injured the earth with Tsunami waves, fireballs & acid rain. Hello, mass extinction.

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In 1898, a 19-year-old girl marched into the Natural History Museum & demanded a job. At the time, no women were employed there as scientists, but for the determined Dorothea Bate this was the first step in an extraordinary career as a pioneering explorer & fossil-hunter & the beginning of an association with the Museum that was to last for more than 50 years. As a young woman she explored the islands of Cyprus, Crete & the little known Majorca & Menorca, braving parental opposition & considerable physical hardship & danger. In remote mountain caves & sea-battered cliffs, she discovered, against enormous odds, the fossil evidence of unique species of extinct fauna, previously unknown to science, including dwarf elephants & hippos, giant dormice & a strange small goat-like antelope. Internationally respected as an outstanding palaeontologist during her lifetime, Dorothea was largely forgotten after her death. Now, working from unpublished letters, papers & work diaries & re-tracing her steps, Karolyn Shindler has rediscovered Dorothea`s life. ...

Edinburgh, home to the Scottish Parliament, is on the itinerary of many visitors to Scotl&. This brand new edition retains the delightful water-colour mapping, with individual paintings of all the main sights & landmarks. Popular areas at larger scale, hundreds of shops, restaurants, cafes & bars, comprehensive travel information & index.
Includes:: Large-scale plans of the Castle, Royal Mile, Botanic Gardens, Leith & Newington. Shop-by-shop street maps of Princes Street, George Street, Victoria Street & the Grassmarket. Railway stations, bus routes, taxi ranks & car parks. Historical & contemporary anecdotes. Suggestions for day trips out of the city. Comprehensive index. AREA OF COVERAGE Covers the centre of Edinburgh from Inverleith Park in the north to The Meadows in the south, & from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in the west to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in the east. OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES Discovering Dublin Discovering London
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Edinburgh, home to the Scottish Parliament, is on the itinerary of many visitors to Scotl&. This brand new edition retains the delightful water-colour mapping, with individual paintings of all the main sights & landmarks. Popular areas at larger scale, hundreds of shops, restaurants, cafes & bars, comprehensive travel information & index.
Includes:: Large-scale plans of the Castle, Royal Mile, Botanic Gardens, Leith & Newington. Shop-by-shop street maps of Princes Street, George Street, Victoria Street & the Grassmarket. Railway stations, bus routes, taxi ranks & car parks. Historical & contemporary anecdotes. Suggestions for day trips out of the city. Comprehensive index. AREA OF COVERAGECovers the centre of Edinburgh from Inverleith Park in the north to The Meadows in the south, & from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in the west to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in the east.
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A concise but comprehensive survey or the development of architecture in England from the neolithic chambered tombs, up to the carefully designed houings of the post-war new towns. It describes the buildings of the Roman occupation & the Romansque style of the Anglo-Saxon & Norman periods, leading up to the flowering of Gothic in the middle ages. The influence of the Renaissance, the Regency periods, the nineteenth century Gothic & Classic revivals & the twentieth century architecture. ...

The quaint & curious traditions still carried out in the towns & shires of England are described in this book. It explains the origins of well-known customs like maypole dancing, well-dressing & rush-bearing, & it inidcates when & where these events may be witnessed. ...