Globe Party Lights consisting of a 3.3m string & 10 lights with 8cm diameter paper lampshades, featuring the world in bright colours. Made of paper, plastic & metal, the party lights come with a fitted BS standard plug, 3amp fuse, & 2 replacement bulbs. These lights are a perfect addition to any party but they are also a good alternative to create a soft light in any room of the house. For indoor use only. Rated voltage 220/240 volts AC. ...

The family board game that uniquely races through every country of the world. Multiple choice questions on every country, capital, flag & more. Levelling system allows different abilities to play together as you can choose from 4, 3 or 2 possible answers to make it harder or easier. Fun, educational & quick & a great way to learn all about the world. Cross the International Dateline, round the treacherous Cape Horn & try not to get lost in the Sahara, Amazon or Bermuda Triangle. Use the highest peak on every continent to allow you to catch up. First around the world wins. Age 9 to adult. ...

In The Secret Life of Birds, lifelong bird enthusiast Colin Tudge explores the extraordinary variety, secret history & hidden importance of birds around the world. Birds are beautiful, intriguing & life-enhancing. They can do everything mammals can, & even more besides. Collected here are birds who navigate using the stars, tool-making crows, territorial robins, cooperative penguins & swans who mate for life
- among hundreds of others. Revealing everything from why birds sing to how they fly, think, bond & survive, from how they evolved (and whether it really is from dinosaurs) to why, in so many ways, they are very much like us, this rich, evocative book will make you love & admire the birds that are all around you. Enjoyable.. .entertaining.. .masterful. (Stephen Moss, Guardian). Simply fizzing with ideas.. .his heart is with the birds. (Literary Review). Inspired... Tudge's writing is always clear & frequently embellished with wry humour. (Richard Fortey, Sunday Telegraph). Only when we read this scintillating study do we see how little we've known about the creatures we see around us. (Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman Books of the Year). An author whose own deep relish for the extraordinary lives of birds seems only marginally less pleasurable to him than sharing that wonder with others. (BBC Wildlife Magazine). When Colin Tudge was a small boy, he could recognize only five kinds of birds. After studying zoology at Cambridge, Colin wrote for the New Scientist & was a documentary maker for BBC radio. His other books, also published by Penguin, include The Secret Life of Trees & So Shall We Reap: What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food
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The life of William Shakespeare, Britain`s greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer & the great city came of age & confronted triumph & tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare`s company, the Chamberlain`s Men, opened the Globe playhouse on Bankside in 1599, under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I. Tragedy touched the lives of many of his contemporaries, from fellow playwright Christopher Marlowe to the disgraced Earl of Essex, while London struggled against the ever-present threat of riots, rebellions & outbreaks of plague. Catharine Arnold tells how acting came of age. We learn about James Burbage, founder of the original Theatre in Shoreditch, who carried timbers across the Thames to build the Globe among the bear-gardens & brothels of Bankside, & of the terrible night in 1613 when the theatre caught fire during a performance of King Henry VIII. Rebuilt, the Globe continued to stand as a monument to Shakespeare`s genius until 1642 when it was destroyed on the orders of Oliver Cromwell. & finally we learn how 300 years later, Shakespeare`s Globe opened once more upon the Bankside, to great acclaim, rising like a phoenix from the flames Arnold creates a vivid portrait of Shakespeare & his London from the bard`s own plays & contemporary sources, combining a novelist`s eye for detail with a historian`s grasp of his unique contribution to the development of the English theatre. This is a portrait of Shakespeare, London, the man & the myth. ...

Known to have existed in Classical times & still being made for a mass market, globes represent the oldest continuous technique for picturing the Earth & heavens. Originally aids to philosophy, the Renaissance saw their development as compendia of rapidly expanding geographical & astronomical knowledge, & as instruments of navigation & cosmography. They have been produced as simple spheres & as sophisticated mechanical devices, as toys & as high -status furniture; used as classroom & other demonstrational tools & as a symbol in the art of many periods. Until the onset of modern industrial techniques, their manufacture as plaster, wood or metal spheres was complex & laborious, & the skills required for their graphic construction & publication no less so. The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich has one of the world's largest & finest collections of globes, comprising over 300 items including terrestrial & celestial examples, armillary spheres & planispheres. Many of these themselves derive from earlier holdings, such as the Barberini, Landau, & Gabb collections, which were acquired en bloc for the Museum in its formative years through the activities of its principal benefactor, Sir James Caird (1864-1954). The Greenwich collection has now been fully catalogued by one of the leading authorities on Western globes, Dr Elly Dekker, who undertook the task from 1993 to 1995 as the Museum's first Sackler Fellow in the History of Astronomy & Navigational Sciences. The catalogue

Includes:: full entries on all items in the Museum's collection, the overwhelming majority being illustrated. There are also nine introductory essays by Dr Dekker & other NMM specialists, & an integrated section on the Museum's Islamic globes, introduced & catalogued by Dr Silke Ackermann of the British Museum.

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The highly successful Globetrotter Travel Series, which

Includes:: Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases,

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In an era when the earth is our oyster, Michael Clinton is the premier globetrotter in search of its pearls. Over the course of more than 35 years, Clinton has travelled the seven continents documenting his experiences in photographs. Now, for the first time, Clinton tells it like it is. In Globetrotter Diaries, the author shares with us his adventures, his knowledge, & his witty reminiscences of his life on the road. As the author of five photography books with Glitterati, Clinton is well-versed in the native customs, rituals, & landscapes of the most popular & remote places around the world. This book provides the perfect companion piece to his photographic work. Here Clinton reveals himself as he learns the nature of humanity from its billions of inhabitants who make travel one of life's greatest pastimes. ...

The handy pocket-size guide is packed with useful information, tips & recommendations, accompanied by colour photographs, charts & maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that Corfu has to offer. The fold-out map of Corfu is ideal for tourists & visitors. The highly successful Globetrotter Travel Series, which

Includes:: Travel Guides, Travel Maps, Road Atlases, Best of Pocket Guides & In Your Pocket Language Guides, presently covers more than 90 destinations worldwide. The Packs are excellent value, including both guidebook & softcover version of the fold-out Globetrotter map of the region in a printed plastic wallet.

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Go anywhere in the world today & you`ll see or hear English in some form. It may not necessarily be the Queen`s English that you`re hearing, but it is, nevertheless, a form of universally recognised English
- it is Globish. In his wonderfully witty & informative new book, Robert Mc Crum explores the curious history, vivacity & endurance of English & ponders why, while British & American empires have waxed & waned, the English language, freer from its moorings like never before, has quietly taken over the world.
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Gloucestershire, an original antique map by G. Cole / J. Roper published in London, 1810-1843. Copperplate, coloured. Map size 17 x 23 cm, overall mounted size 32.5 x 38.5 cm. This detailed map of Glocestershire is from Dugdale's England & Wales Delineated. The map was drawn by G. Cole & engraved by John Roper for publication first in The Beauties Of England & Wales, issued in parts, from c.1804. Such was the success of the publication that the maps were re-used in other publications, as here. The maps show accurate geographical detail, including the turnpike, mail coach & principal roads, sites of Roman & other historical remains, as well as the seats of the nobility & the gentry, & market towns with their distances from London. The maps also show the division of the counties into hundreds or wapontakes. They are representative of the functional nineteenth-century approach to cartography, yet are not unattractive. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford ...