This extra-large format 18-month weekly planner notebook covers the period from July 2013 through to December 2014. Featuring a black soft cover with rounded edges, the notebook contains 208 pages of acid-free paper, a ribbon bookmark & an elastic band to keep everything secure when closed. There is also an expandable inner pocket that contains 225 adhesive labels to mark important dates, deadlines & special notes. The planner notebook shows the week's appointments at a glance on the left, with a lined page on the right for extra notes & ideas. ...

The Battle of Dybbol, 1864. Prussian troops lay siege to an outpost in the far south of Denmark. The conflict is over control of the Duchy of Schleswig, recently annexed by Denmark to the alarm of its largely German-speaking inhabitants. Danish troops make a valiant attempt to hold out but are overrun by the might of the Prussian onslaught. Of little strategic importance, the struggle for Schleswig foreshadowed the same forces that, fifty years later, would tear Europe apart. Prussia`s victory would not only rejuvenate its nascent militarism, but help it claim leadership of the new German Empire. Told in rich detail through first-hand accounts, Tom Buk-Swienty`s magisterial account of the Schleswig conflict tells the story of this pivotal war. 1864 shows how a minor regional conflict foreshadowed the course of diplomacy that led to the First World War & brutally presaged the industrialised future of warfare. But most of all, in its human detail, from touching letters between husbands & wives to heartbreaking individual stories of loss, 1864 is a gripping, epic human drama that shows the effect all wars have on the soldiers, on families & on the individual men & women who must live its realities. ...

From the Wetterhorn in 1854 to the Matterhorn in 1865
- from triumph to tragedy
- the Alps were conquered in a decade. It was

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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. ...

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. Plans in this chart:- Christiansø- Rønne- Nexø ...

A travel sundial, although it 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 correspondes to angle of gnomon. Bronze dry compass, hand colored reproduction compass cards. Hand aged & hand polished. ...

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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