The hang-out hammock is the easiest way to travel light & sleep well while you do. This full-sized, 2.7m, 120 kilo rated wonder is versatile as both an indoor & outdoor bed, compact to store for travelling, ideal for siestas, garden lounging or just hanging out. Each hammock is constructed from hefty 3mm nylon cord mesh in gorgeous colours with steel rings & 1m hanging ropes. ...

Pre-eminent author & art historian Simon Schama has written widely on art for many years to great acclaim. In Hang-Ups, a personal selection of his articles from, amongst others, The New Yorker, appears in Britain for the very first time. Brilliantly & lucidly written by one of the most singular voices in non-fiction, this volume of provocative & often idiosyncratic essays makes hugely satisfying reading for lovers of both art & social history. In contains pieces on artists as diverse as David Hockney, Rembrandt & Charles Rennie Mackintosh, & on such subjects as the unforgettable peculiarity of Stanley Spencer. From the author whose writing has been called sublime & whose ability to bring art & history vividly to life has earned him admiration worldwide, Hang-Ups is Schamas rallying cry for the art lover to look at familiar works of art & their artists & embrace a new way of seeing. ...

Hanger Hill in 1895 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions for this area have been published to show how it developed across the years. The 1895 version is a somewhat empty, showing just how rural much of Middlesex was at the end of the 19th century, even though it

Includes:: parts of Ealing, Willesden, Acton & Hanwell parishes, & is only a mile from the great railway interchange at Willesden Junction. Features include Hanger Hill & a handful of large houses along Hanger Lane, the Grand Junction Water Works, Twyford Abbey, & several farms. By contrast, the 1935 version is filled with industry, including the western half of the Park Royal estate. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Buckle up tight for an adrenaline-charged ride with doctor Emmanuel Cauchy on his most memorable missions with the world`s busiest helicopter rescue service. Radioed in at a moment`s notice, he & his team brave all conditions to reach survivors & victims, their helicopter frequently battered by winds as the pilot fights to keep control. Then the drop begins. & the fear kicks in. It`s non-stop mission after mission in this marvellous suspense-packed memoir, from the near-death experience of plummeting into a bergschrund with a rescue victim, or seeing his fellow rescuer swept off the mountain before his eyes, to the rescue of Jamie Andrew trapped for five days on one of the most difficult ice faces in the Alps, & the climber who survived a fall to rival those of Jaws in James Bond. Cauchy vividly conveys the thrill of being whirled over vast jagged blades of gleaming ice & rock (and the heavy foreboding silence left when the thump of rotor blades disappears). But also the profound acquired sense of the fragility of life
- the feeling of bones cracking & splintering in his hands as he treats a victim
- & the realization that the `white death` doesn`t always take those she intends.

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Hanging Heaton in 1892 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers an area just east of Batley & Dewsbury with Hanging Heaton, Shaw Cross & Chidswell. Features include Shaw Cross Colliery, Gawthorpe Reservoir, Owl Mills, Owl House, Soothill Colliery with tramway, St Paul`s church, Greenhill Mills, Brewery, Gas Works, Chickenley Heath Branch, etc. Directories of Hanging Heaton & Soothill are on the reverse. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

The start of a love affair. `I kicked off my shoes & prepared to climb in stocking feet, aware of an enormous sense of occasion as I laid hands on the rock & stepped up on the first rounded hold. It was not a hard climb but that was unimportant. I felt instinctively at home & at the finish experienced such a surge of happy elation that I knew then I was committed to climbing.` Martin Boysen`s passion for crags & mountains springs from his deep love of nature & a strong sense of adventure. From his early days on rock as a Kent schoolboy after the war, he was soon among the most gifted climbers of his or any generation, famed for his silky technique. Boysen made a huge contribution to British rock climbing, especially in North Wales; he discovered Gogarth in the 1960s & climbed some of the best new routes of his era: Nexus on Dinas Mot, The Skull on Cyrn Las & the magisterial Capital Punishment on Ogwen`s Suicide Wall. For more than two decades, Boysen was also one of Britain`s leading mountaineers.A crucial member of Sir Chris Bonington`s team that climbed the South Face of Annapurna in 1970, Boysen was also part of Bonington`s second summit team on the South West face of Everest. In 1976 he made the first ascent of Trango Tower with Joe Brown. Along the way, Boysen climbed with some of the most important figures in the history of the sport, not just stars like Bonington & Brown, but those who make climbing so rich & intriguing, like Nea Morin & the brilliant but doomed Gary Hemming. He joined Hamish Mac Innes hunting gold in Ecuador, doubled for Clint Eastwood on the North Face of the Eiger & worked on director Fred Zinnemann`s last movie. Wry, laconic & self-deprecating, Martin Boysen`s Hanging On is an insider`s account of British climbing`s golden age. ...

The unavoidable downside to an evening spent enjoying your favourite cocktails is the dreaded hangover the following day. One would think that in this day & age, someone would have developed the technology to counteract nausea, lethargy & nagging headaches. Sadly not. Ben Reed
- bestselling author & seasoned bartender (and drinker)
- is here to help. ” Hangover Cures” explains why we get a hangover, the best way to avoid them &, if all else fails, recipes to help alleviate the pain. Try a Corpse Reviver or a Bloody Mary to take the edge off your hangover, or, for a healthier option, replace lost nutrients with a juice drink such as the restorative Liver Recovery. With cures from around the world, reviving recipes & expert advice, ” Hangover Cures” will help ease the suffering of the morning after the night before.

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The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn. London, 1939, & in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous & hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his `dead` moments, when something goes click in his head & he realises, without a doubt, that he must kill her. In the darkly comic Hangover Square Patrick Hamilton brilliantly evokes a seedy, fog-bound world of saloon bars, lodging houses & boozing philosophers, immortalising the slang & conversational tone of a whole generation & capturing the premonitions of doom that pervaded London life in the months before the war. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...