On February 16 2016, motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman suffered a major road traffic accident in Portugal. Having spent the better part of his life on some form of motorbike, his world came crashing down after he was knocked off a Triumph Tiger Explorer, smashing his right ankle & causing severe damage to his left fibia & tibia. It was unclear if he would ever walk properly again, let alone ride a motorbike. Moving between past & present, Long Way Back recounts Charley`s journey back of recovery, the ambulance ride, the numerous operations in a Portuguese hospital, the medivac aircraft flight back to London. In alternating chapters, as his inability to walk for several months provokes introspection, Boorman recounts his childhood, where his passion for motorbikes began, & the formative influences in his life
- from his father, a touring film director, to his long-time friend Ewan Mc Gregor, & Sean Connery`s son Jason, who first introduced him to bikes. As Charley struggles to cope with this potentially life-changing situation, it is these touchstones who will give him strength on the long way back to health.
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February 16, 2016: motorcycle adventurer Charley Boorman suffers a major road traffic accident in Portugal, breaking his hand & ankle & shattering his left leg. It`s unclear if he`ll ever walk properly again, let alone ride a motorbike. Bed-bound in a foreign hospital far from home, a lengthy recovery period awaits. For the son of a touring film director, used to being on the road in one way or another since childhood, it`s an unwelcome change. Charley`s life has always been all about the challenge: but now he`s facing a challenge of a different sort. Told in his own words, Long Way Back is a story of a recovery. More than that, however, it`s a story of a life lived without fear; from child actor to painter-&-decorator to television presenter & professional biker, always on the lookout for the next adventure. It`s the story of how an unconventional upbringing led to an unconventional adulthood
- with all its highs & lows, epic journeys & broken bones. Mostly, though, it`s the story of one man & his motorbikes.
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Long Way Down is Ewan Mc Gregor & Charley Boorman’s follow-up to their bestselling account of their first adventure, Long Way Round. This time, inspired by their UNICEF trip to Africa, the boys & their motorbikes are travelling down through the African continent, covering 18 different countries & 15, 000 miles. Riding through spectacular scenery & on tremendously tough terrain, often in extreme temperatures but meeting the friendliest of people, Ewan & Charley experience, with trademark humour & honesty, the highs & lows of being on the road together again, across a continent that fills their trip with magic & wonder. ...

After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors & bike fanatics Ewan Mc Gregor & Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. & after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa, they knew they had to go back & experience this extraordinary continent in more depth. & so they set off on their 15, 000-mile adventure, experiencing some of the toughest terrain in the world
- & meeting some of the friendliest people. Containing over one hundred exclusive photographs
- including some taken by Ewan & Charley, & many more by internationally renowned photographer Julian Broad
- this beautifully illustrated edition vividly documents a trip of a lifetime.


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Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller, former Children`s Laureate & multi-award winner. This is a fresh reissue of a much-loved story with a beautiful new cover. This is another summer, another foster family. George has already made up his mind to run away, back to the children`s home. None of the previous families have wanted him. Why should the Dyers be any different? But George begins to feel at ease with Tom Dyer & his sister Storme, even happy, & changes his mind. He could even feel at home with them
- couldn`t he?
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` If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, ` Sarah thought, `she would be more careful not to tramp through muddy fields.` It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, & Sarah`s hands are chapped & raw. Domestic life below stairs, ruled with a tender heart & an iron will by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman, bearing secrets & the scent of the sea. ...

Longbridge in 1937 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 much of Longbridge; the dominant feature are the Longbridge Motor Works, including the large test track. Coverage extends westward to Leach Heath & part of Rednal. Other features include a stretch of LMS railway with part of the Halesowen Joint Line with Longbridge station, Lickey Road with tramway, Bristol Road South with tramway, Cofton Park, Nazareth House, Leach Heath, northern tip of Lickey Hills, Agatha Stacy Homes, part of Rubery Hill Mental Hospital, quarries, etc. On the reverse is a directory of Lickey, plus a timetable for the Halesowen to Kings Norton line. 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. ...

Map No. 41, Longford South-West
- Westmeath North in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which
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Map No. 41, Longford South-West
- Westmeath North in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which
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The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude & the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong. ` Sobel has done the impossible & made horology sexy -- no mean feat` New Scientist Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that `the longitude problem` was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day
- & had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of l&. Thousands of lives, & the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution. The quest for a solution had occupied scientists & their patrons for the better part of two centuries when, in 1714, Parliament upped the ante by offering a king`s ransom (GBP20, 000) to anyone whose method or device proved successful. Countless quacks weighed in with preposterous suggestions. The scientific establishment throughout Europe -- from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton -- had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution. Full of heroism & chicanery, brilliance & the absurd, Longitude is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation & clockmaking.
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