I will be a hero, & confiding in Providence, I will brave every danger! Nelson was 18 in 1776 when he made this declaration. By the time of his death in 1805 he had established himself as a brilliant fighting commander & naval tactician. His reputation as one of the greatest heroes of British history has lasted nearly two centuries. This book, illustrated with images from the vast photographic archive of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, describes Nelson's career, personality & relationships
- including his notorious affair with Lady Emma Hamilton
- & places his life in the social, political & naval context of the times. Artefacts from the museum's major new Nelson gallery bring history to life in this biography, from portraits & battle scenes to everyday items such as the combined knife & fork used by Nelson after the loss of his arm; & the uniform coat & pigtail taken to Emma Hamilton by Hardy after Nelson's death.

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Nelson in 1910 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. 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. In this title: the map covers the Lancashire weaving town of Nelson & stretches from Charles Street & Rook Street southward to Little Marsden, & from Lomeshaye Mills eastward to Glenfield Road. Features include the railway with station & goods station, skating rink, Lomeshaye, Bradley, Whitefield, Little Marsden, tramways, Walverden Park, Victoria Park, Carr Hall. The many mills include Lomeshaye, Spring Bank, Whitefield, Albert, Laurel Bank, Seedhill, Pendle Street, Parkfield, Vale Street Shed, Walverden Shed, Netherfield Shed, Victoria, Walverden, Bradley Shed, Throstle Nest, Bankfield, Bowling, Valley, Oak Bank, Hendon, Glenfield & Scholefield Mills. Extracts from an early directory are also provided. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Nelson in 1910 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 the Lancashire weaving town of Nelson & stretches from Charles Street & Rook Street southward to Little Marsden, & from Lomeshaye Mills eastward to Glenfield Road. Features include the railway with station & goods station, skating rink, Lomeshaye, Bradley, Whitefield, Little Marsden, tramways, Walverden Park, Victoria Park, Carr Hall. The many mills include Lomeshaye, Spring Bank, Whitefield, Albert, Laurel Bank, Seedhill, Pendle Street, Parkfield, Vale Street Shed, Walverden Shed, Netherfield Shed, Victoria, Walverden, Bradley Shed, Throstle Nest, Bankfield, Bowling, Valley, Oak Bank, Hendon, Glenfield & Scholefield Mills. Extracts from an early directory are also provided. 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. ...

Foreword by Patrick O' Brien The most successful Conway Maritime title, this book is the perfect guide to Nelson's Navy for all those with an interest in the workings of the great fleet. The book is eminently readable & is the first single-volume work to cover in such depth this vast & complex subject. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on the sailing navy the book contains considerable original research to give a clear & authentic picture of the Senior Service as a whole. With a foreword by one of the most successful maritime fiction authors of the current age, the book is also of interest to all those with enthusiasm for the literature based on the Nelsonic-era. ...

Nelson, Blenheim & Picton region in a series of maps covering various districts of New Zeal&, with each title combining a detailed road map with street plans of local towns, all with road & street indexes. The maps are published in two formats: handy Pocket Maps or Pathfinders with, as the publishers put it “ Larger print so you don’t squint”. The road maps, typically around 1:175, 000
- 1:275, 000, show local roads & 4WD tracks. Main sightseeing routes across the country, such as the Pacific Road Highway or Thermal Explorer Highway, are identified by small icons. Railways, local airports & where appropriate, ferry routes are shown. The maps also include selected local hiking tracks. A range of symbols highlight various places of interest & sport or recreational facilities. Topography is indicated by names of mountain ranges & selected peaks. Colouring shows forested areas, with national parks & reserves highlighted. The maps have no geographical coordinates but each one has an index listing names of local roads. Each title also

Includes:: numerous street plans of the main centres of population in the area covered by the road map. The plans are usually at 1:25, 000 to 1:35, 000, & for larger towns an enlargement of the town centre is also provided. The plans shows one way streets, public buildings & various facilities, including sport & recreational centres &, almost invariably, public toilets. Each plan has a separate street index.* In this title:* street plans at 1:35, 000 of Nelson, Blenheim & Picton with enlargements for town centres. Also plans of Kaikoura, Okiwi Bay, Tuamarina, Spring Creek, Grovetown, Havelock, Renwick, Murchison, Wakefield, Brightwater, St Arnaud, Collingwood, Mapua, Takaka, & Kaiterieri. On the reverse is a district map of Nelson & Marlborough region with a map of the location of the Marlborough Winemakers.


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Nelson
- Picton region in a series of maps covering various districts of New Zeal&, with each title combining a detailed road
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` Fascinating... Shot through with fresh insights... No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.` Observer Nelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen. It explores the professional, personal, intellectual & practical origins of one man`s genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, & enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war & international isolation. In Nelson, Andrew Lambert
- described by David Cannadine as `the outstanding British naval historian of his generation`
- is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson`s genius as ` Britannia`s God of War`. He demonstrates how Admiral Nelson elevated the business of naval warfare to the level of the sublime. Nelson`s unique gift was to take that which other commanders found complex, & reduce it to simplicity. Where his predecessors & opponents saw a particular battle as an end in itself, Nelson was always a step ahead
- even in the midst of terrifying, close-quarters action, with officers & men struck down all around him. ` Excellent... Worthy of the stirring events [it celebrates].` Independent


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Each of these 101 strange & curious objects from British history has an extraordinary story to tell. Many royal possessions are inside, including the shirt of that Charles I was wearing when he was executed & Queen Victoria`s dancing shoes, along with curiosities such as Darwin`s walking stick, the last letter that Dickens ever wrote, the handwritten report (by the captain of the Carpathia) on the rescue of the Titanic`s survivors & Emily Wilding Davidson`s return ticket to Epsom. Each offers a fascinating snapshot of Britain`s amazing history. ...

Summer, 1944. In the `stifling heat of equatorial Newark`, a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges & disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. As polio begins to ravage Bucky`s playground, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the panic, the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering & the pain. Through this story runs the dark question that haunts all four of Roth`s late short novels, Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, & now, Nemesis: what choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is each of us up against the force of circumstances? ...

In Jo Nesbo’s Nemesis, a man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at an Oslo bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation but after a dinner with an old flame he wakes with no memory of the last 12 hours. The woman he spent the night with is then found dead. Is someone trying to frame him for murder? As Harry fights to clear his name he receives threatening emails & the bank robberies continue with savagery… ...