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, Navy & Nation seeks to explore the Royal Navy`s relationship with Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars, encompassing three central themes: the realities of naval life in this period, the navy`s connection to society, culture & national identity, & the story of Nelson`s life & career. A series of chapters contributed by a distinguished panel of leading authors & historians will illuminate these themes through discrete but interconnected topics to give a fascinating contextual overview of life in Nelson`s Navy, internal & external perceptions of the Royal Navy & changes in these perspectives throughout the period 1688
- 1815, & the life & career of Admiral Horatio Nelson himself. Replete with stunning imagery featuring historical artworks, paintings & objects from the collections of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, the book will combine accessible narrative history for the general reader with superb visual appeal, forming an ideal companion to the Museum`s new permanent ` Nelson, Navy & Nation` gallery, which is scheduled to open in October 2013.
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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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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… ...

His name was Antonio, but they would call him Nem. From the infamous favela of Rocinha in Rio, he was a hardworking young father forced to make a decision that would turn his world upside down. Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel & perhaps Brazil`s most wanted criminal. A man who tried to bring welfare & justice to a playground of gang culture & destitution, while everyone around him drew guns & partied. It`s a gripping tale of gold-hunters & evangelical pastors, bent police & rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians & drug lords with maths degrees. Traversing through rainforests & high-security prisons, filthy slums & glittering shopping malls, this is also the story of how change came to Brazil. Of a country`s journey into the global spotlight, & the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio, as it struggles to break free from a tangled web of corruption, violence, drugs & poverty. With Nem at its centre, locked in a fight for his country`s soul. ...

HUSB&. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel & Brazil`s most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to bring welfare & justice to a playground of gang culture & destitution, while everyone around him drew guns & partied. DRUG LORD. It`s a story of gold-hunters & evangelical pastors, bent police & rich-kid addicts, politicians & drug lords & the battle for the beautiful but damned city of Rio. MOST WANTED CRIMINAL. ...

You might recognise:` It was a bright day in April, & the clocks were striking thirteen.` But what about:` Time, like an ever-rolling stream` Or even:`I am soft sift / In an hour-glass-at the wall / Fast, but mined with a motion, a drift, / & it crowds & it combs to the fall.` Can you match each to their author? What about their book or poem? Welcome to Nemo`s Almanac, the ultimate quiz for bibliophiles. Wonderful, maddening, enlightening, Nemo`s Almanac has been the well-guarded secret of the literary world for over one hundred years, beloved by authors & booksellers alike. Now in book form for the first time, with an account of its quirky history from Alan Hollinghurst, you can experience its fiendishly addictive qualities for yourself. With tantalising"es on themes from breakfast to bonfires, winter to sunshine, & including authors from Aldous Huxley to Zadie Smith, each chapter will put your knowledge & literary instinct to the test as you search for the origins to each"e. & if that tip-of-your-tongue feeling doesn`t transform into the names of authors & works, you can always check the back of the book for answers that will send you on fresh journeys of literary discovery. So curl up by a fire with your wits about you, stuff the book in your pocket for a trip to the library, or quiz the whole family after dinner. Answers: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four; Isaac Watts, `O God, Our Help`; Gerard Manley Hopkins, ` The Wreck of the Deutschland` ...