Racing with Death
- Douglas Mawson Antarctic Explorer is Beau Riffenburgh’s biography of the little known Australian polar explorer
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Step-by-step training for dinghy sailors who are ready to start racing This book assumes the reader can sail & now wants to race. It aims to take them through their first few seasons of racing, to the point where they can win a club race. This new edition is in full colour &

Includes:: a new detailed section on using the asymmetric spinnaker. Each chapter focuses on one key element of sailing: rules, the wind, tactics, spinnakers, etc. * Practical step-by-step guide to the key elements of racing * Fully illustrated with colour diagrams & photographs to show each step * Takes the skipper & crew through their first couple of season`s racing * A digest of the key elements of racing: rules, tactics, speed etc. * Will help readers to win their first club race

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The discovery of a dead body shatters the tranquillity of a Cotswold village in Ann Granger`s second Campbell & Carter mystery. When old Monty Bickerstaffe finds a dead body in his drawing room it comes as a nasty surprise
- the first of many. Monty lives alone in a crumbling Cotswold manor house & the last thing he wants is the police sniffing around his property. Not that he has anything to hide... The identity of the corpse & how & why it was left in Monty`s home remain a mystery. The locals swear they`ve seen nothing unusual & Monty`s relatives claim they`ve never set eyes on the stiff before. But Inspector Jess Campbell is convinced that someone`s lying &, with the help of Superintendent Ian Carter, she must dig deep into Monty`s family history to reveal the shocking truth...
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THIS IS A NEW, UNPUBLISHED, ARTHUR RANSOME STORY. It describes a sailing cruise in Latvia with his new wife Evgenia (formerly Trotsky's secretary) up the Aa River, from Riga to Mitau & back. A classic Ransome story, it is illustrated with his own photos. Swallows & Amazons is responsible for more people taking up sailing that any other book. Arthur Ransome's style is unique & appeals to children & adults alike. The book was collated by Brian Hammett from Ransomea s (often h&--written) manuscript, & a foreword puts the book in perspective. ...

Most people know of Arthur Ransome, the author of the classic children`s sailing tale, Swallows & Amazons, & many other books in the same series. But besides his exciting tales of children on the water there is much more to the man. Before he wrote Swallows & Amazons, Ransome was a journalist for the Daily News, based in Russia. He is reputed to have played chess against Lenin & he married Trotsky`s secretary. He cruised extensively in the Baltic in the 1920s on board his beloved Racundra. His account of his first cruise on that boat was his first commercially successful book, Racundra`s First Cruise (also available from Fernhurst Books). The second cruise was spoilt by bad weather, but the third cruise was different
- it was his honeymoon having married Evgenia Shelepina. Ransome clearly intended to publish the account of this cruise, but never finished it. Ransome enthusiast, Brian Hammett, got hold of the unpublished manuscript & found Ransome`s h&-written notes, diaries, logbooks & photographs in the Ransome archive at Leeds University. Brian compiled this book, adding his own notes from his cruises in the same area. The result is a glorious volume which has delighted Ransome enthusiasts, sailors & landlubbers equally. This new paperback edition & e Book will be published on 8th May
- the very day that Ransome & Shelepina got married in 1924 before their honeymoon cruise which is recounted in this book.

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These splashproof cards take the mystery out of using radar on a small boat for navigation & collision avoidance.

A radar screen

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Radcliffe in 1927 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 the Lancashire town of Radcliffe. Coverage stretches from Cams Lane eastward to Bury Street & from Cemetery Road southward to James Street. Features include St Thomas church, River Irwell, Sun Mills, Globe Iron Works, Irwell Mill, Crystal Mills, Cawdaw Dye Works, Clough Bleach Works, New Road Mills, Irwell Preserve Works, Wellington Mills, Pioneer Mills, Coronation Park, tramways, the Clifton-Accrington railway with Radcliffe Bridge station, the Manchester-Radcliffe line with Radcliffe New station, Radcliffe West Fork with sidings etc, East Lancashire Paper Mill, Wilton Mill, Crow Oaks Works, Healey Maternity Home, Irwell Bleach & Dye Works, James Street Sidings, Sunny Bank Mill, St Philip`s Mission Church, Allen`s Green, Peel Park Ground, Spider Mill, Scotson Fold, Canal Mill, Holly Bank Mills, Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal, Smyrna Works, etc. Extracts from a contemporary trade directory 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. ...

Radcliffe North in 1908 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 a semi-rural area north of Radcliffe. The hamlet of Black Lane, on the western side of the map, is the only significant community, but several transport features provide interest as they cross the map. These include a stretch of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal; a stretch of the Bolton-Bury railway with Black Lane station, & stretches of the Clifton-Accrington & Whitefield-Radcliffe lines. Other features include Withins Mill, Warth Fold with Warth Mills, Healds, Black Lane Mills, tramways, Red Bank Mills, cemetery, Coney Green Colliery. On the reverse is a 1918 commercial directory of Radcliffe, entries A-K. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...

Radcliffe North in 1908 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 a semi-rural area north of Radcliffe. The hamlet of Black Lane, on the western side of the map, is the only significant community, but several transport features provide interest as they cross the map. These include a stretch of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal; a stretch of the Bolton-Bury railway with Black Lane station, & stretches of the Clifton-Accrington & Whitefield-Radcliffe lines. Other features include Withins Mill, Warth Fold with Warth Mills, Healds, Black Lane Mills, tramways, Red Bank Mills, cemetery, Coney Green Colliery, etc. On the reverse is a 1918 commercial directory of Radcliffe, entries A to K. 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. ...

Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth & eighteenth centuries
- in the wake of the Scientific Revolution
- of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, & belief, by the new philosophy & the philosophies, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, & Rousseau. In this revolutionary process which effectively overthrew all justification for monarchy, aristocracy, slavery, & ecclesiastical authority, as well as man`s asendancy over woman & theology`s domination over education & study, substituting the modern principles of equality, democracy, & universality, the Radical Enlightenment played a crucially important part. Despite the present-day interest in the revolutions of the late eighteenth century, the origins & rise of the Radical Enlightenment have been astonishingly little studied, doubtless largely because if its very wide international sweep & the obvious difficulties of fitting it into the restrictive conventions of `national history` which until recently tended to dominate all historiography. The greatest obstacle to the Radical Enlightenment finding its proper place in modern historical writing is simply that it was not French, British, German, Italian, Jewish or Dutch, but all of these at the same time. In this novel interpretation of the Radical Enlightenment down to La Mettrie & Diderot, two of its key exponents, particular stress is placed on the pivotal role of Spinoza & the widespread underground international philosophical movement known before 1750 as Spinozism.

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