Rob Roy Way, one of Scotland’s Great Trails from Drymen just north of Glasgow along Loch Tay to Pitlochry on the edge of the Cairngorms National Park presented at 1:40, 000 on a light, waterproof & tear-resistant map from Harvey Map Services. The whole route, either 124km/77 miles or 151km/94 miles long depending on which variant one follows, is covered on five overlapping panels. Maps in the Harvey’s series covering Great Britain’s national trails & other long-distance footpaths are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper & cover the routes at 1:40, 000 or 1:60, 000. Topography is shown by contours at 15m intervals, with additional spot heights plus colouring and/or graphics to provide a very detailed picture of the terrain (boulder fields, scree, crags, etc) & vegetation / land use (pastures, moorl&, woodlands, etc). In Scotland peaks & hills classified as Munros, Corbetts & Donalds are marked. The overprint for the long-distance trail shows sections on local or main roads (highlighting danger points), on tracks, & on footpaths, indicating intermittent or not visible paths. The maps also show other right of way paths, including permissive paths & bridleways. Symbols indicate various facilities & accommodation options (including campsites & youth hostels), pubs & refreshments, food shops, banks, information points, etc, both along the route itself & in the nearby locations. All maps are GPS compatible, with the British National Grid overprinted on each panel. The maps also include useful contact details & general advice. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Let ” Southbound” take you back in time & uncover the rich history of a South African icon
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Instead of scaling the Himalayas, trekking across the Antarctic or traipsing through the Brazilian rainforest, Robbie Coltrane has set himself a uniquely British challenge. Armed with a map, a classic car & a sense of adventure, he`ll be exploring strange & exotic parts that are a bit closer to home. By venturing away from the tourist fast-track & on to the B roads of the UK, he`ll be criss-crossing the winding back roads of our nation to discover all the people, places & events that make up Incredible Britain. In the face of a fast-paced, increasingly Americanized, modern world, we sometimes forget what makes our country so unique. To remind us, Robbie will unearth our strangest festivals, oddest people & our oldest traditions. From cheese-chasing in Gloucestershire & Star Trek conventions in the Black Country to gurning competitions in the North East & Burry Man whiskey-fuelled walks through Scottish towns, Robbie`s drive is a determination to uncover what makes us singularly British
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This beautifully produced book celebrates the work of Robert Adam, the great eighteenth-century architect who influenced generations by stamping his distinctive neoclassical aesthetic vision on the English country house interior. Lavish new photography provides a deeply visual exploration of Adam s most important surviving country houses, to which the author & photographer gained unparalleled access. Included are magnificent country houses such as Syon House & Harewood House styled & inspired by the ideal of the neoclassical as well as Adam s castle-style Mellerstain & town houses such as Home House all captured in splendid detail. Original Adam design drawings, from Sir John Soane s Museum, illustrate the boldness of planning, color, & creative interpretation of Adam s domestic interiors. A biographical & contextual account of Adam s life & work describes his unique design process, his patrons, & the legacy of his design achievement. This richly illustrated volume will appeal to designers & homeowners as well as traditional architecture enthusiasts, promising to become an important addition to any architecture & interior design library. ...

Taking a unique look at one of the most acclaimed & best-loved poets, Robert Burns, A Very Peculiar History provides a fascinating insight into the life & times of Scotland`s national poet. We learn about his romantic, tragic life, his journey from underdog to celebrity & about his family & childhood. With much reference to his most famous works, Fiona Macdonald explores his profound, passionate poetry, as well as his use of the Scots language & his inspirations & influences. Featuring quirky stories & entertaining trivia throughout, find out what makes Burns so captivating, to Scottish people first & foremost, but also to countless millions around the globe. Fact boxes, a full glossary & index make the book both fun & informative to use. The text is enlivened with black-&-white line drawings & full-colour endpapers. ...

Robert Capa (1913-1954), one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century & a founding member of the Magnum photographic agency, had the mind of a passionate & committed journalist & the eye of an artist. His lifework, consisting of more than 70, 000 negative frames, constitutes an unparalleled documentation of a crucial twenty-two-year period (1932-1954) encompassing some of the most catastrophic & dramatic events of the last century. This book represents the most definitive selection of Robert Capa`s work ever published, a collection of 937 photographs selected by Capa`s brother, Cornell Capa (himself a noted Life photographer), & his biographer, Richard Whelan, who meticulously re-examined all of Robert Capa`s contact sheets to compile this master set of images. This book opens with a biographical introduction illustrated with rare photographs of Capa, & closes with a chronology of his life. The main body of the book presents this definitive collection of 937 of Robert Capa`s most important pictures. The photographs, arranged in chronological order & accompanied by commentaries & identifying captions, constitute an in-depth survey of Robert Capa`s finest work over the entire course of his career. The pictures reveal the dramatic shifts in location & subject matter that Capa experienced from day to day, representing the trajectory of his life
- from war-torn Spain to Picasso on a sunny beach in France; from carousing with Ernest Hemingway in London to Capa`s historic images of the Allied landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy in 1944. The book design groups together pictures that constitute a story
- for example, the Popular Front rallies in Paris in 1936, or the U.S. Army`s entry into Sicily in 1943
- in order to maintain the original coherence of the work. Embodying the spirit of his photographs, Robert Capa`s life itself was adventurous, romantic, & tragic. Born in Hungary in 1913, he hoped to become a journalist but was forced to flee to Berlin at the age of seventeen because of his leftist political sympathies. When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, Capa fled to Paris, the city that would become his home on & off for most of his life. It was there that he met Andre Kertesz, who became a mentor to Capa & introduced him to the extraordinary potential of the 35mm Leica camera as a tool for reportage. Capa also met two other photographers during his early years in Paris: Henri Cartier-Bresson & David ” Chim” Szymin, with whom he founded Magnum, the co-operative photo agency, in 1947 along with George Rodger & William Vandivert. For the rest of his life, Capa would devote much of his time to guiding the operations of the Magnum offices in Paris & New York. Throughout the 1930s & World War II, Capa was present at many of the twentieth century`s defining events & moments. His first assignment came in 1932, when he was working as a darkroom assistant at Delphot, the important Berlin photo agency. The agency`s director, recognizing Capa`s talent, lent him a camera & sent him to Copenhagen to photograph exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky giving a speech to Danish students. From there, Robert Capa went on to photograph the Spanish Civil War, when he made his famous ” Falling Soldier” picture showing a Republican soldier collapsing just after being shot. Capa reported on the increasing political tensions in Europe in the mid-1930s, including the Popular Front demonstrations in France, & on the presidential elections in Mexico in 1940 before being accredited by the U.S. Army as a war correspondent for Life. After documenting Londoners` stalwart survival of the Blitz, he went on to cover battles on many of the major fronts in North Africa, Sicily, mainland Italy, France, & Germany. In one of his most famous assignments, Capa landed with the first wave of American troops on Omaha Beach in Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Wading into the frigid water behind amphibious tanks, & dodging machine gun & rifle bullets, Capa shot 36 exposures before his hands were shaking so badly that he could not insert another roll into the camera. In an ironic twist of fate, a Life darkroom attendant damaged all but eleven of Capa`s negatives. After the war, he did various stories for travel magazines & worked on writing projects with friends such as John Steinbeck & the noted journalist Theodore H. White. He also went to Israel several times to document the conflict & co-operation in the founding of the new nation. Capa`s last assignment would be a trip to Vietnam to cover the French Indochina War: he was killed when he accidentally stepped on a Vietminh antipersonnel mine in the countryside on May 25, 1954. Though perpetually broke, Capa lived a glamorous life
- through a combination of charm, luck, & talent (and an uncontrollable penchant for gambling), he frequented a wealthy circle of celebrities & cultural figures. He fell in love with Ingrid Bergman; was friends with Ernest Hemingway, the director John Huston, & other writers & directors; spent many an afternoon at the racetracks, & enjoyed all-night poker games. Seen together, however, the pictures in this book transcend the specific situations they portray to stand as timeless images of the human condition at its most terrible & inspiring; they are monuments to the strength of the human spirit.



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Because of the importance of Robert Frank`s The Americans; because he turned to filmmaking in 1959, the same year the book appeared in the United States; & because he made very different kinds of pictures when he returned to still photography in the 1970s, most of Frank`s American work of the 1950s is poorly known. This book, based on the important Frank collection at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, is the first to focus on that work. Its careful sequence of 131 plates integrates twenty-two photographs from The Americans with more than 100 unknown or unfamiliar images to chart the major themes & pictorial strategies of Frank`s work in the United States in the 1950s. Peter Galois` text presents a thorough reconsideration of Frank`s first photographic career & examines in detail how he used the full range of photography`s vital 35mm vocabulary to reclaim the mediums artistic tradition from the hegemony of the magazines. ...

A beautiful collection of timeless classics for a new generation, featuring three of the best-loved children's titles. Meet unforgettable characters in The Jungle Book & follow man-cub Mowgli's adventures with the Wolf Pack as he faces up to his life-long enemy, Shere Khan. Go on a swashbuckling journey in search of buried treasure with young Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island & see how Mr Toad leads his companions from one escapade to the next in The Wind in the Willows, until he finally realises the value of true friendship. ...

First imagined in the 1960s but never published, this collection of Robert Louis Stevenson`s essays, fables & short stories was imagined by Jorge Luis Borges & Adolfo Bioy Casares
- a collection of their favourite works of non-fiction, short stories & fables. The themes
- integrity, intellectual & imaginative truth, literary meaning, the fantastic
- are common to all three authors, & these connections are explored in an introduction by Kevin Mac Neil. Including such classic tales as ` The Bottle Imp` & rare essays on crime, morality, dreams & romance, Robert Louis Stevenson: An Anthology is rich, eloquent & utterly readable.


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A sensual Calvinist, a Tory radical, a consumptive celebrant of action, a Passionate Scot who chose to live anywhere but Scotl&. Not for nothing was Robert Louis Stevenson the author of ” Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”. The greatest of Scottish novelists, Stevenson lived a life as extraordinary & as absorbing as his books. But it was a life tormented by an autocratic father, recurring illness, the prudery of the Victorian reading public &, most of all, the stresses imposed on him by his wife & stepchildren. This powerful new study is published to mark the centenery of Stevenson`s death at the age of forty-four. ...