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Forty circular walks covering this part of central Engl&, each based on a good local pub.

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Shropshire in the AA 50 Walks series; comprising an extensive range of walking guides helping you to explore the best walking routes in Great Britain. Each guide covers a total of 50 walks, many of which are circular, between 2-10 miles & also that are suitable for a range of different walking standards. Every walk in the guides has an information box showing clear details of distance, minimum time, level of difficulty, any ascents, the nature of the terrain & landscape, suggested Ordnance Survey map, grid references for starting & finishing points, dog friendliness, parking & any public toilets en route. There are also suggestions of what to look out for & recommended places to eat & drink. Detailed walk descriptions are accompanied by clear mapping of the route ahead, in addition to colour photographs illustrating the highlights of selected routes. ...

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Bradt`s Slow Shropshire fills a much-needed gap in the market for a guide to an area that, of all of the UK`s regions, is perhaps most synonymous with ` Slow`. This guide, written by local author Marie Kreft, places an emphasis on car-free travel, local produce & characterful accommodation. It

Includes:: detailed descriptions of place, historical overviews, ghost stories & folk tales, & first-hand accounts from Shropshire locals, as well as h&-picked restaurant recommendations based on long-standing knowledge & consultation with locals. Warm & witty writing combines with a natural enthusiasm for the region making this an indispensable guide to one of Britain`s most scenic areas. Ludlow is acknowledged as the Slow Food capital of the UK, while the region as a whole is much celebrated, described by PG Wodehouse as the ”nearest earthly place to paradise”. The guide is unapologetic in taking you the long way round: through ancient woodl&, over bridges & ` Blue Remembered Hills`, back in time, down footpaths, into castles, churches & interesting pubs, cheerfully savouring the authentic, the offbeat & the local.

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Shtetl Love Song is a requiem for the pre-war Jewish shtetl, for a people & a way of life that was destroyed. Set in the rural Lithuanian landscape on the eve of World War II, ` Shtetl Love Song` is full of tender affection, soft irony, & sharp observations. Guided by the memory of his beloved mother, the masterful narrator takes us into the very midst of his enchanted family world, recreating the past that is irrevocably destroyed & yet fully alive in his memory. Kanovich, himself a child of a Lithuanian shtetl who survived the Holocaust almost by a miracle, made it his mission to serve, against all odds, as a custodian of the collective memory of generations of Litvaks, Lithuanian Jews.`
- Mikhail Krutikov, Professor of Slavic & Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The novel won the Liudas Dovydenas Prize awarded by the Lithuanian Writers` Union. Winner the Liudo Dovydeno Prize awarded by the Lithuanian Writers` Union
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Indexed street plan of Shumen at 1:10, 000 with maps of the Shumen Plateau Nature Park & the surrounding region, plus an extensive gazetteer of various services, including hotels, banks, restaurants, entertainment, etc. On one side is a street plan of the city showing bus routes with line numbers & stops, & annotated with symbols indicating various facilities. District names & major streets are also shown in Latin alphabet
- all the rest in Cyrillic only. On the reverse is an extensive gazetteer of various services in the city & notes on its history & landmarks. Map legend & all the text in these sections include English. Also provided is a map of the Shumen Plateau Nature Park with English language notes but all the place names & a legend in Bulgarian only, plus a road & rail map of the surrounding region. Neither map indicates its scale.
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Even by the standards of a sport that requires enormous stamina & capacity for suffering, Jens Voigt is in a class on his own. Beloved by cycling fans for his madcap one-man breakaways as much as his sense of humour "able catchphrases, Jens is one of the most popular personalities in cycling. Jens was born near Hamburg, & came up through the East German system before the Wall came down. He got into the national team through the German army, before signing for his first big team. In many ways he is cycling’s anti-star; despite arguably spending more time at the front of the Tour de France than any other rider he has only worn the yellow jersey twice as his efforts have always been in the service of others. Jens embodies the best of cycling’s qualities – loyalty to his team, sacrifice, & devotion to the sport. He says, ‘I’m not a head person, I’m more of a heart & guts guy. That’s how I race.’ Shut Up Legs is a funny, insightful & entertaining look at the tough realities of professional cycling, told in Jens’s trademark irreverent & inimitable style. ...

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Even by the standards of a sport that requires enormous stamina & capacity for suffering, Jens Voigt is in a class on his own. Beloved by cycling fans for his madcap one-man breakaways as much as his sense of humour "able catchphrases, Jens is one of the most popular personalities in cycling. Jens was born near Hamburg, & came up through the East German system before the Wall came down. He got into the national team through the German army, before signing for his first big team. In many ways he is cycling`s anti-star; despite arguably spending more time at the front of the Tour de France than any other rider he has only worn the yellow jersey twice as his efforts have always been in the service of others. Jens embodies the best of cycling`s qualities
- loyalty to his team, sacrifice, & devotion to the sport. He says, `I`m not a head person, I`m more of a heart & guts guy. That`s how I race.` Shut Up Legs will be a funny, insightful & entertaining look at the tough realities of professional cycling, told in Jens`s trademark irreverent & inimitable style.
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On a wintery night in February 1989, 22 year-old Deborah Copaken Kogan entered Afganistan as the only female in a group of Afghan freedom fighters. She had come to photograph the Soviet pull-out. This is a memoir of a young woman finding & fighting her way through the war zones of the world. Told with humour, it tells how one woman fought her way onto battlefields, & the danger, pain, truths & love she discovered there. ...

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A re-envisaging of Shakespeare`s The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner & our great chronicler of Jewish life. ` Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?` With an absent wife & a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector & philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire`s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It`s the beginning of a remarkable friendship. ...

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It is winner of the Booker Prize. ” The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe.” (Mail on Sunday). As Seen on BBC Imagine. ` Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?` With an absent wife & a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector & philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire`s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It`s the beginning of a remarkable friendship. Elsewhere in the Golden Triangle, the rich, manipulative Plurabelle (aka Anna Livia Plurabelle Cleopatra A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Christine) is the face of her own TV series, existing in a bubble of plastic surgery & lavish parties. She shares prejudices & a barbed sense of humour with her loyal friend D` Anton, whose attempts to play Cupid involve Strulovitch`s daughter
- & put a pound of flesh on the line. Howard Jacobson`s version of The Merchant of Venice bends time to its own advantage as it asks what it means to be a father, a Jew & a merciful human being in the modern world. ” Jacobson is quite simply a master of comic precision. He writes like a dream.” (Evening Standard).
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Shut End And Tansey Green 1903

Shut End and Tansey Green in 1903 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 an area west of Dudley and the northern fringe of Kingswinford, including St Mark`s church and St Mary`s church, but transport and industry dominate. Features include the Stourbridge Extension Canal, GWR Kingswinford Branch, numerous mineral railways, Planet Colliery, Shutend Colliery, Stourbridge Extension Colliery, Shutend Old Colliery, Himley Colliery, several disused pits, Corbyn`s Hall iron works, Oak Farm brick works, Hunt`s corn mill, several brick works, tramway, etc. Directories to Kingswinford and Pensnett are on the reverse.About the Alan
Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series:Selected towns in Great Britain and Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th and early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping and reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes and many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one and a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.

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Shut End & Tansey Green in 1903 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 an area west of Dudley & the northern fringe of Kingswinford, including St Mark`s church & St Mary`s church, but transport & industry dominate. Features include the Stourbridge Extension Canal, GWR Kingswinford Branch, numerous mineral railways, Planet Colliery, Shutend Colliery, Stourbridge Extension Colliery, Shutend Old Colliery, Himley Colliery, several disused pits, Corbyn`s Hall iron works, Oak Farm brick works, Hunt`s corn mill, several brick works, tramway, etc. Directories to Kingswinford & Pensnett 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.

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Contemporary - A design reference to indicate post war modern design

mineral - A naturally occurring solid chemical substance.

iron - An electrical deviced used for removing creases from fabrics

iron - A chemical element (FE). The most common element on earth

History - Anything that happens in the past. An acedemic subject.

Railways - A set of tracks that have been laid for the purpose of trains to travel up and down them

Contemporary - An object that is living in the same time.

Mill - A building which can grind grain into flour.

Extension - Something that is made bigger through adding to it, for example a conservatory extension on a house.

Hall - A room at the inside of an entrance of a house.

Oak - A member of the beech tree family that has acorns growing on it.

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Transport - Something that carries people or goods.

Family - A group of people that live together made up from parents and children.

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Stanfords was established in 1853 and opened their iconic Covent Garden flagship store in 1901. They have become the top retailer of maps, travel books and accessories in the UK and arguably offer the largest selection of maps and travel books worldwide. Famous names such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Ranulph Fiennes and Michael Palin have purchased from Stanfords. They now have a shop in Bristol and both stores together with other venues operate a calendar of events including talks, book signings and exhibitions. As a specialist map retailer, the map selection is comprehensive and includes road maps, street maps and walking maps from worldwide destinations, as well as a selection of world atlases and wall maps. Books include travel guides and travel literature. Stanfords also stock globes, from miniatures made of blue marble to magnificent floor-standing globes. The website features a selection of interesting articles on travel topics.

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