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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Shymkent (Chimkent) region at 1:500, 000 in a series of detailed, contoured maps of the mountains of Central Asia derived from the Soviet era topographic survey but with transliterated place names & an English language map legend. Maps in this series provide coverage of the Tien Shan & Pamir Mountains, with the whole of Kyrgyzstan, northern Tajikistan, plus the adjoining regions of Uzbekistan (including Tashkent & Samarkand), southern Kazakhstan (with Almaty) & the Sinkiang Province of China. The maps have contours at 100m intervals, enhanced by altitude colouring & relief shading, with plenty of spot heights & names of various mountain chains, peaks, valleys, etc. Additional colouring and/or graphics indicate glaciers, cliffs, rock boulders, sands, ridges & dunes, mud & salt flats, different types of vegetation, etc. The maps show all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale, including detailed presentation of local roads & tracks, railways, aerodromes, isolated settlements, national & internal administrative borders, etc. Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at 20’ & 30’ respectively. Map legend is in English. The series was prepared in mid-2000s when all the place names have been transliterated from the original Russian mapping & given, where possible, modern local names for larger towns. Each map provides a guide to the transliteration, as well as English & German glossary for the abbreviations. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

About the series: Maps designed specifically for the trekker, presenting the topography by line drawings of mountain ridges, with main peaks & passes shown with their height above sea level. The maps also show rivers & settlements & clearly indicate trekking routes. On the reverse are descriptions of suggested routes & other information about the area. ...

Sialkot on an indexed plan with names of districts, colonies & main streets. The plan names various public buildings, industrial & agricultural establishments, etc. & marks locations of religious buildings of various denominations, hotels & rest houses & petrol stations, etc. ...

Historical maps are much more than geographical records. Often they provide insights into a country's politics, trade & war. In 1996, 17 large, h&-drawn & handcoloured maps were discovered in the Princess Abhantri Paja Mansion in the Grand Palace, Bangkok. This magnificent collection is today in the care of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Now, for the first time, Her Royal Highness has graciously allowed five of these precious maps to go on show at the Jim Thompson House, Center for Arts. Together with 80 other related items, the exhibition Siam in Trade & War Royal Maps of the Nineteenth Century gives a fascinating picture of Siamese history & geopolitics during the first three reigns of the Chakri dynasty. ...

Legendary Scottish photographer & travel writer John Thomson (1837-1921) set off for the East in 1862 & over the next ten years undertook numerous journeys to various countries including Siam, Cambodia & China, becoming the first person to photograph Angkor Wat, Cambodia. The photographs from these journeys form one of the most extensive records of any region taken in the 19th century. The range, depth & aesthetic quality of John Thomsons photographic vision mark him out as one of the most important travel photographers. At that time cameras were large & heavy. The photographic images were exposed onto a glass negative & this had to be done in complete darkness, on location, in a portable darkroom tent. Thomson travelled with a large number of cumbersome crates, glass negatives & highly flammable & poisonous chemicals. Given that his journeys took him through difficult terrain & insect-infested jungles, sometimes to regions where a white man had not been seen before, it is all the more remarkable that Thomson was able to make photographs of such beauty & sensitivity. During an era when his contemporaries took portraits in which their subjects looking stilted & wooden, Thomson managed to capture the individuality & humanity of the diverse people of Asia, whether royalty or street vendor. In Siam, Thomson was able to photograph King Mongkut (Rama IV), his royal family & entourage. In Cambodia, Thomson was the first photographer to visit Angkor, to record what is now, one of the most important sites of ancient architecture in the world. These photographs form a unique archive of images documenting 19th century Asian landscapes, architecture, people & customs. The collection of over 600 glass plates traveled back with Thomson to Britain in 1872 & since 1921 has been housed & expertly preserved at the Wellcome Library, London. The 150-year-old glass negatives are in excellent condition allowing the exhibition to showcase very large prints, some life-size. Altogether 43 photographs taken in Siam, six taken in Angkor & 15 from Southern China are displayed in this ground-breaking exhibition. ...