` Exquisitely written` Sunday Times Beautifully written & magnificently illustrated with photographs, line drawings & maps, this book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, & as a warning of the legacy of loss & destruction we could so easily leave to future generations. In recent years the Somerset Levels suffered from the worst flooding in over twenty years, & more recently, flooding in Cumbria & other parts of Britain have reached new levels of severity. Taming the Flood analyses many of the conflicting demands made on rivers & wetlands, offering practical solutions which aim to protect, rather than destroy, these important ecological habitats. Exploring the old arguments & new solutions raised over the last 400 years, this completely updated edition of the classic Taming the Flood reveals how harnessing nature, rather than attempting to repress it, is the only answer to the environmental disasters we are faced with today. As a practical landscape architect & ecologist working in the water industry, Jeremy Purseglove has been actively involved in land drainage engineering to try to enhance, rather than destroy, the heritage of our rivers & wetlands. He charts the conservation, agriculture & development of our rivers & wetlands, outlining practical proposals for the protection & use of these sensitive habitats. From the Lancashire mosses & the Derwent Ings, Otmoor & the Fens, to Romney Marsh & the Somerset Levels, he traces the history & natural history of our rivers & wetlands, describing in vivid detail both the beauty of these strange & ancient landscapes, & the often disastrous results of attempts to tame them. ...

Tampa – St Petersburg map in a series of Rand Mc Nally’s regional road maps covering the environs of main US cities. The map covers the coast of western Florida, extending from well north of Ocala to south of Sarasota & inland to include Disney World. Insets provide street plans of Saint Petersburg, Tampa, Sarasota & Clearwater. Other communities covered by the map include Arcadia, Bartow, Bay Lake, Bradenton, Brooksville, Clermont, Inverness, Lakel&, Leesburg, Tarpon Springs, Winter Haven & Zephyrhills. Maps in this series present the road network on a clear background with no relief shading to show the area’s topography, but with national or state parks, forests & other protected areas indicated by colouring. Roads are numbered and/or named, showing toll highways, exit numbers of interchanges, services & rest areas. Local airports are marked, but railways & other urban transport lines are not included unless specifically indicated in the individual description. Each town is presented in a different colour, providing those unfamiliar with the region a very clear picture of the area. Various places of interest & facilities are highlighted, including cultural & historical sites, educational institutions, sport & recreational facilities, etc. Each title is indexed. Several maps also include enlargements of the downtown area, plans of international airports, a mileage & driving times diagram for a much wider region than covered by the main map, etc
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Tampa in Florida on an indexed street plan from Rand Mc Nally in their extensive range of maps covering cities in the United States. An inset provides a more detailed street plan of downtown Tampa. Communities covered by this map include East Tampa, Gibsonton, Lutz, Mullis City, Progress Village & Temple Terrace. Rand Mc Nally street plans provide coverage of cities with their outer suburbs, clearly indicating main traffic arteries: highways (distinguishing between free & toll access), plus primary & secondary routes. Road numbers and/or names are clearly displayed & exit numbers are indicated. Locations of service & rest areas are marked & one way streets are shown. Longer streets are annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. The maps show railway, bus &, where appropriate, metro stations. A range of symbols indicate various places of interest including cultural & academic institutions, various municipal facilities, golf courses, etc. The plans have extensive street indexes, supplemented by lists of points of interest, parks & recreational areas, shopping malls, stations, schools, etc. ...

The 1:50 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50 000 topographic map sheets. ...

Tamworth in 1900 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 is double-sided. The main map covers the centre & east of the town, extending eastward about a mile to Royals Farm & Hopleys Farm. Features include LNWR & MR railways with station, St Editha`s church, Assembly Rooms, Castle, Smallware Mills, Bolehall (at foot of map), Manor House, cattle market, Bole Hall Mill, Grammar School, Perry Crofts, Tamworth Union Workhouse (near top of map), schools, etc. On the reverse is a section of the adjacent sheet 59.10, covering the western part of the town. Features here include Moat House, Lichfield Street, clothing factory, The Leys area and Wigginton Hall. 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. ...

Tamworth in the Cassini Past & Present map series which covers town & cities of England & Wales & offers a unique way of tracing their history & expansion by showing four different periods of their development using Ordnance Survey mapping from the mid-19th century, the late 19th century, the 1920s & the present day. Coverage

Includes:: Baddesley Ensor, Castle Bromwich, Fazeley, Glascote, Kingsbury, Minworth, Polesworth & Water Orton. Each Past & Present map consists of four panels, all centred on a city or a town & covering exactly the same 15km x 15km area. Three of the panels reproduce Ordnance Survey’s historical editions: the Old Series, the Revised New Series & the Popular Edition, enlarged from their original inch-to-the-mile to match the 1:50, 000 scale of the present-day Landranger extract shown in the fourth panel.* Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring.* Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines.* Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. National Grid lines are shown on all four panels for easy comparison across the four time periods. Historical notes, details of the original maps used & web-links for local history societies & other sources of information are also provided. *PLEASE NOTE:** Reproductions from the Ordnance Survey’s historical series are also available as maps of a wider area, with each title corresponding in its coverage to a present day Landranger map. Please see Great Britain: Cassini Historical Reproductions of Ordnance Survey One-Inch Maps series.* Stanfords can also print on request mapping from all the series *centring the map on a location of your choice.* For more information please click on the link below.

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Half-African, half-Indian & beautiful, Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked & violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid & consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind & extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay, an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship
- & a white man. & in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed, their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences.
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A letter from the past forces a disgraced bureaucrat to confront his future Tangier tells two parallel stories: one, a mystery, & the other a spy story set fifty years apart & told in a series of alternating sections. In the first, we follow Christopher Chaffee, a disgraced Washington power broker whose father, a French diplomat, died in a Vichy prison in 1944 -- or so he had always believed until a letter, received decades after it was posted, upends his life. Soon he is reluctantly inspecting the corkscrew of his own life as he searches the narrow lanes & twisted souls of Tangiers ancient medina in search of the father he never knew. The second is a tale of espionage & betrayal, set in Morocco during WWII. Rene Laurent, Christophers father, struggles to maintain his integrity -- & his life -- in the snake pit of wartime Tangier. The stories slowly intertwine as Christopher unravels the mystery of his fathers fate, & Laurent becomes trapped in a web of lies & corruption, & caught up, too, in the arms of a woman he knows he shouldnt trust. Ultimately, this is the story of fathers & sons, the alienation of being a stranger in a strange l&, the seductive face of betrayal &, finally, the lengths well go to for redemption. ...

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe & overlooking both the Mediterranean & the Atlantic, Tangier is more than a destination, it is an escape, & the Interzone, as William Burroughs called it, has attracted spies, outlaws, outcasts & writers for centuries
- men & women working out at the edge of literary forms, breaking through artistic borders. This outlaw originality is what most astonishes when encountering the literary history of Tangier for the first time. Particularly in the past century, the results were some of the most incendiary & influential books of our time, the most prominent being Burroughs` Naked Lunch & Paul Bowles` The Sheltering Sky. The list of ”edge” writers who were drawn to Tangier is long, among them Ibn Battuta, Samuel Pepys, Alexandre Dumas, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walter Harris, Jean Genet, Paul & Jane Bowles, Tennessee Williams, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Patricia Highsmith, Jack Kerouac, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, Alfred Chester, Joe Orton, & Mohamed Choukri.
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