Tomas O` Crohan was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1865 & died there in 1937, a great master of his native Irish. He shared to the full the perilous life of a primitive community, yet possessed a shrewd & humorous detachment that enabled him to observe & describe the world. His book is a valuable description of a new vanished way of life; his sole purpose in writing it was in his own words, `to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be again`. The Blasket Islands are three miles off Irelands Dingle Peninsula. Until their evacuation just after the Second World War, the lives of the 150 or so Blasket Islanders had remained unchanged for centuries. A rich oral tradition of story-telling, poetry, & folktales kept alive the legends & history of the islands, & has made their literature famous throughout the world. The 7 Blasket Island books published by OUP contain memoirs & reminiscences from within this literary tradition, evoking a way of life which has now vanished. ...

This guide features 40 circular hill routes on Skye & many other islands off the west coast of Scotl&. From the windswept machair of the Outer Hebrides to the sawtooth ridge of the Black Cuillin, the islands always enchant & inspire. The routes in this volume take in many great hills on Arran, Islay, Jura, Mull, Eigg, Rum, Skye, Raasay, Harris & the Uists. ...

This volume of pen-&-ink drawings of Scottish mountain scenery by A. Wainwright
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Buenos Aires, 1992. Hacker Felipe Felix is summoned to the vertiginous twin towers of magnate Fausto Tamerlan & charged with finding the witnesses to a very public crime. Rejecting the mission is not an option. After a decade spent immersed in drugs & virtual realities, trying to forget the freezing trench in which he passed the Falklands War, Felix is forced to confront the city around him
- & realises to his shock that the war never really ended. A detective novel, a cyber-thriller, an inner-city road trip & a war memoir, The Islands is a hilarious, devastating & dizzyingly surreal account of a history that remains all too raw.
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The brand new & final novel from the magical pen of `the Godmother of Fantasy`, Diana Wynne Jones; co-authored with her sister Ursula Jones. Now in paperback. How are you supposed to turn into a Wise Woman if your powers just won`t show up? Aileen is convinced she`ll never become as magical as her Aunt Beck. Then one day her aunt is set a seemingly impossible mission. She must go to the island of Logra & rescue the kidnapped High Prince from the enemy, & Aileen must go with her. They set off along with Ivar, Aileen`s spoilt cousin, & Ogo his clophopping servant, recruiting on their way a huge & elusive cat, a monk with an uncannily wise parrot, & a boy inventor who keeps a pet lizard up his sleeve. But this is no band of mighty warriors, & the evil Lograns & their wizards have blocked their way with an invisible barrier in the sea. Aileen doubts that even with all the magic in the Islands of Chaldea, including Aunt Beck`s, they will be able to penetrate it. But Aileen is about to discover that she could be more important to the mission than she realises. Perhaps it is her, above all, who is being drawn to Logra, & for a very special purpose... ...

Rebecca Seal & Steven Joyce have been travelling to the Greek Islands on holiday for years, drawn back time & again by the glorious weather & delicious cuisine. In The Islands of Greece, Rebecca shares her favourite recipes from their travels, celebrating Greece`s regional specialties. Simple yet delicious, she captures the very essence of the islands, using fresh produce & classic Greek flavours in remarkable combinations. Feast on classics like stuffed calamari or chargrilled aubergine salad, or experiment with a more modern pork souvlaki with apples & pancetta. For a sweet treat, Rebecca`s polenta cake with figs & pine nuts is impossible to resist. Beautiful photographs complement the recipes & capture the magic & glitz of these stunning islands, from Crete to Mykonos, Santorini to Rhodes. ...

A profusely illustrated, revelatory tour of Ireland's little-known islands.
Ireland has long been renowned for its beautiful
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The Scottish Mountaineering Club District Guide to the Islands of Scotland Including Skye is a comprehensive guide to hill-walking & climbing in all the major islands of Scotl&. The book is structured in three parts; Part 1 covers Ailsa Craig to Ardnamurchan; Part 2 covers the Island of Skye; whilst Part 3 covers Ardnamurchan to Shetl&. Each island chapter begins by providing information on available maps, principle hill & mountain groups with elevation details, access, transport, accommodation & a general description of the isl&. Following this, detailed descriptions are given for the areas hills & mountains, walking on the isl&, as well as rock climbing opportunities. Each chapter is accompanied by hand drawn maps & is illustrated throughout with photographs. An introductory section provides general information on the region as a whole, including access, transport, accommodation, weather, mountain rescue, geology, natural history & social history. About this series These sturdy hardbacked volumes could be said to be the definitive guides to the mountaineering districts of Scotl&. An enormous amount of detail is included in these titles. Each chapter covers a specific area, with a detailed diagrammatic map & a separate description for each of the principle hills, including ascent & descent instructions. Extensive additional information is included for walkers, cavers, geologists & climbers. There is also advice on public transport & accommodation. ...

About this series: Ideal companions for any visitor to islands & areas of interest. Each guide

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The Isle Of Man, an original antique map by T. Moule, published in London, 1833 -1843. A steel plate engraving, coloured. Map size 26 x 19 cm with a mount size of 41 x 35 cm. Illustrated with heraldry & a Celtic allegorical figure to represent the isl&. Maps by Thomas Moule (1784-1851) are probably, with those by Speed, the best known of all series of English county maps. Issued from 1830, the maps combine a clarity of cartographic style with immense detail, by way of vignette views, scenes & portraits relating to the county shown, often set within a gothic architectural or floral surround, into which armorial devices & so on are worked. As the editions of the maps were published, first in The English Counties Delineated & later in Barclay's English Dictionary, the development of the network of railways throughout England can be observed. Moule, like many other map-makers & map-sellers before him, was a man of many talents. As an author his output included books & papers on topography, history, genealogy, heraldry & architecture; the maps which he designed show elements of these studies. The 57 maps & plans produced for Moule's English Counties Delineated, originally issued as a part-work, include maps of each English county, the towns of London, Bath, Boston, Portsmouth & Plymouth, & the Isles of Wight, Man & Thanet. Frequently entitled the last series of decorative county maps they are good informative maps, as popular now as they were in the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. Antique maps from various original publishers are presented on the Stanford ...