The Rainborowes bridges two generations & two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves & a better future for humankind in the New World. Starting with William Rainborowe, a prominent merchant-mariner & shipmaster, & his equally formidable sons & daughters between 1630 & 1660, we follow their astonishing story through the Civil War, the Putney debates, & settling in America. The Rainborowes explains America & mourns England`s failed revolution. It spans oceans & ideologies & encompasses personal tragedies & triumphs, the death of kings & the birth of nations. Using rare printed material from the period & unpublished manuscripts from collections in Britain & America The Rainborowes recreates day-to-day life on both sides of the Atlantic during one of the most tumultuous periods in Western history. In their efforts to build a paradise on earth, the Rainborowes & their friends encounter pirates & witches, prophets & princes, Muslem militants & Mohican Indians. They build new societies. They are ordinary men & women, & they do an extraordinary thing. They change the world. ...

` So Ursula became the child of her father`s heart.` The Rainbow tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family & their struggles with each other & themselves. Beautiful, strange & with a power all its own, The Rainbow redefined the English novel. This is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin`s original covers. ...

Laura comes from a world similar to our own but for one difference: The Place. An unfathomable land filled with dreams of every kind & invisible to all but a select few: the Dreamhunters. Treated as celebrities, the Dreamhunters catch larger-than-life dreams & relay them to audiences in the magnificent dream palace, The Rainbow Opera. Now, 15 year-old Laura & her cousin Rose are going to find out whether they are part of this prestigious group. But nothing in their darkest nightmares can prepare them for what they are about to discover. For within the Place lies a horrific secret kept hidden by corrupt members of the Government. & when Laura`s father suddenly disappears, she realises that this secret has the power to destroy everyone she loves... ...

In 1980, following more than 20 years of torture & suffering as a political prisoner of the Communist Chinese government, Dr Tenzin Choedrak left Tibet to live in exile in India & returned to his duties as the Dalai Lama`s physician. Here, he tells of his disturbing experiences. ...

Following his tremendous success in 2013 with The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotl&, Clifton Bain now turns his attention to the mixed oak, birch & other woodlands that line the west coasts of, north to south, Scotl&, Northern Engl&, Wales & Irel&. Correctly described as a rainforest, these trees take a higher rainfall than some areas of the Brazilian rainforest, the unbroken lineage since the Ice Age have provided resource for the human population, habitat for animals & birds, & acted as a lung for the planet. Published to the same high standards as The Ancient Pinewoods of Scotl&, The Celtic Rainforest will be furnished with maps, original artwork, & travel guidance. It will be introduced by Vanessa Collingridge ...

From the foreword: ' Some years ago, I was asked by a member of a Rambling Club to which I belonged, what was the meaning of the word Lychgate. Not being able to give an explanation, I took the first opportunity of looking into the matter. From that day I have made it a duty & pleasure to keep a log of everything unusual discovered during my many wanderings. This little book is the result'. The Ward Lock & Co.'s Wayfarer's Guide is a treasure trove of countryside sights, lore & history. From understanding the relevance of standing stones in Wiltshire to looking out for hop pickers in Kent, from ancient crosses in Northumbria to archery in Edinburgh, & from bridges in Monmouthshire to country rhymes from around the British Isles, this little gem is a delightful collection of history, nature & a bygone age. Topics covered include barns, bench marks, bridges, churches, dew ponds, dovecots, haymaking, hopping, horse brasses, love spoons, market crosses, scarecrows, stiles, sundials, thatching, village greens, watermills, weathercocks, whipping posts & windmills. (A lychgate is the decorative entrance gate to churchyards. The word 'lych' is derived from the German word for corpse as it is traditionally under this gate that the coffin was rested before being brought into the church). ...

”A clarion call to all of us that we should not give up. Somewhere there is a voice in the wreckage.” (Michael Palin). Since ISIS occupied Raqqa in eastern Syria, it has become one of the most isolated & fear-ridden cities on earth. The sale of televisions has been banned, wearing trousers the wrong length is a punishable offence, & using a mobile phone is considered an unforgivable crime. No journalists are allowed in & the penalty for speaking yo the western media is death by beheading. Despite this, after several months of nervy & often interrupted conversations, the BBC was able to make contact with a small activist group, Al-Sharqiya 24. Finally, courageously, one of their members agreed to write a personal diary about his experiences. Having seen friends & relatives butchered, his community`s life shattered & the local economy ruined by these hate-fuelled extremists, Samer is fighting back in the only way he can: by telling the world what is happening to his beloved city. This is Samer`s story. ...

The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the ravens at Britain`s most famous national monument
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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham`s most brillant characters
- his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love & wealth have lifelong repercussions, & Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham`s novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in & out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.
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In this unconventional & accessible history, Italian best-seller Alberto Angela literally follows the money to map the reach & power of the Roman Empire. To see a map of the Roman Empire at the height of its territorial expansion is to be struck by its size, stretching from Scotland to Kuwait, from the Sahara to the North Sea. What was life like in the Empire, & how were such diverse peoples & places united under one rule? The Reach of Rome explores these questions through an ingenious lens: the path of a single coin as it changes hands & traverses the vast realms of the empire in the year 115. Admired in his native Italy for his ability to bring history to life through narrative, Alberto Angela opens up the ancient world to readers who have felt intimidated by the category or put off by dry historical tomes. By focusing on aspects of daily life so often overlooked in more academic treatments, The Reach of Rome travels back in time & shows us a world that was perhaps not very different from our own. & by following the path of a coin through the streams of commerce, we can touch every corner of that world & its people, from legionnaires & senators to prostitutes & slaves. Through lively & detailed vignettes all based on archeological & historical evidence, Angela reveals the vast Roman world & its remarkable modernity, & in so doing he reinforces the relevance of the ancient world for a new generation of readers. ...