The beautiful images in this book of 24 detachable postcards all feature the River Thames. From its source in rural Gloucestershire to Gravesend in Essex, the photographs paint a unique portrait of this iconic river. The photographs capture the river during a critical century, from about 1860 to 1960, as it made the transition from an idyllic seeming past into the modern world. Here we see the Thames as a major transport route & a holiday destination
- a place for both work & recreation. The photographs feature the work of many photographers, including Henry Taunt.
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Drawing on the resources of English Heritage`s unrivalled photographic archives, The Thames Through Times is a photographic journey along the length of the tidal river & over almost 150 years. We see the rural Thames as it approaches London, riverside towns, the civic & commercial development of the riverbanks, the working docks & warehouses, the development of the web of bridges that now links north & south, barges, sailing ships & warships, the great flood defences & a tiny beach that flourished briefly at the Tower of London. Featuring the work of pioneers of photography & some of the great topographical photographers of the 20th century, & with a fascinating commentary by Stephen Croad, The Thames Through Time chronicles the ebb & flow of the life of the river. ...

On Your Bike
- the Thames Valley features twenty circular rides, of from 8 to 30 miles each, between the Upper Thames & Maidenhead.
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David Mc Dowall’s Walker’s Guide to The Thames: Hampton to Richmond Bridge gives the reader eight exceptionally detailed walking routes along this stretch of the Thames, which reveal the rich relationship that exists between the river, its landscape & its history. Far from merely outlining routes & providing directions, this guide constitutes one of the best-researched & richly detailed walking guides available for this stretch of the River Thames. Each walk section

Includes:: a route description & is accompanied by an explanatory text, providing an extraordinary amount of information on the River’s rich history of human activity; river craft; its geology, ecology, flora & fauna; the surrounding landscape; & the cast of characters who have lived along the River & have been inspired by it. This wonderful guide also contains many h&-drawn black & white illustrations, diagrams & maps to supplement the text.

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Imagine sitting behind a desk, in a classroom, miles from anywhere in the English countryside, alongside dozens of fellow students, dreaming of being parachuted into Occupied France to undertake daring missions against Hitler`s forces. What were you taught? What text books did they give you, & what homework & exams were you expected to pass in order to make the grade? We now publish the classroom dossier that all secret agents being trained for missions against the Axis forces in the Second World War were supplied with & expected to implement when on service. Full of colourful & imaginative drawings, photographs & diagrams the two-volume set represents a unique piece of British military history at your finger tips. From techniques in camouflage, to setting up communications, concealing weapons caches & constructing booby traps
- this is the original text book our heroes learned, to ply their trade to deadly effect.
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The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in & out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn`t even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections... But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when Ishikawa, his first partner, reappears in his life, & offers him a job he can`t refuse. It`s an easy job: tie up an old rich man, steal the contents of the safe. No one gets hurt. Only the day after the job does he learn that the old man was a prominent politician, & that he was brutally killed after the robbery. & now the Thief is caught in a tangle even he might not be able to escape. ...

In 1876 a man named Henry Wickham smuggled 70, 000 rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil & delivered them to Victorian England`s most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens. Those seeds, planted around the world in England`s colonial outposts, gave rise to the great rubber boom of the early 20th century
- an explosion of entrepreneurial & scientific industry that would change the world. The story of how Wickham got his hands on those seeds
- a sought-after prize for which many suffered & died, & for which he faced deadly insects, poisonous snakes, horrific illnesses, &, ultimately, the neglect & contempt of the very government he wished to serve
- is the stuff of legend. His idealism & determination, as well as his outright thievery, perfectly encapsulate the essential nature of Great Britain`s colonial adventure in South America. In this utterly engaging account of obsession, greed, bravery, & betrayal, Joe Jackson brings to life a classic Victorian fortune hunter & the empire that fuelled, then abandoned, him. In his single-minded persuit of glory, Wickham faced deadly insects, poisonous snakes, horrific illnesses, &, ultimately, the neglect & contempt of the very government he wished to serve. His idealism & determination, as well as his outright thievery, perfectly encapsulate the essential nature of the Great Britain`s colonial adventure in South America. ” The Thief at the End of the World” is a thrilling true story of reckless courage & ambition.


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In 1876, a man named Henry Wickham smuggled seventy thousand rubber tree seeds out of the rain forests of Brazil & delivered them to Victorian England`s most prestigious scientists at Kew Gardens. Those seeds, planted around the world in England`s colonial outposts, gave rise to the great rubber boom of the early twentieth century
- an explosion of entrepreneurial & scientific industry that would change the world. The story of how Wickham got his hands on those seeds
- a sought-after prize for many suffered & died
- is the stuff of legend. In this lively account of obsession, greed, bravery & betrayal, author & journalist Joe Jackson brings to life a classic Victorian fortune-hunter & the empire that fueled, then abandoned, him. ” The Thief at the End of the World” is a thrilling true story of reckless courage & ambition.


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The first in Caroline Lawrence`s internationally bestselling Roman Mysteries series, re-issued with a fantastic new cover look. Flavia Gemina is a natural at solving mysteries. The daughter of a ship`s captain living in Ostia, the port of Rome, in AD79, she & her three friends, Jonathan, a Jewish boy (and secretly a Christian); Nubia, an African slave girl; & Lupus, a mute beggar boy, must work together to discover who is beheading the watchdogs that guard people`s homes, & why. A talented storyteller, Caroline Lawrence has created a delightfully readable & accessible series that children will want to read time & time again. ...

” Moves so intensely & inexorably that it almost seems like the war it is describing”. (The New York Times Book Review). ` Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you`re not a coward?` On Guadalcanal in the south Pacific, the soldiers of C Company are about to enter the war. The men know they face their baptism of fire. But none know if they will be one of `the lucky ones` to make it safely off the isl&. From Captain Stein, who feels like a father to his troops, & ` Mad` Sergeant Welsh, condemning all nations while swigging gin from his canteen, to Private Bell, who just wants to get home to his wife, they will discover the line that divides sanity from madness, & life from death. A scathing critique of heroism, The Thin Red Line is among the greatest masterpieces of war writing. ” The men are real, the words are real, death is real, imminent & immediate”. (Los Angeles Times). ...