From the tiny island that shaped the entire English language, to the island that terrified Dylan Thomas, there`s more to Britain`s tiny islands than you might think! Have your own tiny adventure by visiting any of the 60 remarkable little islands around Britain featured here. Although Britain boasts hundreds of tiny islands, Dixe Wills has selected just the very best of them for this book. Found around the coast, in lakes, in lochs & on rivers, these little worlds are waiting for you to discover them
- whether you swim to them, walk to them at low tide, row to them, or catch a dinky little ferry.
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An eccentric look at lost Britain through its railway request stops. Perhaps the oddest quirk of Britain`s railway network is also one of its least well known: around 150 of the nation`s stations are request stops. Take an unassuming station like Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire
- the scene of a fatal accident involving thousands of carrots. Or Talsarnau in Wales, which experienced a tsunami. Tiny Stations is the story of the author`s journey from the far west of Cornwall to the far north of Scotl&, visiting around 40 of the most interesting of these little used & ill-regarded stations. Often a pen-stroke away from closure
- kept alive by political expediency, labyrinthine bureaucracy or sheer whimsy
- these half-abandoned stops afford a fascinating glimpse of a Britain that has all but disappeared from view. There are stations built to serve once thriving industries
- copper mines, smelting works, cotton mills, & china clay quarries where the first trains were pulled by horses; stations erected for the sole convenience of stately home & castle owners through whose land the new iron road cut an unwelcome swathe; stations created for Victorian day-tripping attractions; a station built for a cavalry barracks whose last horse has long since bolted; & many more. Dixe Wills will leave you in no doubt that there`s more to tiny stations than you might think.



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' Everything changed after Mama found Father lying on top of another woman.' Blessing & her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother & their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel
- only married women can work there
- & soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go & live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged upbringing in Lagos. Told in Blessing's own beguiling voice, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away shows how some families can survive almost anything. At times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally tragic, it is peopled with characters you will never forget.

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COSTA BOOK AWARDS SHORTLIST 2011 Written in a truly beguiling voice, Christie Watson`s Tiny Sunbirds Far Away shows how some families can survive almost anything. Blessing & her brother Ezikiel adore their larger-than-life father, their glamorous mother & their comfortable life in Lagos. But all that changes when their father leaves them for another woman. Their mother is fired from her job at the Royal Imperial Hotel
- only married women can work there
- & soon they have to quit their air-conditioned apartment to go & live with their grandparents in a compound in the Niger Delta. Adapting to life with a poor countryside family is a shock beyond measure after their privileged upbringing in Lagos. At times hilarious, always poignant, occasionally tragic, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away is peopled with characters you will never forget.

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Please cut the sewn-in care label off the book before use & retain box for reference. Whether you & your baby are at home or on the move, this first soft cloth book is ideal for cot or pram play. Beautiful colourful artwork is printed on one side, & when flipped over a stunning illustrated narrative is revealed in bold line. Research has indicated that newborn babies love high-contrast images & respond well to them. The Wee Gallery range of board, cloth, & activity books for pre-schoolers marries fresh design with engaging educational content. The result of a fantastic partnership between Wee Gallery & QED Publishing, the beautiful illustrations, bold lines, whimsical animals, & repeating patterns are designed to stimulate visual development in young infants. Family-run Wee Gallery have over 10 years` experience in graphic design & education, & so these books are guaranteed to excite & engage little minds. ...

Map No. 66, Tipperary Central-West in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. Current 3rd edition of this title was published in December 2011. Maps in the Discovery series have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An Óige & independent), tourist offices, parking & picnic places, & viewpoints. Golf courses indicate the number of holes. The maps also highlight antiquities & historical sites such as megalithic tombs, standing stones, battlefields, etc. Road network grades third class roads according to their widths &

Includes:: local tracks. Railways are shown with stations & the maps include other details expected of topographic mapping at this scale. Where appropriate, place names are given in both Irish & English. Each map covers an area of 40 x 30km (25 x 19 miles approximately) & has a 1km ITM (Irish Transverse Mercator) grid, plus latitude & longitude margin ticks at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Irish & English. To see the list of all the titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Map No. 74, Tipperary South in the Discovery series from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&, which presents the country on detailed topographic maps at 1:50, 000, with additional overprint highlighting campsites & caravan parks, youth hostels, etc. The maps have contours at 10m intervals, with plenty of spot heights & additional altitude colouring. Graphics indicate different types of woodlands. An overprint highlights waymarked or unmarked walking trails as well as cycle routes. National or forest parks & nature reserves are marked & a range of symbols provide tourist information: campsites, caravan parks, youth hostels (An ...

My book of Africa takes the reader on a journey into Africa & into the world of a ten-year-old girl called Tippi. Tippi is no ordinary child. She believes that she has the gift of talking to animals & that they are like brothers to her. `I speak to them with my mind, or through my eyes, my heart or my soul, & I see that they understand & answer me.` Tippi is the daughter of French filmmakers & wildlife photographers, Alain Degre & Sylvie Robert, who have captured her on film with some of Africa`s most beautiful & dangerous animals. Tippi shares her thoughts & wisdom on Africa, its people & the animals she has come to know & love. Often her wisdom is beyond her years, & her innocence & obvious rapport with the animals is both fascinating & charming. ...

Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, & in the centre of this was a girl: the most marvellous girl
- I knew it at once!
- that I had ever seen. A saucy, sensuous & multi-layered historical romance, Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King
- oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End `tom`.


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Tippu Tip was chiefly an ivory trader, who pioneered for new sources through present day Tanzania into the Congo basin. Slavery is part of his story, because Arab traders of the time used slaves as porters & sold slaves through the market in Zanzibar to work locally in plantations & beyond in the Gulf & Persia. He was a pioneer of discovery, both in Arab terms & because this was the great period of European exploration in East & Central Africa: he assisted most of the famous explorers, including Livingstone & Stanley, when it served his interests. He can be seen as an Afro-Arab exponent of empire, as his commercial ambitions could only be realized by means of Arab territorial control & colonization. His colorful life culminated in his engagement as governor of a province in the ` Congo Free State` of the Belgian King Leopold, & in his involvement in Stanley`s astonishing expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of the Egyptian southern province of Equatoria. Uniquely among Arabs & Africans of this era, Tippu Tip wrote an autobiography. Stuart Laing draws on this & other contemporary sources to give a graphic account of the life & times of this energetic, resourceful, ruthless but often humorous operator. We watch him as he accumulates wealth & power, but then has to stand by helplessly as the British & German colonial machine carves up the territory of his friend & protector, the Omani Sultan of Zanzibar, & as the Belgian empire in the Congo drives the Arabs out of the trading areas of influence they had established west of Lake Tanganyika. This book is the first thorough investigation in English of this significant figure. The lucid narrative unfolds against the political & economic backdrop of European & American commercial aims, while allowing the reader to see the period through African & Arab eyes. The fascinating figures who strutted the 19th-century African stage, & their hardly believable exploits, give this book an appeal reaching beyond the African specialist to the general reader. ...