Map No. 56, Wicklow North 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 ...

Wicklow Way, a 132-km (82 mile) trail from Marley Park on the outskirts of Dublin to Clonegal, in an A5, spiral bound, waterproof guide from Rucksack Readers with contoured mapping at 1:100, 000, detailed route descriptions & general information. The 64-page guide provides general advice on planning accommodation, Glendalough’s Monastic City, history, geology & scenery, habitats & wildlife, as well as other paths across the Wicklow Mountains. Detailed route descriptions, arranged in daily stages, are preceded by a summary of each section of the route giving distance, terrain, grade & side-trips. The route is presented on five maps placed on a fold-out flap of the back cover of the guide. The maps provide somewhat generalized presentation of the topography, with altitude colouring & peaks in the surrounding countryside. The maps highlight campsites, youth hostels & bunkhouses, historic & nature sites, car parks, etc. Also marked is the course of St Kevin’s way leading westwards from the Monastic City. No geographical coordinates for GPS users are provided. The publishers themselves recommend that their guide is used in conjunction with more detailed, contoured & GPS compatible maps from the OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Irel&. For other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

The Wicklow Way presented on contoured maps at 1:50, 000 in an A5 paperback guide from East West Mapping, with each section accompanied by walking notes & descriptions of places of interest along the route. The 131km/82 miles route is divided into 13 sections & highlighted on topographic maps with contours at 20m intervals, altitude colouring & graphics showing different types of woodlands. Each section is presented with the notes & descriptions placed opposite the map. The maps also give 2km markings along the route & indicate various facilities in the nearby towns & villages, campsites & caravan parks, bus stops & car parks, etc. A 1km grid is drawn on the maps but no coordinates are shown on it. Each section is also accompanied by a route-profile. The guide

Includes:: additional notes on the area, its heritage & fauna & flora.

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Every great place has its own special spirit, & each of the 260 marvellous photographs in ” Wide Angle” embodies that spirit captured brilliantly on film. Encompassing all seven continents & more than a century of superb photography, this wonderful collection invites the reader to share the magic of discovery. Whether showing crowded city streets alive with energy or vast & still wilderness landscapes, bright colors & sparkling highlights or softer, quieter scenes in muted hues, all of these arresting pictures share one compelling quality: a sure sense of place that pulls the reader into the frame & turns an image into an experience. ...

This marvellous collection of 260 photographs (many of which were never published before) offers a unique view of scenes from every region of the world. Some are alive with bright colours & sparkling highlights, others evoke softer quieter moods in muted hues & subtle gradations. But whether they show us crowded city streets or empty wilderness, all of these arresting pictures share one compelling quality: a sure sense of place that pulls us inot the frame & turn an image into an experience. Every great place has its own special spirit, & every photographer represented here exhibits a rare gift for capturing it. Encompassing all seven continents & more than a century of superb photography, this collection of their work invites us to share the wonderful magic of discovery. ...

Inspired by Charlotte Bronte`s ”ane Eyre, ” Wide Sargasso Sea” is set in 1830`s Jamaica. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty & sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands & her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness. This classic study of betrayal is Jean Rhys` brief, beautiful masterpiece. ...

` There is no looking glass here & I don`t know what I am like now... Now they have taken everything away. What am I doing in this place & who am I?` If Antoinette Cosway, a spirited Creole heiress, could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her, she would not have married the young Englishman. Initially drawn to her beauty & sensuality, he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul. He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals, unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness. Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica, Jean Rhys`s powerful, haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë`s Jane Eyre. ...

Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of ” Jane Eyre`s” `madwoman in the attic`, Bertha Rochester, Jean Rhys` ” Wide Sargasso Sea” is edited with an introduction & notes by Angela Smith in ” Penguin Classics”. Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty & sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands & her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, & her husband into the arms of another novel`s heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys` brief, beautiful masterpiece. Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica. Coming to England aged 16, she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris, where she began writing & was `discovered` by Ford Madox Ford. Her novels, often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities, were ahead of their time & only modestly successful. From 1939 (when ” Good Morning, Midnight” was written) onwards she lived reclusively, & was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre`s Bertha Rochester, ” Wide Sargasso Sea”, in 1966. If you enjoyed ” Wide Sargasso Sea”, you might like Charlotte Bronte`s ” Jane Eyre”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ” She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century & turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century”. (Michele Roberts, ” The Times”). ...

In 1987, the Tour was won by Irishman Stephen Roche. It was the first time the champion had hailed from outside the Continent or the States & the first time in 20 years a British team
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- had competed in the world`s toughest & craziest race. Jeff Connor not only stayed with the British team but also found himself an unofficial team member. In this long-awaited new edition of ” Wide-Eyed & Legless”, now widely regarded as a classic, Connor describes what it takes to compete, survive & win during those 26 days of gruelling effort. Alongside the heroism & athleticism, he reveals the extraordinary amounts of chicanery, from pulling riders along to illicit drug use. Time has not dimmed the impact of this eye-opening & entertaining close-up look at the supreme endurance event, & ” Wide-Eyed & Legless” is destined to be acclaimed by a new generation of cycling enthusiasts.

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Widnes in 1905 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. 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. In this title: coverage stretches from Gerrard Street southward to St Mary's church, West Bank. Features include Marsh Alkali Works, Phosphate Works, West Bank Chemical Works, Victoria Chemical Works, Viaduct Chemical Works, Atlas Chemical Works, Mersey Copper Works, Soap Works, St Mary's church, Globe Chemical Works, Woodend Chemical Works, Widnes Dock, Widnes station, Central station, engine shed, Newtown, Muspratt Works, Widnes Alkali Works, Woodend, Pilkington Chemical & Manure Works, Cornubia Works, St Helens Canal, Tanhouse Lane station, Moss Bank, Lancashire Metal Works, Widnes Foundry, Carterhouse Junction, Victoria Square, Town Hall, St Paul's church, Widnes Warth etc. The various works are linked by railways, with railway layout shown including signal boxes, sidings, turntables etc. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...