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. ...

Detailed road map of the Sunshine Coast & its hinterland from Gympie & the Great Sandy National Park to Seventeen Seventy & Turkey Beach, extending inland to Mount Perry. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted & a range of symbols show hotels, camping sites, caravan parks, sport & leisure facilities, places of interest, etc. The map has a UTM grid & latitude/longitude margin ticks at intervals of 10 ...

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”). ...

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 ...

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. 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” OS Series: 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. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Veuve Clic champagne epitomizes glamour & style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow
- the ` Veuve`
- Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, & Russia, & how did she rise to celebrity & fortune? Newly widowed, she assumed the reins of the fledgling wine business she & her husband started, steering it through huge political & financial reversals to succeed as a single woman in a man`s world. Visitors flocked to see this cultural icon & taste the vintages she imbued with magic.

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Map No. 228, Wiener Hauberge
- Schneeberg
- Rax Alps (2-map set), including a nature guide to local wild flowers, in a series

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Map No. 210, Wiener Hausberge
- Schneeberg
- Rax
- Semmering, in a series of hiking maps from Kompass providing extensive


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