The OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps, perfect for day trips & short breaks. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest, tourist information, picnic areas & camp sites, plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales. OS Landranger now

Includes:: a digital version of the paper map, accessed through the OS smartphone app, OS Maps.



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Detailing a fascinating area of the Great British landscape, the Aldershot & Guildford Ordnance Survey guide contains all you need to know about an excellent tourist destination South West of London that is known for its scenery & things to see & do. Perfect for day trips & short breaks, this OS Landranger Map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest, tourist information, picnic areas & camp sites, plus useful Rights of Way information.

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The first book written about Britain's premier army base in the First World War. The book contains & explores the following: * The first published record of the troops in Aldershot on 4 August 1914. * The first published list of officers & men from Aldershot killed in the war. * Lists the dead from WWI in Aldershot Cemetery. * Outlines the activities of crucial figures in the War such as Smith-Dorrien, Haig & French in Aldershot in the period before the War. * Traces the growth development of aircraft manufacture at Farnborough under the guidance of Mervyn O' Gorman from a balloon factory to major aircraft manufacture. * Highlights the changes in the social fabric of Aldershot during the war. * Records the experience of Aldershot as a premier training base through the eyes of Anthony Eden, Wilfred Owen & men of all ranks. ...

Aldershot is famous as the ' Home of the British Army' & the early character of the town was formed by the choice of the Army to make Aldershot Heath the site of its first permanent training camp. Before 1853 Aldershot was a small rural village of around 870 people, but this underwent a dramatic change when some 15, 000 soldiers arrived. To meet the needs of the troops, a new town, which was a remarkable example of Victorian design & architecture, was constructed. In the twenty-first century Aldershot sees more change, such as the new Westgate centre & the Aldershot Urban Extension which will build thousands of new houses on land previously used for barracks across South Camp. By comparing fascinating old photographs with their modern equivalents, this book shows not only some of the huge changes which have occurred in military & civilian Aldershot, but also how much of its rich history can still be seen & enjoyed. ...

Aldershot is proud to be ` The Home of the British Army', & its history is inextricably linked with that of the military. The town has been shaped by the presence of the Army since it was selected as the site of Britain's first permanent training camp, & probably every regiment has been stationed in Aldershot at some time in its history. The camp was founded during the Crimean War, & soldiers from Aldershot have fought in all major conflicts since then, including the Zulu War, wars in Egypt, the Sudan & South Africa, the two world wars, & more recent conflicts including the Falklands War, Iraq & Afghanistan. This book is a celebration of Aldershot's rich & continuing military heritage. In following the development of the camp, it reveals the immense contribution Aldershot has made to the British Army from the 1850s to the present, including some of the colourful personalities who have left their mark on it, together with the many fine buildings & memorials which remind us of our military predecessors to whom we owe so much. ...

The catalog of the Aldo Manutiu exhibition, 500 years after his death, is a tribute to the most famous printer in the history of publishing. It tells how the book changed the world & how & why this change happened in Venice, cosmopolitan city & gateway between East & West. But it is mainly a journey through the world of culture & the arts in Venice between the end of the fifteenth century & the start of the sixteenth, in a crucial period featuring major figures like the painters Bellini, Carpaccio, & the young Giorgione (with the debut of his pupil Titian), illustrious visiting foreign artists like Albrecht Durer, & intellectuals of European fame such as Erasmus of Rotterdam. ...

The son of biologist T. H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background & was educated at Eton & Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned braille his eyesight then enhanced enough for him to start writing, & by the 1920s he had become a fashionable figure, producing witty & daring novels like CROME YELLOW (1921), ANTIC HAY (1923) & POINT COUNTER POINT (1928). But it is as the author of his celebrated portrayal of a nightmare future society, BRAVE NEW WORLD (1932), that Huxley is remembered today. A truly visionary book, it was a watershed in Huxley's world-view as his later work became more & more optimistic
- coinciding with his move to California & experimentation with mysticism & psychedelic drugs later in life. Nicholas Murray's brilliant new book has the greatest virtue of literary biographies: it makes you want to go out & read its subject's work all over again. A fascinating reassessment of one of the most interesting writers of the twentieth century.
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Alec Cobbe (b.1945) established his reputation as a conservator of Old Master paintings before specializing in the redecoration & rearrangement of historic interiors as homes for masterpieces. His list of clients

Includes:: H.R.H. The Prince of Wales & the Ritz Hotel.

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This is a biography about the British motor industry's most influential & controversial engineer, Sir Alec Issignois. Wood exposes a behind-the-scenes impression of the personal & corporate struggles within the declining British car industry, a complex process in which Issigonis played a famous role. THE COLLAPSE in 2005 of MG Rover marked the end of Britain's indigenous motor industry as a volume car manufacturer. Yet back in the 1960s its Longbridge-based British Motor Corporation predecessor dominated the market with the iconic Mini & stylish 1100. Both were the work, together with the legendary Morris Minor, of Sir Alec Issigonis, CBE, FRS, the British motor industry's most influential & controversial engineer. In this full-length biography, published to commemorate the centenary of its subject's birth, which falls in 2006, award-winning motoring historian Jonathan Wood chronicles the rise & fall of Issigonis, born in Turkey of Greek/ Bavarian parentage, who arrived in Britain as a near-penniless refugee & became the most powerful automobile engineer in the l&. His ingenious & effective designs had a deep, lasting influence on the evolution of the motor car & on the wider history of industrial design, & he deserves to be ranked with the other giants of the field like Ferdinand Porsche in Germany & Dante Giacosa in Italy. Wood's candid & meticulously researched account, which exposes Sir Alec's public & private faces, & is the product of some 30 years of research, is complemented by interviews conducted with many of Issigonis' former colleagues & friends, including: Ronald Barker, John Cooper, Jack Daniels, Christopher Dowson, Paddy Hopkirk, Spen King, Dr Alex Moulton, Dr Bernd Pischetsrieder, Lord Snowdon & Stuart Turner. The finished volume is a balanced view of a remarkable, immensely talented man, with a behind-the-scenes impression of the personal & corporate struggles within the declining British car industry, a complex process in which Issigonis played a famous role. ...

* For the first time ever, the pioneering autobiographical comics of master cartoonist Eddie Campbell (From Hell) are collected in a single volume! * Brilliantly observed & profoundly expressed, the ALEC stories present a version of Campbell's own life, filtered through the alter ego of Alec Mac Garry. Over many years, we witness Alec's (and Eddie's) progression from beer to wine
- wild nights at the pub, existential despair, the hunt for love, the quest for art, becoming a responsible breadwinner, feeling lost at his own movie premiere, & much more! Eddie's outlandish fantasies & metafictional tricks convert life into art, while staying fully grounded in his own absurdity. * This Life-Size Omnibus edition of ALEC

Includes:: all the stories from The King Canute Crowd, Three-Piece Suit, How to be an Artist, & After the Snooter, as well as the very early, out-of-print ALEC stories & a staggering amount of bonus material.


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