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Slow Coast Home
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 27.17Josie Dew's love of cycling has taken her across the world, travelling everywhere from Japan and Mexico to Iceland, India and Algeria. In her latest book, she sets off on another quirky and riotous ride, choosing to circumnavigate the coastline of the British Isles. And she discovers that her homeland can be as surprising and full of incident as anywhere... more...
Slow Coast Home
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; Not AvailableJosie Dew's love of cycling has taken her across the world, travelling everywhere from Japan and Mexico to Iceland, India and Algeria. In her latest book, she sets off on another quirky and riotous ride, choosing to circumnavigate the coastline of the British Isles. And she discovers that her homeland can be as surprising and full of incident as anywhere... more...
The Kingdom by the Sea
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableAfter eleven years living as an American in London, Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise round the coast and find out what Britain and the British are really like. It was 1982, the summer of the Falklands War and the royal baby, and the ideal time, he found, to surprise the British into talking about themselves. The result is vivid and absolutely... more...
The Landscape Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 99.00The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide radical new interpretations of its development. more...
Narrowboat Dreams
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2008; US$ 10.99"At home, Im a cantankerous old git. On the boat, after a weeks cruising, Im just a cantankerous old git with dirty hair."Steve Haywood has a problem. He doesnt know where he comes from. In the south, people think hes a northerner; in the north, they think hes from the south. Judged against global warming... more...
One Man and a Narrowboat
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2009; US$ 11.99If Id really been serious about getting to grips with my mid-life crisis, then Id have been better opting for a course of therapy than going off travelling. Or if I had to travel, Id have been better opting for somewhere warm with a beach 'In an attempt to get to grips with a BIG birthday, Steve sets out from Oxford to explore... more...
Rivers of Britain
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 32.50Britains rivers deserve to be better known. Teeming with wildlife, steeped in history, sporting bridges, docks and stunning architecture, not to mention supporting riverside pubs, waterways museums and a variety of places of interest, they are the countrys essential arteries, connecting inland Britain with the sea. Covering Britains... more...
Battle Honours of the British Army (1911)
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 17.99A classic book, which gives details of army battle honours from Tangiers, 1662, to the Boer War. It recalls the glories of regiments now long gone, of famous battles like Blenheim, Mysore, Corunna, Sevastopol and Khartoum. Each section contains brief accounts of every major engagement of the campaign concerned, with tables showing the casualties -... more...
Everyman's England
Summersdale 2012; US$ 11.99Recollected observations of England between World War I and II In this series of pen–portraits of England, commissioned by the Daily Mail in the 1930s, the pattern and color of the "great fabric of English life" from Cumberland to Cornwall is vividly conjured. The heartwarming, humorous, and often irreverent observations... more...
One Man and His Narrowboat
Summersdale 2009; US$ 9.99Escaping a mid-life crisis, Steve Haywood celebrates his birthday with a trip through England's canals In an attempt to get to grips with a big birthday, author Steve Haywood sets out from Oxford to explore what makes the English, well, so English. His quirky humor is inspired by Tom Rolt, who took to the canals... more...









