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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain
DK Publishing 2013; US$ 30.00Now available in PDF format. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain is your indispensable guide to England, Scotland, and Wales. This fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of key cities and towns. DK's insider tips and essential local information showcases... more...
Educating Peter
Transworld 2012; US$ 9.34Peter's mum and dad are worried. Over the last twelve months they've noticed ferocious changes taking place in their son. It's not just the mumbling and the cloud of melancholy that seems to hover permanently over his ever-more-militant mop of curly hair. It's not even the oversized trousers or the numerous metal chains that hang off them. The problem... more...
Frommer's England and the Best of Wales
Wiley 2012; US$ 24.99Complete guides give the comprehensive overview of their destinations to give travellers the maximum variety of choices and need-to-know local information in their chosen city or country, without glossing over any of the details. Through itineraries, regions and areas are broken down to allow for detailed guides to each of the areas and accompanying... more...
Circle Line
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2012; US$ 9.99"Magic, to a sailor, is harnessing the wind getting something for nothing the surprise of a gust, the boon of a side-wind and the trial of a headwind and best of all, the moment when a change in direction means turning away from the head seas and wind and running down the wind in a new warm silence."In 1969, man flew to the... more...
Deeds that Won the Empire
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 2.99A fascinating look at some of the most famous and important battles in the history of the British Empire. more...
Walking the County High Points of England
Summersdale Publishers Ltd. 2012; US$ 9.99From Dark Peak on the Pennine Way in Derbyshire to the misty Malverns in Worcestershire and Milk Hill on the Mid-Wilts Way, walking the county high points provides the perfect opportunity for ramblers to experience the English countryside.An indefatigable walker, David Bathurst has unlaced his boots to produce this unique companion to the countrys... 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...
Cross Country
Wiley 2012; US$ 45.00In Cross Country photographer and author Peter Ashley unleashes his passion for Blighty. He takes us on an enlightening jaunt that encompasses many of England’s most loved regions. His love of buildings and landscape extends far beyond architecture in picturesque surroundings. By combining personal reminiscence and an ear for intriguing anecdote,... 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...
Life on Mars
University of Wales Press 2012; US$ 33.00This is the first full-length academic study of Life on Mars (and its successor, Ashes to Ashes), and seeks to account for the series innovative form and popular appeal. Paying attention to issues of genre and hybridity, the book examines televisual and cultural memory, press and reception contexts and analyses the ways in which both series represent... more...









