The Peak District has a network of over 1600 miles of footpaths, and offers some of the toughest walking in Britain. Each of the 40 varied and circular walks described in this book, with route directions and maps, can be completed by a reasonably fit adult or a young person in a few hours. The terrain covered ranges from the dramatic scenery of the Dark Peak to the romantic hills and dales of the White Peak. In addition to information for the walker, the text provides a guide to the Peak Distric...
Richard Sale is one of the world's leading Arctic scholars and explorers and a professional glaciologist. He has written widely on Polar history, exploration and wildlife (including Arctic Odyssey), and in 2003 won the Outdoor Book of the Year award for To the Ends of the Earth. This book is the culmination of a lifetime's work in the field, and with 275,000 words and around 500 illustrations it will be, as its title indicates, the complete story of a region that is daily attracting more attenti...
A fascinating reference guide to 100 spectacular buildings, monuments, natural wonders and triumphs of engineering from around the world. Visit the world's wonders from your armchair: the majesty of Niagara Falls and Yosemite National Park in North America, awe-inspiring mountains such as the Matterhorn or Mount Fuji and reminders of great civilisations such as the Colosseum in Rome or the Inca Trails in South America. Full of beautiful photographs, this volume is a tantalising invitation to tra...
This pictorial tribute to one of the world's most beautiful and romantic cities offers a unique introduction to the 'City of Light'. Award winning photographer Horst Hamann used a panoramic camera to painstakingly set up shot after shot, often finding himself precariously balanced off Notre Dame's gargoyles, the balconies of the Pompidou Centre - even the Eiffel Tower. His efforts has produced an astonishing array of images, stark black and white compositions that lend these photographs a dramat...
Country life, in every aspect, has changed more rapidly and more dramatically within living memory than at any other time in our history. Here Valerie Porter looks back at a vanished rural past, to a time many of us may yearn for, but with realism - for what was it really like to live in the countryside without so many of the "mod cons" we now take for granted? The book also contains interviews with those who can remember a way of life in rural Britain before mechanization changed the countrysid...
Wolverhampton (Archive Photographs)
by Mary Mills and Tracey Williams
A history of Wolverhampton
Amelia Edwards was born in London in 1831, the daughter of an army officer. This book describes a 1000 mile journey up the Nile she undertook in 1873. Although the trip was initially undertaken to escape the rain in Europe, Edwards was no vacuous tourist; her lively account of Ancient Egypt's great antiquities made this book a bestseller of its day. Following this journey, Amelia Edwards went on to become one of Britain's leading Egyptologists and to endow the country's first chair in the subjec...
German language edition: over 200 stunning original photographs of Ireland, North and South, featuring its historic places, monuments, breathtaking scenery, the people, fairs and festivals. Each photograph is accompanied by fact-filled, informative text on the history, legend, lives and customs covered by the pictures. With QR codes throughout providing links to a wide range of internet content, from videos and facebook groups to photographs and travel sites. The book takes you on a county by c...
An indispensable, hugely informative and consistently entertaining guide to Provence by the best-selling writer who has made the region his own. Organised from A-Z but far from a conventional work of reference, this is a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle has found in his twenty years there to be the most interesting, delicious or downright fun. In more than 200 entries - from ail to Francois Zola - he writes about subjects as diverse as architecture, expatriates, lavender,...
