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Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Atlantic Coast (Ireland)
ISBN : 0006381022
Author : Joe Lane
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781781482148
Shackleton Speed steals the reconnaissance camera from the remains of a WWII Spitfire he had unearthed with his metal detector. Now two friends are dead and their killers were after him. The connection is the developed photographs from the old celluloid film. They show the I-52, a Japanese submarine, somewhere off the British coast when history records the I-52 was sunk in the Atlantic while carrying gold to the Third Reich. Speed sets out for revenge and to expose those responsible. The trail leads him to Southern Ireland and Roaring Water Bay where he uncovers the hidden horrors of WWII.
Author : Carleton Shepherd Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000092856131
The Burren and the Aran Islands form a region renowned for its geology, flora and archaeology. Possibly the greatest interest is in the archaeology but the ancient monuments are often perceived as shrouded in mystery and beyond explanation. Recent studies have shed considerable light on the functions of these monuments and the people who built them. This book presents these archaeological interpretations in an attractive and engaging manner. After a brief introduction, the book is divided into two parts, the Burren and the Aran Islands. Significant sites are highlighted while "panel" features explain more tangential topics, e.g., how to build a wedge tomb. Contents include Colonization and Early Settlement, From Neolithic to Bronze Age. The Celts, The Arrival of Christianity, Early Medieval Chiefs and their Stone Forts, and finally Later Tower Houses and Military Constructions. In this heavily illustrated book, captions are often extensive and can be read separately or with the text. Overall it can be read cover-to-cover or dipped into. Dr. Jones' writing transforms the dry academic material of excavation reports and archaeological inventories into an engaging and understandable story. He is also the author of "Wild Plants of the Burren & Aran Islands which is available from Dufour.
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Random House
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781473576834
‘Somerville’s infectious enthusiasm and wry humour infuse his journey from the Isle of Lewis to southern England, revealing our rich geological history with vibrant local and natural history’ Observer ‘A meticulous exploration of the ground beneath our feet. Glorious’ Katharine Norbury ‘A remarkable achievement’ Tom Chesshyre ‘His writing is utterly enticing’ Country Walking ............................................................................................................................................... The influence Britain’s geology has had on our daily lives is profound. While we may be unaware of it, every aspect of our history has been affected by events that happened ten thousand, a million, or a thousand million years ago. In Walking the Bones of Britain, Christopher Somerville takes a journey of a thousand miles, beginning in the far north, at the three-billion-year-old rocks of the Isle of Lewis, formed when the world was still molten, and travelling south-eastwards to the furthest corner of Essex, where new land is being formed. Crossing bogs, scaling peaks and skirting quarry pits, he unearths the stories bound up in the layers of rock beneath our feet, and examines how they have influenced everything from how we farm to how we build our houses, from the Industrial Revolution to the current climate crisis. Told with characteristic humour and insight, this gripping exploration of the British landscape and its remarkable history cannot fail to change the way you see the world beyond your door. ‘Somerville is a walker’s writer’ Nicholas Crane
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Random House
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473527140
‘Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book’ The Spectator Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But as he journeys among Britian’s favourites, old and new, he discovers buildings and communities that have been in constant upheaval for a thousand years. Here are stories of the monarchs and bishops who ordered the construction of these buildings, the masons whose genius brought them into being, and the peasants who worked and died on the scaffolding. We learn of rogue saints exploited by holy sinners, the pomp and prosperity that followed these ships of stone, the towns that grew up in their shadows. Meeting believers and non-believers, architects and archaeologists, the cleaner who dusts the monuments and the mason who judges stone by its taste, we delve deep into the private lives and the uncertain future of these ever-voyaging Ships of Heaven. ‘Somerville paints word pictures of exquisite quality’ Church Times
Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473527133
'Evocatively written and charming' - Countryfile 'The January Man is a book that makes you want to pull on your boots, grab a map and get out there' - Country Life The January Man is the story of a year of walks that was inspired by a song, Dave Goulder's 'The January Man'. Month by month, season by season and region by region, Christopher Somerville walks the British Isles, following routes that continually bring his father to mind. As he travels the country - from the winter floodlands of the River Severn to the lambing pastures of Nidderdale, the towering seabird cliffs on the Shetland Isle of Foula in June and the ancient oaks of Sherwood Forest in autumn - he describes the history, wildlife, landscapes and people he encounters, down back lanes and old paths, in rain and fair weather. This exquisitely written account of the British countryside not only inspires us to don our boots and explore the 140,000 miles of footpaths across the British Isles, but also illustrates how, on long-distance walks, we can come to an understanding of ourselves and our fellow walkers. Over the hills and along the byways, Christopher Somerville examines what moulded the men of his father's generation - so reticent about their wartime experiences, so self-effacing, upright and dutiful - as he searches for 'the man inside the man' that his own father really was.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106490873
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555101386
Author : Samuel Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001100040257
Author : Samuel Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027151673
Author : Samuel Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10225232
Author : John Parker LAWSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026912941
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Verso
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 1859841864
"A brilliant meditation on travel." ”The New York Times
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373955
A world list of books in the English language.
Author : Nick Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1913406563
Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of the final days of young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. This is a violent, unresolved murder, where the victim seemed to have a premonition of her own terrible end.For six years, Nick Foster has been piecing together the life and death of Sophie, who was brutally killed outside her cottage in rural West Cork in 1996. He also developed an ongoing friendship with the Englishman long-suspected of her murder, Ian Bailey, and his partner, Jules, the couple at the centre of the case. This story is as fascinating as it is tragic. It follows Nick in Paris and Ireland during his dedicated investigation into the circumstances surrounding Sophie's murder, his quest to reveal her killer and efforts to understand what the motive could have been for such a terrible crime. Ian Bailey was recently found guilty of Sophie's murder 'in absentia' in a French courtroom.