Walking The Great North Line

Author : Robert Twigger
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474609074

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Walking the Great North Line by Robert Twigger Pdf

Robert Twigger, poet and travel author, was in search of a new way up England when he stumbled across the Great North Line. From Christchurch on the South Coast to Old Sarum to Stonehenge, to Avebury, to Notgrove barrow, to Meon Hill in the midlands, to Thor's Cave, to Arbor Low stone circle, to Mam Tor, to Ilkley in Yorkshire and its three stone circles and the Swastika Stone, to several forts and camps in Northumberland to Lindisfarne (plus about thirty more sites en route). A single dead straight line following 1 degree 50 West up Britain. No other north-south straight line goes through so many ancient sites of such significance. Was it just a suggestive coincidence or were they built intentionally? Twigger walks the line, which takes him through Birmingham, Halifax and Consett as well as Salisbury Plain, the Peak district, and the Yorkshire moors. With a planning schedule that focused more on reading about shamanism and beat poetry than hardening his feet up, he sets off ever hopeful. He wild-camps along the way, living like a homeless bum, with a heart that starts stifled but ends up soaring with the beauty of life. He sleeps in a prehistoric cave, falls into a river, crosses a 'suicide viaduct' and gets told off by a farmer's wife for trespassing; but in this simple life he finds woven gold. He walks with others and he walks alone, ever alert to the incongruities of the edgelands he is journeying through.

Author : Paul M.M. Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408879429

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All Our Broken Idols by Paul M.M. Cooper Pdf

'Superbly told' The Times 'Richly imagined' Sunday Times 'An engrossing, seamlessly written deliberation on the enduring power of art' Mail on Sunday Assyria, in the reign of Ashurbanipal. For Aurya and Sharo, every day is a struggle for survival. One evening, everything changes. Soon, they are on the barge of King Ashurbanipal, bound for the city of Nineveh. Their fates become inextricably bound to that of the king – and the injured lion captured by his men. Twenty-six centuries later, British-Iraqi archaeologist Katya joins a dig in Mosul to protect the ancient ruins of Nineveh from looters. But the real world crashes in to their studious idyll when ISIL storm Mosul – and take Katya, Salim and local girl Lola hostage. 'Dual timeline novels often fail: one strand is more interesting than the other, or the links between the two are contrived. Not here. Both stories are superbly told and share the same preoccupation – the coexistence of cruelty and creative beauty' The Times, Historical Novel of the Month

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0152168265

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Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky Pdf

When his Jewish parents send him to a Minnesota logging camp to escape the influenza epidemic of 1918, ten-year-old Marven finds a special friend.

Author : Ben Pedroche
Publisher : Capital Transport
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Subway stations
ISBN : 1854143522

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Do Not Alight Here by Ben Pedroche Pdf

Abandoned tunnels, derelict stations, old trackbeds and much more. All are included in this entertaining and informative book that guides the reader through London's many remaining disused railway structures.

Author : Levison Wood
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780316352413

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Walking The Himalayas by Levison Wood Pdf

Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range. Praised by Bear Grylls, Levison Wood has been called "the toughest man on TV" (The Times UK). Now, following in the footsteps of the great explorers, Levison recounts the beauty and danger he found along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan, the Line of Control between Pakistan and India, the disputed territories of Kashmir and the earth-quake ravaged lands of Nepal. Over the course of six months, Wood and his trusted guides trek 1,700 gruelling miles across the roof of the world. Packed with action and emotion, Walking the Himalayas is the story of one intrepid man's travels in a world poised on the edge of tremendous change.

Author : Ruth Livingstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 191107931X

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Walking The English Coast by Ruth Livingstone Pdf

This comprehensive guide, packed with practical tips and personal anecdotes, will give you the confidence to have a go at your own walking challenge, big or small.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780385674546

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A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Pdf

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath—The Appalachian Trail. The 2,000-plus-mile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wildest and most spectacular landscapes in North America, as well as through some of its most poverty-stricken and primitive backwoods areas. With his offbeat sensibility, his eye for the absurd, and his laugh-out-loud sense of humour, Bryson recounts his confrontations with nature at its most uncompromising over his five-month journey. An instant classic, riotously funny, A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.

Author : Stan Abbott
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-21
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781915089748

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Walking The Line by Stan Abbott Pdf

An authoritative guide to the history, landscape and lore along the scenic English train line between Settle and Carlisle, by an established travel writer and railway aficionado. Widely known as England's most picturesque line, the enduring Settle-Carlisle Railway crosses the north Pennines between Yorkshire and Cumbria, traversing stunning scenery from the Dales through the lonely and lofty fells to the limestone pavements of Westmorland, and on into the lush, green Eden Valley. The line was built by the Midland Railway company in the 1870s, to forge an independent route connecting its English network with Scotland. Uniquely for a railway in the UK, the entire infrastructure is a Conservation Area in its own right—comprising viaducts, stations, bridges, tunnels, trackside structures and railway workers' cottages.

Author : Dorthe Nors
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781644451922

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A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors Pdf

A celebrated Danish writer explores the unsung histories and geographies of her beloved slice of the world. Me, my notebook and my love of the wild and desolate. I wanted to do the opposite of what was expected of me. It’s a recurring pattern in my life. An instinct. Dorthe Nors’s first nonfiction book chronicles a year she spent traveling along the North Sea coast—from Skagen at the northern tip of Denmark to the Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea. In fourteen expansive essays, Nors traces the history, geography, and culture of the places she visits while reflecting on her childhood and her family and ancestors’ ties to the region as well as her decision to move there from Copenhagen. She writes about the ritual burning of witch effigies on Midsummer’s Eve; the environmental activist who opposed a chemical factory in the 1950s; the quiet fishing villages that surfers transformed into an area known as Cold Hawaii starting in the 1970s. She connects wind turbines to Viking ships, thirteenth-century church frescoes to her mother’s unrealized dreams. She describes strong waves, sand drifts, storm surges, shipwrecks, and other instances of nature asserting its power over human attempts to ignore or control it. Through a deep, personal engagement with this singular landscape, A Line in the World accesses the universal. Its ultimate subjects are civilization, belonging, and change: changes within one person’s life, changes occurring in various communities today, and change as the only constant of life on Earth.

Author : Frédéric Gros
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781804290446

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A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros Pdf

This “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer) “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Atmospheric Railways
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Railroads, Atmospheric
ISBN : DMM:057002328813

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Report from the Select Committee on Atmospheric Railways Together with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Atmospheric Railways Pdf

Author : Robert Twigger
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780297863892

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Angry White Pyjamas by Robert Twigger Pdf

A brilliant and captivating insight into the bizarre nature of contemporary Japan. Adrift in Tokyo, teaching giggling Japanese highschool girls how to pronounce Tennyson correctly, Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: he'd never been fit. In a bid to escape the cockroach infestation and sweaty squalor of a cramped apartment in Fuji Heights, Twigger sets out to cleanse his body and his mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts, and the brutally demanding course of budo training taken by the Tokyo Riot Police, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained dogis and fractured collarbones. In Angry White Pyjamas Robert Twigger skilfully blends the ancient with the modern - the ultra-traditionalism, ritual and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the twenty-first century - to provide an entertaining and captivating glimpse of contemporary Japan.

Author : Erling Kagge
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780525564492

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Walking by Erling Kagge Pdf

A renowned explorer and acclaimed author shows us that walking is a natural accompaniment to creativity—and among the most radical things we can do. “Simple, profound … compelling … [a book that] packs a surprisingly motivational punch” (GQ). Why do we walk? Where do we walk from? What is our destination? Placing one foot in front of the other and embarking on the journey of discovery are activities intrinsic to our nature. But as universal as walking is, each of us will experience it differently. For renowned explorer Erling Kagge, walking is a natural accompaniment to creativity: the occasion for the unspoken dialogue of thinking. Walking is also the antidote to the speed at which we conduct our lives, to our insistence on rushing, on doing everything in a precipitous manner.

Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786181961

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Walking to Aldebaran by Adrian Tchaikovsky Pdf

I’M LOST. I’M SCARED. AND THERE’S SOMETHING HORRIBLE IN HERE. My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw. I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived. Now I’m lost, and alone, and scared, and there’s something horrible in here. Lucky me. Lucky, lucky, lucky. A new standalone novella by the Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time.

Author : Holly Worton
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781911161080

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Walking the Downs Link by Holly Worton Pdf

This is the first guide to walking the Downs Link, a 37-mile trail that links the North Downs Way to the South Downs Way, continuing beyond to the coast where it ends at Shoreham-by-Sea. The Downs Link is an excellent trail for a long weekend walk, or for walkers seeking to do a first long-distance trail. More than just a walking travelogue or memoirs of a walking holiday, this book contains Holly's reflections on walking the Downs Link, including lessons learned and practical information to help you plan your Downs Link hiking adventure. It includes a suggested packing list, gear recommendations, and other useful tips, such as when to walk the trail, where to stay, and how much you'll need to budget. It also includes tips on how to access the trail, and how to walk it in either direction. This book will not only get you inspired to walk the Downs Link or any other long distance trail, it will encourage you to get outdoors more often.