BBC Proms 2013 The Official Guide BBC BBC 2013 Paperback Illustrated
Published annually to accompany the world's greatest classical music festival, the official BBC Proms Guide contains illustrated articles on composers, performers and venues and introductions to new works being premiered as well as the full concert listings and booking information for the 2013 season. Among the highlights this year are the complete cycle of The Ring, a Tchaikovsky symphony cycle and the music of Witold Lutoslawski; the Guide contains articles on all these and more, including the piano concerto as a genre, and the English composers Britten, Tippett and Granville Bantock.
Peter Marren; Richard Mabey Chatto & Windus 2010 Hardback Illustrated
Like its companion volumes, Flora Britannica and Birds Britannica, this is a richly illustrated cultural, rather than biological guide. Here, British bugs are seen through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists, photographers and naturalists, from Elizabethan proto-entomologist Thomas Muffet (father of Little Miss Muffet) to Irvine Welsh's talking tapeworm in Filth. The result is a beguiling look at some of our 40,000 species of invertebrates - from amoebas, through worms, ants and earwigs, butterflies and beetles to molluscs - and the eccentricities of some human bug obsessives....more
Cartoons and Coronets The Genius of Osbert Lancaster James Knox (Introduced and Selected by) Frances Lincoln 2008 Paperback Illustrated
Osbert Lancaster found fame inventing the pocket cartoon for the Daily Express in 1939, and his gallery of eccentrics kept the nation chuckling for 40 years. After the war, he became a leading stage designer and illustrator, working with John Piper and Nancy Mitford. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, this beautifully illustrated account of his life and work will be a joy to fans and a revelation to those new to his art and humour. ...more
Foundation The History of England. Volume I Peter Ackroyd Macmillan 2011 Hardback Illustrated
Peter Ackroyd tells the story of England from the primeval forests of prehistory, through the waves of invading Romans, Vikings, Saxons and Norman French and through the Middle Ages up to the death of the first Tudor king, Henry VII, in 1509. As he traces history, Ackroyd's skill for evoking time and place and his eye for the telling detail give a vivid sense of how our forebears lived - the homes they built, the clothes they wore, the food they ate, and even the jokes they told. ...more
Alfred Wainwright; Photo. Derry Brabbs Frances Lincoln 2008 Hardback Illustrated
The classic walk from St Bees Head in the West to Robin Hood's Bay in the East was devised by the legendary fell-walker Alfred Wainwright (1907-1991). His Coast to Coast Walk Pictorial Guide was first published in 1972 and it remained his pride and joy. This new edition presents the 190-mile walk through the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors with new photographs by Wainwright's frequent collaborator, the renowned landscape photographer Derry Brabbs. ...more
'Essentially a one-woman man', Henry VIII 'had many lovers but was usually faithful to each in turn'. Piecing together the story of Henry's mistresses, wives and the women he pursued, Kelly Hart offers a new perspective on the king who is so often seen as promiscuous, and rescues from obscurity the mistresses - Bessie Blount, Mary Boleyn, Mary Shelton, Anne Stafford, Jane Popincourt and Elizabeth Amadas - whose stories have been overshadowed by Henry's famous wives. ...more
A Camera in the Hills The Life and Work of WA Poucher Roly Smith Frances Lincoln 2008 Hardback Illustrated
The author of The Lakeland Peaks and one of the most popular and prolific mountain photographers in the 1940s and 1950s, Walter Poucher (1891-1988) was also the chief perfumer at Yardley and an advocate - in the 1930s - of cosmetics for men. Illustrated with Poucher's own photographs, this biography describes the many- talented pharmacist, perfumer and author, walker and photographer, from his early training and service in the First World War to a very active old age - still revising guidebooks in his nineties. ...more
The Forbidden City The great Within May Holdsworth; Caroline Courtauld Frances Lincoln 2008 Hardback Illustrated
Planned by the emperor Yongle in 1404 and laid out in accordance with his astrologer's symbolic conception, the Forbidden City in Beijing was the seat of Chinese imperial power for 500 years, up to the revolution of 1912. With photography by Hu Chui and an introduction by Jonathan Spence, this lavishly illustrated volume chronicles the history of the Forbidden City, describes its buildings and explores the tremendous wealth of artefacts within the palace collections. ...more
When It Happened in Britain A Very Quick History George Chamier; Illus. Lachlan Campbell Constable 2009 Hardback Illustrated
This entertaining account of British history, ideal for those too time-pressed or terrified to attempt more weighty tomes on the subject, comes with big print and pictures, and contains as much as anyone needs to know about the nation's story. The Roman Occupation is pithily elucidated in three pages, with the Second World War expertly dissected in five and everything in between is presented succinctly and wittily in chronological order. ...more
In 1831, the Royal Navy brig Beagle embarked on a five-year voyage to map the coast of South America. Aboard was a young naturalist, Charles Darwin. His account of the journey, first published in 1845, offers an exciting narrative of his adventures in Patagonia and Peru, the Falklands and the Galapagos Islands, enriched with precise, vivid descriptions of the plants and animals that would later provide the basis for his ground-breaking theory of evolution. ...more
'Every unhappy family,' wrote Tolstoy, 'is unhappy in its own way.' That was certainly true of his own. From Sofia's discovery, as a young bride, of a mistress and son on Tolstoy's estate, to the dying man's quixotic attempt to leave her, life with the quarrelsome genius was a series of disillusionments. Yet Sofia's diaries are testament to an indomitable woman who, in the face of provocation and suffering, continued to strive for the higher things in life. ...more
The Rough Guide to The Lost Symbol An Unauthorized Guide Michael Haag Rough Guides 2009 Paperback Illustrated
Dan Brown's bestselling follow up to The Da Vinci Code has excited curiosity about the mysteries on which it is based. Who were the 'adepts'? What are the secrets of the Freemasons? And how was the hidden knowledge of Ancient Egypt transmitted to America's Founding Fathers? This illustrated, totally unauthorized handbook unravels these esoteric conundrums, explores every aspect of the novel, and offers a guide to the monuments of Washington DC, where it is set. ...more
Outpost of Occupation How the Channel Islands Survived Nazi Rule 1940-1945 Barry Turner Aurum 2010 Hardback
In June 1940 Britain demilitarized the Channel Islands, and within days they were under full German military occupation. The story of the years which followed serves as a kind of counterfactual history, offering an insight into how the mainland might have fared if it too had suffered invasion. Turner's book is rich in personal testimonies highlighting the islanders' privations, their efforts at resistance and their resentment at both their abandonment and the post-war witch-hunt in search of collaborators. ...more
Isaac Asimov A Life of the Grand Master of Science Fiction Michael White Carroll & Graf 2005 Paperback
When he died in 1992, Isaac Asimov had written over 460 books and received every sci-fi award; two decades later his continuing influence is felt in new film adaptations. This biography takes us from Asimov's troubled New York childhood to the highest accolades of the science fiction world and explores his seminal contribution to the genre, such as the Three Laws of Robotics, laid down in his Robot stories and still accepted by AI researchers. ...more
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