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Eyots and Aits

Author : Miranda Vickers
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780752462134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Eyots and Aits written by Miranda Vickers and published by History Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 10,000 years the River Thames meandered from source to sea, periodically throwing up mudbanks or carving parallel channels on the bends and creating islands along much of its length. There are around 180 islands altogether, some accessible by footbridge, some by road and others, like Pharaoh's Island and Garrick's Ait, only by boat. Thirty are inhabited by small settlements, single houses or houseboats, all highly sought-after locations today. Many are important nature reserves; others directly connected to major historical events or famous personalities. Oliver's Eyot was a refuge for Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War, whilst Lot's Ait was the unlikely setting for Humphrey Bogart's 1951 film The African Queen, and the legendry Eel Pie Island played a key role in the development of British popular music. These islands, known as Eyots or Aits, form the skeletal backbone of the Thames. In this fascinating and detailed book, Miranda Vickers considers their history and role in helping us understand how the river evolved.

Aits & Eyots

Author : Frans Baake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (727 download)

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Download or read book Aits & Eyots written by Frans Baake and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islands

Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780230532
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Islands written by Steven Roger Fischer and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe’s novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The cannibals, raptors, and smoke monsters that exist on the islands of popular culture aside, the more than one million islands and islets on the planet are indeed small , geological, biological, and cultural laboratories. From Britain to Japan, from the Galapagos to Manhattan, this book roams the planet to provide the first global introduction to these waterlocked landforms. Longtime island dweller Steven Roger Fischer shows that, since time began, islands have been one of the primary birthplaces for plants, animals, and proto-humans. These eyots of stone and sand—whether in ocean, lake, or river—fostered the human race, and Fischer recounts how humanity then exploited these remarkable habitats as stepping stones to global dominion. He explores island economics, warfare, and politics, and he examines the role they have played in literature, art and psychology. At the same time, he sparks our imagination with visions of islands—from Atlantis to Tahiti, Treasure Island to Hawaii. Ultimately, he reveals, these isolated mini-worlds are a measure of humankind itself. An engaging account of the islets that have enriched, lured, terrified, and inspired us, Islands shines new light on these cradles of earth—and human—history.

The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale

Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608565
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale written by Alice Albinia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and travelogue to rewrite the story of this “island nation.” From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by the collective term “Britanniae” (the Britains). This expansive journey demonstrates how the smaller islands have wielded disproportionate influence on the mainland, becoming the fertile ground of political, cultural, and technological innovations that shaped history throughout the archipelago. In an act of feminist inquiry, personal adventure, and literary quest, Alice Albinia embarks on a series of journeys that traverse Britain and reach beyond its contemporary borders—from Europe to the Caribbean, Ireland to Scandinavia. She walks the coastlines of Lindisfarne, sails through the Hebrides archipelago, and bikes into Westminster at dawn. As she takes us across extravagantly varied island topographies and surveys centuries of history, Albinia ranges between languages and genres, and through disparate island cultures. She talks to stubbornly independent islanders and searches for archaeological and linguistic traces of island identities, discovering distinct traditions and resistance to mainland control. Trespassing into the past to understand the present, The Britannias uncovers an enduring and subversive mythology of islands ruled by women. Albinia finds female independence woven through Roman colonial reports and Welsh medieval poetry, Restoration utopias and island folk songs. These neglected epics offer fierce feminist countercurrents to mainstream narratives of British identity and shed new light on women’s status in the body politic today. Vivid, perceptive, and disruptive, The Britannias boldly upturns established truths about Britain while revealing its suppressed and forgotten beauty.

Thames

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307389847
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Thames written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this perfect companion to London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd once again delves into the hidden byways of history, describing the river's endless allure in a journey overflowing with characters, incidents, and wry observations. Thames: The Biography meanders gloriously, rather like the river itself. In short, lively chapters Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men and women who depend upon the river for their livelihoods. The Thames as a source of artistic inspiration comes brilliantly to life as Ackroyd invokes Chaucer, Shakespeare, Turner, Shelley, and other writers, poets, and painters who have been enchanted by its many moods and colors.

The Bridge to Belle Island

Author : Julie Klassen
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493420305
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge to Belle Island written by Julie Klassen and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a humiliating mistake, lawyer Benjamin Booker resolves to never again trust a beautiful woman. When an old friend is killed, the senior partner isn't satisfied with Bow Street's efforts and asks Benjamin to investigate. Eager to leave London for a while, Benjamin agrees. Evidence takes him to a remote island on the Thames, a world unto itself, shrouded in mist and mystery. Soon he finds himself falling for the main suspect--a woman who claims not to have left the island in ten years. But should he trust her? On Belle Island, Isabelle feels safe and leads a productive life, but fear keeps her trapped there. When Mr. Booker arrives with news of her trustee's murder in London, Isabelle is stunned. She has not left the island, yet she has a recurring dream about the man's death. Or is it a memory? She had been furious with him, but she never intended . . . this. When a second person dies and evidence shockingly points to her, Isabelle doesn't know who to trust: the attractive lawyer or the admirer and friends who assemble on the island, each with grudges against the victim. Can she even trust her own mind? While they search for the truth, secrets come to light and danger comes calling.

Royal Thames Guide

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Thames Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Publications

Author : Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publications written by Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oxf. Hist. Soc

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Oxf. Hist. Soc written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Berkshire

Author : Frederick Gaspard Brabant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Berkshire written by Frederick Gaspard Brabant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Christian world magazine (and family visitor).

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Christian world magazine (and family visitor). written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thames Valley Villages

Author : Charles George Harper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thames Valley Villages written by Charles George Harper and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bookshop That Floated Away

Author : Sarah Henshaw
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472109392
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Bookshop That Floated Away written by Sarah Henshaw and published by Constable. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a £30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat and a small hoard of books. The manager said no. Nevertheless The Book Barge opened six months later and enjoyed the happy patronage of local readers, a growing number of eccentrics and the odd moorhen. Business wasn't always easy, so one May morning owner Sarah Henshaw set off for six months chugging the length and breadth of the country. Books were bartered for food, accommodation, bathroom facilities and cake. During the journey, the barge suffered a flooded engine, went out to sea, got banned from Bristol and, on several occasions, floated away altogether. This account follows the ebbs and flows of Sarah's journey as she sought to make her vision of a floating bookshop a reality.

The Rail and the Rod; Or, Tourist Angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters Around London ...

Author : John Greville Fennell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Rail and the Rod; Or, Tourist Angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters Around London ... written by John Greville Fennell and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rail and the Rod, Or, Tourist-angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters Thirty Miles Around London: Great Western Railway

Author : John Greville Fennell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rail and the Rod, Or, Tourist-angler's Guide to Waters and Quarters Thirty Miles Around London: Great Western Railway written by John Greville Fennell and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fun

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Fun written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walking the Bones of Britain

Author : Christopher Somerville
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473576830
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Walking the Bones of Britain written by Christopher Somerville and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘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