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| Author | : Richard Guise |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 095455874X |
Richard Guise follows a unique 450-mile route across England on foot and on his trusty bike Tetley. His guide is the wiggly line that divides rivers flowing west from those flowing east, a choice that takes him over rolling downlands, along windy ridges, through remote villages, across ancient battlefields, past abandoned airfields and even -- surprisingly -- by boat through a network of canal tunnels that echo to the sound of cannon fire. Accompanying or accommodating him on parts of this serendipitous journey are an array of locals with their own stories to tell: the quail-raising smallholder, the bumptious yachtsman, cake fans, ferret fanciers, re-writers of history and more. The route itself turns out to have historical significance and Guise roots out odd tales of passion and heroism, vision and fear, drunkenness, conceit, deceit and murder.
| Author | : Barbara Schaff |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 627 |
| Release | : 2020-09-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3110498979 |
This handbook offers a systematic exploration of current key topics in travel writing studies. It addresses the history, impact, and unique discursive variety of British travel writing by covering some of the most celebrated and canonical authors of the genre as well as lesser known ones in more than thirty close-reading chapters. Combining theoretically informed, astute literary criticism of single texts with the analysis of the circumstances of their production and reception, these chapters offer excellent possibilities for understanding the complexity and cultural relevance of British travel writing.
| Author | : Richard Guise |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2016-06-21 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1326689894 |
Four English blokes of a certain age strike out from their Leicestershire local and head for the hills of the Dingle Peninsula. This laugh-out-loud tale of their short amble on the wild west coast of Ireland is packed with character and characters, beer and banter, daftness and a dolphin.
| Author | : Richard Guise |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2019-08-25 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0244812845 |
All day, every day we're surrounded by things that annoy us. So it's surprising we've had to wait until now for a reasonable list. Speaking up for irritated people all over Britain, the Old Geezer's Dictionary of Irritants points a decisive finger at offenders, with both gusto and humour.
| Author | : Richard Guise |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2018-09-14 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 0244713472 |
For many Britons France has provided their first taste of that alien world called 'abroad' - and sometimes their last. Richard Guise has tracked down ten travellers' tales from three centuries, before venturing forth himself to follow some of their wanderings across the country. He finds out what's left from the sights they saw and how dramatically the country and its people changed over these turbulent times - taking in the years of the Grand Tour, the Revolution and the Napoleonic era; the coming of the railways, holidays and guide books; two world wars, recovery and prosperity; and the twenty-first-century threat of terrorism. His virtual companions include two Grand Tourers (Philip Thicknesse and Tobias Smollett - nicknamed Smelfungus), the man rumoured to have inspired Karl Baedeker, a future chairman of London County Council and Richard's own father, a D-Day survivor. They're not all complimentary about France and the French...
| Author | : Richard Guise |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 102 |
| Release | : 2014-02-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1291736522 |
The Derbyshire villages of Draycott and Church Wilne have dozed quietly beside the left bank of the Derwent for more than a thousand years, barely registering a mention even in the history of the area. But have things really been as quiet as that? What about the case of the dodgy 18th-century vicar? The flying corpse? The combustible cricketer? And more disastrous, but unexplained, fires than you could shake a stick at. No, things are definitely not as quiet as they seem down by the Derwent. And anyway, why are the local inhabitants known as 'Neddies'?
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Arya Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 8182965543 |
Perfect Sample Papers is a series prepared as per the guidelines, syllabus and marking scheme issued by CBSE for Class IX Summative Assessment II . The salient features of Perfect Sample Papers are: • The questions in the sample papers have been so designed that complete syllabus is covered. • Solutions to the first five sample papers are given. Students are advised to attempt these papers first, and take help from the solutions provided in the book to identify their weak areas and improve them. • Additional ten unsolved sample papers for practice will help students gain confidence. • The questions in the sample papers are of varying difficulty level and will help students evaluate their reasoning, analysis and understanding of the subject matter.
| Author | : Susana Wald |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 54 |
| Release | : 2010-12-14 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1118042980 |
Pick up the basic Spanish you need to get around! Do you need to speak Spanish quickly? Now it is easier than ever before to make yourself understood whenever you are interacting with Spanish speakers. This handy guide is packed with pronunciation tips, useful phrases and expressions, common greetings, and conversational questions. It gives you just the right words you need! Find out: The proper way to introduce yourself Correct pronunciations for key letters and vowels How to make small talk Different ways to handle phone conversations Helpful phrases for dining out or shopping trips
| Author | : Doreen Cronin |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 21 |
| Release | : 2013-04-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1442487097 |
Can you stretch to the ceiling? Can you stretch to the floor? You can stretch with a whisper, you can stretch with a roar! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin give new meaning to the yoga pose downward facing dog as publishing’s most energetic pooch explores the many, many ways a kid can get limber. More than simple toe touching, this pup stretches to ride a breeze, grab a snack from a tree, catch a wave. His bubble gum even gets in on the stretching action. POP! And he reminds us not to forget that we also need to stretch our imaginations (recognize that statue, anyone?). This interactive, energetic rhyming text will also help parents stretch out reading time with their youngsters.
| Author | : Ann Treneman |
| Publisher | : Biteback Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2013-10-08 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 1849546614 |
Ann Treneman, the award-winning Times writer best known for her incisive parliamentary sketches, has branched out - to graveyards. In this riveting book she takes you to the most interesting graves in Britain. You'll meet the real War Horse, the best 'funambulist' ever, Byron and his dog Boatswain, Florence Nightingale and her pet owl Athena, prime ministers, kings and queens, highwaymen, scientists, mistresses, the real James Bond and, of course, M. Then there are writers, painters, poets, rakes and rogues, victims, the meek and mild and the just plain mad. This unique book is made up of a hundred entries, each telling the story of one or more graves. Some are chosen for who is in them, others for the grave itself. Some of the entries are humorous, some are poignant, but all tell us something about the British way of death. At times absurd, at times astounding, in Finding the Plot Ann Treneman provides an entertaining guide to the Anglo-Saxon underworld.
