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In a bygone age when few people travelled far from their homes and almost any journey was an adventure the drovers regularly made the long perilous trip from the Scottish highlands and islands or from the Welsh mountains to the south-east of England...

Just over a century ago British troops were fighting a vicious frontier war against Pashtun tribeman on the North West Frontier - the great-great-grandfathers of the Taliban and tribal insurgents in modern-day Afghanistan. Winston Churchill, then a young...

Examines this most distinctive of Welsh counties. The author discusses the landscape, people, customs and significant centres of religious worship in their historical context from the dark ages to the recent past. He also discusses Cardiganshire's past -...

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Ethnic diversity made New Jersey an early testing ground for the melting pot, as Yankees, Irish, Italians, and blacks strove for a chance at the good life. To many, that meant a job in the factories that made the state an industrial pioneer; to others,...

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Nick Caistor has lived for several years in Buenos Aires as well as visiting it often over the past three decades. He has reported on Argentina for the BBC and is a translator as well as the author of several books on Latin America. The architect Le...

In 1939, the Luftwaffe was arguably the world's best-equipped and -trained air force. Its fighters were second to none, and their pilots had a tactical system superior to any other in the world. In campaigns over Poland, Norway, the Low Countries and...

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Can You Play Cricket on Mars? answers questions like: is there a dark side to the Moon? What happens when a comet hits the Sun? Do the Martian canals have any water in them? Is the Moon hot inside? What would happen if the Sun were to collide with a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906370220Author Ian GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852301996Author Ronan CoghlanFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Element BooksPublisher Element Books LtdWeight(grams) 163g

Have you ever wished that you could have seen King Solomon's mighty Temple in Jerusalem or climbed to the top of the legendary Tower of Babel? What must it have been like to have paraded up and down the great glass galleries of the Crystal Palace in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841149325Author Robin JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher HalsgroveWeight(grams) 230g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851772257Author Robert GardinerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Conway Maritime Press LtdPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 200g

"We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills and the winding strams with tangled growth, as 'wild. Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness' and only to him was the land 'infested' with 'wild' animals and 'savage'...

`It made me laugh so hard that I woke up my wife and had to give up reading the book in bed. If Bill Bryson had collaborated with W. G. Sebald to write a book about Germany, they might have wound up with something like this' Sunday Times Germania is a...

Joseph Grose began his working life in Northampton's leather trade, then, through athletics, racing 'penny-farthing' bicycles, he was led into the pioneer world of the automobile. Having introduced the motor car to Northamptonshire, the firm he...

Fast, manoeuvrable and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century. Although originally conceived as a defensive screen to protect the main battlefleet from torpedo attack, the gamekeeper soon turned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900807558Author Stewart WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Stewart Williams PublishersPublisher Stewart Williams Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849930130Author Kath JewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Hometown WorldPublisher Bidu Bidu BooksWeight(grams) 379g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845895273Author Julia SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint The Francis Frith CollectionPublisher The Francis Frith Collection

From the 1860s, residents of the town were commenting sadly on the rapid changes that were taking place, and at least one local artist found a ready market for his views of disappearing landmarks. What those long gone residents would think of the Cardiff...

This lavishly illustrated book offers a complete view of the love story that has burgeoned over the last six years between Prince William and Catherine Middleton. With a look at the two central figures and how they came to meet, plus their courtship, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760684327Author Tanya KylePage Count 24Imprint Five MilePublisher Five MileWeight(grams) 483gDimensions(mm) 270mm * 215mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956316301Author Nicholas HerbertFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Carreg LtdPublisher Carreg LtdWeight(grams) 736g

Arundel Castle is a great Norman and medieval fortification, built after 1067 on the same plan and at the same time as Windsor. Its revival as a country house in the late-Georgian era added one of the best preserved Gothick interiors, while the late...

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English,...

The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children. The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London...

In 1856, in an opera house in Roseville, Illinois, Susan B. Anthony called for the supporters of woman suffrage to stand. The only person to rise was eight-year-old Emma Smith. And she continued to take a stand for the rest of her life. As a leader in...