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This is a unique and visual companion to the best-known and most spectacular monument to the Roman Empire in Britain. A fascinating look at Hadrian's Wall uses James Irwin Coates 'old views' of the Wall as a comparison to how it looks today. Alan Michael...

Wensleydale & Coverdale Through Time documents not only how the towns and villages of two related Yorkshire dales have developed and changed, but also gives the reader an insight into how the lives of the 'dalesfolk' have altered beyond all recognition...

The unique and picturesque village of Cheddar has a long and ancient history, from world-famous landmarks to local myths and ghost stories. From as early as 1130 the beauty of Cheddar Gorge was recognised as one of the 'Four Wonders of England'. It is...

This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest counties. It provides a nostalgic look at Dorset's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the Historic England...

Swim out into the Pacific and look back to the shore. To the couple kissing in the hot afternoon, and the young girl rollerskating along the front, and the family setting up camp on the soft, warm sand. To the blues and yellows and pinks of fierce,...

The ancient Shropshire market town of Oswestry, just to the west of Shrewsbury and close to the Welsh border, has not changed a great deal since the Battle of Maserfield in 642, which is perhaps why the town is so popular among discerning tourists and...

Wakefield was a prosperous market town in the Middle Ages, but it was transformed by coal mining during the Industrial Revolution. Mining dominated the local economy until the last pits closed in the 1970s and 1980s. Trade in cloth and cloth finishing...

This illustrated history portrays one of England's finest cities. It provides a nostalgic look at York's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the Historic England...

Intimately linked as twin hubs of the Elizabethan entertainment industry north and south of the Thames, Blackfriars' and Southwark's shared history emerged from opposing forces and ancient geographic personalities. First settled by the Romans, and...

In 1698 Celia Fiennes an intrepid traveler and relative of the Boscawen family rode into Truro on horseback and immediately loved it although she described it in her diary as 'a ruinated and disregarded place, formerly a great tradeing town'. In 1724 the...

Published to accompany the first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of German-born Grete Stern and Argentinean Horacio Coppola, From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires explores the individual accomplishments and parallel developments of two of the...

The Mass Observation survey of life in Bolton between 1937 and 1940 is justly celebrated today. The aim was to observe and record everyday life in all its forms in one town - at work, at home, on the street, in the pub, in church. Scores of volunteers...

Crewe was just a small settlement in east Cheshire until the arrival of the railways in the nineteenth century. The town was located on an important junction on routes from Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and London. It quickly grew up around the...

Woking is a mixture of the very old and very new. What is now known as 'Old Woking' was mentioned in the Domesday Book but it now forms a suburb of Woking. The modern town grew up around the Basingstoke Canal and the railways that arrived in the...

A comprehensive and authoritative gazetteer of Wales's 1000 best heritage sites. Fabulously illustrated with over 100 colour photographs. Includes castles, churches, chapels, houses, archaeological sites, gardens, battlefields, libraries, historic...

Yorkshire has been at the heart of English history for over 2,000 years and has been shaped by Roman and Viking invaders, the conflict of the Wars of the Roses and the English Civil Wars. With such a wealth of heritage to uncover, 50 Finds from Yorkshire...

Woking is a rather strange place. The Saxon village of 'Old Woking' appears in the Domesday Book but 'new' Woking is a nineteenth-century town. Over the years, the town has continually reinvented itself. Demolished buildings have been rebuilt and new...

Faversham has always been a hard-working town. Its very name, which was derived from Latin and Old English, means 'the metal workers' village', and in Saxon times the area was a centre for the manufacture of jewellery. Its town market has been in...

Iconic buildings, raucous metro stations and picturesque cityscapes: this large-format Amsterdam photo book surprises with every photo, showing a serene, sometimes melancholic city.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649222503Author Aaron LinsdauFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Sastrugi PressPublisher Sastrugi PressWeight(grams) 152g

Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family's hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself...

A full-color guide to the monuments and landscape of Upper Egypt, now fully revised and updated by leading Egyptologist Aidan Didson Luxor stands on the site of ancient Thebes, Egypt's opulent New Kingdom capital. It encompasses the spectacular temples...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944986568Author Moose HendersonFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Sastrugi PressPublisher Sastrugi PressWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560375913Author Gary ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Farcountry PressPublisher Farcountry PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553652069Author Geoffrey JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Greystone Books,CanadaPublisher Greystone Books,Canada

U.S. Highway 66 was always different from other roads. During the decades it served American travelers, Route 66 became the subject of a world-famous novel, an Oscar-winning film, a hit song, and a long running television program. The 2,000 mile concrete...

Bloodroot showcases poetry from the collected works of Jasper, Indiana, native Norbert Krapf. Spanning 35 years, these poems focus on Krapf's experiences living in southern Indiana and the intersection of his life with his German ancestry. Forty of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9791254631645Author Ginevra LambertiFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Marsilio ArtePublisher Marsilio

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589807020Author Barry DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Founded on a small parcel of land in 1801, the University of South Carolina has expanded beyond the boundaries of its original campus, the historic Horseshoe, to become a large urban research university. Throughout its history, South Carolina's flagship...

This beautifully illustrated book offers a sweeping pictorial vision of the Netherlands, with its iconic windmills, canals, and tulips portrayed alongside images of agricultural innovation, dance festivals, Dutch design and modern architecture. The rich...

Worcester is one of England’s great historic cities, with a history of occupation that goes back to the Iron Age. It was a Roman ironworking and industrial centre, though some houses were decorated with mosaics or painted wall plaster. From AD 680,...

In this beautiful art book, award-winning American photographer Ann Parker records and celebrates life as it passes along a road through a typical village in the Egyptian Nile Delta in the early twenty-first century. But her photographs are not mere...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788895410241Author Tod PapageorgeFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Punctum & TrilcatPublisher Punctum & TrilcatWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788831403030Author Alberto DamianFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sime BooksPublisher Sime BooksWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869305653Author Susan PaulsenFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint SteidlPublisher SteidlWeight(grams) 1837g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942185307Author Sean Corcoran, Amy Stein-MilfordFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

This delightful little book provides the ideal pause for contemplating the special qualities and values of Yosemite National Park, as well as other parks and wilderness. Each dazzling full-color photograph, many of them new for this tenth anniversary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919734613Author Gerald HobermanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Gerald & Marc Hoberman CollectionPublisher Gerald & Marc Hoberman...