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The Ridgeway Anthony Burton 9781781315736
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.67The Ridgeway follows one of the oldest 'green roads' in Europe. It runs for 87 miles (140 km) from Overton Hill in the west, across the Marlborough Downs and the Vale of the White Horse, to Ivinghoe... -
Ocean Liners: A New History by Anthony Burton 9781399049795
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.24There has always been a romance around ocean liners, but this book looks behind the romance to show the reality of travelling the oceans of the world. The book starts with the first scheduled... -
Cotswold Way: National Trail Guide by Anthony Burton
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.36Following the limestone escarpment on the Western edge of the Cotswolds, the 102 miles of the Cotswold Way take the walker through a quintessentially English landscape as varied as it is beautiful... -
Britain's Canals: Exploring their Architectural and Engineering Wonders by Anthony Burton
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €18.15Britain's Canals is a charming and insightful exploration into the amazing architecture and engineering wonders that surround Britain's inland waterways - from the awe-inspiring 30-lock flight on the... -
Hadrian's Wall Path: National Trail Guide Anthony Burton 9781781315712
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.36The official guide to this superb National Trail, published in conjunction with Walk Unlimited. Comprehensive, this is the only companion you need to walk this well-loved path. Since it opened in... -
The West Highland Way: National Trail Guide Anthony Burton 9781781315767
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.36The 93-mile West Highland Way is indisputably Britain's most spectacular long-distance path. The first section, following the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, offers an idyllic waterside walk, with the... -
Ten Transport Pioneers Who Changed the World Anthony Burton 9781803999470
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.61Ten Transport Pioneers Who Changed the World explores ten defining moments in the history of transport, spanning five centuries - from the age of sailing ships to the dawn of the modern jetliner. Its... -
A Performer's Guide to Music of the Romantic Period: Second edition by Anthony Burton
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €17.87This stimulating guide will help students and their teachers to achieve stylish performances of music of the Romantic period. Individual chapters from leading experts focus on historical background,... -
Railway Empire: How the British Gave Railways to the World by Anthony Burton 9781473843691
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €14.40The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in... -
200 Years of British Train Development: An Illustrated History Anthony Burton 9781036136734
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.02This book celebrates the bicentenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway by looking, not at locomotives, but at the rolling stock behind them, both passenger vehicles and goods wagons... -
Steam Traction on the Road: From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development by Anthony Burton
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.72This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers... -
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great: The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution by Anthony Burton
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €14.14Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the... -
Mary Magdalen: Truth and Myth by Susan Haskins 9781845950040
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €16.48A dramatic, thought-provoking portrait of one of the most compelling figures in early Christianity which explores two thousand years of history, art, and literature to provide a close-up look at Mary... -
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician by Allen Shawn
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.92For fans of Bradley Cooper's film Maestro, an appreciation that gives Bernstein his due as composer as well as conductor Leonard Bernstein stood at the epicenter of twentieth-century American...