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The Ridgeway Anthony Burton 9781781315736
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50The 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.77There 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... -
Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography by Anthony Burton 9781526755025
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all potters, working in traditional ways, but Josiah was to revolutionise the industry... -
Cotswold Way: National Trail Guide by Anthony Burton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Following 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... -
Pathological Basis of Veterinary Diseases by Anthony Burton 9781639874224
RRP: £120.88Booksplease Price: £108.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639874224Author Anthony BurtonFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Murphy & Moore... -
Britain's Canals: Exploring their Architectural and Engineering Wonders by Anthony Burton
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.53Britain'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... -
A History of the Cotton Industry: A Story in Three Continents by Anthony Burton 9781399057318
Booksplease Price: £27.42This book is about technology and how it has changed the lives of people on three continents over the last three hundred years. The development of the cotton industry was the starting point for one... -
The West Highland Way: National Trail Guide Anthony Burton 9781781315767
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.75The 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... -
Victorian and Edwardian Locomotive Portraits - The South of England by Anthony Burton 9781399061896
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The Victorian and Edwardian periods saw the development of the steam locomotive in Britain from a comparatively simple machine to a powerful main line express capable of speeds of a hundred miles an... -
Taking the Train: Two Centuries of Railway Travel Anthony Burton 9781399036702
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The book looks at rail travel from the passenger’s point of view, beginning when a coach drawn by horses, rumbled down the newly laid tracks linking Swansea to Mumbles in 1807 and takes the reader... -
Anatomy of Canals Volume 3: Decline & Renewal by Anthony Burton 9780752428109
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.68Competition from rail and later road forced many canals into closure, and a large section of the old system seemed doomed to crumble away into terminal decay. Then came a new industry: the canal... -
Ten Transport Pioneers Who Changed the World Anthony Burton 9781803999470
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Ten 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: £16.95Booksplease Price: £15.02This 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,... -
Hadrian's Wall Path: National Trail Guide Anthony Burton 9781781315712
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.75The 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... -
George and Robert Stephenson: Pioneer Inventors and Engineers Anthony Burton 9781526754981
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53This is a new biography of two great British engineering pioneers, who did much to develop the world we now live in. George and Robert Stephenson, were at the forefront of early railways and were at... -
Crafted in Britain: The Survival of Britain's Traditional Industries by Anthony Burton 9781472922830
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.29Crafted in Britain is a celebration of Britain's traditional crafts and industries that have survived into the modern world, not as museums but on their merits. In an age of increasing automation and... -
Canal Builders: How Britain's Canal Network Evolved by Anthony Burton 9781399014304
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britains canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth... -
200 Years of British Train Development: An Illustrated History Anthony Burton 9781036136734
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78This 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... -
Railway Empire: How the British Gave Railways to the World by Anthony Burton 9781473843691
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £14.98The 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... -
The Wool Industry a Global History: Covering Two Thousand Years Anthony Burton 9781399036757
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The story of wool covers 4,000 years of human history - the first written record of dying wool for cloth was found on a Mesopotamian papyrus c. 2000 BCE. In this book, the whole story is told, from... -
Victorian and Edwardian Locomotive Portraits, Northern England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland by Anthony Burton 9781036100513
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23The Victorian and Edwardian periods saw the development of the steam locomotive in Britain from a comparatively simple machine to a powerful main line express capable of speeds of a hundred miles an... -
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great: The Men Behind the Industrial Revolution by Anthony Burton
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.88Samuel 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... -
Steam Traction on the Road: From Trevithick to Sentinel: 150 Years of Design and Development by Anthony Burton
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.05This 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... -
Maritime London: An Historical Journey in Pictures and Words by Burton, Anthony 9781399092876
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.84The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and... -
Balloons and Airships: A Tale of Lighter Than Air Aviation by Burton, Anthony 9781526719492
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier... -
Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician by Allen Shawn
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.86For 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...