Author: Graham Uney
Publisher: Cicerone Press Limited
Keywords: isles, cicerone, guide, northern, walks, shetland, walking, orkney
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-05-18
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1852845724
ISBN-13: 9781852845728
This book is the second edition of our popular guide to a 10-12 day circuit of one of the finest of all mountain areas in France - the Vanoise Alps. Easily accessible by train or bus from Chambéry and Grenoble, the Vanoise National Park neighbors that of the Gran Paradiso in Italy, with Mont Blanc to the north and the Écrins to the south. The Tour of the Vanoise explores the very best of this scenically spectacular region of 3000m peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls and flowering meadows and provides plenty of opportunities to study marmots, chamois and ibex along the way. Covering a dis
Author: Herries G.L. Davies
Publisher: Methuen young books
Keywords: isles, british, geomorphology
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1978-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0416846505
ISBN-13: 9780416846508
Author: C. F. Brunner
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Keywords: view, isles
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2006-03-20
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0595362354
ISBN-13: 9780595362356
The unique union of a deaf man and a hearing woman presents more than the expected challenge of communication; it offers an uncommon perspective on everyday events. Add durable love and humor, and the result is an extraordinary coupling whose mutual determination defies the odds of unconventional marriage. Dan Brighton, deaf since he was a toddler, is a verbally proficient and charming individual who attains the love of Cara DiSordo. After their marriage, Cara teaches herself the rudiments of sign language to facilitate communication. But she soon recognizes the tough realities of marriage
Author: Debbie Mazzuca
Publisher: Zebra
Keywords: isles, lord
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $4.99
ISBN-10: 1420110055
ISBN-13: 9781420110050
After travelling to Scotland on business, the bed of a highland laird is the last place Ali Graham expected to wake up. But there’s no mistaking the irresistibly masculine Scottish Highlander whose chamber she’s accidentally infiltrated - or the severe wound he’s suffered in battle. As a doctor, Ali knows how to heal his injury, how to nurse his body back to health. What she doesn’t know is how to heal his heart...A proud warrior and the leader of a powerful clan, Rory MacLeod is ready to fight to the death to protect his homeland. After all, ever since tragedy robbed h
Author: Celia Thaxter
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: shoals, isles, among
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $22.75
ISBN-10: 1110824718
ISBN-13: 9781110824717
A reprint of the poet’s classic 1873 human and natural history of the Isles of Shoals, a group of nine Islands off the coats of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Author: Norman Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, isles
Number of Pages: 1296
Published: 2000-03-02
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0195134427
ISBN-13: 9780195134421
Written by one of the most brilliant and provocative historians at work today, The Isles is a revolutionary narrative history that takes a new perspective on the development of Britain and Ireland, looking at them not as self-contained islands, but as an inextricable part of Europe. At every stage, The Isles connects offshore development with parallel events on the Continent. This richly layered history begins with the Celtic Supremacy in the last centuries BC, which is presented in the light of a Celtic world stretching all the way from Iberia to Asia Minor. Roman Britain is seen not
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Palgrave Macmilla
Keywords: isles, british, history
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2003-02-08
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1403900434
ISBN-13: 9781403900432
From the earliest pre-history to the present day, Jeremy Black’s vigorous and fascinating narrative explores the rich historical influence of the British Isles and the varied stages through which they have passed to achieve their present identity. Giving proper weight to all four, often fractious, components of the British Isles, Black provides the reader with a balanced and absorbing account--political, social, economic, and cultural--of an extraordinary shared history. In the second edition of this highly successful text, each chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated in the ligh
