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A richly detailed history of Ashdown Forest -- home of Winnie-the-Pooh.

The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War. An unusual and never before published account of the War Written by a former Royal Marine Bandsman who was involved throughout Publication coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War Describes the repatriation of Argentine POWs after the victory Foreword by Major General Julian Thompson, who commanded 3 Commando Brigade

Die besten Fahrer der Welt wollen beim illegalen Cannonball-Rennen von New York nach Los Angeles Gas geben. Da Polizeichef Edsel alle Teilnehmer verhaften lässt, heuern die Sponsoren schnell neue Fahrer an. Den dicken Parkwächter Charlie, die gewitzten Elektronik-Fachfrauen Lee und Margaret, den verschuldeten Briten Alec und noch mehr Chaoten.

This text on the 1941-43 National Farm Survey provides a complete overview of British agriculture, including maps and illustrations of the areas surveyed at that time. It is a source for measuring post-war changes in agriculture, environment and society.

A man chases after a mysterious metal object that may not even exist - and his journey leads him on to ever-greater levels of madness, dissociation, and metaphysical conundrums.After ten years in a Zen monastery, Proteus knows it's time to leave. A troubled, solitary man, he knows what he seeks is not to be found sitting in meditation. His problem is that, during his time at the monastery, he's discovered something strange inside his mind: the...

This 1997 book is a standard reference to the 1910 'New Domesday' data, essential for historians of Edwardian Britain.

This book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep intereThis book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep interest in the British countryside and its past, and to

This revealing new addition to Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George’, s People’, s Budget of 1909–, 10 was the ‘, New Domesday’, of landownership and land values. This rich documentation, for long locked away in the Inland Revenue’, s offices, became available to the p...

This book examines the English rural community, past and present, in its variety and dynamism.