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The cataclysm that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in AD 79 continues to fascinate nearly two thousand years later. Darley s meditation on a powerful natural wonder touches on pagan beliefs, vulcanology, and travel writing, as it sifts through the ashes of Vesuvius to expose changes in our understanding of cultural and natural environments.

Paperback edition of the book exploring the much-maligned county of Essex, taking in travel writing and history, to find a place where dreamers and makers, punk poets, anarchist sects and the avant-garde all found inspiration. 'Original and beautifully written...' "Guardian

The seen and unseen aspects of the past and present of Essex are celebrated by BBC Radio 3 and 4 regular Gillian Darley. MOVED TO 2019 (24/07/2018 - SS)

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A biography of John Evelyn, diarist, scholar and intellectual virtuoso (1620-1706), this work provides a rounded portrait of Evelyn's eighty-five years, his family life first at Sayes Court, Deptford, and later at Wotton, in Surrey, his exile in Paris, his interests and his preoccupations.

The first in Reaktion's new "Objekt" series, "Factory "examines the cultural importance of the factory in its many manifestations: as an icon of the industrial age, as innovator, as inno-vation and as laboratory, and shows more than 100 intriguing visual examples. Whether discussing the utopian schemes of Robert Owen or Claude Ledoux, the "cathedrals of industry" of Albert Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright, or the post-industrial revivals of former ...