Author: Edward S. Mogg
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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'Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales' by Edward S. Mogg is a groundbreaking work, which exhibits the various branches of roads and towns in the southern division of the kingdom. This comprehensive work provides an accurate description of the seats of the nobility and gentry, along with their respective proprietors. The pages of this book are devoted to accurately delineating the extensive improvements in the old and new roads that provide the traveler with the facilities to experience the island's unparalleled traveling. The author has aimed for simplicity, accuracy, and completeness, leaving no stone unturned to make this work the most original and executed of its kind.
Author: Sarah Kendall
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445643952
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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A unique portrait of the streets where Britons have worked, shopped and played –and how they have been transformed over the decades.
Author: Peter Grimsdale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781471168468
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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'A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain's cities after World War Two and created the finest automobiles the world had ever seen ... High Performance tells the exhilarating tale of their journey down the fast lane.' Ben Collins, bestselling author of The Man In The White Suit and How To Drive In January 1964 a team of tiny red and white Mini Coopers stunned the world by winning the legendary Monte Carlo Rally. It was a stellar year for British cars that culminated in Goldfinger breaking box office records and making James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 the world's most famous sports car. By the sixties, on road, track and silver screen the Brits were the ones to beat, winning championships and capturing hearts. Stirling Moss, Jim Clark and Paddy Hopkirk were household names who drove the sexiest and most innovative cars. Designers like John Cooper, and Colin Chapman of Lotus, dismissed as mere 'garagisti' by Enzo Ferrari, blew the doors off Formula One and grabbed all the prizes, while Alex Issigonis won a knighthood for his revolutionary Mini. The E Type Jaguar was feted as the world's sexiest car and Land Rover the most durable. But before the Second World War only one British car had triumphed in a Grand Prix; Britain's car builders were fiercely risk-averse. So what changed? To find out, Peter Grimsdale has gone in search of a generation of rebel creative spirits who emerged from railway arches and Nissen huts to tear up the rulebook with their revolutionary machines. Like the serial fugitives from the POW camps, they thrived on adversity, improvisation and sheer obstinate determination. Blazing the trail for them was William Lyons, whose heart-stoppingly glamorous and uncompromising Jaguars propelled a bruised and bankrupt nation out of the shadows of war, winning the fans in Hollywood and beating 'those bloody red cars' at Le Mans. High Performance celebrates Britain's automotive golden age and the mavericks who sketched them on the back of envelopes and garage floors, who fettled, bolted and welded them together and hammered the competition in the showroom, on the road and on the track - fuelled by contempt for convention.
Author: BRITISH HIGH ROADS.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Kate Teltscher
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408846756
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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_______________ 'Splendid and fascinating ... Teltscher has made remarkable use of her source material, aided by the constantly perceptive and witty tone of Bogle's own writings' - Patrick French, Sunday Times 'It is hard to imagine this fascinating story being told with greater sensitivity or skill' - Sunday Telegraph 'Teltscher is a remarkable new historian ... wholly original' - William Dalrymple 'Thrilling and fascinating ... Letters, journals and documents are woven into the flowing narrative, which is wonderfully vivid and evocative' - Jenny Uglow _______________ An unlikely meeting between a young Scotsman and the Panchen Lama gives birth to a remarkable friendship In 1774 British traders longed to open relations with China so they sent a young Scotsman, George Bogle, as an envoy to Tibet. Bogle became smitten by what he saw there, and struck up a remarkable friendship with the Panchen Lama. This gripping book tells the story of their two extraordinary journeys across some of the harshest and highest terrain in the world: Bogle's mission, and the Panchen Lama's state visit to China, on which British hopes were hung. Piecing together extracts from Bogle's private papers, Tibetan biographies of the Panchen Lama, the account of a wandering Hindu monk and the writings of the Emperor himself, Kate Teltscher deftly reconstructs the momentous meeting of these very different worlds.
Author: British High Roads
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Great Britain. Foreign Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1454
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: George Edwards (M. D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Author: Robert Todd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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