Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956277749
Category : Four Counties Ring (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Canal Companions have been chugging along the 'cut' for 30 years; conveying facts and figures; insights and entertainment, wit and wisdom. This companion is the 9th edition of the popular Four Counties Ring covering the Trent & Mersey Canal, Caldon Canal, and Weaver navigation.
Pearson's Canal Companion - Four Counties Ring
Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956277749
Category : Four Counties Ring (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Canal Companions have been chugging along the 'cut' for 30 years; conveying facts and figures; insights and entertainment, wit and wisdom. This companion is the 9th edition of the popular Four Counties Ring covering the Trent & Mersey Canal, Caldon Canal, and Weaver navigation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956277749
Category : Four Counties Ring (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Canal Companions have been chugging along the 'cut' for 30 years; conveying facts and figures; insights and entertainment, wit and wisdom. This companion is the 9th edition of the popular Four Counties Ring covering the Trent & Mersey Canal, Caldon Canal, and Weaver navigation.
Pearson's Canal Companion
Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956277794
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This is an essential guide for boaters, walkers, cyclists and armchair travellers to the Oxford, Grand Union and Upper Thames canals.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956277794
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
This is an essential guide for boaters, walkers, cyclists and armchair travellers to the Oxford, Grand Union and Upper Thames canals.
Four Counties Ring - Pearson's Canal Companion
Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher: Wayzgoose
ISBN: 9780954911683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Part of a series which guides to the inland waterways. This title covers the Trent and Mersey and Erewash Canals and other neighbouring routes such as the Staffs and Worcs Canal; Shropshire Union; Caldon Canal; and, Trent Navigation. It is useful to walkers and cyclists.
Publisher: Wayzgoose
ISBN: 9780954911683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Part of a series which guides to the inland waterways. This title covers the Trent and Mersey and Erewash Canals and other neighbouring routes such as the Staffs and Worcs Canal; Shropshire Union; Caldon Canal; and, Trent Navigation. It is useful to walkers and cyclists.
Welsh Waters
Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher: Pearson's Canal Companions
ISBN: 9780992849221
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This extended 10th edition of Michael Pearson's Welsh Waters Canal Companion focusses on the Llangollen, Montgomery and Monmouthshire & Brecon canals in Wales, and the Shropshire Union Canal in England. Over 200 miles of canals expertly interpreted to inspire you, on foot, afloat or by bicycle. The areas covered are: Shropshire Union Canal - Autherley Junction (Wolverhampton) to Ellesmere Port; Llangollen Canal - Hurleston Junction to Llangollen (Horseshoe Falls); Montgomery Canal - Frankton Junction to Newtown; and Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal - Pontnewydd to Brecon. Key Places include: Autherley Junction; Market Drayton; Audlem; Nantwich; Hurleston & Barbridge Junctions; Middlewich; Chester; Ellesmere Port; Grindley Brook; Whitchurch; Ellesmere; Chirk; Pontcysyllte; Llangollen; Welshpool; Newtown; Pontypool; Abergavenny; Crickhowell; Brecon. The Canal Companions have been chugging along 'the cut' for over thirty five years; conveying facts and figures, insight and entertainment, wit and wisdom: from Diggle to Devizes, from Froghall to Foxton, from Cowroast to Cropredy. All manner of folk have been encouraged to explore the inland waterways using these guides, which have become as much a part of tradition as their subject matter. Michael Pearson has been the originator and author for more than thirty five years of this well known series and also the 'Iron Roads' series, plus 'Railway Holiday in Scotland', 'Coming up with the Goods', 'Me, My Morgan & the Midlands' and 'Journeys into Staffordshire'.
Publisher: Pearson's Canal Companions
ISBN: 9780992849221
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This extended 10th edition of Michael Pearson's Welsh Waters Canal Companion focusses on the Llangollen, Montgomery and Monmouthshire & Brecon canals in Wales, and the Shropshire Union Canal in England. Over 200 miles of canals expertly interpreted to inspire you, on foot, afloat or by bicycle. The areas covered are: Shropshire Union Canal - Autherley Junction (Wolverhampton) to Ellesmere Port; Llangollen Canal - Hurleston Junction to Llangollen (Horseshoe Falls); Montgomery Canal - Frankton Junction to Newtown; and Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal - Pontnewydd to Brecon. Key Places include: Autherley Junction; Market Drayton; Audlem; Nantwich; Hurleston & Barbridge Junctions; Middlewich; Chester; Ellesmere Port; Grindley Brook; Whitchurch; Ellesmere; Chirk; Pontcysyllte; Llangollen; Welshpool; Newtown; Pontypool; Abergavenny; Crickhowell; Brecon. The Canal Companions have been chugging along 'the cut' for over thirty five years; conveying facts and figures, insight and entertainment, wit and wisdom: from Diggle to Devizes, from Froghall to Foxton, from Cowroast to Cropredy. All manner of folk have been encouraged to explore the inland waterways using these guides, which have become as much a part of tradition as their subject matter. Michael Pearson has been the originator and author for more than thirty five years of this well known series and also the 'Iron Roads' series, plus 'Railway Holiday in Scotland', 'Coming up with the Goods', 'Me, My Morgan & the Midlands' and 'Journeys into Staffordshire'.
Pearson's Canal Companion Kennet and Avon, River Thames
Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher: Central Waterways Supplies - Wayzgoose
ISBN: 9780954911676
Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Part of a series of guides to the inland waterways, this title covers Bristol to Reading on the Kennet & Avon and Oxford to Brentford on the Thames.
Publisher: Central Waterways Supplies - Wayzgoose
ISBN: 9780954911676
Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Part of a series of guides to the inland waterways, this title covers Bristol to Reading on the Kennet & Avon and Oxford to Brentford on the Thames.
When Computers Were Human
Author: David Alan Grier
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
Pearson's Canal Companion: Leeds & Liverpool
Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992849214
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This companion recaptures the North for Pearson's, exploring the Calder & Hebble, Aire & Calder and Leeds & Liverpool.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780992849214
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This companion recaptures the North for Pearson's, exploring the Calder & Hebble, Aire & Calder and Leeds & Liverpool.
Pearson's Canal Companions
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907864462
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907864462
Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pearson's Canal Companion
Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907864684
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907864684
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
High on Moab
Author: Karl Kelley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892540768
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892540768
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description