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Archer hears that an imprisoned mende fisherman, solomon vandy (djimon honsou), has found and hid a large, pink diamond whilst doing forced labour in the mines the guerrillas are using to fund their wardanny archer (leonardo dicaprio) is a former zimbabwean mercenary now living in sierra leone during the ' civil wararcher has the wherewithal to help him make the perilous return to the camp, though his motives are less honourable than those of the frantic fathercan they reach vandy's son before the rebels brainwash him and make him yet another boy soldier? can maddy convince archer to do the right thing for the right reason? is there a heart in archer's chest? see oxfam website for delivery information read morean american journalist maddy bowen is sniffing for a story and forms an attachment to archer, who looks like a story all of his ownoxfam bookshop lymington edward zwick directs this tale of a prized diamond, the hands through which it passes and the inhumanity that results from man's greedit soon becomes apparent that archer is not the only one who's heard about this giant pink jewel and the trio is beset by those intent on having it at every turnshe's soon embarked upon the journey with them - her contacts as useful as those of archer in securing a path through the dangerous terrain of this lawless countryvandy has escaped the camp but his son is left behind
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The idea was simple, effective and, in a conflict marked by innovation, decidedly low-tech: tunnel to a spot directly beneath the enemy, set mines or other explosives and blow up the ground on which they stoodtunnel raiders uses rare photographs, personal accounts and interviews with military historians to expose the strategy that was every trench soldier's worst nightmarein the closing days of world war i, when both sides had been engaged in trench warfare for years, they started digging underneath no-man's-land between the two frontssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle tunnel raiders world war i saw the emergence of countless new technologies and strategies on the field of battlebut one of the most astonishing and damaging tactics deployed in the "great war" dated back to an earlier agein the days of sieges and castles, sappers would tunnel beneath the massive walls of fortifications in an attempt to weaken and topple them
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Careful shipping! read more03gr, 24mm f weakness on the obverseour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablefor a better assessment of the quality, please refer to the photosare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Clipped d/j is intact though rather frayed at edges with 2 tiny ((quarter inch) tears at top of spine; slightly foxed on a few outer pagesincludes many monochrome photoshardback first edition, publishedgood condition for agesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport major bill hartley's "18 years' continuous service in which he dealt with unexploded enemy bombs and our own beach mines"no highlighting or other notes/marks
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The mines have gone but many of the men who earned their living deep underground remain and neil taylor has met and talked to some of those ex-miners and their families about what it was like to be part of such a close-knit groupoxfam bookshop hexham after the miners' strike in , it was announced that brenkley colliery would close in decemberashington followed in october and bates colliery at blytha way of life disappeared forever when the big e closed inwhen whittle colliery closed in , this left only ellington colliery, the biggest undersea deep-shaft mine in the worldsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis copy is in very good condition and looks unread
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mines silver wide heel shoes with open toesÂŁ see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop colne road rv dance shoessilver sequins flash to frontadjustable side clip buckle
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Limited edition plate featuring the coal mines of yorkshire () read more
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This black pair is the first type of earplugs made by the zulu men who worked in the mines and who also wore themthey are special because of their looks, their dimensions and weightthe black pair belongs together, it is an original pair, whose bulbnails are missing, but this does not detract from the beauty of the objectsi bought them from a female 'chief' of a village in the nongoma districtboth are very heavythe second pair is of an exceptional diameter and they belong togetheron the other side, they are both different, also decorated with bulb nailsthese are two very special pairs of earplugs that i recommend to every collector of earplugs to buyour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeextensive documentation with pictures are included for the buyeri acquired them during one of my first trips to the zulu inthey both have the same dimensions, one of which is 1 mm thickeron one side, they have the same number of bulb nailscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethey are both very heavy and belonged to a zulu chief man, with whom i built up a fine friendship over the yearsit is a real pair, but not in the mirror, which is also very rarethis type of earplugs was worn by both the men and womeni acquired this couple in the msingha district near the tugela riverthe dimensions of this pair are 63 x 11 mmthe correct dimensions are 75 x 17 mm and 71 x 17 mmare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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Originally, these earplugs were made and worn by men who worked in the minesthe earplug in which 4 round nails are in the middle is a very rare type, completely out of woodthe earplugs were always made by men, among the zuluthe first pair is a black pair, decorated with a round iron naildimensions: the black wooden pair: 60 x 10 mm approxthe wooden with the four round nails in the middle: 60 x 12 mmthe two others: 54 x 10 mmour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis is the first original type of earplugs that the zulu men woreit often happened that the owner of the earplugs lost one and then had another madean extensive english documentation will be included for the buyerare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe other two are perspex earplugs, but no pairslater on, the earplugs were brought back to their residences, and the women continued the tradition of wearing them
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Miners safety lamps were traditionally used to provide illumination in coal mines and were designed with an enclosed flame to operate in areas which may contain coal dust or gasesthey also became a good way of measuring methane in the mine atmosphereapprox 6 inches highappears to be a wick inside - need to unscrew the bottom off to get inside which then separates the glass from the metalthis authentic functional vintage brass miners lamps are designed by the manufacturers of the famous 'cambrian' approved flame safety lampalso referred to as davy lamps, they are beautifully made and are very wind resistantsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresupplied by e thomas & williams, miners lamps walesthese mining lamps are not intended as a safety lamp in real mining situations, but are fully functional for personal usetheir combination of beauty, practicality, and heirloom quality puts them in a class of their owna perfect business or personal gift our welsh cambrian miners' lamps will be treasured for years to cometoday they are often used as marine lanterns or as wall mounted oil lamps in the home
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45 €
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'mining' features the derelict sites of old mines and some that have been preserved in south wales and midlothian, and in 'railways', fred describes his early passion for steam enginessee oxfam website for delivery information read more'mills and factories' finds fred recalling the glory days of the cotton milling factories in his home town of bolton, while in 'iron and steel', fred pops along to ironbridge and sheffieldfinally, in 'ships and shipbuilding', fred visits the ss great britain and pays tribute to his hero, isambard kingdom bruneloxfam shop dorchester bluff yorkshire craftsman fred dibnah sets out to document britain's industrial heritage in this acclaimed bbc series'wind, water and steam' sees fred investigating one of the earliest forms of power still employed in suffolk and cumbria
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Parties will traverse through both familiar and seldom-glimpsed locations, using an innovative turn-based battle system as they fight, encountering the demonic balrog in the mines of moria, defending the fallen city of osgiliath, or trying to destroy helm's deepplayers battle on the side of the fellowship, but can unlock additional encounters where they fight on the side of sauron as they progresssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe lord the rings, the third age, is being developed by ea's redwood shores studio, the same studio that developed the hit the lord of the rings; the return of the king gameoxfam bookshop hexham based on new line cinema and peter jackson's acclaimed film adaptations of jin the game, players will interact with the characters of the fellowship in a unique structure, taking on individual quests while intersecting the major events of the film trilogy that drive the story forwardtolkien's classic the lord of the rings trilogy, the lord of the rings, the third age videogame allows players to adventure through middle-earth, building a party of heroes as they journey
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And a future which draws her ever closer to werner, a german orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the hitler youththe miniature of a paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home'for marie-laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazessee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the nazis invade paristhe microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the museum of natural historyin this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories ofmarie-laure and werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one anotheroxfam bookshop cheltenham winner of the pulitzer prize for fictionnational book award finalistnew york times bestsellerwinner of the carnegie medal for fictiona beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind french girl and a german boy whose paths collide in occupied france as both try to survive the devastation of world war ii'open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever
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9ct gold rings all hallmarked this flower one is tanzanite the separate stone is tanzanite and is brand new they are all in vgc other small diamonds tanzanite is now coming to an end as the mines are running out they are ÂŁ145 each or two for ÂŁ275 read more
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On the wild cornish coast stands the grand estate of penmarric with its stately house, sweeping land and prosperous minesall twelve episodes of the bbc period drama series based on the bestselling cornish family saga by susan howatchsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop swanage as newit offers wealth and power - but it can also destroy those who seek to become its mastermartic c thurley, annabel leventon and rupert frazer star
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Oxfam bookshop carlisle label: stateside ?- ssl , stateside ?- 1e format: vinyl, lp, album country: uk released: genre:rock tracklist a1 feeling alright 3:36 a2 lady samantha 2:51 a3 dreaming isn't good for you 2:19 a4 a change is gonna come 2:17 a5 eli's coming 2:43 b1 easy to be hard 3:10 b2 ai'nt that a lot of love 2:17 b3 king solomon's mines 2:25 b4 circle for a landing 2:20 b5 celebrate 3:14 vinyl/sleeve  vg /g see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Liner note author: caradog prichardwelsh national anthemrelease date: 6 januaryformat: cd (1 disc)
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham russian playwright and historian radzinsky mines  sources never before available to create a  fascinating portrait of the monarch, and a  minute-by-minute account of his terrifying last days see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The doctor and sarah are arrested by ortron for trespassing on sacred ground but their names are cleared by alpha centauri, now galactic federation ambassador to peladona ghost-like image of aggedor has been responsible for some deaths in the planet's trisilicate mines, heightening unrest amoungst the minersoxfam music shop byres road the tardis returns to peladon some fifty years after the doctor's last visiteckersley flees, taking the queen hostage, but the doctor uses the real aggedor to track him down, eckersley is killed, but aggedor also dies in the skirmishthe doctor is invited by thalira to take over as chancellor but he declines, suggesting the miners' leader gebek would make a better candidatesee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe planet is now ruled by queen thalira - daughter of the last king peladon - with advice from chancellor ortronthe doctor however turns the heat ray on some of the martians, while others are dispatched by the minersits plans thwarted, galaxy 5 surrenders to the federationazaxyr mounts an attack on the throne room and kills ortroneckersley is in league with a group of renegade martian warriors, led by commander azaxyr, in a plot to seize the trisilicate deposits for galaxy 5, a power bloc at war with the federationthe doctor discovers that the apparitions are really the result of the use of a matter projector and a directional heat ray by a human engineer, eckersley
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4 €
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Flyer maps on coal minesgood internal condition (with old traces of foxing on some pages) (488+ tables, 459 + tables, 462 + tables) more information is available on liègethe books contain 4 prints (double) and a double folding map cemathias guillaume de louvrez ()our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemayor, magistrate, then diplomat and historian in liège read more3 large volumes (folio) hardcover, fabric back, blue marbled dishes beautiful engravingsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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His novels encompass an array of times and places from the early days of egypt to the mines of the california gold rushhis fiercely accurate narratives range across the whole spectrum of human achievement, highlighting the greatest characters and the most decisive moments in historydrawing on his own experiences fighting in the crimean war and as a foreign correspondent in europe and africa, henty fashioned stories that combined realism and what he called a manly tone, with admiration for british strength and couragesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreon his victorious afghan expeditiona tale of the british in the second afghan war in , with field-marshal lord roberts of kandahar, vgeorge alfred henty () was a victorian literary phenomenon whose 144 books and myriad short stories have long enthralled adults and children alike
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Hard back book, no dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethere is some pencil annotation on the title and contents pages, otherwise the book is clean and free of damageoxfam bookshop knutsford second edition
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham in the s, at the height of america's great depression, drury pifer's father, a newly-married mining engineer, followed his obsession with rocks, stones and mineral formations to the mysterious mines of south africaan american idealist with progressive ideas about pay and working conditions, he found himself caught between the insular hostility of the afrikaners and the colonial arrogance of the englishit was here that drury pifer's parents, unprepared for the prison-camp conditions and ugly prejudice they would encounter, tried to raise their familysee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis adopted country was a place of primitive mining settlements, stinging desert winds, locust plagues, rats in the water supply, bullying bosses and terrible povertythis is an evocation of a south african boyhood, by a boy who never belongedracial hatred had been given a name and enforced by law: apartheid
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At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: romulus to gladiator school, fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of a most powerful man in rome, and their mother to the salt minesoxfam bookshop cheltenham historical fictionhe rises to become one of the most famous and feared gladiators of his day and mentor to the boy slave, romulus, who dreams night and day of escape and of revengeromulus and fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken noblemansee oxfam website for delivery information read morebrennus is a gaul; the romans killed his entire familytarquinius is an etruscan, a warrior and soothsayer, enemy of rome, but doomed to fight for the republic in the forgotten legionthe lives of these four characters are bound and interwoven in a marvelous story which begins in a rome riven by corruption, violence and political enmities, but ends far away, at the very edge of the known world, where romulus, brennus and tarquinius find themselves fighting against the parthians and overwhelming odds
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Overviews of european base metal metallurgy metal mining and exploration are included, as are regional geological syntheses - in addition to detailed descriptions of deposits and active minesthe book is a welcome addition to the specialized literature at a time when worldwide aggressive exploration efforts have also reached europeno internal markingssee oxfam website for delivery information read morehb, good, a heavy pp 551 with associated map presentoxfam shop balham the book entitled europe's major base metal deposits, which resulted from an irish association of economic geology (iaeg) conference held in dublin during may of , reminds the reader that the mining industry is important in a number of european countriesintended as a synopsis of europes base metal deposit geology, and of interest to those engaged in exploration and mining, ore deposit research, governmental activities and all students of economic geology
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Sauron's black riders are on their trail as they travel to rivendell, attempt to cross the snow-swept misty mountains and, in desperation, enter the terrifying mines of moriaoxfam shop colne road with its first broadcast on bbc radio 4 on march , this dramatised tale of middle earth became an instant global classicas new in shelfworn jewel casebrian sibley's famous adaptation has been divided into three corresponding parts, with newly-recorded beginning and end narration by ian holm, who now stars as bilbo in the feature films based on the lord of the ringspart one, the fellowship of the ring, introduces us to frodo bagginsit boasts a truly outstanding cast including ian holm (as frodo), sir michael hordern (as gandalf), robert stephens (as aragorn), bill nighy (as sam gamgee) and john le mesurier (as bilbo)see oxfam website for delivery information read morewith his uncle bilbo having mysteriously disappeared, frodo finds himself in possession of a simple gold ring that has great and evil powerfrodo must do everything he can to prevent this, and with the help of gandalf the wizard and a band of loyal companions he begins a perilous journey across middle-earthit is the ruling ring, taken long ago from the dark lord, sauron, who now seeks to possess it again
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Easy to play and addictive fun, red alert puts the fate of the world in your handssee oxfam website for delivery information read morered alert boasts 30 new gameplay features over c&c, including thieves, medics, attack dogs, spies, land mines, paratroopers, submarines and enhanced aithe sequel to command & conquer, red alert literally rips up the history books, telling the story of a world war ii in which the soviet empire, not hitler's nazis, threaten the peace of the free worldrepelling the onslaught requires the perfect combination of deep thinking for a long-term strategic war and razor sharp reflexes for real-time combatred alert is also compatible with playstation mouse and is linkable so you can join two playstations together for two player head-to-head actionoxfam shop chequer street command and conquer red alert gives you the opportunity to be more devious, cunning and ruthless than ever before
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Kids, tweens, teens and parents can traverse the misty mountains, explore the mines of moria, knock on the black gate of mordor, and partake in epic battles with orcs, uruk-hai, the balrog and other fearsome foes while harnessing the humour and imagination of lego gameplay to solve puzzles and explore middle-earthplayers will take on the form of their favourite members of the fellowship - frodo the hobbit, aragorn the ranger, gandalf the wizard, legolas the elf, gimli the dwarf, boromir a man of gondor, and frodo's hobbit friends sam, merry and pippin - as they relive the most momentous events from the filmsoxfam shop scarborough used - disc in good playable condition ---------------------- lego the lord of the rings is based on the lord of the rings motion picture trilogy and follows the original storylines of the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring, the lord of the rings: the two towers, and the lord of the rings: the return of the kingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morelego the lord of the rings takes players along on the adventures of frodo baggins and his unlikely fellowship as they set out on a perilous journey to destroy the one ring and save middle-earthnow the entire family can team up in pairs as adorable lego the lord the rings minifigures to experience countless dangers, solve riddles and battle formidable foes on their journey to mount doom
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The remarkable story of the visionaries, the men and their machines and how they boldly challenged the formidable arctic winter to build one of the world's most unique transportation links - the tibbitt to contwoyto winter road - 600 kilometres of ice, rock and tundra to the silver, gold and diamond mines of canada's arcticpublished in lavishly illustrated with many colour photographs in very good condition see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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29 €