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In the despair of a japanese pow camp on the burma death railway, surgeon dorrigo evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earliersee oxfam website for delivery information read morehailed as a masterpiece, richard flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truthstruggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life foreveroxfam shop dumfries ***winner of the man booker prize *** forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the line, and the rest of humanity, who were not
3 €
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In , the railway became part of lmsfollowing completion in , oban developed as a fashionable resort, though economically the railway was never really profitablecallander had been reached in by the dunblane, doune and callander railway (soon to be absorbed into scottish central railways and then caledonian railway)oxfam bookshop hexham the callander & oban railway company was formed in with the objective of linking callander, scotland to the west coast port of oban over challenging terrain, particularly at glen ogle and the pass of brander at loch awesee oxfam website for delivery information read morestarting in , the single track line passed killin in , reaching tyndrum in and dalmally inthis hardcover first edition was published by david & charles, newton abbot, devon, englandthe spine is also sunnedthe brown cloth boards are gilt stamped on the spinethis volume contains 200 pages of black and white photos and a colour frontispiecethe corners and the top and foot of the spine are bumpedits overall condition is reasonable, although the dustjacket is priceclipped, rubbed, grubby and creasedthe text block appears to be clean and unmarked
21 €
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Vintage friend of the burma star association brooch, diameter 46mm, read more
7 €
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A facinating book of the "portishead branch railway line" dated in very good conditioninteresting subject at present due to the present interest in the opening of this wonderfull scenic railway224 pages with many photographs taken over the yearsmany images and indepth detail of this branch that should reopen soon
5 €
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The great western railway game - board gamesystem between the wars(god`s wonderful railway)suitable for 2-6 players with references to all things gcomplete with all tokens, playing cards and large map game board
3 €
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Oxfam bookshop reading the essential and influential guide covering the practical, emotional and spiritual aspects of death and dying, now in its fifth edition completely revised and expanded, the natural death handbook now includes a collection of essays by eminent writers, and a directory of uk and ireland natural burial grounds, progressive funeral directors and suppliers of green coffins and urns 3 paperbacks in a cardboard case see oxfam website for delivery information read more
19 €
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Oxfam books & music fareham this book was first published by the great western railway in to enhance the enjoyment of their passengers on the 305 mile journey from paddington to penzancesee oxfam website for delivery information read moremaps, line drawings and information about the towns and villages describe the glorious countryside of southern england that could be seen from the windows of the cornish riviera express1st thus paperback published by peninsula press inin very good used condition
24 €
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The book contains a small sticker and handwritten note from previous owner on the first page, but there is only minor wear to the laminate dust jacket and hard coveroxfam bookshop lower petergate a very good copy of this full color pictorial showcasing the western maryland railway's operations from , the first full year of dieselisation, through , the last year that the wm was operationally independentsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
80 €
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All aboard! for glacier the great northern railway and glacier national park by c w guthrie (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 10 to 12 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
12 €
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Ex gwr - lydham manor, - working the torbay steam railway - europa card b7 (see scan for further details) stamps: card issued: cancel: condition: clean - as in scan postal discounts always available on multiple purchases read more
2 €
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham history of the great western railway volume 3: wartime and the final years see oxfam website for delivery information read more
3 €
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Title: history of the great western railway – volumes 1 & 2 author: eif you require any further details, information, etcmacdermot book types: hard back both books are in very good conditioni will consider selling separatelyplease do not hesitate to contact me
25 €
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This book is a celebration of the great western railwayreads like new book and is a souvenir editionillustrated throughout with good condition dust cover
25 €
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The slow death of british industry a sixty-year suicide , nicholas comfdispatched with royal mail 2nd classcondition is good
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The documentaries included are: 'year zero - the silent death of cambodia'; 'nicaragua - a nation's right to survive'; 'burp! pepsi vs coke in the ice cold war'; 'flying the flag - arming the world'; 'vietnam - the quiet mutiny'; death of a nation - the timor conspiracy'; 'inside burma - land of fear'; 'welcome to australia'; 'paying the price: killing the children of iraq'; 'palestine is still the issue'; 'breaking the silence: truth and lies in the war on terror'; and 'stealing a nation' in excellent conditionalso included is interview footage with pilger from the guardian hay literary festivaloxfam shop inverness twelve documentaries from the campaigning journalist john pilger, exposing the west's continued exploitation of the third world, and criticising the military interventions of western governments, from cambodia to iraq see oxfam website for delivery information read more
9 €
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Taken prisoner he was sent to a pow camp deep in the heart of the thai jungle, where he was starved, beaten, and forced to build the notorious 'railway of death' on the river kwaiby he was a soldier surrendering to the japanese at the siege of singapore
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Oxfam bookshop royal exchange square york, winter, - two brothers have been shot to deathmeanwhile, jim stringer meets the lost luggage porter, humblest among the employees of the north eastern railway companybut then in a tiny, one-room pub with a badly smoking fire he enters the orbit of a dangerous, disturbed villain who is playing for much higher stakessee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe tells jim a tale which leads him to the roughest part of town, a place where the police constables always walk in twosjim is off on the trail of pickpockets, 'station loungers' and other small fry of the york underworld
(England)
3 €
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Produced as the british railway network was reaching its zenith, and as tourism by rail became a serious pastime for the better off, it was the first national tourist guide specifically organized around railway journeys, and to this day offers a glimpse through the carriage window at a britain long pastthis is a facsimile of the actual book - often referred to as 'bradshaw's guide' - that inspired the 'great british railway journeys' television series, possibly the only surviving example of the editionoxfam shop dumfries collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of britain in the s - bradshaw's handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophileit is an exact copy with a removable belly-bandsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
7 €
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death star™ final duelrelive all the iconic death star scenes with the death star ultimate collectors series kitbuild the ultimate planet destroyer and relive the key battle between luke skywalker and his father, darth vader
559 €
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Oxfam shop cotham hill the nene valley railway is a standard-gauge steam railway running over 5 miles through nene park, between wansford and orton mere, peterboroughit has many steam locomotives and - built to an international loading gauge - it offers the unique spectacle of british, french, danish, german, swedish and norwegian locomotives and stock on the same railway there is very slight bumping and rubbing to the outer sleeve, but it is intact and otherwise in excellent condition a footplate ride on (double-headed with 656) starts with the sounds of stoking and whistling as they leave wansfordsee oxfam website for delivery information read moretracks: side 1 1 on a busy platform at wansford station, the guard checks the doors of a train and blows his whistle, to be answered by the locomotive's whistlethe lp and inner sleeve are in excellent condition the southern region 4-6-0 'greene king' passes the site of old castor station at speedis heard from various lineside locations the sounds heard in a footplate ride on recorded from the guards van, immediately behind the smoke box of , we hear the train leaving orton mere and coasting into ferry meadows station the turbo generator of is heard, followed by its pump set a lineside recording near castor of 'greene king' as she pulls uphill towards wansford the air pump of , followed by that of 656, is heard listening in the signal box at wansford, the double-headed swedish tanks and are heard passing with a train following her return to wansford can be heard passing through the station, 'light' on the far track
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9 €
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham the first five series of the tv show presented by michael portillo that traces historic railway journeys across britainportillo travels to destinations including holyhead, newcastle, york and sheffield, stopping to visit historic landmarks and to talk to those whose lives have been changed by the railway systemthe second series sees the former politician take as his guide 'bradshaw's handbook', a pamphlet on the burgeoning british railway system written by 19th-century cartographer and publisher george bradshawsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein the first series portillo sets out to chart how the nation's love affair with the railways began, travelling from liverpool to scarborough, preston to kirkcaldy, swindon to penzance and buxton to london, amongst other journeysin the third, fourth and fifth series portillo traces more historic rail journeys across britain including 'great yarmouth to beccles', 'darsham to felixstowe', 'sudbury to southend', 'ballymoney to derry', 'high wycombe to stratford-upon-avon', 'woking to clapham junction', 'london victoria to abbey wood', 'stirling to invergowrie', 'manchester to birkenhead', 'southport to leyland', 'preston to rochdale', 'haworth to huddersfield', 'honley to chesterfield', 'london euston to cheddington', 'bletchley to newport pagnell', 'northampton to nuneaton', 'leicester to loughborough', 'nottingham to leeds', 'southampton to basingstoke', 'winchfield to crowthorne', 'wokingham to bradford on avon', 'chippenham to gloucester', 'cheltenham to wolverhampton', 'norwich to brandon', 'ipswich to chelmsford', 'ilford to rochester', 'faversham to dorking' and 'brighton to chichester'
50 €
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Children aged 3 and up will love becoming aquainted with beloved characters such as percy, james, gordon, and toby down on the fat controller's railwayoxfam shop regent street bristol the ultimate gift for fans of thomas the tank engine! this elegant boxset brings together all 26 books, in hardback, from the original railway seriesnow millions of people across the world have grown up with the tales of sodor island, enchanted by the adventures of thomas and his friends, percy, gordon, and toby, and all the other engines that work on the fat controller's railwaya nostalgic offering to share between generations and a real collector's item that makes a delightful present for new babies who are sure to grow up to be firm thomas fansthomas the tank engine has been delighting generations of children for over 70 yearsawdry to entertain his son when he had measlesit all began as a story made up by the reverand whave you met them all? see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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19 €
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The foundations to every railway setthe original wooden railway! brio created the first wooden railway inmanufactured to brio's high standards and from fsc certified woodsuitable for ages 3 years and up
2 €
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Classic railway prints by the doyen of railway artists,philip d hawkins gwidely accepted to be one of the finest railway artists everlargest entitled ‘crewe elegance’ limited edition , signed by artist frame size x 25 inches print size 23 x 17 inches second largest entitled ‘battle at brickyard crossing’ limited edition , signed by artist frame size 29 x inches print size 20 x 17 inches smallest entitled duchess of the night frame size x 21 inches print size 15 x 14 inches all prints by philip d hawkins gthe two larger prints are limited editions and signed by the artist
75 €
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Classic railway prints by the doyen of railway artists,philip d hawkins gwidely accepted to be one of the finest railway artists everthe two large prints are limited editions and signed by the artistlargest entitled ‘crewe elegance’ limited edition , signed by artist frame size x 25 inches print size 23 x 17 inches second largest entitled ‘battle at brickyard crossing’ limited edition , signed by artist frame size 29 x inches print size 20 x 17 inches all prints by philip d hawkins g
60 €
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Pilatus railwaythe brünig railway from lucerne to interlakenenglish translation of ‘la tour eiffel de 300 mètres’, the first work on the tower built for the world's fairillustrations, six plates leiner50 p illustrations, six platesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethun and the lake of thunfrontispiece, illustrations, one illustrated double pagezurich, 40 p illustrations, five platesgaston tissander the eiffel tower a description of the monument, its construction, its machinery, its object, and its utilityillustrations, plates / one double, without the mapcorners- hinges rubbed, one headband has a snag, back cover held with temporary sticky tape (easily removed), spotsstamped "sommet de la tour eiffelcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifüssli illustrations, seven plates / two doubles[) p illustrations, seven plates, one folding map in colourzurich, [ p illustrations, six plates / two foldingtogether with 10 brochures on switzerland: orell füssli & co - constance and its environsschauffhausen and the falls of the rhinethe rigi (lucerne vitznau railway)129 p illustrations, 10 plates, one folding colour plan, one mapthe lake of lucernezurich and its environsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website32 p illustrations, four platesthe illustration consists of a frontispiece, a facsimile of a letter from eiffel, cuts and nine plates included in the paginationlucerne and its environs
114 €
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'a compelling, authoritative insight into possibly the most controversial death in britain this century' the observer'this searing excavation of the mysterious death of dr david kelly is investigative journalism at its bestspooky and scary' evening standarda few months later, government scientist dr david kelly was unmasked by blair's officials as the assumed source of a bbc news report challenging this claima daily telegraph book of the yearwithin days, dr kelly was found dead in a wood near his homeblair immediately convened the controversial hutton inquiry, which concluded dr kelly committed suicidesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit is brave, relentless, dazzlingly revealing' peter oborneyet key questions remain: could dr kelly really have taken his life in the manner declared? and why did blair's government derail the coroner's inquest into dr kelly's death? in this meticulous account, award-winning journalist miles goslett shows why we should be sceptical of the official story of what happened in that desperate summer ofoxfam bookshop cheltenham paperback edition includes an afterword with new information on the kelly casethis book made me proud of my trade as a journalist' daily mail'goslett's like poirot; he asks questionsin march british forces invaded iraq after tony blair said the country could deploy weapons of mass destruction at 45 minutes' notice
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He was still in his teens when he began photographing the extension work to britain's last main line railway - the great central railwaysignificantly, in addition to photographing the railway and its associated features, he also recorded rural life in the villages along the course of the line
25 €
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Oxfam shop hexham a striking wood-effect plaque commemorating the oldest preserved railway in the world, talyllyn railway, in earth-toned and metallic paintsee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome chips in the plaster on the back, but none on the display facewould be a lovely decorative piece for any history enthusiast
29 €
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Steam railway bookssouthern “steam specials” by john h bird, printed lbscr “stock book” by peter cooper, printed the great western railway in east cornwall by allan bennett, printed each read more
15 €