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Yambo struggles through the frames to find at last the face of the girl he loves: she descends the stairs of their high school and morphs into a dante-esque promise (or threat) of the afterlife, as he struggles harder to capture her simple, innocent, real-life image - the schoolgirl he never forgotsigned by author on title pagecopiously illustrated throughout with images from comics, book jackets, record sleeves and other printed ephemera, the mysterious flame is a fascinating and hugely entertaining new novel from the incomparable umberto ecobut a relapse occursyambo, a sixty-ish rare book dealer who lives in milan has suffered a loss of memory; not the kind of memory neurologists call 'semantic' (yambo remembers all about julius caesar and can recite every poem he has ever read), but rather his 'autobiographical' memory: he no longer knows his own name, doesn't recognize his wife or his daughters, doesn't remember anything about his parents or his childhoodas he recovers his memory, two voids remain shrouded in fog: a terrible event he experienced during the resistance, and the vague image of a girl whom he loved at sixteen, then lostthe dustjacket shows very minor shelf wear onlyoxfam bookshop bath a hardback in very good conditionhis wife, who is at his side as he slowly begins to recover, convinces him to return to his family home in the hills somewhere between milan and turinnow in a coma, his memories run wild, and life racing before his eyes takes the form of a graphic novelsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremultiple colour illustrationsyambo promptly retreats to the sprawling attic, cluttered with boxes of newspapers, comics, records, photo albums and adolescent diariesthe red cloth boards with gold illustration and text are in very good conditionthe pages are clean and tight and appear unreadthere, he relives the story of his generation: mussolini, catholic education and guilt, josephine baker, flash gordon, cyrano de bergerac
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Hi this is bailey whoās 8 months old, through no fault of his own he needs a home where some one will be with him all the time as at the moment my dads really ill in hospital and trying to be there for him and working and looking after my kids bailey aināt getting what he needs he is microchipped and has had all of his vacations and will come with his paper workthis is not a decision iāve made easily but with my dad being really ill and needing a lot of care iām having to put him first and then bailey 2nd in the hope he finds a home that can be there for him all the timeheās an amazing dog and lovely around kids as i have an 12 and 13 year oldhe is a lovely baby who loves snuggling up under the bedcovers at night and loves going for walks he loves car rides and buseshe will come with biscuits and dog food and leads and harnesses and toys and his fave teddy iām doing this so bailey can have a home not filled with distribution like it is at the momenti wonāt let him go to just any one and will be welcoming people to come and see him in the garden to play with him so i can see how u get on with himi would prefer if he didnāt go with a home with a cat as we have a cat and he is always annoying the cat poor thing
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This is not a decision iāve made easily but with my dad being really ill and needing a lot of care iām having to put him first and then bailey 2nd in the hope he finds a home that can be there for him all the timeheās an amazing dog and lovely around kids as i have an 12 and 13 year oldhe is a lovely baby who loves snuggling up under the bedcovers at night and loves going for walks he loves car rides and busesif your profile doesnāt have a profile picture i wonāt even consider you as i wanna check the new owners out fully hi this is bailey whoās 8 months old, through no fault of his own he needs a home where some one will be with him all the time as at the moment my dads really ill in hospital and trying to be there for him and working and looking after my kids bailey aināt getting what he needs he is microchipped and has had all of his vacations and will come with his paper workhe will come with biscuits and dog food and leads and harnesses and toys and his fave teddy iām doing this so bailey can have a home not filled with distribution like it is at the momentwould love some one near by so we can visit and my dad can when heās better i paid over Ā£700 for bailey when i first homes him and spent more since owning him read morei wonāt let him go to just any one and will be welcoming people to come and see him in the garden to play with him so i can see how u get on with himi would prefer if he didnāt go with a home with a cat as we have a cat and he is always annoying the cat poor thing
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Bert is a typical terrier so he needs an experienced home that will keep him in check and not let him rule the roosthe is also housetrainedfor the right owner he will be a cracking little dogbert is a rescue dog currently in kennels in south yorkshire bert is a male patterdale terrier, around 5 years old and already fully vaccinated and neuteredhe needs plenty of exercise and rules and boundarieshe has come from a home where he went on caravan holidays so is a good traveller and enjoys his adventureshe needs to be an only dog, not suitable for rehoming with cats and unfortunately no children under 15yrshe needs to know he is not in chargehe is a friendly boy and fusses everyone at first meeting
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As presenter of radio 4's today, the nation's most popular news programme, he is famed for his tough interviewing, his deep misgivings about authority in its many forms and his passionatecommitment to a variety of causesa day like today is both a sharp, shrewd memoir and a backstage account of the great newsworthy moments in recent history - from the voice behind the country's most authoritative microphonehumphrys pulls no punches and now, freed from the restrictions of being a bbc journalist, he reflects on the politicians he has interrogated and the controversies he has reported on and been involved in, including the interview that forced the resignation of his own boss, the director generaloxfam bookshop knutsford for more than three decades, millions of britons have woken to the sound of john humphrys' voicein typically candid style, he also weighs in on the role the bbc itself has played in our national life - for good and ill - and the broader health of the political system todayjohn was also the first journalist to present the nine o'clock news on televisiona day like today charts john's journey from the poverty of his post-war childhood in cardiff, leaving school at fifteen, to the summits of broadcastingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreĀ humphrys was the bbc's youngest foreign correspondent; he was the first reporter at the catastrophe of aberfan, an experience that marked him for ever; he was in the white house when richard nixon became the first american president to resign; in south africa during the dying years of apartheid; and in war zones around the globe throughout his career
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In good conditionhe was promoted to commander, but took half-pay in and took the opportunity to explore the regionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteincluding frontispiece and folding map of patagoniahe travelled with a tribe of patagonian indians for around a yearthe following year he joined the navyfrom to he served in the sloop hms stromboli off the coast of south americaplates are completegeorge chaworth musters - at home with the patagonians: a year's wanderings over untrodden ground from the straits of magellan to the rio negro - the very rare first editiongreen cloth binding with gilt printin he went on a tour of southern spain with his uncle philip and brother johncatawikiās goal is to make special objects universally availablehe served in hms algiers from and saw action in the crimean war, receiving the english and turkish crimean medalsāgeorge chaworth musters was born in naples, where his parents were travelling(nd ed, ), and led to his being awarded a gold watch in by the royal geographical societyhe was orphaned by the age of 4, and was cared for by his uncles captain philip hamond, and robert nicholas hamondhis nickname 'the king of patagonia' also dates from this timeā read moreour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonāt find in just any storehis explorations were the subject of his book at home with the patagonianare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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When news of william's invention spread, people from across the globe offered to help himone day, browsing the titles, he picked up a book about energy, with a picture of a wind turbine on the front coveronly 2 per cent of malawi has electricity; william's windmill now powers the lightbulbs and radio for his compoundridiculed by those around him, and exhausted from his work in the fields every day, and using nothing more than bits of scrap metal, old bicycle parts and wood from the blue gum tree, he slowly built his very own windmillsoon he was re-enrolled in college and travelling to america to visit wind farmsmalawi is a country battling aids, drought and famine, and in , a season of floods, followed by the most severe famine in fifty years, brought it to its kneesthis windmill has changed the world in which william and his family livethis is his incredible storyoxfam bookshop cheltenham now a major motion pictured directed by and starring chiwetel ejiofor - available on netflixwhen william kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm - they could no longer afford his feesforced to leave school at 14 years old, with no hope of raising the funds to go again, william resorted to borrowing books from the small local library to continue his educationwilliam's dream is that other african's will learn to help themselves - one windmill and one light bulb at a time - and that maybe one day they will be able to power their own computers, and use the internet, and see for themselves how his life has changed after picking up that book in the libraryhe has since built more windmills for his school and his villageby the end of , after many lean and difficult years, there was no more cropsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethey were running out of food - had nothing to sell - and had months until they would be able to harvest their crop againfascinated by science and electricity, but knowing little more about the technology, william decided to build his ownthis is his story of how he found a way to make a difference, how he bought light to his family and village, and hope to his nationlike the majority of the population, william's family were farmersthey were totally reliant on the maize crop
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He recalls his first trip to germany with his newly single fatherin the morning, futh puts the episode behind him and sets out on his week-long circular walk along the rhineoxfam bookshop hertford winner of the mckitterick prizeshortlisted for the east midlands book awardshortlisted for the man booker prize shortlisted for new writer of the year in the specsavers national book awardsobserver book of the year the lighthouse begins on a north sea ferry, on whose blustery outer deck stands futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heading to germany for a restorative walking holidayhe is mindful of something he neglected to do there, an omission which threatens to have devastating repercussions for him this time aroundspending his first night in hellhaus at a small, family-run hotel, he finds the landlady hospitable but is troubled by an encounter with an inexplicably hostile barmanat the end of the week, futh, sunburnt and blistered, comes to the end of his circular walk, returning to what he sees as the sanctuary of the hellhaus hotel, unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absencesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreas he travels, he contemplates his childhood; a complicated friendship with the son of a lonely neighbour; his parents' broken marriage and his ownbut the story he keeps coming back to, the person and the event affecting all others, is his mother and her abandonment of him as a boy, which left him with a void to fill, a substitute to find
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VijƱana) and the teaching of consciousness as the only realityin the sutra, the buddha asserts that all the objects of the world, and the names and forms of experience, are merely manifestations of the mind: on the contrary my teaching is based upon the recognition that the objective world, like a vision, is a manifestation of the mind itself; it teaches the cessation of ignorance, desire, deed and causality; it teaches the cessation of suffering that arises from the discrimination of the triple worldbecause the world is seen as being "mind-only" or "consciousness-only", all phenomena are void, empty of self (atman) and illusory: there are four things by the fulfilling of which an earnest disciple may gain self-realisation of noble wisdom and become a bodhisattva-mahasattva: first, he must have a clear understanding that all things are only manifestations of the mind itself; second, he must discard the notion of birth, abiding and disappearance; third, he must clearly understand the egolessness of both things and personsthe most important doctrine issuing from the lankavatara sutra is that of the primacy of consciousness (sktoxfam bookshop bloomsbury street the lankavatara sutra draws upon the concepts and doctrines of yogacara and buddha-natureas to the second; he must recognise and be convinced that all things are to be regarded as forms seen in a vision and a dream, empty of substance, un-born and without self-nature; that all things exist only by reason of a complicated network of causationhe must recognise and accept the fact that this triple world is manifested and imagined as real only under the influence of habit-energy that has been accumulated since the beginningless past by reason of memory, false-imagination, false-reasoning, and attachments to the multiplicities of objects and reactions in close relationship and in conformity to ideas of body-property-and-abodeas to the first; he must recognise and be fully convinced that this triple world is nothing but a complex manifestation of one's mental activities; that it is devoid of selfness and its belongings; that there are no strivings, no comings, no goingsas to the third; he must recognise and patiently accept the fact that his own mind and personality is also mind-constructed, that it is empty of substance, unborn see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop st albans on a rainy night, a man gives a teenage girl a lift home, but the girl he picks up isn't the same one he drops offthe next morning he's gone from good samaritan to murder suspect, and with one girl dead and another missing, he's suddenly at the centre of a deadly puzzle that reaches right to the heart of the town - from its bullying police force to its strangely furtive mayor - and finally to one family's shocking secretsee oxfam website for delivery information read morebestseller linwood barclay hooks the reader from page one with this suspense masterpiecewhen cal weaver stops at a red light on a rainy night while driving home, he ignores the bedraggled-looking teenage girl trying to hitch a ride - even when she starts tapping on his windowbut nothing prepares him for the consequences of trying to help her outbut when he realises she's one of his son's classmates, he knows he can't really leave her, alone, on the street
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Bookblock slightly loose after first quireplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteit filled him with disgustin original gilt-decorated hardcoverjust like his father, he showed himself very friendly towards livingstonein september livingstone retraced the journey back, but it took almost a year before he reached linyanti againafter a journey of km through largely unknown territory, livingstone reached luanda where the he was warmly received by the portuguesehe gave him a group of 27 makololos to accompany him on his journeycatawikiās goal is to make special objects universally availablethere he met the new king, sekeletu, son of sebituaneafter following the zambezi almost as far as the source, he headed west towards the coastcomplete with frontispiece, engraving on title page, 4 engravings and map wikipedia: david livingstone (blantyre near glasgow, 19 march - chitambo on lake bangweulum, 1 may ) was a scottish missionary and one of the most famous explorers in livingstone headed north from cape town towards the makololo settlement of linyanti (now in northern botswana)here he arrived in portuguese territory (angola) and came into contact with the slave trade for the first timeour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonāt find in just any storelivingstone left upstream on the zambezi in januarydavid livingstone - the life and explorations of david livingstone - london, adam & company, not dated ( pp - cm condition: goodare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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We moved house not long ago and since moving he hasnāt been able to get enough exercise indoors and itās had to be mainly outdoors (my landlord isnāt over the moon about having pets, so very restricted on what we can do indoors etcand comes with everythingthis is a very sad sale and iād ideally want him to go to a family, so he gets all the attention and can have a lot more exercise) anyway, heās an indoor rabbit, not aggressive in the slightest and has been brought up with two childrenheās litter trainedpatch the rabbit, is a male rabbit, heās had his injections etci just havenāt got the time or the space to give him all the attention he needs anymoreand will be one in february, he comes with a cage and an outdoor run etc
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He's 10 months old and already a very large dog but he's very affectionate, gentle and lovinghe's up to date with vaccinations, flea treatment and is microchippedhe's been bought up around children and is fully house trainedhe loves long walks and running about in a garden so ideally someone with a lot of spacehes absolutely perfect on the lead when walkingsadly we're having to rehome duke due to no fault of his own, but i've rdcently found out i'm pregnant and my husbands going away on tour with the forces so he won't be able to get the attention he deserves
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It would be amazing if he could find a new home today, we call him bruce, i did not breed him, he is six months old,we welcomed him to our home two months ago, he is microchipped, he has had his injections, wormed, fleed, he is very very bouncy, he runs through you rather than round you, we do not have any young children, but think he would knock them over, he is very strong willed, he is house trained, he sits, gives paw, rolls over, jumps on settee with you, he loves attention, and is growing so fast, we do not own any other dogs but he is ok with the ones he has met on his walks, he leaves with his toys, his bed and his dishes, lead, harness, bag of food, he would rather have tinned meat, but vet says dry better for his teeth, sad sale, but i have to go back to full time work, he needs more attention
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We also have a large floor to ceiling home made scratch post if it's any good for his new ownerhe's approx 16 months old, weighs 6kg and has beautiful markings as you can see in the picselvis is a lovely cat,tica registered full pedigree bengalhe is fed a raw diet with minced chicken being his favouritehe can play quite rough at times and be over enthusiastic hence requiring experienced owners that can handle bengals and give him more attention and interaction than we currently give him due to work commitmentsany food we have left will be given to you along with his toys and bowlshe's been neutered and up to date with his vaccinations and wormed and flea'dhe's a typical bengal in that he's highly intelligent, noisy and can even play fetch better than any dog i have ever seenhe brings the toy right to your outstretched hand! he thinks he is a dog and regularly wrestles with our neighbours 2 springer spaniels
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I will come n see the potential new owners homelooking for a home where he wont be left for long periods of timehe sleeps in a crate at night an this will come with himhe is an excitable boy who needs a knowledgeable owner8 month old male pug for salehe is good with older childrenwill also come with his lead, bowls, toys an foodhas to be the perfect owner for him who has knowledge of the breedas he is still only a puppyonly genuine enquires by phone will be acceptedhe loves his walks an to play with his toyshe is a lovely little dog who loves companyno time wasters, texts or emails please
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He is totally housetrained, good with other dogs and loves kidshe is probably best placed without cats although we have got him used to ours, he does like to try and chase cats outside, not to hurt them he just wants to playhe is a rescue dog and can be a bit lively and has a habit of mouthing new people, as he gets very excitedhe is being sold due to personal reasonshe loves everyone and wants to be right next to you all the timebruce is 7 years oldhe will come with his lead, harness and bowls
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He needs someone who is going to love him forever, to keep him inside because he craves company and loves to be near youtimmy was in a bit of a state when he came to me, he was all matted and thin but he let me brush him and clip the knots away without a problemif you think you could give timmy the home he needs please get in touch, any more questions or to arrange a viewing please message me, there will be a small fee to pay but that is to be discussed with a serious home offerthis gorgeous boy was given to me because his owner no longer wanted him, he's very nosey and is used to having a hop around the house
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Until he meets shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamasand in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible processall he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play withbruno's friendship with shmuel will take him from innocence to revelationoxfam shop thornbury what happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? nine year old bruno knows nothing of the final solution and the holocaustsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of europe by his country
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Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehe faces other supernatural enemies such as the angelus and witchbladein the dark, he has his own army of demons that he can deploy at willat 21, he inherits the curse of darknesscatawikiās goal is to make special objects universally available5-4 - witchblade / the darkness 05 - the darkness volume 2 #1 - the darkness: wanted dead one shot genre: horror jackie estacado is a hit man for the mafiain and , two games based on the series were publishedour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonāt find in just any storewritten by garth ennis (preacher), scott lobdell, paul jenkins and others drawing by marc silvestri (x-men, cyberforce, hunter/killer), david wohl; joe benitez (lady mechanika), dalke keown (hulk) published by top cow studios, softcover, third edition, pages; out of print good condition; slight crease in the spine; dog ear front right upper corner bundled are: - the darkness preview - the darkness volume - tales of the darkness #0his weaknesses are that the forces only work in darkness and that, once he conceives an heir, he will die immediatelyare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki
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In the anthology of pre-little rascals film shorts 'mickey the great' (), a young rooney stars as the cocky, self assured tough boy in a series of comic misadventures of a group of kids from toonerville, usaoxfam bookshop carlisle three films starring mickey rooney ()disc and case in very good conditionwhen he reaches the texan plains he is sheperded across by a ranger joe walter (robert preston) - but what he doesn't realise is that his brother patrick (robert stack) is in fact the notorious gunslinger el tigre - and it is walter's job to bring him insee oxfam website for delivery information read morein 'quicksand' (), motor mechanic dan brady (rooney) lacks funds for a heavy date with new waitress vera (jeanne cagney), the type whose life ambition is a fur coatin 'my outlaw brother' (), denny o'moore (rooney) is a naive young man heading into the mexican badlands to find the brother he has always idolisedhe embezzles a hundred dollars from his employer - and thereafter finds that every means he tries to get out of trouble only gets him deeper into crime
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Using a question and answer format, naoki explains things like why he talks loudly or repeats the same questions, what causes him to have panic attacks, and why he likes to jumpabundantly proving that people with autism do possess imagination, humour and empathy, he also makes clear how badly they need our compassion, patience and understandingthe book also features eleven original illustrations, inspired by naoki's words, by the artistic duo kai and sunnysee oxfam website for delivery information read moredavid mitchell and his wife have translated naoki's book so that it might help others dealing with autism and generally illuminate a little-understood condition'it will stretch your vision of what it is to be human' andrew solomon, the timeswritten by naoki higashida when he was only thirteen, this remarkable book provides a rare insight into the often baffling behaviour of autistic childrenit gives us an exceptional chance to enter the mind of another and see the world from a strange and fascinating perspectiveoxfam bookshop cheltenham the no1 sunday times and new york times bestsellerhe also shows the way he thinks and feels about his world - other people, nature, time and beauty, and himself
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Until he meets shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamasand in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible processall he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play withbruno's friendship with shmuel will take him from innocence to revelationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of europe by his countryoxfam bookshop hertford nine year old bruno knows nothing of the final solution and the holocaust
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Oxfam bookshop brigg nine year old bruno knows nothing of the final solution and the holocaustuntil he meets shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamasslight creasing on front coverand in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible processall he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play withbruno's friendship with shmuel will take him from innocence to revelationsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of europe by his country
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The jacket is rather age-worn, with rubbing of angles and folds, some chips and tears to edges, and general grubbiness, but is intacthowever, his passion was poetry, and he self-educated in the hope of eventually achieving a white-collar job which might allow him to write with greater freedomhis poetry shows his deep love of nature and wild-life, and he perhaps foreshadows the modern titan, seamus heaneyinside, the endpapers are very lightly browned, but clean; binding firm with no loose pages; pages clean and brightsometimes known as the "poet of the blackbirds", he was killed in action at the battle of passchendaele during world war ithe book itself, bound in black cloth, is in good condition, the exterior showing only pale patches at the tops of the covers and some minor bumping of corners with no frank damageborn to a poverty-stricken family, his education was minimal, and once old enough, he began to work at whatever job might be availableb/w frontispiece portrait of the poetfrancis edward ledwidge () was an irish war poet and soldier from county meathsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music islington francis ledwidge was ireland's major war poet, sometimes called "the poet of the blackbirds"title etc in rather faded gilt lettering on the spineedward john moreton drax plunkett, 18th baron of dunsany (), was an anglo-irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name lord dunsanyduring the s he was considered one of the greatest living writers of the english-speaking worldour book is in good general condition and, unusually, retains its dust jacket (unclipped)a keen trade unionist with connections to sinn fein, he joined the irish army in lord dunsany's regiment, saw action in italy and serbia, was sent to the front, and was killed near ypres, aged just 30
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He is mentioned in belgian art booksplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitehe found his inspiration in the antwerp kempenhe had a preference for portraits, people, landscapes and genre sceneshenri houben (antwerp ) was a belgian paintercatawikiās goal is to make special objects universally availablein , he became a professor at the academyan internationally renowned painterhis parents made him follow a musical education, though he started an āatelier de peinture et de musiqueā in his atticthe white horse - date unknownour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you wonāt find in just any storepossibly one of his rare early worksare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiat the end he was allowed to go to the academie in antwerp on the condition not to neglect his violin studies
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He went to local schools, then king's school, rochester and downing college, cambridgehe's my friend'nobody believes barney when he says he's discovered a boy living wild in the dump'this story has wonderful appeal' - guardian clive king was born in richmond, surrey inbut for barney, stif is totally realoxfam bookshop ipswich stig of the dump by clive king is 50 years old and the story of barney and his best friend, cave-man stig, is as fresh today as it was when first publishedwhen he was a baby his family moved to a village called ash, near sevenoaks in kent, which is the setting for stig of the dumpduring the war he served in the royal navy volunteer reserve and later joined the british councilthey become great friends, learn each other's ways and embark on a series of exciting adventureshe now lives in a cottage in norfolk, and has three children and several grandchildrensee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The main pagination of all four volumes is continuousit has been possible to identify virtually all the host of islands, channels and inlets that vancouver encountered, and the provenance of most of the approximately 400 place names he bestowed, nine out of ten of which are still in use, is indicatedthe third volume in the set includes the remainder of book 3, all book 4, part of book 5, covering the pacific coast of north america and return to hawaiithe volumes are nos in the hakluyt society second series, originally published in volume set hardbacksvery small tear to spine on volume iithe final volume contains the remainder of book 5 of a voyage of discoveryvolume i contains book 1 of this new and annotated edition of a voyage of discoverysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit was an achievement that places him with his mentor, cook, in the first rank of marine surveyorsthis is the first annotated edition of vancouver's journal as he revised it for publication inthe voyage to australia and tahitioxfam bookshop skipton four of the greatest maritime exploring expeditions were crammed into two decades late in the 18th century - cook's third voyage, the french expedition commanded by la perouse, the malaspina expedition sent out by spain, and george vancouver's voyage of discoveryall dust covers present (unclipped) some rubbing wear to dust coverthese supplement vancouver's narrative at many pointsall pages are very clean and crisp all solid bindingsappendices include documents relating to the voyage and a list of the ships' companyvancouver, by contrast, surveyed the enormous extent of coast from lower california to cook inlet, and his meticulous survey literally set out on the map of the world the intricacies of puget sound and the western coast of mainland canadaas a midshipman vancouver had been with cook when he discovered the sandwich (hawaiian) islands inthe original manuscript has disappeared, but fortunately no fewer than 25 partial or complete logs or journals by other members of the expedition have survivedall four visited the northwest coast of north america, but weather and circumstances prevented cook from making more than what beaglehole calls ' a magnificent, an epoch-making reconnaissance'; la perouse only touched the coast in a significant way at yakutat bay and lituya bay, and malasina's memorable visits were to yakutat bay and nootka soundit covers the coast of north americathey attracted his interest, and the attention he devoted to the islands, their inhabitants and their political future when he twice later wintered there will surprise manyvolume ii continue with book 2 and part of book 3 of the new edition, and contains the voyage to hawaii and the north american coast
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When he washes up unconscious on the shores of a mysterious island, he is awakened by the sound of a fairy's voicethe epic story of the legend of zelda: the wind waker continues as link finds himself lost and alone in unknown seas in a new adventureset sail for adventure in the legend of zelda: phantom hourglass! see oxfam website for delivery information read morefeaturing intuitive touch screen controls and innovative puzzles, the legend of zelda: phantom hourglass offers new challenges for fans of the series and an easy-to-grasp introduction for gamers new to the legend of zeldaoxfam shop redruth the legend of zelda phantom hourglassĀ for the nintendo dsbut time grows short, and only the phantom hourglass can buy link the minutes he'll need to survivefeaturing the cel-shaded style of its predecessor and simple yet effective touch screen controls, you can move and battle with just a few swipes of the stylus, trace a line to throw your boomerang or scribble notes and clues as you progressboxed with game instructionsthey come across a patch of ocean covered in a dense fog, in which they discover an abandoned shipwith the aid of this fairy, he sets off to find tetra - and his way back to the seas he once knewtetra falls into danger when she explores the ship alone, and link falls into the ocean when he attempts to rescue herchart courses for your ship by using the stylus to draw a path through the islands - then, as you automatically sail along the path, control the cannon to target oncoming enemiesmany months have passed since the events of the legend of zelda: the wind waker, and link, tetra and tetra's band of pirates have set sail in search of new lands
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He knows some basic commands and is very eager to give you his paw! he loves to chase the water from the hosepipe! he is a very happy and active boy and will suit an active retired couple maybehome checks and adoption fee applieshe is white in colour with tan markings, approx 8 years old but acts like a younger dogthis lovely, medium sized, cross breed male (jrt type cross) has been super friendly whilst been in kennelshe had really sore skin on his back end when he first arrived but he has had some treatment and his skin is looking much less sore and less itchyhe is bigger than a jrt and quite a chunky boypaddy is in a rescue centre in south yorkshire
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