The trail of english travellers
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Oxfam bookshop tunbridge wells romania revisited: on the trail of english travellers alan ogden good, former library book, dust jacket has protective plastic cover, boards dark green and in good condition, illustrated with b/w plates the author counterpoints the story of his journeys in the summer and winter of in romania with those of earlier travellers between and , not all of whom were english but all of whom have been published in englishsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Nibbly noo & sammy on the trail of the missing acorns by jennifer green childrens illustrated book suitable ages 5 -11 ideal christmas gifta tale of fun and friendship that teaches the wrongs of stealing and the rights of helping friendsthey get in all sorts of scrapes along the waysammy squirral enlists the little field mouse, nibbly noo to help find her stolen acornsbeautiful illustrations
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In the origins of english surnames, you will find the english people at a key moment in history, revealing the way they spoke, the jokes they made, and their memories of ancient cultures-all at a time when land-based feudalism was crumbling and people sought better livesthis book examines the origins of english surnames, looking at occupational names; locational names, or names that record places; nicknames and personal names; names from the continent; and symbolic namessee oxfam website for delivery information read morein england, surnames were mostly established by the end of the 14th century-by ordinary people, for ordinary peopleoxfam bookshop victoria surnames carry the history of people in a very personal waythey tell us what these people did, where they went, and what they noticed, and give clues about their culture and memorieswhere genealogists and etymologists focus on single names, this book takes groups of names and explores what these say about the society that created themuniquely, surnames describe medieval lives not captured by any other record
10 €
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Mystery in london: on the trail of jack the ripper (pc: windows, ) - us ver…
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The best of english & celtic fiddles () cd like new conditioncondition is like new
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The kingdom of english wisdom volume onea pc cd-rom multireader book
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Oxfam bookshop newport 'a dictionary of english plant names' is a comprehensive and informative record of the names of english plants (from trees to seaweed, plants from the wild, farm and garden) the scientific name of the species, date when the species was introduced into england, and where possible, an historical or etymological explanationtext block is clean and bright, and spine is tight good condition for its age see oxfam website for delivery information read moreno highlighting or other notesblack and white illustrations throughout (see images 2 for example)clipped dust jacket is clean and intact with only minor signs of wear
13 €
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Holden proceeds to describe the arrival of english and dutch settlers, the establishment of an english government, and the development of sugar and coffee plantations, trade and settlementsthe overall condition of the print block is good enough to merit rebindingthe endpapers are cracked and the hinges loosening; however, the binding has remained firm except for the fthe three maps and nineteen illustrations mentioned on the title page are all presentoxfam shop west hampstead first published in , this important history of natal begins with a description of the country and an account of its discovery by vasco da gamathe pages have suffered some water damage, but the marks are faint, and they in no way obscure the text or illustrationssee oxfam website for delivery information read more" the cloth cover of the book is in poor condition: there are numerous water and other markings, and tears along the edges of the spine, though it is still attachedthe name of a previous owner is written on the fan appendix inserted while the book was being prepared for publication contains "a brief history of the orange-river sovereignty and of the various races inhabiting it, the great lake ngami, commandoes of the dutch boers, &cp + frontipsiece, and a few pages at the back, where a publicity leaflet about the book was bound in
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The invaluable series of 36 plates shows 56 examples of english handwriting from csee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop newport the chief object of this book is to moderate as far as possible the difficulties of reading presented by the hand written in england for administrative, legal or business purposes during the past eight or nine centuriestext block is clean and tight and free from annotation and marginaliaglossy blue pictorial dust jacket700 to the middle of the nineteenth centuryvarious superficial scuffs and dents, discolouration to outer edges and spineblue cloth covered boards, some scuffs, marks and discolourationpale blue endpapers
14 €
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In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert david crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively english word was written down in the fifth century ('roe', in case you are wondering)oxfam shop colne road featuring latinate and celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient words ('loaf') to cutting edge ('twittersphere') and spanning the indispensable words that shape our tongue ('and', 'what') to the more fanciful ('fopdoodle'), crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure and the downright surprisingsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
4 €
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Fancying himself to be a better detective than the local authorities, your nosy tourist dives headfirst into mystery and intrigue, hot on the trail of the killer clownbroken sword uses a basic point-and-click interface, where moving a pointer around various onscreen hot spots allows different actions to be performedthe game opens with a malevolent-looking clown bombing a café where you're sitting, leaving a man dead and many questions unansweredoxfam shop ulverston broken sword: the shadow of the templars is actually a colourfully animated adventure game that casts you as an american tourist vacationing in paris• 60 beautifully animated characters • 70 breathtaking, hand drawn locations • compelling gameplay for the would-be adventurer • dive into an adventure of global exploration • solve cryptic puzzles • fight for survival for windows see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Fancying himself to be a better detective than the local authorities, your nosy tourist dives headfirst into mystery and intrigue, hot on the trail of the killer clown 60 beautifully animated characters  70 breathtaking, hand drawn locations  compelling gameplay for the would-be adventurer  dive into an adventure of global exploration  solve cryptic puzzles  fight for survival for windows see oxfam website for delivery information read morebroken sword uses a basic point-and-click interface, where moving a pointer around various onscreen hot spots allows different actions to be performedthe game opens with a malevolent-looking clown bombing a café where you're sitting, leaving a man dead and many questions unansweredoxfam shop ulverston broken sword: the shadow of the templars is actually a colourfully animated adventure game that casts you as an american tourist vacationing in paris
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Oxfam bookshop west bridgford biggles on the trail of the man-eating leopardsthe dust cover is unclipped with small open tears to the top and bottombook is tight bound with very light foxing to some pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This book contains the memoirs of david chipp's life in peking together with six essays that he wrote on the history of english journalism, and a miscellany of reflections on some of the diverse aspects of his lifesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreabsolutely minimal shelf wear to the dust coveran excellent clean copydavid chipp had a distinguished career as a journalist which culminated in 17 years' service as editor in chief of the press association in fleet streetwith black and white and colour photographsoxfam books & music beaconsfield one of a limited edition of 500 printed privately by the author's estatehe was the first non-communist western correspondent to be granted residency by the communist government and he spent 30 months in peking
15 €
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Oxfam shop macclesfield a privately owned copy, with a dedication, of the reset edition of this wide-ranging work (people, places, battlesthe rear of the binding has some damp damage and page edges are slightly foxed but the main pages are tight and in good condition (dog-ear at pages )see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam books & music perth an anthology of travellers' tales and essays from the records of the royal geographical society, is centred on a small area of central asia, a region of desert, mountains and riversfrom colonel jackson's brilliant essay on the literature of travel to the humour of o'donovan, pioneer and war correspondent; from arminius vambery, the most adventurous philologist in history to kazi syud ahmad, napier's turkoman guide, each author brings his own flavour to this book see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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This is a collection of stories by accomplished travellers and adventurous souls like sarah outen, benedict allen, ed stafford and al humphreys, who have completed daring journeys through challenging terrain, adventuring from the calais jungle to the amazon, from land's end to the gobi desert, from new guinea to iran and many other places in betweensee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer travel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visitsomeone who could have walked past, but chose not tobut what happens when we arrive home? how do our experiences shape us? the kindness of strangers explores what it means to be vulnerable and to be helped by someone we've never met beforeeach has a story to tell of a time when they were vulnerable, when they were in need and a kind stranger came to their rescueall royalties go directly to fund oxfam's work with refugeesthese are stories that make our hearts grow, stories that will restore our faith in the world and remind us that, despite what the media says, the world isn't a scary place - rather, it is filled with kind strangers just like us
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He was one of the foremost members of the english madrigal schooloxfam bookshop skipton number of discs: 1 thomas morley ( or - early october ) was an english composer, theorist, singer and organist of the renaissancereferring to the strong italian influence on the english madrigal, the new grove dictionary of music and musicians states that morley was "chiefly responsible for grafting the italian shoot on to the native stock and initiating the curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful episodes in the history of english musicsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from heaven, the monk sets out to discover all he can about the travellersthe five strangers were connected in some way, he thinksoxfam bookshop cheltenham an ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in peru, hurling five people into the abyssor of love? see oxfam website for delivery information read morethere must be a purpose behind their deathsbut are their lost lives the result of sin?but one witness, a franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appearit seems a meaningless human tragedy
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trail of the lonesome pine (cd)condition is new and sealeddispatched with royal mail 2nd class large letter
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Jewel quest mysteries trail of the midnight heart hidden object pc game new
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Brand new in the box trail of painted ponies stardust 1e/ low number read more
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham is the english language in decline? many people seem to think so--but philip howard isn't one of themthe literary editor of the times of london, howard takes a robust, commonsensical view of the changes that are happening in englishhoward argues that as far as we can, we should strive to direct and control the changes in english in ways that increase its powerhe navigates the back streets of euphemism and the broad, boring boulevards of clicheand where we can't help it, he says, we should lie back and enjoy its immense richness, which is unrivaled by any other languagesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis is not the panglossian attitude that all is neccessarily for the best in the best of all possible languages, but he does feel that change is necessary--and healthy--in any living languagehe asks whether the language is actually changing as fast as we suppose, and, if so, whyrather than have us wring our hands, philip howard entreats us, with his customary with and erudition, to use our tongues in concert with our brainshe discusses the effect the new technologies, from cable tv to photocomposition, are having on the mother tongue, and he examines the new dialects that are coming into usehoward here examines the language in its various branches and categories, such as grammar and pronunciation, spelling and punctuation, dialect and slang
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5cm very good condition the prints of andy warhol flammarion, st edition softcover, 128 pages, english 36x28cm very good condition portrait drawings jablonka galerie, st edition softcover, 104 pages, english 315x24cm new in seal duty free jablonka galerie, st edition softcover, 20 pages, english 30x24cm very good condition superstar lübbe, st edition hardcover, 352 pages, german 22you're bidding on six books by andy warholare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikilike his contemporaries roy lichtenstein and robert rauschenberg, warhol responded to mass-media culture of the sour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storewarhol was a leading figure in the pop art movementplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteandy warhol kunst als kommerz benedikt taschen verlag, st edition hardcover, 96 pages, german 30“the best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do,” he once explainedhis silkscreens of cultural and consumer icons—including marilyn monroe, elizabeth taylor, campbell’s soup cans, and brillo boxes—would make him one of the most famous artists of his generation3x15cm very good condition mode, mode, mode weingarten, st edition hardcover, 52 pages, german 16x15cm very good condition read morecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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First english edition publishedoxfam books & music beaconsfield an english translation by humphrey william freeland of the work by the danish authorthere is foxing to the inside cover pages but the pages of the text are only very slightly tannedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethis is an ex-school book having a gold school insignia imprinted on the front cover and a label to this effect on the inside front coverthis is an antiquarian book, leather boundthere is damage to the spine but the back cover whilst showing signs of wear is firmly attachedthe pages are unmarked but one of the illustrations (which is blank on the reverse) has become detached the binding requires repair, the front cover being detached from the bodythe illustrations are designed by walter allen and engraved on wood by j d cooper
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It describes the governance of england during the mid-fifteenth century, yet without claiming to study every aspect of english lifeit reassesses the character of this third lancastrian king and his place in english history, though it is not primarily a personal biographyoxfam bookshop preston this book, an invaluable and much-needed addition to english historiography, and unparalleled in its informative detail, is an examination of the exercise of the king's authority between the death of henry v in and the dethronement of henry vi insee oxfam website for delivery information read moredust jacket slightly yellowed with age, but book otherwise in excellent condition
9 €
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Oxfam shop fulwood road a book that revolutionised our understanding of english social historythompson shows how the english working class emerged through the degradations of the industrial revolution to create a culture and political consciousness of enormous vitalitysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The concise oxford dictionary of english etymology publisher: oxford university press publication date: binding: paperback a clear account of the origins, history, and sense-development of a major part of the modern english vocabulary, including both basic words and a wide selection of derivative forms
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Title: the decline of an english villagetitle: the decline of an english villagebinding: hardcoverauthors: page, robinlist price (msrp)condition: goodproduct category: books
18 €