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The English
Par David Frost, Antony Jay. 1967
The National Trust guide to England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Par Rosemary Joekes, Robin Fedden. 1984
Covering all of the National Trust's important properties in Southern Britain and Northern Ireland, this volume lists and describes thousands…
of historically and geographically important holdings. Separate sections are devoted to houses, gardens, parks, medieval buildings, industrial monuments, archaeological sites, temples, villages, churches and chapels, "buildings of useful intent," and public houses. 1984.The fields of noon
Par Sheila Burnford. 1964
The coming of Saska
Par Doreen Tovey, Maurice Charles John Wilson. 1976
Author describes the adventures she and her husband encountered in their English village and on a trip to Canada. Meeting…
a rare wolverine and other mishaps such as getting locked out of their camper in the middle of the night in wolf territory enlivened their trip. c1976.That sweet enemy
Par Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson. 1987
Sinclair-Stevenson describes the best-loved parts of France, from the sun-bleached splendour of the Provencal landscape to the chateaux of the…
Loire Valley and the beauties of Paris, though always conscious of their blemishes, not least the horrors of crossing the Channel. 1987.That summer in Paris: memories of tangled friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and some others
Par Morley Callaghan. 1963
Spanish leaves
Par Honor Tracy. 1964
Describes the sights, sounds, and smells of the Iberian landscape and such cities as Cordoba, Malaga, Burgos, Toledo, Barcelona, Madrid…
and Avila. The Irish essayist and novelist brings a new perception to Spanish character and custom. 1964.Siren land
Par Norman Douglas. 1911
A travel book with all the elegance and style of the age in which it was first published. The "Siren…
Land" is the region around Naples and more especially the Sorrentine Peninsula and Capri. 1911.Russia: broken idols, solemn dreams
Par David K Shipler. 1983
While working for the "New York Times" in Russia, the author was able to meet ordinary people. From their observations…
and reflections, he learned how gray Soviet life is. Bestseller 1983.The pillars of Hercules: a grand tour of the Mediterranean
Par Paul Theroux. 1995
The popular author of The Great Railway Bazaar and other travelogues traces a modern version of the Grand Tour of…
Europe--a lively, sometimes violent journey around the shores of the Mediterranean. Originally published in 1995.All points north
Par Simon Armitage. 1998
The cyclist who went out in the cold: adventures along the Iron Curtain trail
Par Tim Moore. 2017
Tim Moore tackles the 9000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike, reflecting…
on the collapse of the Communist dream along the way. He sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter's brutal height. After three months, 20 countries and a 58-degree jaunt up the centigrade scale, man and bike finally wobble up to a Black Sea beach in Bulgaria, older and a bit wiser. 2017.The National Trust for Scotland guide
Par Robin Prentice, National Trust for Scotland. 1977
À travers l'Espagne: lettres de voyage
Par A. B Routhier. 1889
Le paysan de Paris
Par Louis Aragon. 1953
West Yorkshire within living memory
Par West Yorkshire Federation of Women's Institutes. 1996
La tour Effeil
Par Christian Delmas. 1991
Chroniques de Polynésie
Par Robert Blondin. 1988
Monsieur Mediocre: One Man's Journey to Becoming Real French
Par John Von Sothen. 2019
A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ…
Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. And then, after falling for and marrying a French waitress he met in New York, von Sothen moved to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy. In this hilarious and delightful collection of essays, von Sothen walks us through real life in Paris-not only myth-busting our Parisian daydreams but also revealing the inimitable and too often invisible pleasures of family life abroad. Relentlessly funny and full of incisive observations, Monsieur Mediocre is ultimately a love letter to France-to its absurdities, its history, its ideals-but it's a very French love letter: frank, smoky, unsentimental. It is a clear-eyed ode to a beautiful, complex, contradictory country from someone who both eagerly and grudgingly calls it home.Ada Lovelace (Little People, BIG DREAMS #10)
Par Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. 2018
Meet Ada Lovelace, the British mathematician and daughter of poet Lord Byron. Part of the beloved Little People, BIG DREAMS…
series, this inspiring and informative little biography follows the colorful life of Lord Byron’s daughter, from her early love of logic, to her plans for the world's first computer program. As a child, Ada had a big imagination and a talent for mathematics. She grew up in a noble household in England, where she dedicated herself to studying. Her work with the famous inventor, Charles Babbage, on a very early kind of computer made her the world's first computer programmer. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical images and a detailed profile of the mathematician's life.Little People, BIG DREAMS is a best-selling series of books and educational games that explore the lives of outstanding people, from designers and artists to scientists and activists. All of them achieved incredible things, yet each began life as a child with a dream. This empowering series offers inspiring messages to children of all ages, in a range of formats. The board books are told in simple sentences, perfect for reading aloud to babies and toddlers. The hardcover versions present expanded stories for beginning readers. Boxed gift sets allow you to collect a selection of the books by theme. Paper dolls, learning cards, matching games, and other fun learning tools provide even more ways to make the lives of these role models accessible to children.Inspire the next generation of outstanding people who will change the world with Little People, BIG DREAMS!