"The Coast to Coast Walk" is unique among Britain's long-distance footpaths in that it was the invention of one man, the legendary Alfred Wainwright, and enjoys no official status like, for example, t
From Sherlock Holmes’s Baker Street and Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel to the East End of the Krays and The Sweeney’s Hammersmith, London’s streets have played silent witness to countless crimes both
This country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was home to Britain’s most brilliant mathematical brains and the scene of immense advances in technology?indeed, the birth of modern computing. Th
The Pennine Way is the 256-mile National Trail stretching along the backbone of Britain. This volume features the northern section of the Way, following the Countryside Agency's acorn way marks from B
From Michael Palin to Nicholas Crane, a riveting anthology of railway travel covers every kind of train from the luxurious Orient Express to the insanely crowded commuter trains of Bombay In an age wh
With his sly moustache, broad gap-toothed grin, garish waistcoat, and ostentatious cigarette holder, Terry-Thomas was known as an absolute bounder both onscreen and off. Born in 1911 into an ordinary
If ever there was a steam locomotive with nine lives, it is Flying Scotsman. Rescued in the early sixties for preservation just in the nick of time as the rapid rundown of steam saw a sad procession
A star of the golden age of steam, the Flying Scotsman broke the world speed record in 1934 and has enthralled millions with her beauty and power. Uniquely, her postwar career has been even more varie
Following the limestone escarpment on the Western edge of the Cotswolds, the 102 miles of the Cotswold Way take the walker through a quintessentially English landscape as varied as it is beautiful.Sta
The official guide to Hadrian’s Wall Path, England’s newest National Trail, which follows the ancient Roman wall from coast to coast.Hadrian’s Wall Path is a new 84–mile footpath linking Wallsend, nea
The conventional picture of Allied POWs in the World War II prisoner-of-war camps is of escape attempts (Colditz and The Great Escape) or terrible brutality (the Far Eastern camps and The Bridge on
A man, a bike and the open road. What could be simpler? Certainly not the Tour de France, the annual travelling circus which for more than a century has been the ultimate test of sporting endurance.
An awe-inspiring, essential guide to London's high points and what can be seen from them For the best view of New York, you go up the Empire State Building; in Paris, the Eiffel Tower; and in 2012, Lo
Includes fingering diagrams for each chord on a fretboard while a photograph shows the chord being fretted, with tips on technique. This is a compact dictionary of over 500 chords in their common voic
After food rationing was introduced in 1940, and German U-boats began threatening merchant shipping bringing in essential foodstuffs, the Ministry of Agriculture decided something had to be done to ma
From the landmark films of Tony Richardson to the untimely death of Natasha Richardson – this is the saga of one of the greatest dynasties in British film and theatre. In 1928, at the end of a prod
Fully authorized, housed in a deluxe slipcase and illustrated throughout, Terminator Vault is the ultimate tribute to two films that changed cinema forever.
A moving testimony to the destroyed houses of the past century, and an exploration of the forces behind the loss of these architectural glories Of all the photographs in the Country Life archive, none
