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Paperback. Condizione: New. Joan Arkle, a tireless climate change activist, is passionate about her beliefs. She has taken her campervan to the Lake District, to be able to live among the hills she loves. Here there is ample scope for her trade as a wildlife photographer. Here, too, there is opportunity to make a difference by campaigning against global warming.But her time in Cumbria proves challenging. Somehow her activities attract hostility. Increasingly she makes enemies.And then, one evening on a quiet by-road, her campervan is firebombed.Who is responsible? And who precisely is Joan Arkle? These are the questions which both DI Chrissy Chambers of the Cumbrian Police and Nick Potterton, once a successful London journalist but now a struggling local freelance, find themselves trying to answer.Andrew Bibby's latest crime mystery is set among the beauty of the mountains and lakes of England's most popular National Park.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Conservationist Laurence Rose spent two years exploring the cultural roots of our relationship with nature in order to map out its future. From the magnificent white-tailed eagles of Orkney and Mull to the fascinating world of ants and crickets on the southern heaths, he describes his encounters with wildlife in exquisite language and vivid detail.This is a book about the complexity and vulnerability of nature, and the unexpected connections between people and wildlife. While his writing builds on decades of experience as a leading conservationist, Laurence's passion shines from every page. Unflinching in describing the long journey needed to rebuild a mutually-beneficial relationship with nature, ultimately it is a book about optimism and hope.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mike Padgett's new novel is set in a former mining town in the north of England. It is a story of a football match between a women's team of young care workers and a pub team of middle-aged men, back together after 30 years. Sparks fly as the two sides prepare for the challenge.Brian, a middle aged widowed joiner, thought his footballing and romancing days were long gone. But when Jean, supervisor at the dementia care home looking after his dad, challenges him to put his old pub side back together and play her team of young women care workers, he discovers the game is not over yet.Women v men; past v present; caring v uncaring; tolerance v racism; fairness v sexism; blame v forgiveness. It is a big match.Mike Padgett is the author of two books: As Far As We Can, a travel memoir ('It fair rattles along' - Ian Clayton) and SCRAP, a novel ('Authenticity accomplished with aplomb' - Ian McMillan).

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mike Padgett's new novel is set in a former mining town in the north of England. It is a story of a football match between a women's team of young care workers and a pub team of middle-aged men, back together after 30 years. Sparks fly as the two sides prepare for the challenge.Brian, a middle aged widowed joiner, thought his footballing and romancing days were long gone. But when Jean, supervisor at the dementia care home looking after his dad, challenges him to put his old pub side back together and play her team of young women care workers, he discovers the game is not over yet.Women v men; past v present; caring v uncaring; tolerance v racism; fairness v sexism; blame v forgiveness. It is a big match.Mike Padgett is the author of two books: As Far As We Can, a travel memoir ('It fair rattles along' - Ian Clayton) and SCRAP, a novel ('Authenticity accomplished with aplomb' - Ian McMillan).

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Conservationist Laurence Rose spent two years exploring the cultural roots of our relationship with nature in order to map out its future. From the magnificent white-tailed eagles of Orkney and Mull to the fascinating world of ants and crickets on the southern heaths, he describes his encounters with wildlife in exquisite language and vivid detail.This is a book about the complexity and vulnerability of nature, and the unexpected connections between people and wildlife. While his writing builds on decades of experience as a leading conservationist, Laurence's passion shines from every page. Unflinching in describing the long journey needed to rebuild a mutually-beneficial relationship with nature, ultimately it is a book about optimism and hope.

Paperback. Condizione: New. 'Everyone's parkrun journey is different and yet we share so many experiences. Eileen covers these and many more shared pleasures. I know you are going to enjoy this book as much as I have.' Paul Sinton-Hewitt (Founder of parkrun) Millions of people around the world each week take part in the free 5k parkruns, held in city parks, seaside proms and country areas. In this fascinating new book, Eileen Jones joins parkruns around the UK, finding the individual runners' stories behind what has been hailed as the most significant public health initiative of our time. She talks to those whose lives have been changed by parkrun. parkrun has rapidly become a social movement for the common good and even, Eileen suggests, a new religion. Eileen's book looks as well at the academic studies which demonstrate that simply being at a parkrun is beneficial for health and wellbeing.The idea which Paul Sinton-Hewitt first came up with for a run in a west London park gets its deserved and timely celebration in Eileen's wonderful book.

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Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. This is an important book about one of England's most fascinating regions - Yorkshire. Colin Speakman explores Yorkshire's origin as an independent Anglo-Viking Kingdom whose capital was York, which for many centuries was England's second city. Yorkshire was divided into not one but three ancient counties or shires, East, North and West Riding, which survived until 1974. The book celebrates the extraordinary variety of landscapes and rich cultural heritage through what is described as the nine great 'cultural landscapes' that make Yorkshire one of the most distinctive and fascinating regions of England. As an environmentalist, Speakman's interest lies primarily in the landscapes of the Dales, Moors, Wolds and South Pennines, but this is blended with an understanding of the cultural and industrial forces that shaped the landscapes we see today. But this ground-breaking book also looks ahead to a new post Brexit, post pandemic world in which the environment takes centre stage, with the emergence of new greener technologies that promise new economic prosperity for the people of the region, making a powerful case for English Devolution to allow Yorkshire to fulfil its potential within both Britain and Europe.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Loughrigg isone of the smallest fells (mountains) in the Lake District, but one of the mostpopular, loved by walkers and hikers and mountain runners, nature lovers, birdwatchers and environmentalists. Loughrigg, above the town of Ambleside, issmall in height only. It's a sprawling mini-mountain crossed by miles ofconfusing paths, blessed with many small tarns, grazed by sheep, home to deerand red squirrels, habitat for wild flowers and birds, and loved by all whoclimb to its prominent summit. Eileen Jones, who has visited the summit cairnaround 500 times, meets the folk who live on the hill, talks to the athleteswho run over it, explores the terrain and the wildlife, and looks at theartists who have painted it and the writers inspired here. This is a loveletter to Loughrigg.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Loughrigg isone of the smallest fells (mountains) in the Lake District, but one of the mostpopular, loved by walkers and hikers and mountain runners, nature lovers, birdwatchers and environmentalists. Loughrigg, above the town of Ambleside, issmall in height only. It's a sprawling mini-mountain crossed by miles ofconfusing paths, blessed with many small tarns, grazed by sheep, home to deerand red squirrels, habitat for wild flowers and birds, and loved by all whoclimb to its prominent summit. Eileen Jones, who has visited the summit cairnaround 500 times, meets the folk who live on the hill, talks to the athleteswho run over it, explores the terrain and the wildlife, and looks at theartists who have painted it and the writers inspired here. This is a loveletter to Loughrigg.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The Peak District's pub heritage is as rich and tasty as the beer that foams from the pumps, and via its inns, taverns and hotels we can trace centuries of social history in one of the most beautiful parts of Britain. This is the story of the packhorse men and lead miners, shepherds and navvies, and the evolution of the traditional Peak District pub from humble alehouse to the present day. We learn about haunted pubs, themed pubs, estate pubs and temperance pubs, as well as one or two pubs which are not what they seem at all. There's an explanation of pub names and signs, revealing loyalties to crown, church and squire; an introduction to a few pub heroes and villains, rituals and merry-making; plus a slightly baffled look at some odd pub pastimes involving toes, chickens and a hole in a wall.Along the way we raise a glass to some of the many local pubs that have been consigned to the great brewery wagon in the sky, and see how others are adapting to the challenges of today - from changing social patterns and lifestyles through to a global pandemic - with small-scale brewing and pub shops, micropubs and community ownership.

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Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Andrew Bibby walks south from Edinburgh through the Scottish borders to the Cheviots and the English border and then carries on until he reaches North Yorkshire and the river Swale. His journey is one of discovery into the distinctive landscapes of the border lands, and the author draws on themes as varied as history, natural history, folk tradition, land usage and land ownership to help him interpret what he sees in the landscape he travels through.This is a book celebrating the beauty of the border countryside by explaining why it looks the way it does. Andrew Bibby looks beneath the superficial to reveal how human interaction with the land has shaped the landscapes we know today - and how, particularly as a consequence of climate change, these landscapes are already being radically changed once again.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Andrew Bibby walks south from Edinburgh through the Scottish borders to the Cheviots and the English border and then carries on until he reaches North Yorkshire and the river Swale. His journey is one of discovery into the distinctive landscapes of the border lands, and the author draws on themes as varied as history, natural history, folk tradition, land usage and land ownership to help him interpret what he sees in the landscape he travels through.This is a book celebrating the beauty of the border countryside by explaining why it looks the way it does. Andrew Bibby looks beneath the superficial to reveal how human interaction with the land has shaped the landscapes we know today - and how, particularly as a consequence of climate change, these landscapes are already being radically changed once again.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The years before the First World War saw the development of a widespread housing movement in Britain which delivered homes at affordable rents through co-operative and community endeavour.From Cornwall to central Scotland, Suffolk to South Wales, working-class tenants moved into their newly constructed homes and began to create communities. As Birmingham housing reformer John Nettlefold put it in 1914, tenants might not be able to own their individual houses but they could nevertheless say that, collectively, 'these houses are ours'.Many of the estates adopted 'garden village' principles as a radical alternative to conventional urban streets of high-density housing. Community meeting rooms, allotments, sports facilities and children's playgrounds were frequently included.As Andrew Bibby points out in his richly researched book, this almost forgotten history mirrors uncannily current interest in bottom-up community-led efforts to meet housing need. As we face a housing crisis once again in Britain, and with council housing no longer the default means of providing affordable homes, the alternative models for social housing developed more than a century ago offer much that is relevant to us today.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Mike Padgett's new novel is set in a former mining town in the north of England. It is a story of a football match between a women's team of young care workers and a pub team of middle-aged men, back together after 30 years. Sparks fly as the two sides prepare for the challenge.Brian, a middle aged widowed joiner, thought his footballing and romancing days were long gone. But when Jean, supervisor at the dementia care home looking after his dad, challenges him to put his old pub side back together and play her team of young women care workers, he discovers the game is not over yet.Women v men; past v present; caring v uncaring; tolerance v racism; fairness v sexism; blame v forgiveness. It is a big match.Mike Padgett is the author of two books: As Far As We Can, a travel memoir ('It fair rattles along' - Ian Clayton) and SCRAP, a novel ('Authenticity accomplished with aplomb' - Ian McMillan).