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Scott of the Antarctic

By: Evelyn Dowdeswell,J. A. Dowdeswell,Angela Seddon

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Scott of the Antarctic

By: Evelyn Dowdeswell,J. A. Dowdeswell,Angela Seddon

Examines Antarctica and Robert Scott's epic expedition to the South Pole.

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1432968912

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Islands of the Arctic

By: Julian Dowdeswell,Michael Hambrey

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The Arctic islands are characterised by beautiful mountains and glaciers, in which the wildlife lives in delicate balance with its environment. It is a region with a long history of exploration and exploitation by humans, now experiencing rapid environmental change. All of these themes are explored in Islands of the Arctic, richly illustrated with superb photographs from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Greenland, Svalbard and the Russian Arctic. It begins with the various processes shaping the landscape: glaciers, rivers and coastal processes, the role of ice in the oceans and the weather and climate. The flora and fauna are described, and the human impact on this fragile region; from the sustainable approach of the Inuit, to the devastating damage inflicted by hunters and in the cause of military security. Finally, the future prospects of the region are considered. This book will be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in remote landscapes.

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312

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Cambridge University Press

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0521813336

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9780521813334

Ernest Shackleton

Antarctic Explorer

By: Evelyn Dowdeswell,Julian Dowdeswell

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Ernest Shackleton

Antarctic Explorer

By: Evelyn Dowdeswell,Julian Dowdeswell

This book commemorates the 100th anniversary of Shackleton's incredible journey aboard the ship Endurance. Relive the hardships faced by Shackleton and his men as their ship became stuck in the Antarctic ice. Learn about how Shackleton managed to lead his team to safety despite incredible odds. Discover the determination and courage that led to their eventual rescue from the frozen wilderness.

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1484611438

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The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations

Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021

By: Julian Hoppit

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The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations

Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021

By: Julian Hoppit

An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate' Financial Times It has always been an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom as an ancient, organic and sensibly managed place, in striking contrast to the convulsions of other European countries. Yet, as Julian Hoppit makes clear in this fascinating and surprising book, beneath the complacent surface the United Kingdom has in fact been in a constant, often very tense argument with itself about how it should be run and, most significantly, who should pay for what. The book takes its argument from an eighteenth century cartoon which shows the central state as the 'Dreadful Monster', gorging itself at the dinner table on all the taxes it can grab. Meanwhile the 'Poor Relations' - Scotland, Wales and Ireland, both poor because of tax but also poor in the sense of needing special treatment - are viewed in London as an endless 'drain on the state'. With drastically different levels of prosperity, population, industry, agriculture and accessibility between the United Kingdom's different nations, what is a fair basis for paying for the state?

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218

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Penguin UK

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0241434432

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9780241434437

Overgrown

Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening

By: Julian Raxworthy

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Practices between Landscape Architecture and Gardening

By: Julian Raxworthy

A call for landscape architects to leave the office and return to the garden. Addressing one of the most repressed subjects in landscape architecture, this book could only have been written by someone who is both an experienced gardener and a landscape architect. With Overgrown, Julian Raxworthy offers a watershed work in the tradition of Ian McHarg, Anne Whiston Spirn, Kevin Lynch, and J. B. Jackson. As a discipline, landscape architecture has distanced itself from gardening, and landscape architects take pains to distinguish themselves from gardeners or landscapers. Landscape architects tend to imagine gardens from the office, representing plants with drawings or other simulations, whereas gardeners work in the dirt, in real time, planting, pruning, and maintaining. In Overgrown, Raxworthy calls for the integration of landscape architecture and gardening. Each has something to offer the other: Landscape architecture can design beautiful spaces, and gardening can enhance and deepen the beauty of garden environments over time. Growth, says Raxworthy, is the medium of garden development; landscape architects should leave the office and go into the garden in order to know growth in an organic, nonsimulated way. Raxworthy proposes a new practice for working with plant material that he terms “the viridic” (after “the tectonic” in architecture), from the Latin word for green, with its associations of spring and growth. He builds his argument for the viridic through six generously illustrated case studies of gardens that range from “formal” to “informal” approaches—from a sixteenth-century French Renaissance water garden to a Scottish poet-scientist's “marginal” garden, barely differentiated from nature. Raxworthy argues that landscape architectural practice itself needs to be “gardened,” brought back into the field. He offers a “Manifesto for the Viridic” that casts designers and plants as vegetal partners in a renewed practice of landscape gardening.

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MIT Press

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0262547120

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9780262547123

Ernest Shackleton

Antarctic Explorer

By: Evelyn Dowdeswell,Julian Dowdeswell

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Antarctic Explorer

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Scott of the Antarctic

By: Evelyn Dowdeswell,J. A. Dowdeswell,Angela Seddon

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By: Evelyn Dowdeswell,J. A. Dowdeswell,Angela Seddon

Examines Antarctica and Robert Scott's epic expedition to the South Pole.

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Islands of the Arctic

By: Julian Dowdeswell,Michael Hambrey

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The Continent of Antarctica

By: Julian Dowdeswell,Michael Hambrey

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The Continent of Antarctica

By: Julian Dowdeswell,Michael Hambrey

In this highly informative book, Professor Julian Dowdeswell and Professor Michael Hambrey walk us through a detailed account of life on a continent that is as beautiful as it is unforgiving. A richly illustrated account of the Antarctic continent, covering the physical environment, biology and history. It also examines the future and environmental implications for the rest of the planet. The book draws on the authors own experiences during many seasons of fieldwork on the continent and surrounding oceans. They use photographs and images from their own extensive and continent-wide collections and from the world-renowned archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute. "Wide-ranging and extremely well illustrated, this authoritative yet accessible book is a must for anyone interested in the Antarctic." - Sir Ranulph Fiennes "Richly illustrated and expertly written, this book reveals our least known continent in all its power and glory" - Michael Palin AUTHORS: Professor Julian Dowdeswell is Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. He authored the foreword to 'Blue Ice' by Alex Bernasconi, published by Papadakis in 2016. Professor Michael J. Hambrey is Professor of Glaciology, Centre for Glaciology, Aberystwyth University, Wales. Michael's research has yielded nearly 200 scientific papers, several edited books and a variety of books on glaciers and the Arctic for the wider public.

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1906506647

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9781906506643

David Poindexter's Disappearance; And Other Tales

in large print

By: Julian Hawthorne

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David Poindexter's Disappearance; And Other Tales

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By: Julian Hawthorne

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3368361724

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9783368361723

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