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Part of a series of guides to the inland waterways, this title covers Bristol to Reading on the Kennet & Avon and Oxford to Brentford on the Thames.
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Do you like playing board games with friends, family or classmates? Next time use your e-book reader as a game board. You just need this book and a few small playing pieces or chessmen.
Can you play on a "simple" e-book reader, too? Games on the Kindle (TM), etc.? I interpreted the idea with the "on the e-book reader" very literally.
In this e-book you will find the fields of popular board games (Chess, Nine Men's Morris, Checkers, Backgammon, Tic Tac Toe, Ludo, etc.). This gives you the possibility to convert your e-book reader at home or while traveling into a game board. Very simple. Always available. The games are pure fun, classics and sociable. Not computer games. You only need to have a few small playing pieces or chessmen. Or you and your fellow players improvise. Suitable are buttons, beans, pieces of wood, etc. Just anything that does not leave any dirt or scratches on the screen.
During the development, I've found out that the game boards are almost perfect on tablet computers, such as the iPad. The users of the Kindle reading apps on Apple, Samsung, LG, etc. can have pure fun, too. iPad owners should use their two fingers to enlarge the pictures and then view the graphics full screen. When moving the playing pieces just do not to use the finger tips, because the capacitive touch screens of tablet PCs respond to this. But if you take the finger nails
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Stories of “messing about in boats”
Much nautical literature focuses on the high seas, circumnavigations, big races, or great ships. "Small Boats on Green Waters" takes the other tack: it gathers the best writing on small boats—sailboats, canoes, kayaks, and rowboats—having grand adventures on rivers, lakes, and near shore on the ocean. This is for anyone who finds, as Ratty so famously put it, that “there is nothing—absolutely nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
Chock-a-block with great boating writers both classic and modern, this book will delight anyone who enjoys life on the water, and all the wondrous places our small boats can take us.
Includes: John McPhee, Pete Spectre, Arthur Ransome, Anthony Bailey, Stephen Jones, Robb White, Erskine Childers, Farley Mowat, Nathaniel Bishop, John MacGregor, John Muir, Joe Richards, Henry David Thoreau, Jerome K. Jerome, Matthew Goldman, Harlan Hubbard, E. F. Knight, Weston Martyr, and many more!
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Reading has always been home to a plethora of pubs, inns, beerhouses and breweries. This selection of archive and new photographs relates the history of Reading's many pubs, from the days when they were filled with factory workers and bar billiards enthusiasts to the pool tables and cigarette machines of today's theme bars and chain 'mega pubs'.
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Take some of the mystery out of a walk in the woods with this new ?eld guide from the author of Reading the Forested Landscape.
Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever byreading Tom Wessels’s Reading the ForestedLandscape. Was this forest once farmland?Was it logged in the past? Was there ever amajor catastrophe like a fire or a wind stormthat brought trees down?
Now Wessels takes that wonderful abilityto discern much of the history of the forestfrom visual clues and boils it all down to amanageable field guide that you can take outto the woods and use to start playing forestdetective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodlandSherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods willever be the same.
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Tells you how to be in the right place, at the right time and with the right detector and shows you how to identify the most productive search spots. Contents: Introduction - Eyes Only - Clothing, Equipment & Safety - Fossils On The Foreshore - Flint Artefacts - Fish Traps - Ports - Wrecks & Hulks - Sand Dunes - Christianity On The Coast - Coastal Industries - Fresh Water - Science & Sand 1 5,000 Years On A Foreshore - Groynes - Sovereigns On The Foreshore Sold by and despatched from the worlds largest supplier of metal detecting books:- Spin-A-Disc Metal Detectors, HALIFAX HX2 8JE UK
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"H.R. Stoneback knows his Hemingway and his Paris. I had the incomparable experience of visiting Paris twice while working for Ernest Hemingway in 1959. I viewed the city at the side of the writer while he added the finishing touches to A MOVEABLE FEAST. Professor Stoneback's evocation of Hemingway's Paris of the 1920s is as close as I have come since to reliving those Paris days in the company of Ernest Hemingway. Reading this book will be a treat for all who love Hemingway and Paris, and a pleasant surprise for all readers."
- Valerie Hemingway, author of RUNNING WITH THE BULLS: MY YEARS WITH THE HEMINGWAYS
"Professor Stoneback's lyrical prose takes the reader inside the soul of Hemingway's Paris, penetrating the surface of guide-books to reveal tantalizing secrets."
-A.E. Hotchner, playwright, novelist, memoirist, Hemingway friend, and author of the classic PAPA HEMINGWAY
"This is a dream book ... beautifully evocative."
– Rosanna Warren, poet, scholar, Emma MacLachlan Metcalf Professor of the Humanities at Boston University
"H.R. Stoneback's intense reading of Hemingway's Paris-revealing Hemingway's nuanced rendering of the deus loci and his intentionally subtle infusion of numinosity-is nothing short of nonpareil. Stoneback's work undoes decades of weak and negative criticism of Hemingway. Read this classic piece-a benchmark in the creative essay-and you will see exactly how and why Hemingway's Paris became Stoneback's Paris and by extension your Paris. Stoneback's HEMINGWAY'S PARIS: OUR PARIS? shows, ever so illustratively and ever so doucement, how and why we read Hemingway."
- Allen Josephs, past president of the Hemingway Foundation and Society, and author of RITUAL AND SACRIFICE IN THE CORRIDA
"No one has written better or more wisely about Ernest Hemingway's Paris than H.R. Stoneback."
- Donald Junkins, author of JOURNEY TO THE CORRIDA and other books
H.R. Stoneback's 9000-word prose-poem HEMINGWAY'S PARIS: OUR PARIS? constitutes a masterpiece of both appreciation and analysis by a scholar whose knowledge and love of Paris is as deep, profound and genuine as his knowledge and love of Hemingway.
H.R. Stoneback is Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz. Stoneback has received numerous awards and honors for criticism, poetry and teaching. He has served as visiting professor at the University of Paris, Fulbright Professor at Peking University and director of the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris. A leading scholar of international reputation on Ernest Hemingway, Stoneback is also a widely published literary critic, poet and author or editor of more than 20 volumes of criticism and poetry. His recent books include READING HEMINGWAY'S "THE SUN ALSO RISES" (Kent State University Press, 2007) and HURRICANE HYMN AND OTHER POEMS (Codhill Press, 2009). Stoneback is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Hemingway Society.
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Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, Nancy Pearl's reading recommendations will send you on your way.
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