Gillian Richardsons levenslange fascinatie voor de natuur voedt haar schrijven en nodigt lezers uit om de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen menselijke nieuwsgierigheid en de wonderen van de natuur te verkennen. Haar werk duikt in thema's, geïnspireerd door haar uitgebreide reizen en scherpe observaties, van de explosieve kracht van geisers tot de delicate mechanismen van zaadverspreiding. Door levendige verhalen en een stijl die wetenschappelijke nieuwsgierigheid balanceert met lyrische proza, bevordert ze een diepere waardering voor het milieu. Richardsons verhalen getuigen van de kracht van observatie en het plezier van het delen van ontdekkingen.
In SISSINGHURST: A DREAM GARDEN Tim Richardson reveals the magic and the mystery of these world-famous and most evocative English gardens, famous for their horticulture, their creators and the realisation of personal dreams.
Provides an overview of Machu Picchu, discussing topics such as its history, builders, structural aspects, and construction techniques and materials.
This is the life of a Marine Engineer in the Merchant Navy during the final years of steam propulsion and the transition to diesel power. It includes information for enthusiasts about the machinery and how it worked as well as interesting anecdotes about incidents that occurred during the author's career.
Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicans and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. This book tells the story of a collection of fascinating characters whose influence changed the landscape of Britain for ever.
“100 projects by fifty of the world's most talented designers of public and private spaces . . . will expand your horizons and thrill the modernist in you.”—Metropolitan Home
An amusing and thought-provoking compendium of columns, articles, essays and reviews from this acute, knowledgeable and irreverent commentator
This combined reprint of Volumes 1 and 2 of the 1892 edition of Practical Carriage Building is perhaps the most complete and accurate contemporary work on the subject. It covers in great depth, and with many illustrations, the materials and tools used, the making and repairing of wheels, the making of carriage parts and their assembly, framing and construction, axles, yokes, whiffletrees, patterns and layouts, and many other useful and fascinating subjects. All sorts of carriages are discussed: buggies, cabriolets and broughams, phatons, rockaways, as well as sleighs and sleds, and express, delivery, and farm wagons. A definitive, easy to follow reference on this early trade that is now enjoying a well-deserved renaissance.
Challenge assumptions from established management thinking and achieve responsible, authentic, and sustainable leadership at your organisation.
Analyses the different ways in which historians over the last three centuries have tried to explain the causes, course and consequences of the English Revolution -- .
Some time around his 50th birthday, Ambrose Zephyr fails his annual medical check-up. An illness of inexplicable origin with no known or foreseeable cure is diagnosed and it will kill him within a month. Give or take a day. In the time that remains, he decides to travel to all the places he ever wanted to visit, in strict alphabetical order.
