A practical guidebook for walking from Land's End to John o' Groats. The 1956km (1215 mile) long-distance route, known as the End to End Trail, follows paths and tracks rather than road, and takes to the hills whenever it can. The route is presented in 61 daily stages averaging just less than 32km (20 miles).
The Persistence of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell in Contemporary
Metaphysical Shadows examines how the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell still speaks to working poets today. In the poems of Seamus Heaney, Alfred Corn, Anne Cluysenaar, Kimberly Johnson, Maureen Boyle, Jericho Brown, and others, these earlier poets continue to cast shadows in powerfully revealing ways.
All-in-one, practical guide to walking the Coast to Coast Path across northern England inspired by Alfred Wainwright, the most popular of the 18 long-distance UK paths.
After flying fighter aircraft, Tug Wilson became an instructor/mentor/coach and father-figure at the RAF's fighter pilot school at RAF Valley in the 1990s. This book offers a personal and honest look behind the scenes at the RAF, documenting the exciting and intense journey to become a fighter pilot.
Arthur Machen: Critical Essays studies the works of Arthur Machen in twelve essays, exploring different aspects of the literary production of the Welsh writer who has won the readers and the critics' attention with works such as "The Great God Pan," "The Terror," and "The Angels of Mons."
Romantic Egypt argues that the balance between knowing and not-knowing, between deciphering and imagining an archaic Egypt, was essential to the development of the Romantic imaginary, particularly in Britain and Germany: for the Romantics western philosophy and art had their birth in Ancient Egypt.
Anglo-German Dramatic and Poetic Encounters contains essays focusing on the roles of drama and poetry in Anglo-German exchange in the Sattelzeit. It offers new perspectives on the movement of texts and ideas across genres and cultures, the formation and reception of poetic personae, and the place of illustration in cross-cultural, textual ......
This collection of essays by dancers, scholars of ethnochoreology, dance studies, drama studies, cultural studies, literature, and architecture explores Irish-German connections through dancein choreographic processes and on stage, in literary texts, photography, dance documentation, film, and architecture since the 1920s.
A comprehensive assessment of the complex personality and work of the self-taught designer of the iconic Spitfire, from tough railway apprenticeship to uncertain production of his 'killer fighter'. Popular myths about the man and his work are re-examined particularly via colleagues' recollections and new material from the Julian Mitchell archive.
