HARDING, MIKE

Walking the Peak and Pennines

London, Michael Joseph. 1992, First Edition. (ISBN: 0718133587) Hard Cover, 7.75 x 10 inches. No inscriptions or marks. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with slight rubbing to upper and lower edges and minor traces of handling. 247pp. This book features long walks and meanders, folklore and history, gossip and conjecture along with superb colour photography. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 027342

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: England, Guidebooks, Walking, Rambling, Peak District, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire, Travel Guides / Maps Walking / Rambling / Cycling 0718133587

HOBBS, J. S.

Maps and Regions : An Introductory Course Volume One

London, The English Universities Press Ltd. 1958, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Ex-library copy with usual marks and stamps. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, front end paper missing and no bumping to corners. 143pp. An introduction to maps and regions. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 014026

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Geography, Maps, Geology

HOYS, DUDLEY

English Lake Country

B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1969, First Edition. (ISBN: 0713400641) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean crisp tight copy with bright boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped, with chips and rubbing to edges. 224pp. A book about England's Lake District written by someone who has been farming there for many years and who therefore balances the area as a tourist destination with its attention to farm practice. Fine/Near Very Good.

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Book number: 000416

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Lake District, Cumbria, Cumberland, Westmorland 0713400641

JOHN, LIANA

Amazonia: Olhos De Satelite (The Amazon: A Satellite's Eye View)

Sao Paulo, Brazil, Editoracao Publicacoes e Comunicacoes LDTA. 1989, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12.25 x 12.25 Inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked laminated boards, tiny rubs to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with small tears to slightly curled edges. 143pp. A lavish coloured study of the River Amazon from the air alongside its nature, its peoples and its features at ground level. Text in English, French and Portuguese. Near Fine/Good.

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Book number: 019155

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: South America, Amazon River, Nature

JONES, JONAH

The Lakes of North Wales

London, Wildwood House Ltd. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0704530562) Hard Cover, 8 x 6.75 inches. Small neat name label on front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards, minor foxing to top of page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with slight rubbing to edges. 192pp. This is primarily a book for walkers but also appropriate for geologists, botanists, naturalists, historians and even engineers. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 025494

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Wales, Lakes, Mountains Walking / Rambling / Cycling 0704530562

WILKINS-JONES, C

Tameside : An Outline History of Those Parts of Lancashire & Cheshire Now in Tameside Metropolitan Borough

Ashton-u-Lyne, Tameside MBC. 1978. (ISBN: 0904506045) Paperback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Unread. No marks or inscriptions. No creases to covers or to spine. Clean bright covers with no bumping to corners. A lovely clean tight copy. 82pp. The creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside within Greater Manchester in 1974 united nine local authorities which, whilst sharing to a large extent a common industrial history, nevertheless were significantly different in many ways. This book presents a short history of some of these differences and similarities. Illustrated and with a select bibliography. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. New.

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Book number: 025725

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Local History, Manchester, Denton, Hyde, Stalybridge, Mossley, Mottram, Droylsden, Ashton Under Lyne Local History 0904506045

KNOWLES, ARTHUR

Lakeland Today

London, Robert Hale. 1973, First Edition. (ISBN: 0709139845) Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. Ill.: Paul Allonby. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Missing front end paper, otherwise book is 'fine'. Dust jacket price clipped but not marked or torn or creased with a little rubbing to upper and lower edges. 192pp. A study of the English Lake District through the eyes of one who has known and loved it since early childhood and who lives and works there. Very Good (+)/Very Good.

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Book number: 011132

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Lake District, Cumbria, Nature, Tourism, Local History Nature 0709139845 Paul Allonby

ANDRO LINKLATER

Measuring America

London, HarperCollins. 2003. (ISBN: 0007108885) Soft Cover, 7.75 x 5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 312pp. The story of how the US Congress surveyed and sold the land to the west of the Ohio river in 1785. This was the greatest property deal of all time and led to the the imposition of the well-known current grid system on the unmapped land. Very Good.

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Book number: 019518

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Usa, Land Sale, 1785 Social History 0007108885

LLOYD, CHRISTOPHER

The Search for the Niger

Newton Abbott, Readers Union. 1974. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slightly dusty rear, tiny nick to upper rear edge and rubbing to front. 220pp. The author tells the amazing story of the search for the River Niger. Its source was well known, so did it simply evaporate in the Sahara ? He explains how the mystery was solved and the river shown to flow first north-east, then east and finally south-east to the Bight of Biafra. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 012592

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Africa, Adventure, Biafra, Chad, Sahara, Rivers Travel / Adventure

LOCK, ALICE (EDITOR)

Denton in Old Photographs

Ashton-u-Lyne, Tameside MBC. 1983. (ISBN: 0904506096) Paperback, 11 x 8.25 inches. New Book. 48pp. A collection of photographs with accompanying text of the Denton district of Tameside, Greater Manchester, formerly in Lancashire, mainly from the early years of the 20th century, but some go back to the later 1800's. Subjects covered include Coal Mining, Wire Works and Hat Works (for which Denton was particularly famous), Oldham's Batteries, Denton Jail and Denton Hall, early street scenes and school groups, a major fire and the Council on Jubilee Day 1897. New.

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Book number: 022969

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Local History, Lancashire, Manchester Local History 0904506096

LOWE-MCCONNELL, R H (EDITOR)

Man-Made Lakes

London, Inst. Of Biol and Academic Press. 1966. Hardback, 9.25 x 6.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. Clean bright blue cloth boards with no bumps to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped but well rubbed, chipped and browned at top edge and to spine. Quarter inch tear in intact pull-out map. A clean tight copy of the book. 218pp. Institute of Biology Symposia Number 15. Near Fine/Good (-).

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Book number: 000899

Catalogue: Topography

MEAD, HARRY

Inside the North York Moors (Signed by Author)

Otley, West Yorkshire, Smith Settle Ltd. 1994. (ISBN: 1858250285) Soft Cover, 8.5 x 5.25 inches. Inscribed by Harry Mead on half-title page. No other marks. A little creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked but slightly indented boards and no bumping to corners. 230pp. An account of the National Park of the North York Moors by a journalist with an attention to detail with subjects ranging from churches to pubs, via industry, customs and characters. Very Good. Signed by Author.

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Book number: 023984

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Travels, Leisure, Culture, Buildings, People, Yorkshire Local History Social History 1858250285

MILLS, JESSICA AND PALMER, ROG

Populating Clay Landscapes

Stroud, Gloucestershire, Tempus Publishing Ltd. 2007, First Edition. (ISBN: 0752440934) Soft Cover, 9.75 x 6.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean crisp very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 160pp. How recent investigations have shown that clay soils were populated just as favourably as lighter soils, contrary to previous thinking. This book brings together some of these investigations and sets out the facts. Fine.

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Book number: 005699

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Archaeology, Topography, Soils, History, 0752440934

MONKHOUSE, F J

A Dictionary of Geography

London, Edward Arnold. 1965, First Edition. Hardback, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. No inscriptions. Dust jacket not price clipped. A clean crisp tight copy with minor marks/indents to dust jacket. 344pp. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 000678

Catalogue: Topography

NEWBIGIN, MARION I.

A New Regional Geography of the World

London, Christophers. 1932. Hard Cover, 7.75 x 5.25 inches. Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked dark green boards, foxing/dustiness to page edges and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 440pp. In-depth study of world geography aimed at upper froms at school. Illustrated. Quite scarce. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 027053

Catalogue: Topography

Keywords: Geography Science / Engineering / Maths