The Natural History of Oxford-shire
Author : Robert Plot
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 1677
Category : Natural history
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Author : Robert Plot
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 1677
Category : Natural history
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Page : 664 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
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ISBN : 9780241393345
Author : Dr. Peter Jarvis
Publisher : Pelagic Publishing Ltd
Page : 2241 pages
File Size : 22,61 MB
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1784271950
A unique collection of concise but detailed information on 10,000 animals, plants, fungi and algae of the British Isles. Every species with an English common name is included. The compendium is in two parts. The first, smaller part, looks at various terms that people interested in natural history may come across. The second provides information on individual species or species groups, with entries on those with English (common) names, as well as selected families, orders, classes, etc. In the case of marine organisms, entries are given for intertidal and subtidal invertebrate species, and generally speaking for fish species that might be observed inshore. Indication is often given on distribution as well as whether a species is common, scarce or something in between. For some species a note is made of population size and trends. Comments are made where appropriate on etymology, both of the English name and the binomial. No other natural history dictionary or cognate publication relating to the British Isles is as comprehensive in taxonomic cover.
Author : Clayton Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 14,98 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1315509997
This two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past. A History of England, Volume 1 (Prehistory to 1714), focuses on the most important developments in the history of England through the early 18th century. Topics include the Viking and Norman conquests of the 11th century, the creation of the monarchy, the Reformation, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Author : Peter Thomas
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0008304521
Winner of the 2022 Marsh Book of the Year Award A long-awaited volume in the New Naturalist series examining the trees of Britain.
Author : Simon Jenkins
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 13,26 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1610391438
The heroes and villains, triumphs and disasters of English history are instantly familiar -- from the Norman Conquest to Henry VIII, Queen Victoria to the two World Wars. But to understand their full significance we need to know the whole story. A Short History of England sheds new light on all the key individuals and events in English history by bringing them together in an enlightening account of the country's birth, rise to global prominence, and then partial eclipse. Written with flair and authority by Guardian columnist and London Times former editor Simon Jenkins, this is the definitive narrative of how today's England came to be. Concise but comprehensive, with more than a hundred color illustrations, this beautiful single-volume history will be the standard work for years to come.
Author : Griffith Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,17 MB
Release : 1750
Category : Barbados
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Author : Benjamin Martin
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 1759
Category : England
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Author : Arthur Leslie Morton
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2014
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ISBN : 9789350022559
Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1250013674
The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life in this history of England through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.