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For generations, coastal fishermen, working at the very fringe
between land and sea, have fished salmon and herring using methods
passed down from father to son. Some of these ancient traditions
have been traced back as far as the days when the men from
Scandinavia colonised these lands in the eighth and ninth
centuries; others are simply nineteenth century in origin. Sadly,
in recent years stocks have dwindled and regulations limit local
fishing practices. Today, some surviving methods, such as
haaf-netting, are in danger of dying out, whilst other traditional
fisheries now lie abandoned. Though herring stocks have recovered
from their late twentieth-century decline, the Atlantic salmon is
now under immense threat and more danger of extinction than ever
before. Tracing and describing his own journey from North Devon,
through Wales and up to the top of Scotland, along with interviews
with many fishermen, both retired and working, Mike Smylie explores
the social history of these indigenous fishing traditions and
communities, presenting a picture of their lives, past, present and
future.
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Humans
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Brandon Stanton
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Brandon Stanton’s Humans is a book that connects readers as global citizens at a time when erecting more borders is the order of the day. It shows us the entire world, one story at a time…
Brandon Stanton’s Humans – his most moving and compelling book to date – shows us the world. After five years of traveling the globe, the creator of Humans of New York brings people from all parts of the world into a conversation with readers. He ignores borders, chronicles lives and shows us the faces of the world as he saw them. His travels took him from London, Paris and Rome to Iraq, Dubai, Ukraine, Pakistan, Jordan, Uganda, Vietnam, Israel and every other place in between. His interviews go deeper than before. His chronicling of peoples’ lives shows the experience of a writer who has traveled widely and thought deeply about the state of our world.
Including hundreds of photos and stories of the people he met and talked with in over forty countries, Humans is classic Brandon Stanton – a fully color illustrated book that includes many photos and stories never seen before. For the first time for a HONY title, Humans will contain several of the essays Brandon’s posted online which have been read, loved and enthusiastically shared by his followers.
Using archive photos matched with the same viewpoint today, Memphis
Then and Now charts 150 years of Memphis history. Born as a planned
community that was partly owned by Andrew Jackson, Memphis grew on
a steady diet of cotton. The second largest cotton supplier in the
world, Memphis's location on the fourth bluff of the Chickasaw
River kept it free from flooding and helped the city develop its
lucrative trade. Using archive pictures from the 1870s though to
the 1960s paired with the equivalent view today, Memphis Then and
Now charts the history of the city and the profound effect of the
music business; from W. C. Handy and Beale Street, to Stax Records,
Sun Records and the home of the King, Graceland. It also includes
the railroad station from which Casey Jones departed on his final,
fatal run in 1900. Includes: Memphis Levee, Cossitt Library, US
Post Office, Beale Street, Handy Park, Warner Theatre, Columbian
Mutual, Orpheum Theatre, Hebe Fountain, Union Avenue, Magevney
House, Handwerker Gingerbread Playhouse, Shelby County Courthouse,
St. Peter's Catholic Church, Memphis Cotton Exchange, First
National Bank, Illinois Central Station, City Hall, Masonic Temple,
Peabody Hotel and the Tennessee Brewing Company.
Vermont is a tiny state with a big heart. It's a place that
inspires dreams and stirs imagination. It's a state of mind, with a
deeply rooted sense of place. One that values the land and moves to
the beat of the seasons. For more than forty years, author Anne
Averyt has called Vermont home. She has shared the land and the
life of Vermont; she knows what makes this small state special. In
Vermont Perspectives: Sense of Place, State of Mind, Averyt easily
moves between a spirited fiddle hoedown and the calm of a
backcounty road. She explores, with insight and humor, the keen
sense of place and solid footing in local values that shape
Vermonters' views of home and the world beyond. A nine-year veteran
commentator on Vermont Public Radio, Averyt shares her experience
in this expanded collection of eighty of her Commentary essays.
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Every
country in the world, in one guidebook: Lonely Planet's The World.
A Traveller's Guide to the Planet. We've taken the highlights from
the world's best guidebooks and put them together into one 900+
page whopper to create the ultimate guide to Earth. This
user-friendly A-Z gives a flavour of each country in the world,
including a map, travel highlights, info on where to go and how to
get around, as well as some quirkier details to bring each place to
life. In Lonely Planet's trademark bluespine format, this is the
ultimate planning resource. From now on, every traveller's journey
should start here... Nearly 1000 colour photos of must-visit
highlights More than 200 colour maps The guidebook every traveller
needs to own About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel
media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand,
providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind
of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed
over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and
grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers.
You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14
languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle
books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Lonely
Planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to
truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or
far from home. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013,
2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category
'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York
Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every
traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet.
It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how
to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
Stonehenge is the world's most famous pre-historic monument and,
since the middle of the 19th century, probably the most
photographed. Using images from English Heritage's unique
photgraphic archive (the National Monuments Record), Stonehenge: A
History in Photographs charts the last 150 years in the life of
this extraordinary and iconic site. These largely unseen images
touch on various moments in Stonehenge's history, from the
leiusrely tourism in the last years of Victoria's reign to the
monument of today, a site visited each year by more than one
million people from all over the world. This book is a celebration
of Stonehenge, in fascinating and often very human images. The text
is written by archaeologist and television presenter Julian
Richards, someone with a genuine love of Stonehenge. This is a book
for all who share a fascination with this magical monument.
Dublin is a unique, multi-layered city, where ancient and youthful
meet to form a community rich in culture, creativity and song. With
picturesque seaside villages and romantic medieval castles, you are
guaranteed a warm Irish welcome. This beautiful collection of
images will take you past Dublin's famous landmarks - the bridge,
the Liffey, the pubs - and into the hidden gems waiting around
every corner. From secluded mews to artisan outlets, vintage
markets and tree-lined streets, prettycitydublin champions the
quiet, gentle moments that allow you to escape in a bustling
capital city like Dublin. Full of the unexplored and
less-appreciated areas of Dublin, this stunning guide also includes
tips on how to plan and capture your own prettycitydublin
experience, whether on foot or dreaming from afar.
Washington, D.C. Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of
the evolution and history of America's capital city since the dawn
of photography in the mid-nineteenth century. It pairs vintage
black-and-white photographs-including those of pioneers of American
photography such as John Plumbe and Mathew Brady-with splendid
color photographs taken from the same vantage points today. The
book includes all the tourist must-see places of the capital city.
Sites include, the Capitol, White House, Library of Congress,
Supreme Court, Treasury Building, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson
Memorial, Smithsonian Museum, Union Station, Ford's Theatre,
Pentagon, Arlington Cemetery, Folger Shakespeare Library, Old Post
Office and the offices that Mark Twain described as "the ugliest
building in America." It also features some breathtaking vintage
panoramas taken from the Washington Monument showing the nascent
capital in glorious detail.
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Wicked Asheville
(Paperback)
Marla Hardee Milling; Foreword by Joshua P. Warren
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Chosen as one of the Best Architecture and Design books Summer 2022
by the Financial Times. Why British record store carrier bags are
graphic design icons: While they've never carried the kudos of
sleeve designs and music posters, record shop bags offer a
fascinating insight into 20th century British music culture,
high-streets and more. - Creative Review Jonny Trunk's extensive
collection of record shop bags weaves together a less conventional
history of British music, celebrating the shops where musicians and
fans bought and sold their first LPs. This book is a love letter to
these forgotten spaces, accompanied by a juicy selection of
anecdotes and little known facts about the record shops and their
bags. Readers, gear up for a "brilliant ride down the old British
high streets and low streets too." - It's Nice That Jonny Trunk and
FUEL present A-Z of Record Shop Bags - a publication celebrating
the humble record store bag. This exhaustive collection of the
record shop bag provides a unique perspective of record shopping in
the UK over the last century, bringing together over 500 incredible
bags (some possibly the only surviving examples) to document the
fascinating story of British high street record shopping. Bags from
famous chains such as NEMS, Our Price and Virgin (the amazingly
rare Roger Dean bags), sit alongside designs from local shops run
by eccentric enthusiasts. Packed with stories such as the first
Jewish ska retailer, the record sellers who started the premier
league, famous staff (David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, Morrissey,
etc.) and equally infamous owners, these anecdotes of mythical
vinyl entrepreneurs will entertain and delight. With vinyl record
sales at their highest ever for decades (outselling CDs in the US),
this publication acts as an amazing insight into the history,
culture and visual language of record collecting. Following Own
Label, Wrappers Delight and Auto Erotica - A-Z of Record Shop Bags:
1940s to 1990s is the next book in the series by Jonny Trunk and
FUEL, examining overlooked aspects of our collective past.
San Diego Then and Now pairs up fascinating archive pictures of the
city from its Spanish old town origins, to the bright and shining
metropolis of today Known to its residents as "America's Finest
City," San Diego has a mild, inviting climate and stunning coastal
scenery. San Diego Then and Now looks at how the city developed
from a small village settled by early Franciscan missionaries and
the Spanish military. It came under U.S. rule in 1846, but it was
not until 1867 when San Francisco speculator and businessman Alonzo
E. Horton acquired 960 acres of waterfront land and promoted it as
"New Town" that San Diego really began to take off. San Diego Then
and Now pairs archival photographs with modern views of the same
scene to illustrate the city's growth since these humble
beginnings. It shows how the city's architecture still reflects and
preserves its Spanish heritage but also incorporates modern glass
skyscrapers and Victorian mansions. Sites include: Horton Plaza,
U.S. Grant Hotel, Stingaree District, Speckels Theatre, Fifth
Avenue, Seaport Village, Embarcadero, Star of India, Coronado,
Hotel del Coronado, Santa Fe Depot, Carnegie Library, El Cortez
Hotel, Long-Waterman Mansion, Villa Montezuma, The Prado, San Diego
Zoo, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego High School, Hillcrest, City
Heights, Kensington, La Casa de Estudillo, Casa de Bandini, Whaley
House, Junipero Serra Museum, Ballast Point, Point Loma, Ocean
Beach and Pacific Beach.
What's the #1 travel experience in Australia? For the first time,
the team at Lonely Planet and its panel of industry experts have
ranked the top 500 unmissable experiences and hidden gems across
the land - to create this definitive travel wishlist. Lonely
Planet's Ultimate Australia Travel List is the regional follow-up
to the bestselling Lonely Planet's Ultimate Travel List and a
must-own coffee table book for both travellers to Australia and
residents who want to discover their country's most iconic sights
and activities. Learn about Indigenous culture and traditions,
savour local flavours at world renowned eateries, have ethical
interactions with native wildlife, swim in turquoise waters at
picture-perfect beaches, and explore the breathtaking beauty of
natural landscapes. With glorious photos, insightful commentary and
details of how to visit each place, this is your essential guide to
exploring the very best of Australia's travel experiences.
"Who would have thought you could create a cat bed from a
washing-up bowl, design a doll's house from an old shoe box or make
a flower pot from a margarine tub - all on live television!"
Valerie Singleton, Blue Peter presenter 1962-1972 "My ultimate
favourite has to be Tracy Island. I loved all the little details,
such as the bendable pipe cleaner, palm trees and that it was
compatible with the shop bought Thunderbirds toys." Konnie Huq,
Blue Peter presenter, 1997-2008 Blue Peter is the longest-running
children's programme in the world. At its peak, before the days of
streaming and social media, it notched up 8 million viewers an
episode and received a thousand letters a day. Recently voted the
UK's best children's TV programme of all time, it was - and remains
- famous for its makes, all of which used inexpensive household
items such as cereal boxes and squeezy bottles, as well as the
essential sticky-backed plastic and rubber solution glue. This
affectionate celebration of the favourite makes from the show, has
facsimiles from the Blue Peter annuals and includes the iconic
Advent Crown, made with wire coat hangers, tinsel and candles. A
Christmas Door Decoration, made from a polystyrene ceiling tile,
some more tinsel and a cake doily. A Luxury Cat Basket, made from a
washingup bowl. Plant Pots using old margarine tubs. A Doll's House
made from a shoebox (with furniture made from matchboxes). Plus, of
course, the instructions for the Blue Peter version of Thunderbirds
Tracy Island.
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