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Providing essential knowledge about the British capital's built
environment, these two volumes cover a large portion of the parish
of St. Marylebone, bounded to the south by Oxford Street and to the
north by the Marylebone Road, and stretching from just west of
Marylebone High Street to the parish boundary along Cleveland
Street near Tottenham Court Road to the east. This area is rich in
historic buildings and includes some of London's most celebrated
addresses, including Portland Place, Cavendish Square, and Harley
Street. Among the most important buildings covered in this superbly
illustrated book are Robert and James Adam's development of
Portland Place, where the Royal Institute of British Architects'
headquarters is a notable 20th-century insertion. Other landmarks
include Marylebone Parish Church, All Saints Margaret Street and
All Souls Langham Place, and the vast, recently demolished
Middlesex Hospital. In addition to new photography, this volume
includes meticulous architectural drawings and detailed coverage of
the topography. Published in association with the Paul Mellon
Centre and University College London
However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the
warps and letting go one's last hold of the shore at the start of a
voyage has about it something solemn and irrevocable, like
marriage, for better or for worse. Mostly Mischief's ordinary title
belies four more extraordinary voyages made by H.W. 'Bill' Tilman
covering almost 25,000 miles in both Arctic and Antarctic waters.
The first sees the pilot cutter Mischief retracing the steps of
Elizabethan explorer John Davis to the eastern entrance to the
Northwest Passage. Tilman and a companion land on the north coast
and make the hazardous crossing of Bylot Island while the remainder
of the crew make the eventful passage to the southern shore to
recover the climbing party. Back in England, Tilman refuses to
accept the condemnation of Mischief's surveyor, undertaking costly
repairs before heading back to sea for a first encounter with the
East Greenland ice. Between June 1964 and September 1965, Tilman is
at sea almost without a break. Two eventful voyages to East
Greenland in Mischief provide the entertaining bookends to his
account of the five-month voyage in the Southern Ocean as skipper
of the schooner Patanela. Tilman had been hand-picked by the
expedition leader as the navigator best able to land a team of
Australian and New Zealand climbers and scientists on Heard Island,
a tiny volcanic speck in the Furious Fifties devoid of safe
anchorages and capped by an unclimbed glaciated peak. In a separate
account of this successful voyage, Colin Putt describes the
expedition as unique - the first ascent of a mountain to start
below sea level.
A fully illustrated, comprehensive record of London's medieval
Charterhouse, from its foundation in the 14th century to the
present day, presented by the Survey of London team. It includes
original research, new photography, and previously unpublished
inventories. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art
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