This stunning collaboration between the noted garden writer Nancy Ross Hugo and the photographer Robert Llewellyn showcases the fruits of an effort begun in 2004 to research, locate, and photograph Virginia's most remarkable trees. Four years later, more than one thousand trees had been officially nominated to the project and many others suggested for possible inclusion. The results, presented in this elegant, four-color volume, are astounding. Hugo and Kirwan, the project coordinators, have selected a sample of trees and "tree places" that illustrate the enormous variety, startling beauty, and fascinating history of Virginia's trees.

Here you will see, through Llewellyn's incomparable lens, not only some of Virginia's largest trees, including a newly discovered national champion overcup oak in Isle of Wight County, but also some of the state's oldest, including baldcypress trees over 800 years old in Southampton County and red cedars over 450 years old in Giles. You will find unique trees like a willow oak in which a tricycle is embedded, fine specimens like the massive American beech in front of Sleepy Hollow Methodist Church in Falls Church, and outrageously shaped trees, like the water tupelos in the Cypress Bridge area of Southampton County. You will find trees associated with famous people and events as well as trees associated with ordinary people in extraordinary ways. Perhaps best of all, you will learn about communities that have gone to great lengths to protect their trees and about places where the public can visit some of the best trees and "treescapes" in the state.

"Remarkable Trees of Virginia" is a celebration of trees, but it doesn't dodge hard issues. In a section on urban forests, the authors describe the major problems facing trees in urban areas and point out strategies urban foresters are using to solve them. They describe the ecological services trees provide and issue a call for action both to protect trees in their existing habitats and to find more places where trees can "grow large and long."

Hugo, Kirwan, and Llewellyn present a treasury of Virginia's trees that is, indeed, remarkable.

This feature-length episode of the popular sitcom, originally shown on TV as a three-part mini series, marks the return of the Red Dwarf crew after a break of ten years. Lister (Craig Charles), Rimmer (Chris Barrie), Kryton (Robert Llewellyn) and Cat (Danny John-Jules) have aged but apparently not matured. The crew find themselves back on Lister's home planet after discovering a dimension-travelling monster in their water tank. It seems that Lister's prayers have finally been answered but things are never that simple...

In "Albemarle, " photographer Robert Llewellyn and writer Avery Chenoweth explore how the landscape of Albemarle County, where the Virginia piedmont meets the Blue Ridge Mountains, and its people have helped create an American sense of identity.

Complemented by Llewellyn's luxurious color photography, the narrative rolls back 15,000 years to the first signs of human habitation, continues through the Colonial period, and arrives in the modern era. The story traces the evolving culture of landscape as it has been played out in the lives of historic figures, from the Monacans to the Moderns, Thomas Jefferson to Lady Bird Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe to Teddy Roosevelt. With a sweeping view of aesthetics, spirituality, religion, and history, the book itself is a work of art, essential reading, and viewing, for anyone who has lived in, or been inspired by, the landscape of Albemarle County.

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"From the vast pattern of a landscape to the small enclosure behind the house, we blend the elements of water and flower and fruit into an atmosphere of spiritual intimacy. In this manner of taking care, we follow an ancient path into an emotional landscape where all things are in harmony. And yet the story that we found in the Albemarle landscape is one that expands into larger spaces altogether. This landscape, which we believe is unique, encompasses our earliest ideas of America."

All 52 episodes from seasons 1-8 of the BBC sci-fi comedy series following the adventures of Lister (Craig Charles), the last human in the universe, his hologram colleague Rimmer (Chris Barrie), android Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) and Cat (Danny John-Jules). Episodes are: 'The End', 'Future Echoes', 'Balance of Power', 'Waiting For God', 'Confidence and Paranoia', 'Me 2', 'Kryten', 'Better Than Life', 'Thanks for the Memory', 'Stasis Leak', 'Queeg', 'Parallel Universe', 'Backwards', 'Marooned', 'Polymorph', 'Timeslides', 'Bodyswap', 'The Last Day', 'Camille', 'DNA', 'Justice', 'Dimension Jump', 'White Hole', 'Meltdown', 'Holoship', 'The Inquisitor', 'Terrorform', 'Quarantine', 'Demons and Angels', 'Back to Reality', 'Psirens', 'Legion', 'Gunmen of the Apocalypse', 'Emohawk - Polymorph II', 'Rimmerworld', 'Out of Time', 'Tikka to Ride', 'Stoke Me a Clipper', 'Ouroboros', 'Duct Soup', 'Blue', 'Beyond a Joke', 'Epideme', 'Nanarchy', 'Back in the Red (Part 1)', 'Back in the Red (Part 2)', 'Back in the Red (Part 3)', 'Cassandra', 'Krytie TV', 'Pete', 'Pete II' and 'Only The Good...'.

For the last several years, the writer, comedian and Red Dwarf actor Robert Llewellyn has been gathering notes, old diaries, pictures and ideas for a lighthearted but occasionally philosophical book on his life. And a couple of years ago, after Christmas dinner, his son scrawled a picture of him that he titled `Some Old Bloke , which struck Robert as the perfect title for this funny, revealing and insightful autobiography. We take a meandering route through Robert's life and career, from the sensitive young boy at odds with his ex-military father, through his stint as a hippy and his years of arrested development spent in the world of fringe comedy, all the way up to the full-body medicals and hard-won insights of middle age. Whether he is waxing lyrical about fresh laundry, making an impassioned case for the importance of alternative energy or recounting a detailed history of the dogs in his life, Robert presents a refreshingly open and un-cynical look at the world at large and, of course, the joys of being a bloke.

Comedy double bill. In 'Red Dwarf: Smeg Ups', sanitation Mechanoid Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) presents a compilation of out-takes from the popular BBC2 television series. The footage includes the un-transmitted ending for the final episode of Series 6, a selection of 'bloopers' by the crew of Red Dwarf, and the answers to the ten most-asked questions about the series. In 'Smeg Outs', Kryten is joined by Lister (Craig Charles) as he presents another selection of bloopers, this time from the first three seasons, plus an extended mix of the 'Red Dwarf' single, 'Tongue Tied'. Also included is a previously unreleased TV Special.

This feature-length episode of the popular sitcom, originally shown on TV as a three-part mini series, marks the return of the Red Dwarf crew after a break of ten years. Lister (Craig Charles), Rimmer (Chris Barrie), Kryton (Robert Llewellyn) and Cat (Danny John-Jules) have aged but apparently not matured. The crew find themselves back on Lister's home planet after discovering a dimension-travelling monster in their water tank. It seems that Lister's prayers have finally been answered but things are never that simple...

From the author and photographer who brought us "a new genre of art book" in "Albemarle: A Story of Landscape and American Identity" comes a new collaborative effort detailing the story of our nation's birth: "Jamestown and the Making of America." This beautiful work of photography and prose traces the ways in which American culture grew out of the conflict that characterized the first contact between Native Americans and Europeans. Expanding in their unique treatment of Albemarle County, the artists use photographs from our time to suggest both the ancient and recent pasts, creating a virtual experience from the Colonial era into modern times. Telling this great story in modern terms by dusting off the history to reveal the main players as fresh and alive today as they were then, "Jamestown and the Making of America" beautifully depicts a landscape synonymous with American history, from its tumultuous beginning through today.

All six episodes from the tenth series of the BBC sci-fi comedy, following the interstellar exploits of Lister (Craig Charles), the last human in the universe, his hologram colleague Rimmer (Chris Barrie), android Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) and Cat (Danny John-Jules). In this series, Rimmer is torn when he receives an SOS distress call from a ship commanded by his all-conquering brother, Howard (Mark Dexter); Lister loses Rimmer in a game of poker to a group of biologically engineered life forms; and the crew become marooned in Britain in 23 AD, which leads to an encounter with a very important historical figure. The episodes are: 'Trojan', 'Fathers and Suns', 'Lemons', 'Entangled', 'Dear Dave' and 'The Beginning'.

A centuries-old saying goes, "Great oaks from little acorns grow." But as Seeing Seeds reveals, there is much more to a seed than the plant it will someday become: seeds, seedheads, pods, and fruits have their own astounding beauty that rivals, and sometimes even surpasses, the beauty of flowers. In these stunning pages you'll gain an understanding of how seeds are formed and dispersed, why they look the way they do, and how they fit into the environment. Seeing Seeds will take you to strange and wonderful places. When you return, it's safe to say that you'll never look at a seed the same way again.

All six episodes from the tenth series of the BBC sci-fi comedy, following the interstellar exploits of Lister (Craig Charles), the last human in the universe, his hologram colleague Rimmer (Chris Barrie), android Kryten (Robert Llewellyn) and Cat (Danny John-Jules). In this series, Rimmer is torn when he receives an SOS distress call from a ship commanded by his all-conquering brother, Howard (Mark Dexter); Lister loses Rimmer in a game of poker to a group of biologically engineered life forms; and the crew become marooned in Britain in 23 AD, which leads to an encounter with a very important historical figure. The episodes are: 'Trojan', 'Fathers and Suns', 'Lemons', 'Entangled', 'Dear Dave' and 'The Beginning'.

Everyone knows what a tree looks like. But few have really seen the delicate, emerging leaves of a tulip poplar or the twigs of a beech. When we look at a tree up close, a whole new world of form and detail emerges, and we begin to appreciate trees in an entirely new way.

Trees Up Close offers an intimate, revealing look at the beauty of leaves, flowers, cones, fruits, seeds, buds, bark, and twigs of the most common trees. With more than 200 dazzling photos, you will be amazed by the otherwordly beauty of the acorns from a sawtooth oak, enchanted by the immature fruits of a red maple, and dazzled by the delicate emerging flowers of the American elm.

When Gavin Meckler's light aircraft encounters a mysterious cloud and crashes to earth, he discovers that the eerily quiet landscape in which he has landed is 200 years older than the one from which he took off. In this gentle, peaceful, sustainable new world, it is possible to travel from one side of the globe to the other in a matter of minutes without burning fuel, and everyone is a gardener because that's how they can be sure to eat. Inspired by William Morris's utopian novel News from Nowhere, Robert Llewellyn shows us a future where we don't burn anything to make anything else and which isn't hovering on the brink of disaster; where aliens haven't invaded, meteors haven't hit and zombies haven't taken over. In short, a world where humanity eventually gets it right. All the technology described in the novel has seen the light of day in reality. Llewellyn's future isn't perfect and may not be very likely, but it is entirely possible.