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Natural history guide to the land snails and slugs of Samoa and
American Samoa
From the age of ten, the author was determined to be involved with
African wildlife. This memoir recounts how he was able to fulfil
this dream, travelling through Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan,
Zimbabwe, Malawi and Egypt, as well as the Yemen, which
biologically is almost Africa. He tells of being captured by
Eritrean guerillas, seeing Gelada baboons in the Ethiopian
highlands and the huge migrations of zebra and wildebeest in the
Serengeti, doing research on termites in Darfur as well as
assessing agricultural problems in the highest fastnesses of the
Yemeni mountains, gazing in awe at the Pyramids of Giza and
marvelling at the Victoria Falls in full flow.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
And A Topographical Description Of That Country.
And A Topographical Description Of That Country.
And A Topographical Description Of That Country.
And A Topographical Description Of That Country.
Excavations in Syon Park, Brentford, have made a substantial
contribution to our knowledge of this Roman rural settlement on the
London-Silchester road, by a ford across the Thames. The site
yielded a well-dated sequence - from the mid 1st to early 5th
century AD - including occupation deposits and two 2nd-century
timber buildings destroyed by fire, as well as details of the main
road and adjacent field system. These and a large assemblage of
finds, including a surgical instrument and a roundel depicting the
Medusa, provide a rare glimpse of life in the countryside in the
hinterland of Londinium. A detailed overview of Roman Brentford
(the first to be published since 1978) is included.
Until now the evidence for London's Early and Middle Saxon rural
settlement and economy has received scant attention. This monograph
provides a long-awaited overview of the subject, drawing on the
results of six decades of archaeological fieldwork since the war,
in addition to historical and place-name evidence. Some of the
material has been published before and will be familiar to the
reader, but much of it has only been available as site archives or
unpublished reports, and at best briefly summarised as notes in
excavation round-ups. This synthesis therefore forms an
indispensible guide to researchers. The first part focuses on
twenty-six sites and six fish traps across the region, followed by
thematic sections on a range of topics, and then a final section on
the pottery finds. Price approx.
The Palace and Abbey of Westminster provide one of the most
familiar images in the world. From its beginnings on an island
surrounded by the Rivers Thames and Tyburn more than 7000 years
ago, the site became the most important centre of English history
from the 11th century onwards. The palace, which started as one of
many royal residences, became the principal home of the English
monarchs until it was damaged by fire during the reign of Henry
VIII. The former royal chapel of St Stephen became the home of the
House of Commons and the palace, with the rise in the power of
Parliament in the mid 17th century, once again took centre stage in
English history. The abbey, one of the richest and most important
monastic establishments in England, was also a royal church, home
to the coronations of all English monarchs since Edward the
Confessor and mausoleum to many of Englands royal houses. This book
publishes the archaeological work undertaken for the Jubilee Line
Extension Project in the 1990s and a series of other archaeological
investigations in and around the Palace of Westminster. It starts
with the origins of the settlement on Thorney Island over 7000
years ago and discusses the evidence from the later prehistoric,
Roman and Saxon periods before describing the development of the
palace up to the fire of 1834. Important aspects of this work are
the understanding of the varying environmental conditions around
the island and the integration of antiquarian observations to
provide an up-to-date synthesis of our current knowledge.
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