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BEST Pocket Parks of NYC is for the adventurous traveler as well as
the local intrigued by the 'little green spaces in the middle of
the city.' There are over 520 privately owned public space (POPS)
in New York City, but many are simply widened sidewalks or empty
plazas. BEST Pocket Parks of NYC takes the best of these spaces,
those with seating and ambience, and compiles them into a guide
with interesting bits of information scrounged from databases,
articles and all manner of public documents. "The information is in
various places and can be difficult to find," according to the
author. "I have visited every park, researched from a variety of
sources, and come up with a guide to those pocket parks and public
spaces that lend themselves to stopping and relaxing for a while
before you go on with your day." BEST Pocket Parks of NYC is the
first of several guides planned that will give the reader
interesting information and history along with the location of
pocket parks and public spaces in several U.S. cities as well as
locations in Europe.
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Scraps (Paperback)
Rosemary O'Brien
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R321
Discovery Miles 3 210
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her
adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved
desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem.
Called the most powerful woman in the British Empire, she counseled
kings and prime ministers. Bell's colleagues included Lloyd George
and Winston Churchill, who in 1921 invited Bell - the only woman
whose advice was sought - to the Cairo Conference to "determine the
future of Mesopotamia." Bell numbered among her closest friends
T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. In this volume
of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien preserves Bell's
elegant, vibrant prose, and presents Bell as a brilliant tactician
fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability. The fundamental
themes of her life - reckless behavior; a divided self which
combined brilliance of intellect with a passionate nature; a sense
of history; and the fatal gift of falling in love with a married
man - are all here in remarkable detail. Her journey to northern
Arabia in 1914 earned Bell professional recognition from the Royal
Geographical Society, and solidified her reputation as a canny
political analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. In addition to Bell's
own photographs, O'Brien has provided us an unprecedented first
access to excerpts of the Bell/Richard Doughty-Wyllie love letters,
the married British army officer with whom she was in love and for
whom her diaries were written.
The Englishwoman Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her
adventures are the stuff of novels: she rode with bandits; braved
desert shamals; was captured by Bedouins; and sojourned in a harem.
Called the most powerful woman in the British empire, she
counselled kings and prime ministers. Bell's colleagues included
Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, who in 1921 invited Bell - the
only woman whose advice was sought - to the Cairo Conference to
""determine the future of Mesopotamia"". Bell numbered among her
closest friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby and Arabian sheiks.
In this volume of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien
preserves Bell's elegant, vibrant prose and presents Bell as a
brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability.
The fundamental themes of her life - reckless behaviour; a divided
self which combined brilliance of intellect with a passionate
nature; a sense of history; and the fatal gift of falling in love
with a married man - are all here in remarkable detail. Her journey
to northern Arabia in 1914 earned Bell professional recognition
from the Royal Geographical Society, and solidified her reputation
as a canny political analyst of Middle Eastern affairs. In addition
to Bell's own photographs, O'Brien has provided us an unprecedented
first access to excerpts of the Bell/Richard Doughty-Wylie love
letters, the married British army officer with whom she was in love
and for whom her diaries were written.
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