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How clean is your house?
By Kim Woodburn, Aggie MacKenzie. 2004
In this book the authors continue the mission of their popular Channel 4 television series - to educate, inform and…
generally browbeat us all into cleaning properly. Sweeping through the house room by room, they tackle all manner of cleaning challenges, from streaky windows to smelly fridges. Each chapter is packed with tools of the trade, star tips, 'don't do that's', step-by-steps and 'before's and after's'. There's even a 'filth questionnaire' to determine your cleanly status - and Aggie's famous rotas for the cleaning-impaired! 2004.Gardens of our souls: a correspondence of friendship and healing
By Diane Sims. 1998
The story of Diane Sims, who struggled with Multiple Sclerosis for 23 years and then found out she had the…
same cancer that took her sister's life. Her friend, Marla Fletcher, decided to send Sims letters about her garden. These letters would prove to be an incredible source of inspiration for both women; gardens became a metaphor for the human spirit and as the years passed, Sims began to heal. 1998."Gardening from Berryfields" is invaluable to all gardeners and, in particular, to the viewers of BBC2's "Gardeners' World". Using the…
main projects undertaken at Berryfields (the "Gardeners' World" garden), the book guides the reader through a year of gardening, giving practical advice so that they can use Berryfields as a template for managing their own. The book is divided into 13 chapters covering subjects such as the kitchen garden, courtyard garden, dry garden, herb garden, mixed borders, pond, orchard, and wildflower meadow. 1999.Dawdling by the Danube: with journeys in Bavaria and Poland
By Edward Enfield. 2008
Edward Enfield chronicles his adventures bike-riding through Europe for his voracious and curious fans. Here he takes a jaunt -…
for the first time - through Germany. With his characteristic wit and charm, Enfield describes the glorious German landscape in evocative prose. 2008.European detours: a travel guide to unusual sights
By Nino Lo Bello. 1981
For everyone who has ever wondered what happens when you fall in love with a certain house, on a certain…
hill, near a certain village - Extra Virgin limns Annie Hawes's joyful romance with the enchantingly beautiful Italian Riviera. 2001.Europe's last summer: who started the Great War in 1914?
By David Fromkin. 2005
When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory.…
For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable. In this book Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced deliberately. In a re-creation of the run-up to war, Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. 2005.Eiger, wall of death: Wall Of Death
By Arthur J Roth. 1982
Chronicles the attempts, successful and otherwise, made by numerous mountain climbers from all over the world to scale the treacherous…
north wall of the Eiger. The Swiss alp is considered to be the world's most difficult climb and has claimed over forty lives. 1982.Death so noble: memory, meaning, and the First World War
By Jonathan Franklin William Vance. 1997
Vance examines the reaction of Canadians to the First World War as a cultural and philosophical force, rather than a…
political and military event. He argues that Canadians constructed a version of the war which stressed traditional values and the positive results of the war experience, and how this myth helped create within Canada a sense of nationhood. 1997.Ebdon's England
By John Ebdon. 1985
John Ebdon captures the whims and eccentricities of the English character in this portrait of the country and its people:…
the regimented Farnham commuter, and the cantankerous neighbours with deep down hearts of gold. Explaining along the way why Yorkshiremen are "God's own people" and how London views tourists. 1985.Ebdon's odyssey
By John Ebdon. 1979
The first book from the Director of the London Planetarium, better known as a humorous broadcaster. Here he writes about…
the non-tourist side of Greece, two islands in the Cyclades, where he is accepted into the villages as a welcome inhabitant. In his own words, "It is not a travel book. It is about people... of the islands of Andros and Kos." 1979.Ecological gardening: Your Path To A Healthy Garden
By Marjorie Harris. 2009
Harris - who has been an organic gardener since the 1960s - encourages the Canadian gardener to get back to…
basics. With information updated for today's society, she shows how little use pesticides and chemicals are when making a lush and abundant garden. 2009.Danube: A Sentimental Journey From The Source To The Black Sea
By Claudio Magris. 1989
Explores the Danube River as it flows through middle-European countries from the Bavarian hills to the Black Sea. Examines the…
tension between Greco-Roman and Teutonic cultures, the roots of fascism, the splendour and decline of the Hapsburg dynasty, and the evil of Nazism. 1989. Uniform title: Danubio.Cultivating delight: a natural history of my garden
By Diane Ackerman. 2001
A celebration of the sensory pleasures of the garden, from deadheading flowers to studying slugs. Ackerman describes the unexpected drama,…
and the sanctuary, that her garden provides. Her hymn to the outdoors and the pleasure we take in it ranges from descriptions of nature's violence to loneliness, portrayed by clamouring male crickets in spring, to sheer wonderment. 2001.Canadian travellers in Europe, 1851-1900
By Eva-Marie Kröller. 1987
A detailed survey of Canadian travel writing in the 19th century provides an unusual perspective on Canadian history. Canadians abroad…
preferred Britain, France, Italy and Palestine, in that order. The major world expositions and Queen Victoria's Golden and Diamond Jubilees figure prominently in the writings. 1987.With a borrowed rucksack, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off in 1933 from the Hook of Holland to walk to Constantinople.…
This sequel continues the journey down the Danube from Budapest; on horseback across the Great Hungarian Plain, and over the Rumanian border into Transylvania, a wild beautiful region of forests and mountains secluded from Western eyes during centuries of religious and national complexity. He planned to live "like a tramp, a pilgrim or a wandering scholar" but found instead leisurely sojourns in castles. Sequel to "A time of gifts : on foot to Constantinople : from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube". 1986.Coasting (Picador Bks.)
By Jonathan Raban. 1987
In 1982 the author set out in an old, made-over ketch, to the only wilderness left: the sea. Unlike his…
predecessors, he was not weighted down by "testaments, theories and dogmas;" he wanted to find out what made his own "peculiar country tick" and, in so doing, he charted the coastline of his past, took soundings for the future and unfurled a map of Britain that is comedy and tragedy in one. 1987.Churchill and the Dardanelles: myth, memory, and reputation
By M Christopher Bell. 2017
The failure of the Allied fleet to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston…
Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career. For over a century, Churchill has been both praised and condemned for his role in launching this highly controversial campaign. For some, the Dardanelles offensive was a brilliant concept that might have dramatically shortened the First World War. To many others, however, Churchill was a reckless amateur who drove his unwilling and misinformed colleagues into a venture that was doomed to fail. 2017.Cataclysm: the First World War as political tragedy
By D Stevenson. 2004
Conventional wisdom has World War I as an unstoppable juggernaut over which politicians had little control, but Stevenson reveals that…
they deliberately took risks that led to war in July 1914, and remained very much in control during it. Far from being overwhelmed by the scale and brutality of the bloodshed, leaders such as Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Bethmann-Hollweg were making conscious choices at every step of the war, including the continued acceptance of astronomical casualties. c2004.Building my Zen garden
By Kieran Egan. 2000
This narrative is a chronicle of Egan's Zen garden adventure with observations about the "Zen" principles that guided his work.…
It is the education professor's first foray into the world of garden writing. 2000.