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“richard guise”

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  • A Wiggly Way Through England

    Wandering the watershed in search of history, characters and cakes

    by Richard Guise ...
    Richard Guise follows a unique 450-mile route across England on foot and on his trusty bike Tetley. His guide is the wiggly line that divides rivers flowing west from those flowing east, a choice that takes him over rolling downlands, along windy ridges, through remote villages, across ancient battlefields, past abandoned airfields and even -- surprisingly -- by boat through a network of canal ... Read more

    $4.82 CAD

  • Lead Us Not Into Trent Station

    Memories from Long Eaton and beyond

    by Richard Guise ...
    The world I first knew was small and orderly. And so was I.So begins 'Lead Us Not Into Trent Station', Richard Guise's popular memoir of childhood in a Derbyshire town of the 1950s and '60s.Mr Handlebar in the Market Place, sneezing thurifer's at St Laurence's church, 'Mad Ron' at the local grammar school... real-life characters pack these pages. We're soon taken beyond the Midlands to the hazards ... Read more

    $4.78 CAD

  • From the Mull to the Cape

    A Gentle Bike Ride on the Edge of Wilderness

    by Richard Guise ...
    The lochside stretch I was rolling through formed the trickily named Achaglachgach Forest, where I panted up and down Glen Achaglachgach, past Achaglachgach House and through Achaglachgach village, which was totally deserted. Maybe they’d all choked to death trying to say ‘Achaglachgach’.Richard Guise yearned to take on a physical challenge before he reached the age where walking across the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Limerick Gazetteer of Europe

    including Great Britain

    by Richard Guise ...
    Contains over 150 original limericks.Includes a detailed guide on how to write a good limerick -- advice apparently ignored by the author.What they said...“Brilliant!” Doggerel Today“Appalling!” Journal of Contemporary British Verse“Evidently pitched at the sad level of humour you might expect from a 14-year-old schoolboy.” Vincent Verruca, 14, schoolboy“Vince, put that book down and help me get ... Read more

    $3.72 CAD

  • Neddytown

    A History of Draycott and Church Wilne

    by Richard Guise ...
    The Derbyshire villages of Draycott and Church Wilne have dozed quietly beside the left bank ofthe Derwent for more than a thousand years, barely registering a mention even in the history of thearea. But have things really been as quiet as that? What about the case of the dodgy 18th-centuryvicar? The flying corpse? The combustible cricketer? And more disastrous, but unexplained,fires than you ... Read more

    $4.78 CAD

  • Over the Hill and Round the Bend

    Misadventures on a Bike in Wales

    by Richard Guise ...
    I’d always felt that the real Wales was lying there waiting to be discovered, just off the main road, behind the tea rooms, down the track, up over the hill.Wanting to explore Wales by bicycle, Richard Guise laid out his map on the kitchen table, identified its four compass points and, using string and jam jars, connected them in a way that he hoped would take him on a satisfyingly serendipitous ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Two Wheels Over Catalonia

    Cycling the Back Roads of North-Eastern Spain

    by Richard Guise ...
    Sixteen years after first moving to Catalonia, Richard Guise finally finds time to slow down and explore the back roads by bicycle. With over 400 kilometres of sparkling Mediterranean shoreline and an interior dominated by the Pyrenees, it’s a spectacular journey from wind-blown headlands to the glitzy costas, and from bustling Barcelona to remote hillsides where only wild goats grazing and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Characterising Neighbourhoods

    Exploring Local Assets of Community Significance

    by Richard Guise, James Webb ...
    It is increasingly important to define what constitutes the unique character of our neighbourhoods, in order to identify what we value and should protect, to pinpoint areas for improvement and places which could be enhanced through sensitive change. But how do we define ‘character’ or a ‘sense of place’? How do we appraise the setting and site of a development area, in order that the essential ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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    by Mark Krieger ...
    As I drew closer to the town of Pont-de- Vaux... I found myself thinking of some of the places Id passed through. There were so many tiny hamlets, villages and larger towns, some vibrant and fine-looking, others lifeless, run down and in dire need of repair. Then there were, of course, the countless numbers of French people who had helped me piece together the jigsaw of roads along my way. The ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Greece on my Wheels

    by Edward Enfield ...
    Fired by a long enthusiasm for all things Greek, Edward Enfield mounts his trusty Raleigh to follow in the footsteps of such notable travellers to Greece as Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Lear and the Romantic poet Lord Byron.Fortified by delicious fish dinners and quantities of draught retsina, he tackles the formidable roads of the Peloponnese before plunging, on a later trip, into the rugged ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Dawdling by the Danube

    With Journeys in Bavaria and Poland

    by Edward Enfield ...
    I had thought for some time that there must be something funny about Germany because, except for hard-drinking types at the Munich beer festival, I had never heard of anybody going there for a holiday. This was, in my view, the first of two advantages. There are travellers who, when abroad, are delighted to see a fellow countryman. Not I. There are quite enough Englishmen at home without my ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Vuelta Skelter

    Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

    by Tim Moore ...
    Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours.Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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