Product Description: In this complete book on retrievers and their training, we enter the world of Tom Quinn, one of America's most successful breeders and trainers of bird dogs. Quinn explains the methods he has used in developing a remarkable series of champion retrievers, including his first Labrador bitch, Nakai Anny, who won honors as Field Champion and Amateur Field Champion, and is a member of the Retriever Hall of Fame...read more

Product Description: Mad old colonels who took their trousers off before going elephant hunting, women poachers with terriers sewn into their underskirts, duck shooters chasing their quarry in helicopters - here they all in their vast and until now, long forgotten, eccentricity...read more

Product Description: This guide comprises instructions to over 150 Irish dances, bringing together for the first time in a single volume, ceili, set, and two-handed country dances. It includes all dances commonly featured in classes, summer schools and feiseanna.

Product Description: Tea and tobacco, lace, silk and many other products were brought into almost every coastal region and the spirited away by river, road and mountain path. Meanwhile, from Scotland and Ireland, illegally distilled whisky found its way into England over the sea and across every inch of land border...read more

Product Description: Steam trains hold a nostalgic appeal for a great many people. This collection of tales recounts the experiences of those who worked on the railway. Memories of engine drivers and firemen are included as well as the crucial men behind the scenes.

Product Description: A celebration of all that is quirky about the way the British live, told through the words of a range of living eccentrics and some examples from the past. Figures include the former nun who now collects Lego sets, the car salesman who races lawnmowers and the inventor who rides a penny farthing...read more

Product Description: This follow-up to "Tales of the Old Railwaymen" features ten more railwaymen - all in their eighties or even nineties - looking back on a lifetime working on the railways, with a wealth of tales. These are memories of a long-lost era before World War II, when you could still follow quaint professions like under-shunter, wielding your 7-foot-long wooden shunting pole, or French polisher - lovingly polishing the wood-veneered interiors of Great Western Railway carriages - and when railway clerks stood in rows at sloping wooden desks appending "Your humble, obedient servant" in quill-pen to the bottom of every company letter...read more

Product Description: Now in a new gift edition, this collection is swimming with amusing, colorful, true tales that sound almost too fishy to be be believable From dead-sheep bait to whopper-sized catches ("It was this big!"), intoxicated trout, and flying pike, this collection presents the choicest gems of bizarre fishing facts...read more

Product Description: Nowadays air travel is as routine as catching a bus. But before the war, it was truly extraordinary. A giant Handley-Page biplane bound for Paris, bouncing along Croydon Aerodrome’s grass runway, meant seat belts were primarily needed before take-off...read more

Product Description: The history of science is littered with mad, bad, thoroughly astounding inventions. From the bicycle that required its rider to continually propel his head back and forth, to Professor Ray’s Nose-Adjusting Machine, this is the ultimate guide to the forgotten gems of scientific invention...read more

Throughout the ages, British culture has been obsessed with scandal. This book celebrates the people and places that have gained infamy over the centuries. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a different genre of 'scandal', from vice-ridden vicars to wild women. It covers well-known scandals and many lesser-known ones.

Product Description: The first full-length study interpreting Celine's great novel through his traumatic war experience. As such, it makes an important contribution to Celine studies, to studies of memory and literature of the Great War, as well as to broader studies of war disrupted by twentieth-century trauma, memory and identity...read more

Product Description: Following the recent discovery of a treasure trove of original photographs by John Tarlton, the author Tom Quinn has collated the collection into a fascinating and nostalgic tour of the English countryside from the turn of the last century through to the late 1950s...read more

Provides a look at some of the finest battles ever to be fought. This book presents about a 100 stories, such as the extraordinary 'Battle That Never Was' between two Celtic tribes that never began, the ill-fated launch of the Russian warship Novgorod and the Victoria Cross winner who seemed absolutely determined to die, yet survived, and more.

Product Description: How many different malts are blended to make Dewar’s White Label? Why would distillers of past centuries mix gunpowder with their whisky? How did George Washington bring an end to the Whiskey Rebellion? The answers to questions like these can be found—along with countless other entertaining facts—in this irresistible collection of whisky lore...read more

Product Description: When in October 1990 at the age of 85, BB (Denys Watkins-Pitchford) died he was generally recognised as the grand old man of English countryside writing. He wrote about travel, fishing and about wildlife both from a shooting man's point of view and increasingly as a dedicated conservationist...read more

Written by experienced clinicians, Cardiac Care: An Introduction for Nurses takes readers step by step through the patient journey, from initial prevention through the critical period to rehabilitation or palliative care. A fundamental resource for all those new to cardiac care, the book provides a basic grounding in the underlying pathophysiology of the disease as well as an understanding of available treatments and provides an accessible update on the latest research and trends in the cardiac specialty. The editors and contributors have years of experience caring for patients with cardiac disorders. Accessible and interesting update on the latest research and trends in the fast-moving specialty of cardiac care. The book has been designed so that the reader can ‘dip in’ at any point, to find out about a particular aspect of cardiac care.

Britain's diverse countryside is undoubtedly best experienced on foot. Illustrated with full-colour photographs taken by acclaimed landscape photographer, this work offers walkers as well as armchair ramblers the opportunity to discover Britain's picturesque and diverse countryside.