This is the story of how a computer consultant threw off the weary chains of work and got on his bike. His journey took him around the canals of northern England and Scotland. He slogs his way round hundreds of miles of canals, passing through many major towns and cities including Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Liverpool, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Off the bike and on foot the author also visits the Oxford and the Kennet and Avon Canals, and waterways in the Birmingham area, before venturing abroad. He also gets on a narrow boat for a calamitous trip up the Shropshire Union and...
This is the story of how a computer consultant threw off the weary chains of work and got on his bike. His journey took him around the canals of north...
Many of us love the Jeeves and Wooster stories of P G Wodehouse, but unfortunately he isn't writing any more of them Here are eleven more, written in the style of Wodehouse, which I hope will appeal to Jeeves fans.
Many of us love the Jeeves and Wooster stories of P G Wodehouse, but unfortunately he isn't writing any more of them Here are eleven more, written in...
The author, an Oxford graduate writes a traditional history - kings queens, battles, treaties, Acts of Parliament. He also sets out to discover who the British people really are, with material on the ethnic background of the population. There is still room for plenty of standard history, including the glorious feats of the English sailors of the eighteenth century, the development of the astonishing British Empire, the long battles to defeat Napoleon and then Hitler, and indeed all aspects of the history of the British Isles. Previously published as History of the British Isles to 1714 and...
The author, an Oxford graduate writes a traditional history - kings queens, battles, treaties, Acts of Parliament. He also sets out to discover who th...
