отдых / туризм

A handy guide to England’s most famous cathedrals and abbeys. Includes an eight-page map section showing the locations of cathedrals covered in the book.Historical background and architectural details for each of the cathedrals, accompanied by beauti…

A remarkable, multifaceted story made up of journal accounts, memories, conversations and personal experience, The Bronski House is a paean to Poland, a landmark in travel writing, and a family history – tied together by the unique experience of retu…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.George Stephenson’s Liverpool & Manchester Railway was the first in the world where steam locomotives pulled paying passengers, and his locomotive …

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.Nicknamed the ‘Holiday Line’, the 300-mile stretch of railway from Swindon to Penzance opened up the South West to a new breed of holiday-makers in…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.One of the earliest railway freight routes in Britain, the Buxton to London line was built to whisk goods to the nation’s capital. Starting at the …

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The first rail link between England and Scotland, the Preston to Edinburgh line transformed some of the most remote and inaccessible communities of…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The Holyhead line was first built to carry mail from Wales to Ireland, but brought many changes to industries along its route, including perry-make…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The Scottish west coast was one of the most challenging stretches of line to confront railway engineers. Extreme gradients, curves, bogs and scree …

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.George Stephenson, the father of the railways, first began laying rails to connect the Darlington collieries with the river at Stockton-on-Tees in …

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The railway line between Brighton and London bridged the gap between capital, countryside and coast, fostering the rise of the new middle classes c…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.Historically Kent has been both the garden of England and its first line of defence and the train journey from London to Hastings reflects these co…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.Beginning with the grandeur of Oxford, Michael Portillo travels through the country of Shakespeare and Elgar and discovers the delights of Oxford s…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.Robert Stephenson’s stunning Royal Border Bridge at Berwick is the starting point for this journey, which also features his High Level Bridge at Ne…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The late nineteenth century brought railway fever to Ireland, and Victorian travellers were keen to explore a country rich in myth and mystery. Sta…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.Although not initially a fan of rail travel, Queen Victoria was soon converted and pronounced herself ‘quite charmed with it’, and railway companie…

A glorious insight into the history, landscape and people of Britain, from The Sunday Times bestseller.The line between Great Yarmouth to London brought holidaymakers flocking to the coast and transported herrings, fresh vegetables and milk into Lond…

From the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House.In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born. He is a Doukhobor, a ‘spirit-wrestler’, a member of a group of radical Russian sectarians. He is pointing to a vill…

По рецептам Юлии Евдокимовой люди учатся готовить, а потом присылают ей в чат горячие благодарности, что все получается очень вкусным! Юлия решила, что пришла пора написать книгу рецептов, простых и аппетитных, с доступными в любом магазине продуктам…

Погрузитесь в невероятную атмосферу Сочинского Причерноморья – походные рассказы и легенды оживят для слушателей красоту и таинственность этого региона! Территория, которую ныне занимает Сочинский национальный парк и частично Кавказский государствен…

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