The Valleys And Hills Of Hope

Campbell, Mary Mason. The New England Butt'ry Shelf Almanac being a collection of observatons on New England people, birds, flowers, herbs etc. NY: World Pub Co, (1970).
New England, its customs, its people, its old houses and ghosts, the hills and valleys, rivers, coves, its way of keeping house and garden. Owner inscription ft endpaper. DJ tanning and wear to edges.. In a gentle mood of nostalgia, written in the hope that it will furnish interesting and useful information to all those who love.

1st ptg, Tasha Tudor. VG in G DJ.

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Maurice Scott: Discovering Widcombe And Lyncombe, Bath, The Widcome Association 1993 1993 ISBN: 095208760X

Paperback | 8 " x 5¾". 124pp. Index. | [ Revised 2nd edition. Illustrated with B&W photographs. From the introduction: "The two districts of Widcombe and Lyncombe extend over a large area from the River Avon up the hills and valleys to the South. This is a selective history of a limited part of the area around the old churches, along the riverside, and of Lyncombe Vale. It is a personal account that does not aim to be comprehensive and therefore some may be disappointed by the omissions. Map 1 shows the roads, buildings and features described in the book. Occasionally the hope of writing fully on interesting places has been thwarted by the lack of historical records." ] C O N D I T I O N : Very Good. Upper wrap lightly creased.

[SW: xyz ralph allen prior park old widcombe village lyncombe hill social life aquae solis allen's wharf prior park pope's grotto fire at prior park may 30th 1836 entrance to carriage drive, 1906 new inn, church street widcombe hill 1923 widcombe church bath 1837 manor house claverton street the poor house the locks widcombe 1909 widcombe infants school floodmarks on halfpenny bridge pier holloway 1914 maudlin chapel 1829 old bridge railway viaduct pre-1911 plan of bath 1825 bristoi bath canal & dolemeads circular building at lyncombe spaw 1737 lyncombe spaw house 1845]

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Manganelli, Giuliana: The Wonders of Portofino and the Italian Riviera. Vercelli: White Star, 2007.
Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. - Iiguria, backed by the mountains and embraced by the sea, which in some stretches tears at it with affectionate fury, is a land of reticent and stubborn people, rugged like the rocks and gentle like the sea when the surf laps against the boats and nets in the fishing villages. Tall houses, perched above the sea, color enchanting villages like Portofino and Camogli. From Ventimiglia to Sarzana, a string of pearls gradually unfurls along the sinuous course of this narrow tongue of land, amid the sweet perfume of Japanese pittosporum and jasmine, geranium and wisteria, mastic and basiL Anne Conway's spectacular photographs illuminate Giuliana Manganelli's text to create this extraordinary volume dedicated to Iiguria. The region is a land of contrasts, fractured by mountain crags and connected by low hills veined with weathered olive trees, and by steep vineyards that furrow the land snatched from the sea. Here art blooms like a secret flower, secluded in the folds of enchanted valleys, where the rugged beauty of Ligurian Gothic is delineated in black and white and the austerity of Romanesque is ennobled by the strong sunlight. Here the accents of the ancient Ligurians, Romans, Lombards, Franks and Saracens have fused to form a full-bodied and brightly colored dialect of art and culture. Miraculous bridges, castra and amphitheaters stand alongside Saracen villages like Borgio Verezzi with its dressed stone towers. Genoa resembles a sprawling lady stretched out around her immense historic district, a maze of narrow streets and little squares beneath slate rooftops. The city's Via Nuova is a veritable casket of treasures, where 16th-century splendors are overlooked by slender, minaret-like constructions. Majestic churches and princely palaces house works by Rubens and Van Dyck. The writer Pierangelo Baratono described the port, the never-sleeping heart of the city: "Sometimes I like to imagine the port of Genoa as a living creature, like a giant slumped to the ground along the silent gulf, his arm still reaching towards the blue sky, and his hand proudly clutching the torch of hope, intact and sacred."

189 S. Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag.

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