Tag search:Britain

Steam in Britain : a map-guide to some of the many small railways in Britain operating steam-hauled passenger trains,and to the 'live museums' where visitors can inspect locomotives in steam

by British Tourist Authority
Paper Book, 1976
Tags
transportation, railways, foldout map-guide, Britain, United Kingdom, steam railways, preserved railways, British Tourist Authority, pictorial, map, 2nd edition — 1 more, steam-hauled passenger trains
Status
Available

What we talk about when we talk about books : the history and future of reading

by Leah Price
Paper Book, 2019
Tags
'library book', books & reading, books & reading - history, technological innovations, history of books, literature and society, Leah Price, books about books, Amazon, bible, Britain — 10 more, e-readers, libraries, portability, newspapers, printed books, history, Basic Books, Hachette, dirty books, librarianship
Status
Available
Call number
028

Engines of war : how wars were won & lost on the railways

by Christian Wolmar
Paper Book, 2011
Tags
railways, warfare, industrialized conflict, Christian Wolmar, John Westwood, Boer Wars, Crimean War, American Civil War, Two World Wars, Korean War, Cold War — 17 more, United States, Prussia, railway guages, light (field) railways, Italy, locomotives, France, Germany, armoured trains, First World War, Britain, horses, Martin van Creveld, logistics, Second World War, maps, illustrations
Status
Available
Call number
385.09

Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers

by Simon Winchester
Paper Book, 2015
Tags
'Library book', Pacific Ocean, ocean and civilization, description & travel, history, geography, silicon chips, surfboards, atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires — 22 more, world's superpowers, Australia, China, Japan, Hawaii, Bikini Atoll, environmental challenges, India, Marshall Islands, United States, U.S. Navy, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Polynesia, Philippines, hurricanes, Britain, Korea, France, nonfiction, Simon Winchester, North Bellmore Library read
Status
Available
Call number
909/.09823

Ancestral journeys : the peopling of Europe from the first venturers to the Vikings

by Jean Manco
Paper Book, 1913
Tags
migration, Europe, Europeans, mesolithic, Indo-European, Ancient DNA, Anatolia, burials, climate change, Nook, farming cultures — 19 more, languages, Iberia, Britain, Slavs, mitochondrial DNA, Y-DNA haplogroups, pottery, Europe - history, origin of Europeans, ethnology, Roman Empire, Vikings, antiquities, Celts, origins, migrations, archaeology, prehistoric peoples, genetic history
Collection
Nook
Status
Available
Call number
936

Mail by rail; the story of the Postal Transportation Service

by Bryant Alden Long
Paper Book, 1951
Tags
mail, transportations, railroads, history, mail in transit, rpo's, railway mail, USPS, postal transportation service, United States, Canada — 5 more, Britain, Nook, mail clerks, 1864-1951, mail service
Collection
Nook
Status
Available
Call number
383.1

The origins of the British

by Stephen Oppenheimer
Paper Book, 2007
Tags
Britain, British origins, prehistory, DNA, history, Europe, neolithic, mtDNA, genetics, population migration, Mesolithic — 10 more, languages, Ireland, England, Scotland, Germanic languages, Celtic languages, British Isles, Saxons, Y chomosome, Kindle
Collection
Kindle
Status
Available
Call number
305.800941

Winter solstice

by Rosamunde Pilcher
Paper Book, 2000
Tags
romance, Scotland, England, winter, relationships, Britain, Christmas, psychological fiction, love story, withdrawn - July 2010
Collection
Withdrawn
Status
Available
Call number
823/.914

Gwenhwyfar : the white spirit

by Mercedes Lackey
Paper Book, 2009
Tags
fantasy, Arthurian, goddess, Guinevere, Britain, princess, warrior, queen
Status
Available
Call number
813/.6

Language in society : an introduction to sociolinguistics

by Suzanne Romaine
Paperback, 2000
Tags
'library book', linguistics, sociolinguistics, language, society, multilingualism, dialect, patterns, gender, pidgin, Tok Pisin — 5 more, creole, Britain, United States, Papua New Guinea, language change
Status
Available
Call number
306.44

Cities in modern Britain

by Camilla Lambert
Paper Book, 1975
Tags
cities, Britain, theories, growth and development, shape and differentiation, people and places, power and resources, control, change, ideologies, sociology
Status
Available
Call number
301.36/3/0941

Great railway journeys of the world

by Michael Frayn
Hardcover, 1982
Tags
railroads, anthology, travel, India, South Africa, Australia, America, South America, Britain, Europe
Status
Available
Call number
910.4 19

A book of railway journeys

by Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
railroads, travel, anthology, Britain, Europe, United States, Russia, war, crashes, fiction
Status
Available
Call number
910.4

Merlin

by Norma L. Goodrich
Paperback, 1989
Tags
Arthurian, Merlin, counselor, legend, folklore, Britain
Status
Available
Call number
809.93351

Shadow on the Stones

by Moyra CALDECOTT
Book, 1979
Tags
fantasy, Britain, bronze age, Sacred Stones, trilogy, Guardians of the Tall Stones, temple priest, Kyra, Lord Khu-ren
Series
Guardians of the Tall Stones (3)
Status
Available
Call number
823.9

Magical and Mystical Sites: Europe and the British Isles

by Elizabeth Pepper
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
occult, travel, Europe, Britain
Status
Available
Call number
914.04

Literary landscapes of the British Isles: A narrative atlas

by David Daiches
Hardcover, 1980
Tags
atlas, Britain, literary, history, landmarks, Great Britain, Ireland
Status
Available
Call number
820.9

The Tall Stones

by Moyra Caldecott
Hardcover, 1977
Tags
fantasy, Sacred Stone Circle, Britain, bronze age, Guardians of the Tall Stones, trilogy, Kyra
Series
Guardians of the Tall Stones (1)
Status
Available
Call number
823.9
Page: 0.2861 seconds