Author: Devon. [Appendix.]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Route Book of Devon: a Guide for the Stranger and Tourist ... With Maps ...
Author: Devon. [Appendix.]Painting Rivers from Source to Sea
Author: Rob DudleyPublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785003607
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Rivers can be enchanting or exciting, but are always absorbing. They provide a myriad of painting opportunities and challenges for the artist. Focusing on watercolour - one of the most direct of mediums - this practical book explains how to paint a river and capture its life, light, movement, colour and interest. With over 200 colour images, Rob Dudley shares his methods, techniques and ideas to make this beautiful book a must-have for all landscape and en plein-air artists. It explains each stage of a painting; inspiration and focus, sketching and information gathering, planning and painting; and advises on how to paint water so that it captures the colour, shape and tone of light and reflections. It also looks at the various moods and characters of rivers - from the early streams and cascades through to strong, busy waterways and finally to the tidal estuary, where the river meets the sea, and instructs on how to bring a painting to life by including the features of a river - the boats, wildlife, people and bridges. Finished paintings, examples and step-by-step sequences are used throughout to support the detailed instruction. Beautifully illustrated with 233 colour images.
The Route Book of Devon: a guide for the stranger and the tourist to the towns, watering places, and other interesting localities of this county. With a route map of the roads and plans of Exeter, Plymouth, Devonport, and Stonehouse
Author: The Route Book of Devon
Author: A Universal Gazetteer ...
Author: George LandmannDart
Author: Alice OswaldPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571259421
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, dreaming voices and marginal notes which act as markers along the way.
Tomorrow's Geography for Edexcel GCSE A Fifth Edition
Author: Steph WarrenPublisher: Hodder Education
ISBN: 1471861279
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Help your students develop enquiring minds as they learn the geographical knowledge and skills they need through the enquiries of the new OCR B specification which include and up-to-date case studies, a wide range of activities and exam-style questions developed to support and stretch students of all abilities. - Supports students of all abilities through differentiated activities including scaffolded questions and extension questions. - Highlights opportunities for fieldwork throughout the book, and includes guidance on carrying out fieldwork. - Develops students' geographical skills including activities and clear explanations of how to use mathematical and statistical skills. - Helps students gain confidence for the exam with a variety of exam-style practice questions at different levels, with tips on how to approach them.
A universal gazetteer; or, Geographical dictionary of the world
Author: George LandmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazetteers
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Manual of Modern Geography
Author: W. LawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commercial geography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Medieval Bridges of Southern England
Author: Marshall G. HallPublisher: Windgather Press
ISBN: 1914427157
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Throughout history rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them. It is no coincidence that all four of the earliest human civilizations were formed on great rivers: the Nile, Euphrates, Indus and Yellow rivers all saw great human aggregation along them. The most ancient and vital architectural structures linked to the use of rivers are bridges. There are a wide range of medieval bridge structures, some very simple in their construction, to amazing triumphs of design and engineering comparable with the great churches of the period. They stand today as proof of the great importance of transport networks in the Middle Ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy. These bridges were built in some of the most difficult places, across broad flood plains, deep tidal waters, and steep upland valleys, and they withstood all but the most catastrophic floods. Yet their beauty, from simplistic to ornate, remains for us to appreciate. Medieval Bridges of Southern England has been organized geographically into tours and covers the governmental regions of Southwest England, London, and Southeast England. There are exactly 100 bridges included. There is an introduction and background information about the medieval period of English history at the beginning and there are beautiful full color photographs throughout the book.