Lewes The Postcard Collection
Lewes The Postcard Collection

Author: Bob Cairns

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2015-08-15

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1445641402

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Beautiful postcards capturing old Lewes in all its glory.

Secret Lewes
Secret Lewes

Author: Terry Philpot

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2017-01-15

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1445661977

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Explore the secret history of Lewes through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

Lewes Through Time
Lewes Through Time

Author: Bob Cairns

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2012-11-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1445629224

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The fascinating history of Lewes illustrated through old and modern pictures.

Lewes to Laurel
Lewes to Laurel

Author: John Jacob

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2003-09

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780738515717

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Extending in a southwesterly direction, Route 9 ambles from the Delaware Bay at Lewes through Georgetown, and finally to Laurel. Though connected by the same road, these three communities each possess their own distinctive histories and unique characteristics. Dating back to the 1600s, the future site of Lewes was visited by Henry Hudson on his quest for a Northwest passage to Asia, and was bombarded by the British in the War of 1812. Georgetown was founded in 1791, and serves as the county seat and center of government for Sussex County. Laurel was incorporated in 1883. In addition to lumber and poultry industries, the navigable water on Broad Creek allowed a canning industry to flourish, and at one time Laurel became one of the wealthiest towns in the state.

Delaware in Vintage Postcards
Delaware in Vintage Postcards

Author: Ellen Rendle

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2001-08-06

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439612188

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the 200 historic views in Delaware in Vintage Postcards provide eloquent commentary on the First State in the early part of the twentieth century. Capturing the era between 1905 and 1925, this charming retrospective takes readers on a journey from Selbyville and Fenwick Island to Claymont, Arden, and Hockessin, and down the picturesque Main Streets of more than fifty Delaware towns. Illustrated postcards, which became popular at the turn of the last century, highlight the economic importance of land and sea, the state's varied architectural beauty, and the everyday lives of Delaware citizens.

A Perfect Spy
A Perfect Spy

Author: John le Carré

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2011-07-20

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1101535458

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“The best English novel since the war.” -- Philip Roth Over the course of his seemingly irreproachable life, Magnus Pym has been all things to all people: a devoted family man, a trusted colleague, a loyal friend—and the perfect spy. But in the wake of his estranged father’s death, Magnus vanishes, and the British Secret Service is up in arms. Is it grief, or is the reason for his disappearance more sinister? And who is the mysterious man with the sad moustache who also seems to be looking for Magnus? In A Perfect Spy, John le Carré has crafted one of his crowning masterpieces, interweaving a moving and unusual coming-of-age story with a morally tangled chronicle of modern espionage.

First and Last Editions
First and Last Editions

Author: Gordon Allan

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 1836240716

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This book, which is a mixture of fact, anecdote and quotation, describes the author's meandering exploration of some of the best of England's provincial second-hand bookshops, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to the Isles of Scilly. Judged by the contents of the author's bookshelves, he has a strong but highly selective interest in sport, with rugby union, cricket and bowls foremost, and the odd place allowed to football and golf. There are biographies and autobiographies from Bernard Shaw to Alan Ross; a dozen volumes by W. H. Hudson, greatest of naturalists; travels with Henry James and Paul Theroux and Edwin Muir; books on cinema Westerns; essays by Ford Madox Ford and Edward Thomas; a novel or two; and a little poetry. The bulk of these books are dependent, to a greater or lesser extent, on fact, suggesting, correctly, that their owner is a journalist.