Belerion: Ancient Sites of Land's End

Craig Weatherhill

Alison Hodge Publishers

A Popular Dictionary of Cornish Place-names

Reference

O.J. Padel

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Come and Listen to the Stars Singing: Priaulx Rainer: a Pictorial Biography

June Opie

Biographies & Memoirs

Published to coincide with the opening of The Eden Project in 2001, "Plants of Eden" is the first book to focus on the plants themselves. Lavishly illustrated, it covers plants in each of the three biomes - Humid Tropics, Warm Temperate and Temperate. "Plants of Eden" fascinates and informs. It tells the stories of some of the stars in this living theatre of plants and people: where the plants come from; how they grow and are harvested; what people use them for, and how and when some of them arrived in Britain. Above all, it illustrates our dependency on plants, and why we must look after them and their habitats.

Plants of Eden

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Louise Frost

Gardening & Landscape Design

This is a comprehensive visitor's guide to some 130 gardens in Devon open to the public, by the author of numerous books on the county. The text is thoroughly researched, informative, accessible, and up to date. The Guide is copiously illustrated with colour photographs, and includes a general introduction to the geology, climate and garden history of Devon; a list of nurseries and garden centres in the county, and a calendar of opening times. It is essential for garden-lovers, whether visitors to the county or locals.

The Devon Gardens Guide

Lauder Rosemary

"Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs" celebrates the abundance of the award-winning productive gardens at the Lost Gardens of Heligan. With derelict structures restored to working order, the range of traditional crops now cultivated and harvested by hand is beginning to reflect the output of the gardens in their late Victorian heyday. This book tells the stories of reconstruction behind increasingly well-known features - the beautiful apple arches in the Vegetable Garden, the unique pineapple pit in the Melon Yard and the historically significant Paxton House in the Flower Garden. It conveys the central value - and character - of a committed and hard-working garden team, whose expertise increases as the seasons pass. Meeting a broad range of horticultural challenges, they nurture crops to exceptional beauty, scent and flavour - from the delicate early narcissi and jewel-like peach blossom (hand-pollinated to secure trugs of perfect, succulent fruits in season), to the massive borders of tall, crazy, colourful antirrhinums, which delight visitors at the height of Summer; from unarguably the best-flavoured Royal Sovereign strawberries and succulent melons cradled to ripeness in their hand-knotted nets, to the last harvest home - anemones for Christmas. "Heligan: Fruit, Flowers and Herbs" is a mine of practical information as well as a visual feast. Together with its companion volume, "The Heligan Vegetable Bible" (Cassell Illustrated, 2002), it provides a comprehensive record of varieties grown at Heligan, including suppliers, and is the product of a decade of rich endeavour by many of the staff at 'The Nation's Favourite Garden' (BBC1 TV Gardeners' World).

Heligan : Fruit,Flowers and Herbs

P Mcmillan Browse

<p>Following international acclaim for "Surf Science: An Introduction to Waves for Surfing" (Alison Hodge, 2002), Tony Butt's "The Surfer's Guide to Waves, Coasts and Climates" will appeal to surfers and all those who are fascinated by the sea and the coast. Four major sections look at coastal geology (beaches; reefs; rivermouths); climate and big waves (climatic cycles; storminess and surf; searching for the biggest waves; controlling the waves: every surfer's dream; coastal intervention (coastal erosion; coastal modification and the surf; oil spills and ecocide); and the planet bites back (tropical cyclones; global warming and the surf; tsunami).</p>

The Surfer's Guide to Waves, Coasts and Climates

Tony Butt

A Cornish Year

Science & Math

CHAPMAN, David

Nature & Ecology

Strange Things Happened on My Way to the Zoo

Mike Thomas

<p>Surfing Brilliant Corners details a decade of extreme global surf travel by professional longboarder Sam Bleakley, illustrated with stunning photographs by John Callahan. It takes surfing beyond the waves and packaged surf tourism to a wider sense of place and cultural identity. Sam travels from his birthplace in West Cornwall to Indonesia and the Philippines; through vibrant West African highlife in Ghana, to war-damaged Liberia; to Mauritania, where landmines litter access to some of the best waves on the planet; to a serene Buddhist oasis in Communist China; to Ecuador, Oman and Haiti, whose complex culture seeps into his psyche and captures his heart. He looks deep into the jet-black eye of a surfacing shark in Kenya, and faces a stacked set of foaming lips during typhoon surf in South Korea. Celebrating Thelonious Monk's 1950s album Brilliant Corners, Sam explores how, like great jazz musicians, talented surfers use invention, complex rhythm, timing and spontaneity to turn impossi</p>

Surfing Brilliant Corners by Bleakley, Sam (2010) Paperback

Sports & Outdoors

Sam Bleakley

Water Sports

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Alison Hodge Publishers publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Alison Hodge Publishers