Jason Hawkes's aerial photographs give a new perspective on every kind of rural or built environment in Dorset, whether the recently reopened Boscombe Pier or the Cerne Abbas Giant, said to date back to the Iron Age, and they offer the very best views of ancient landscape features such as hill forts and burial mounds. The book contains around 120 photographs, with brief captions and an introduction.

Dorset from the Air

Arts & Photography

Jason Hawkes

Photography & Video

Halsgrove

<p>Wiltshire is a county of great antiquity. Its prehistoricmonuments at Stonehenge, Avebury andSilbury Hill - some of the best in Europe - bear witnessto the settlement of early man on its hills anddowns. Wiltshire has developed as a largely agriculturallandscape of farms and woods, but the great SalisburyPlain at its heart, the training ground of the BritishArmy for generations, has remained a semi-wilderness,precisely because farming has been so restricted there.Wiltshire's many attractive market towns andvillages, built over the centuries from the profits offarming and its allied trades, especially wool, aredominated on the one hand by industrial and commercialSwindon (historically part of Wiltshire althoughtoday its own unitary authority) and on the other handby historic Salisbury where the cathedral's spire soarsover the city, still medieval at its core.The county's historic wealth is also reflected in themany mansions and landscape gardens for which it isfamous. Longleat, Lacock Abbey, Bowood, CorshamCourt, Wilton and Stourhead are all, for variousreasons, among the most celebrated in the land.Wiltshire lay on the vital trade route between Londonand Bristol, for centuries the gateway to Atlanticcommerce. The Kennet and Avon Canal provided animportant waterborne link at the end of theeighteenth century until it was superseded by theGreat Western Railway in the nineteenth century.All of these features become even more dramaticwhen seen from a "bird's eye" view. The fascinatingaerial photographs in this book by internationallyrenownedphotographer Jason Hawkes are selectedto provide the reader with an overview of this greatvariety of landscapes and settlements, with historicsites included. There can be no better way of appreciatingthe many glories of Wiltshire than to view thecounty from above.</p>

Wiltshire

Travel

HAWKES, JASON

Pictorial

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Stanikk, Neville

Cowes Week

Willis, Dave

<p>Weston-super-Mare, like every place, large orsmall, is the product of its people. Some maybecome famous but the majority will only beknown to family, friends and the local community.The contribution of these people to the health,wealth and happiness of the town is immense andoften goes unknown and unmarked.Weston is facing new challenges as we approachthe end of the first decade of the new millennium.But one thing is certain - whatever happens toWeston, it will be achieved by the people of thetown, for the people of the town.This book celebrates the activities and achievementsof the people ofWeston-super-Mare overthe last seventy years. Using a wide range ofphotographs of people, events, groups, and sportsteams, nearly all of which have never beenpublished before, it has been produced in analbum style to stir memories and truly reunite'Westonians old and young, past and present.</p>

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Childs, Alan

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Walker, Sue

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Stephen Browning

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