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  • Mid Land

    A Journey into England’s Heart

    by Mike Parker ...
    A cultural history, a memoir, a love letter and a reckoningThe English Midlands is the least eulogised part of these islands: the bit left over when all the sharper, sexier regions have staked their claim; the blank space at the centre of the map. And yet. This is also a bellwether region, the canary in the national mine. The perfect symbol of an in-between nation at a very in-between moment in ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Cille Pheadair

    a Norse Farmstead and Pictish Burial Cairn in South Uist

    by Mike Parker Pearson, Mark Brennand, Jacqui Mulville, Helen Smith ...
    Series Book 7 - Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
    Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of occupation, including five longhouses and many smaller buildings, provides a remarkable insight into daily life on a Norse farmstead during two ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greasy Poll Mike Parker

    by Mike Parker ...
    Mike Parker was selected as the Plaid Cymru candidate for the 2015 general election in the party's top target seat of Ceredigion. This book is his diary of the campaign, from the many moments of great hope to the controversies that saw him vilified in sensationalist newspaper headlines, and his ultimate defeat by the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP. ... Read more

    $10.59 CAD

  • Reflections Seeded from the I Ching

    by Mike Parker ...
    Reflections Seeded from the I Ching — Volume OneFor eighteen months, beginning in the early part of the pandemic, Mike Parker drew a hexagram from the I Ching most mornings and wrote a short reflection on what it opened in him. He didn't record the hexagrams. He wasn't writing commentary, and he didn't want the work to become an argument with the long tradition of interpretation. He was using the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Coal's Decline

    The Industry in Western Europe

    by Mike Parker ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Economics of the European Union
    The Politics of Coal's Decline (1994) examines the decline of the European coal industry and assesses its future prospects. It shows how the manner and rate of this decline is determined as much by political as by economic factors, including the politics of environmental controls and market liberalisation. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Gold Rush Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia

    by Mike Parker ...
    Gold Rush Ghost Towns of Nova Scotia tells the fascinating stories of abandoned communities, not haunted buildings and paranormal encounters, although the occasional resident spirit does make an appearance. Ghost towns generally begin as industry-based communities of convenience for mining but when resources were depleted, marks slumped or demand outstripped production, their reason for being ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • All the Wide Border

    Wales, England and the Places Between

    by Mike Parker ...
    A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England–Wales border: Britain’s deepest faultline.There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; on the other England, crucible of the most expansionist culture the world has ever seen. It is a line that has been dug, debated, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Map Addict

    The Bestselling Tale of an Obsession

    by Mike Parker ...
    'My name is Mike and I am a map addict. There, it's said…'Mike Parker, presenter of Radio 4’s On the Map, celebrates the richness of all things maps in this fantastic, critically-acclaimed read, completely updated in 2023.On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: they are a cipher for every area of human existence. At a stroke, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Wild Rover

    A Blistering Journey Along Britain’s Footpaths

    by Mike Parker ...
    Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, offers a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject – footpaths and the history of land ownership.Mike discovers how these paths have become part of our cultural landscape and why, at the tender age of 44, he suddenly finds himself at a crossroads.Provocative, funny and personal, this book celebrates ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cladh Hallan - Roundhouses and the dead in the Hebridean Bronze Age and Iron Age

    Part I: Stratigraghy, Spatial Organisation and Chronology

    by Mike Parker Pearson, Jacqui Mulville, Helen Smith, Peter Marshall ...
    Series Book 8 - Sheffield Environmental and Archaeological Research Campaign in the Hebrides
    This first of two volumes presents the archaeological evidence of a long sequence of settlement and funerary activity from the Beaker period (Early Bronze Age c. 2000 BC) to the Early Iron Age (c. 500 BC) at the unusually long-occupied site of Cladh Hallan on South Uist in the Western Isles of Scotland. Particular highlights of its sequence are a cremation burial ground and pyre site of the 18th ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neighbours from Hell

    by Mike Parker ...
    From the Act of Union to Anne Robinson, &quote;Neighbours from Hell?&quote; looks at English attitudes to the Welsh. Drawing on the author's experience of the comedy circuit, cartoons, the popular press and postcards; from &quote;Tours of the Picturesque&quote; to the novels of Niall Griffiths, the range of reference is as broad as the writing style is witty. Stereotypes explored include the Welsh ... Read more

    $10.59 CAD

  • Stonehenge

    A Brief History

    by Professor Mike Parker Pearson ...
    Series series Archaeological Histories
    Stonehenge is one of the world's most famous monuments. Who built it, how and why are questions that have endured for at least 900 years, but modern methods of investigation are now able to offer up a completely new understanding of this iconic stone circle.Stonehenge's history straddles the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, though its story began long before it was built. Serving ... Read more

    $29.49 CAD