LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ian yearsley

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  • A History of Ashingdon & South Fambridge
    Ian Yearsley
    Ashingdon and South Fambridge are two neighbouring historic parishes in the Rochford District of south-east Essex which have now been united into one. Stone Age finds have been made in South Fambridge, while Ashingdon Road is likely to be Roman. The 1016 Battle of Assandun, fought between the rival kings, Edmund Ironside and Cnut, may have taken place in the locality and both s...
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    73,38 €

  • An Essex Quiz Book
    Ian Yearsley
    Essex is a remarkable county with a fascinating history, but how well do you know it?This fun, easy-to-use book contains 500 quiz questions in 50 rounds which are designed to test your knowledge about Essex. They range in difficulty from very easy to very hard and they cover topics as diverse as history, ancient buildings, scenes, waterways, transport, towns and villages, local...
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    17,54 €

  • Single-context Words
    Ian Yearsley
    Did you know that aspersions are always cast, umbrage is always taken and the only thing that’s madding is a crowd?All this and more can be explored in Single-context Words: A Study of a Quirk of the English Language, which uncovers the stories behind numerous words which are only ever used in one context.Ian Yearsley has spent 15 years collecting and researching single-context...
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    10,74 €

  • Dracula - the Essex Connection!
    Ian Yearsley
    The story of Count Dracula, the blood-sucking vampire of Bram Stoker's classic gothic horror novel and the subsequent star of a multitude of stage and film presentations, is well-known: a creature which comes alive at night when everyone else is asleep to feast on the warm blood of young maidens before returning to its coffin home at dawn; one which can be repelled by garli...
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  • Return to Cannow’s End
    Ian Yearsley
    Stephen Varley is back – but so are the witches!Novelist Stephen Varley receives a letter out-of-the-blue from his Great Aunt Amelia, who lives in the atmospheric south-east Essex village of Cannow’s End. Amelia tells Stephen that she has been left a dilapidated old farmhouse in the village in the will of her old friend Winifred Weston. Amelia is too old and frail to clear out ...
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