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Countryside Books Pub Walks in the Chilterns
A bestseller from the day it was first published, PUB WALKS IN THE CHILTERNS has again been completely revised and re-walked for this new edition by local author Alan Charles. If you enjoy both walking and visiting country pubs, this book should appeal. The pubs have been selected for their good food and the routes give the walker the opportunity to experience some of the truly glorious countryside in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire. The circular walks vary in length from 3 to 5 miles and each is described in detail, together with accompanying sketch map and information on how to get to the start and where to park. Highlights include: An iconic route at Butler's Cross, taking you to the summit of Coombe Hill The exquisite woodlands of Hambleden (perfect for spring bluebells) Peaceful waterside walks in the Chess valley, and along the canal at Marsworth Some of the Chilterns' most beautiful villages, including Turville, Skirmett and Fingest (all on one walk), Bledlow and more Wooded hillsides of Ashridge and the slopes of Pitstone Hill at Aldbury Quintessential English pubs, such as The Full Moon at Hawridge, The Lions of Bledlow and The Boot at Sarratt
£11.24
Princeton University Press D'Holbach's Coterie: An Enlightenment in Paris
Students of the Enlightenment have long assumed that the major movement towards atheism in the Ancien Regime was centered in the circle of intellectuals who met at the home of Baron d'Holbach during the last half of the eighteenth century. This major critical study shows, contrary to the accepted views, that in fact, atheism was not the common bond of a majority of the members and that, far from being alienated figures, most of the members were privileged and publicly successful citizens devoted to peaceful and gradual reform. Alan Charles Kors determines the coterie's membership and discovers it to have been a diverse assemblage of philosophes, men of letters, and scientists. Analyzing the thought and behavior of those members who lived past 1789, the author argues that the hostility to the Revolution expressed by the coterie's survivors was fully consistent with their world view. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
£43.20
University of Pennsylvania Press Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2001 The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded, the classic anthology of contemporary texts reexamines the phenomenon of witchcraft, taking into account the remarkable scholarship since the book's publication almost thirty years ago. Spanning the period from 400 to 1700, the second edition of Witchcraft in Europe assembles nearly twice as many primary documents as the first, many newly translated, along with new illustrations that trace the development of witch-beliefs from late Mediterranean antiquity through the Enlightenment. Trial records, inquisitors' reports, eyewitness statements, and witches' confessions, along with striking contemporary illustrations depicting the career of the Devil and his works, testify to the hundreds of years of terror that enslaved an entire continent. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Thomas Hobbes, and other thinkers are quoted at length in order to determine the intellectual, perceptual, and legal processes by which "folklore" was transformed into systematic demonology and persecution. Together with explanatory notes, introductory essays—which have been revised to reflect current research—and a new bibliography, the documents gathered in Witchcraft in Europe vividly illumine the dark side of the European mind.
£32.40
