The Canal Companions have been chugging along the 'cut' for 30 years; conveying facts and figures; insights and entertainment, wit and wisdom. This companion is the 9th edition of the popular Four Counties Ring covering the Trent & Mersey Canal, Caldon Canal, and Weaver navigation.

This is an essential guide for boaters, walkers, cyclists and armchair travellers to the Oxford, Grand Union and Upper Thames canals.

Part of a series which guides to the inland waterways. This title covers the Trent and Mersey and Erewash Canals and other neighbouring routes such as the Staffs and Worcs Canal; Shropshire Union; Caldon Canal; and, Trent Navigation. It is useful to walkers and cyclists.

This extended 10th edition of Michael Pearson's Welsh Waters Canal Companion focusses on the Llangollen, Montgomery and Monmouthshire & Brecon canals in Wales, and the Shropshire Union Canal in England. Over 200 miles of canals expertly interpreted to inspire you, on foot, afloat or by bicycle. The areas covered are: Shropshire Union Canal - Autherley Junction (Wolverhampton) to Ellesmere Port; Llangollen Canal - Hurleston Junction to Llangollen (Horseshoe Falls); Montgomery Canal - Frankton Junction to Newtown; and Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal - Pontnewydd to Brecon. Key Places include: Autherley Junction; Market Drayton; Audlem; Nantwich; Hurleston & Barbridge Junctions; Middlewich; Chester; Ellesmere Port; Grindley Brook; Whitchurch; Ellesmere; Chirk; Pontcysyllte; Llangollen; Welshpool; Newtown; Pontypool; Abergavenny; Crickhowell; Brecon. The Canal Companions have been chugging along 'the cut' for over thirty five years; conveying facts and figures, insight and entertainment, wit and wisdom: from Diggle to Devizes, from Froghall to Foxton, from Cowroast to Cropredy. All manner of folk have been encouraged to explore the inland waterways using these guides, which have become as much a part of tradition as their subject matter. Michael Pearson has been the originator and author for more than thirty five years of this well known series and also the 'Iron Roads' series, plus 'Railway Holiday in Scotland', 'Coming up with the Goods', 'Me, My Morgan & the Midlands' and 'Journeys into Staffordshire'.

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good fight,” For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. “If the function of a writer is to reveal reality,” Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, “no one ever so completely performed it.” Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.

Part of a series of guides to the inland waterways, this title covers Bristol to Reading on the Kennet & Avon and Oxford to Brentford on the Thames.

This companion recaptures the North for Pearson's, exploring the Calder & Hebble, Aire & Calder and Leeds & Liverpool.