Books written by Mark Rowe

  • 5327: England in Peace and War

    Socrates; from Marginal Notes by Lord Macaulay, arranged by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1907) I Clifford Gothard had his life ahead of him in 1914. On June 9, he was 21; on Friday June 12, he took the last exam of his last-but-one year ...

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Virtuoso Violinist

    First recorded performance: August 1842. Earliest known edition: Schlesinger, Berlin, 1842. This is a transcription in D major of an étude by Stephen Heller in D , no.15 from his 25 études op.16. [AmZ:9/11/42:908. E:256] [Bl] 10) Lebet ...

  • Outer Hebrides: The Western Isles of Scotland, from Lewis to Barra

    This is a land where Gaelic is increasingly spoken and ancient monuments abound, where stunning seabird colonies and birds of prey can be watched, and where the grassy coastal zones known as the machair are transformed into glorious carpets ...

  • Don't Panic: Britain Prepares for Invasion, 1940

    The Channel Islands, so close to France, were beyond defending. At the end of June, ... Could the same have happened to the Isles of Scilly? ... By 7 June the RAF and Royal Navy had undertaken the defence of the Scillies.

  • Somatosensory Processing: From Single Neuron to Brain Imaging

    The diversity of contemporary investigative approaches included in this volume provides an exciting account of our current understanding of brain mechanisms responsible for sensory and perceptual experience in the areas of touch, ...

  • The Summer Field: A History of English Cricket Since 1840

    In his aptly named Bodyline Autopsy, David Frith wondered at tiresome length who betrayed the dressing room confidence. It evidently never occurred to Frith that – just as all the suspects were the murderer in Agatha Christie's Murder ...

  • 5327: England in Peace and War

    August 1914 is the story of England in that watershed month when the country went from peace to war. It tells of what life was like in a country that...

  • Outer Hebrides

    Outer Hebrides travel guide - Holiday tips and expert advice for Lewis, Harris, St Kilda, Berneray, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, Eriskay, Barra and Vatersay, plus language, wildlife and genealogy.

  • Orkney

    Orkney comprises 70 islands, 19 inhabited, and the focus of this guide is the 13 major inhabited islands.

  • Orkney

    ... Stone Age Sentinel Usborne , 2005. Horrible Histories - style stampede through the Stone Age . Good one for children . Orkneyinga Saga : The History of the Earls of Orkney . Translated by Herman Palsson . Penguin Classics , 1981 ...