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A typical page from The Southern Fells, describing an ascent of Pike of Blisco.The diagrams of ascent are perhaps the most innovative feature of the Pictorial Guides. Each of the fells covered by the guides has its own chapter, which normally includes a map of the fell, comprehensive details and 3-dimensional drawings of ascent routes, ridge routes to other fells, routes of descent and a ...
His seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, published between 1955 and 1966 and consisting entirely of reproductions of his manuscript, has become the standard reference work to 214 of the fells of the English Lake District. Among his 40-odd other books is the first guide to the Coast to Coast Walk, a 182-mile (293-kilometre) long ...
The first "Spring Styles" book comprises 216 sheets of U.S. Navy "preliminary design" plans prepared by C&R between March 1911 and September 1925. The earliest of these plans were prepared by C&R's Scientific and Computing Branch, established in 1911, and by its successor organization, the Preliminary Design Division of the New Design Section ...
The Big Blue Book of Beginner Books: 1994 B-76 Stop, Train, Stop! A Thomas the Tank Engine Story: 1995 The Big Red Book of Beginner Books: 1995 B-77 New Tricks I Can Do! 1996 B-78 Anthony the Perfect Monster: 1996 The Big Book of Berenstain Bears Beginner Books: 1996 B-79 4 Pups and a Worm: 1996 B-80 Honey Bunny Funnybunny: 1997 B-81 Come Down ...
City of Yawnghwe in the Inle Lake, Myanmar. Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or lake dwellings) are houses raised on stilts (or piles) over the surface of the soil or a body of water. Stilt houses are built primarily as a protection against flooding; [1] they also keep out vermin. [2] The shady space under the house can be used for work ...
Guide to the Lakes, more fully A Guide through the District of the Lakes, William Wordsworth's travellers' guidebook to England's Lake District, has been studied by scholars both for its relationship to his Romantic poetry and as an early influence on 19th-century geography. Originally written because Wordsworth needed money, the first version ...
The steps may have been used in conjunction with handmade ropes. [1] Similar sets of depressions may have been carved by non-indigenous settlers or explorers. In other cases, recent visitors may have deepened or widened a previously existing set of Moki steps. [2] There are no published criteria for determining the origin of a given set of steps.
The lake is part of the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway, connecting with Lake of the Isles on the northeast, Cedar Lake and Brownie Lake on the northwest, and Lake Harriet on the south. The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board trail system has a 3.4-mile (5.5 km) trail around the lake for bicyclists and skaters and a 3.2-mile (5.1 km) trail ...