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The Lake District mountains are full of mineral veins. Many have been discovered and worked over the past 1,000 years. Many still remain to be discovered. The last working metal-ore mine in the Lake District, the Force Crag Mine, closed in 1986. It is believed that mining commenced at Force Crag during the fifteenth century. Today, remains of this past extensive industry lie abandoned on the mountainsides and are now considered to be an iconic reflection of the Lake Districts industrial past. They blend in well with other iconic industrial structures such as stone walls, drove roads and fell farms that exist throughout the district. For many years now industrial historians have studied these workings and also the lives of the skilled miners who spent their careers high on Lake District mountainsides, working the veins. Concern for the loss of many of these ancient sites has developed over recent years. In 1989 a report produced by local industrial archaeologists highlighted a list of twenty-seven former mining sites on the fells considered to be of such exceptional importance to the history of the Lake District communities that they should be given future protection. Many of these sites have been included in this definitive illustrated guide. Autorid: Alastair Cameron, Liz Withey

Bridesmaids meets Black Mirror in the most twisted and entertaining thriller you'll read this year.'A firecracker of a book' Micah Nemerever'Glorious' Red'Wildly creative and wickedly funny' Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Laid down as the freighter Dinteldyk, the into s.s. Ryndam renamed vessel, was completed in 1951 as a passenger liner. After a year she was followed by sister ship s.s. Maasdam. The ships were revolutionary and were called the economy twins. Both ships have had a long and special career. Autorid: Bert Lamers

»Ford ist Erzählweltmeister.«Elke HeidenreichFrank Bascombe, eloquenter Chronist amerikanischer Zustände. Inzwischen ist er achtundsechzig Jahre alt und pensioniert. Mit seiner zweiten Ehefrau Sally lebt er in New Jersey: wohlständige Beschaulichkeit nach einem wechselvollen und auch tragischen Leben (Tod des Sohnes, Scheidung, berufliche Veränderungen und Prostatakrebs). Als im Dezember 2012 Wirbelsturm Sandy über die Ostküste fegt, zwingt der Anruf eines Freundes Frank, sich vor Ort mit der Naturkatastrophe auseinanderzusetzen. Frank wird vor der Kulisse zerstörter Häuser und ruinierter Existenzen von den großen Themen des Lebens erfasst - eindringlich und faszinierend unaufgeregt.