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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9780753810743
Mixing obvious and more obscure evidence, Moffat argues that the historical Arthur was not a king but a cavalry general, chosen around 500AD to lead a coalition army by the Welsh or Celtic kingdoms of southern Scotland...more details Format:Paperback Pages:293
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9780297643241
Moffat builds up a thesis which enables him to reveal the location and identity of the real Arthur, argueing that he was not a king but a cavalry general chosen around 500AD to lead a coalition army. The key to Moffat's thesis lies in place-names and their derivation...more details Format:Hardback Pages:293
This story of early Scotland begins 10,000 years ago at the end of the Ice Age when the familiar Scottish geography of mountains, glens, and rugged coasts evolved. It follows the movement of hunter-gatherers north...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9780500051337
Alistair Moffat's gripping narrative begins 10,000 years ago, when the power of icebreak and meltwater at the close of the Ice Age produced the familiar Scottish geography of mountains...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9781841588858
Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we move around...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9780719565182
After the deaths of his grandmother and his father, Alistair Moffat discovered that they had kept hidden what they saw as a shaming secret. Moffat soon realised that he had grown up in ignorance of his family's past. In moving detail...more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
After the deaths of his grandmother and his father, Andrew Moffat dicovered that they had kept hidden what they saw as a shaming secret. Moffat soon realised that he had grown up in ignorance of his family's past.| | 'Homing' captures a lost world of terraced council houses...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9780006532439
This is a narrative history based on a journey from Shetland, down the west coast of Scotland - taking in the Isle of Man and the Outer Hebrides - across to Ireland...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
This is the story of an ancient place; where hunter-gatherers penetrated into the virgin interior, where Celtic warlords ruled, the Romans came but could not conquer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:586
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9780500251591
The Highland clans of Scotland are famous, the names celebrated, and the deeds heroic. Having clung to ancient traditions of family, loyalty...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:176
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9781841586748
Only one period in history is immediately, indelibly and uniquely linked to the whole area of the Scottish and English Border country, and that is the time of the Reivers. Whenever anyone mentions Reiver...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9781780270326
A remarkable new piece of research that vividly uncovers Scotland's DNA Map. Since the openening of the Scottish Parliament there has been a revitalised interest in Scottish history and national identity...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9781841589411
History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us. The mushrooming of genetic studies...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9781841587172
Alistair Moffats journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English coast, Wales, Cornwall and Ireland, ignores national boundaries to reveal the rich fabric of culture and history of Celtic Britain which still survives today. This is a vividly told...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
Hadrians Wall is the largest single Roman monument in the world and their most impressive legacy north of the Alps. In 2006 more than a million people visited some part of the 73-mile long site...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
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Alistair Moffat
ISBN:9781841588605
Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its spell over the British. What is it that makes this exquisite part of Italy so seductive? To answer this question Alistair Moffat embarks on a journey into Tuscanys past...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Alistair Moffat;Andrew Turpin
ISBN:9780792376682
An authoritative reference to the whole area of source coding algorithms, Compression and Coding Algorithms will be a primary resource for both researchers and software engineers. The book also will be interest for people in broader area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structure. Practitioners...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:288
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Moffat Alistair
ISBN:9781841589589
Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts and drastically altered the way in which we move around...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Moffat Alistair
ISBN:9781841588315
What is it that makes this exquisite part of Italy so seductive? To answer this question Alistair Moffat embarks on a journey into Tuscanys past. From the flowering of the Etruscan civilization in the seventh century BC through the rise of the powerful medieval communes of Arezzo...more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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Moffat Alistair
ISBN:9781841587899
Hadrians Wall is the largest, most spectacular and one of the most enigmatic historical monument in Britain. Nothing else approaches its vast scale: a land wall running 73 miles from east to west and a sea wall stretching at least 26 miles down the Cumbrian coast. Built in a ten-year period by more than 30...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:270