John Hare

It's field trip day, and students are excited to travel on their yellow spaceship bus from their space station to the moon in this wordless picture book. An ALA Notable Children's BookA Golden Duck Notable Picture Book Climb aboard the spaceship bus for a fantastic field trip adventure to the moon Once their bright yellow ship lands, students debark and set out with their teacher to explore. They jump over trenches and see craters and mountains on the moon's surface and even Earth in the faraway distance. But when one student takes a break to draw some pictures and falls asleep, they wake up to discover that the rest of the class and the spaceship are gone. How the student passes the time waiting to be rescued makes for a funny and unexpected adventure that will enchant children all over the galaxy. With rich atmospheric art, John Hare's wordless picture book invites children to imagine themselves in the story--a story full of surprises including some friendly space creatures. A perfect complement to discussions and lessons on the moon landing. Don't miss Field Trip to the Ocean Deep, another wordless adventure Recipient of the Pied Piper Literary PrizeAn ILA-CBC Children's Choice A Pennsylvania Center for the Book Baker's Dozen Selection A School Library Journal Best Book of the YearA Horn Book Best Book of the YearA Bank Street Best Book of the Year - Outstanding MeritA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Basingstoke is frequently seen as a very modern town, theproduct of the last decades of the 20th century. In reality it has a long, richand prosperous history. From its beginnings c.1000it became a significant market centre for the area around, and a place on theroute to London from the west. By 1500 it was among the top 60 towns in Englandby wealth and taxpayers, and the centre of a major industrial area, whosemanufactured cloths formed part of international patterns of trade. Moreover,it is well documented particularly for the 15th and 16th century, when it wasat its peak, and should provide a useful addition to the limited number ofstudies of small medieval towns. Much of the old town has been swept away by the shopping centre,but something of the medieval footprint survives in its streetbeyond this, in a few surviving buildings and above all in its magnificentchurch. This book examines these features as well as the families, whether outsiders orlocals, who made the most of the new thriving economic conditions, and whosedynamism helped create the town's expansion.

This book seeks to explore the changing nature of English society through a case study of countryside and town in southern England during the period from c.1380 to c.1520. It explores the influence of landscape and population on the agriculture of Wiltshire, the regional patterns of arable and pastoral farming, and the growing contrast between the large-scale mixed farming of the chalklands and the family farms of the claylands. It examines the changing situation of the rural tenant population as it reacted to the greater opportunities available in the land-market. During this period, Wiltshire became one of great cloth-producing counties of England (as reflected in its rising taxable wealth). Such economic expansion generated jobs both within the industry and beyond, stimulating the market for food, services and manufactured goods. Salisbury was one of greatest cities in the kingdom, and below this was a hierarchy of interesting lesser towns. But such growth generated its own problems: more and more people became dependent on the cloth trade and particularly on exporting cloth; if exports fell, as during the mid-fifteenth-century crisis, they suffered. As scholars are increasingly aware, the later Middle Ages was a period of considerable change, and this study contributes to debates about the nature of both change and continuity at a national level. It will also be of value to local historians interested in one of the most important periods in Wiltshire's history.

Hodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary readers series for the African schools. The Fearless Four and the Smugglers: How can three people vanish into thin air? That is the mystery Susan Saito stumbles across on a train journey back to her home in Gombe. If her three friends are too afraid to follow her into danger, then she'll just investigate on her own. Could this mean the end of the Fearless Four? Other titles in the series include: - The Fearless Four - The Fearless Four: Hijack! - The Fearless Four and the Graveyard Ghost - The Fearless Four and the Smugglers - Twin Trouble - Dead Men's Bones - Sauna and the Drug Pedlars - Time Bomb - The Power of Corruption - God's Case: No Appeal - Magic, Mystery and Mister Prince - One Man, Two Votes

Hodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary readers series for the African schools. The Fearless Four: Something is going very badly wrong at the Township soccer final. Nobody can understand what is happening to the game - except Taka Taka Tom. He runs into two villains with an evil plot, and soon finds himself in terrible danger. Will Susan, Ken and Tiny be able to save their friend? Find out in the first adventure of the Fearless Four! Other titles in the series include: - The Fearless Four - The Fearless Four: Hijack! - The Fearless Four and the Graveyard Ghost - The Fearless Four and the Smugglers - Twin Trouble - Dead Men's Bones - Sauna and the Drug Pedlars - Time Bomb - The Power of Corruption - God's Case: No Appeal - Magic, Mystery and Mister Prince - One Man, Two Votes

Hodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary readers series for the African schools. The Fearless Four: Hijack! - Things are getting dangerous in Gombe. There are robbers around, and they'll steal anything from a cap to a car. Tiny Tantille sets off to rescue his friend's hat and ends up fighting for his life. Thank goodness he has one of Mr Mugi's wonder pens, and three good friends. Together they are truly the Fearless Four! Other titles in the series include: - The Fearless Four - The Fearless Four: Hijack! - The Fearless Four and the Graveyard Ghost - The Fearless Four and the Smugglers - Twin Trouble - Dead Men's Bones - Sauna and the Drug Pedlars - Time Bomb - The Power of Corruption - God's Case: No Appeal - Magic, Mystery and Mister Prince - One Man, Two Votes

Hodder African Readers are high-interest books designed to appeal to both boys and girls. They are highly motivating adventure and action stories which attract the reader's attention and hold it through the story. Together these titles form a strong, vibrant and attractive supplementary readers series for the African schools. The Fearless Four and the Graveyard Ghost: Taka Taka Tom is delighted when he gets a holiday job but what a job! Working for an undertaker in a graveyard isn't Susan and Ken's idea of fun. Soon though, Susan, Ken and Tiny Tantille are too busy solving a mystery to worry about Tom. Their classmate, Rich Kimani, has disappeared and they're determined to help his auntie find him. The search for Rich takes them off to the graveyard - and straight into the path of the graveyard ghost. Other titles in the series include: - The Fearless Four - The Fearless Four: Hijack! - The Fearless Four and the Graveyard Ghost - The Fearless Four and the Smugglers - Twin Trouble - Dead Men's Bones - Sauna and the Drug Pedlars - Time Bomb - The Power of Corruption - God's Case: No Appeal - Magic, Mystery and Mister Prince - One Man, Two Votes

John Hare has made three expeditions to the Mongolian and Chinese Gobi deserts, the first in 1993 with Russian scientists and the second and third with Chinese scientists in 1995 and 1996. The book records the amazing adventures he has experienced on those expeditions and will record details of the 30-day walk on foot in the formidable Kum Tagh sand dunes in the spring of 1997. He is the first recorded foreigner to have crossed the Gashun Gobi from north to south. The expeditions were primarily concerned with tracking down the mysterious wild Bactrian camel 'camelus bactrianus ferus' which lives in the heartland of the desert and is the ancestor of all domestic Bactrian stock. There are under a thousand left in the world and the wild Bactrian camel is more endangered than the giant Panda. This is John Hare's magnificent account of a formidable feat of modern exploration.