Don Shaw: 4 books

Book cover of The Hike - and every damn thing else
by Don Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011

Once more we meet Freddy, Phil and Don the hilarious, yet deep thinking, tales of three retired men determined to keep hiking to the bitter end in their beloved Peak District but each for very different reasons...Phil a former air-traffic controller and the groups self-appointed leader is on...
Book cover of The Hike
by Don Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011

Freddy, Phil and Don are three grumpy old men, travelling at various speeds in the slow lane of retirement, at a loss to understand the mad modern world around them. Their chosen method of escape from all this is a shared weekly hike in the Peak District, come gale, hail, snow or torrential...
Book cover of The Perfect Yankee

The Perfect Yankee

The Incredible Story of the Greatest Miracle in Baseball History

by Don Larsen, Mark Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

It was one perfect moment, one singular feat unparalleled in the half a century of baseball that followed. It was Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. In an age when nobody spat in anyone’s face, strikes were called only on the field, and New York was baseball’s battlefield, Don Larsen pitched the...
Book cover of Urbanism in the Preindustrial World

Urbanism in the Preindustrial World

Cross-Cultural Approaches

by Rebecca Storey, Li Liu, Sarah M. Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009

A baseline study of the growth of preindustrial cities worldwide. This work employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization. It further explores how scholars differently...
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