Category Archives: Non-Fiction & Reference
Trail Running – Chamonix and the Mont Blanc Region: 40 Routes in the Chamonix Valley, Italy and Switzerland
A guidebook describing 40 trail running routes in the Chamonix Valley and around the Mont Blanc massif, visiting France, Switzerland and Italy. The routes, which range from 3.8km (21/2 miles) to 168km (104 miles), are graded from 1 to 5 and categorised as trail running, fell running or skyrunning. Starting from Chamonix, Les Houches, Servoz,
New Forest Walking: 30 Walks in the New Forest National Park
This guidebook presents 30 walks in the New Forest in Hampshire and Wiltshire, Britain`s smallest National Park. Easily accessible from Southampton, Bournemouth, Salisbury and Winchester, the New Forest encompasses varied landscapes, from ancient woodlands to open heaths, rivers and coastline. Routes of between 5 and 16km (3 and 10 miles) explore the Forest, mainly on
Peak District Cycling
The scenic Peak District boasts an abundance of country lanes, tracks, towpaths and railway trails that are perfect for two-wheeled exploration. This guidebook presents 20 graded day rides in the national park, along with a challenging 250km route, the five-day `Tour de Peak District`. With a focus on quiet lanes, gratifying downhills and not overly
The Mountains of Romania: Trekking in the Carpathian Mountains
This guide describes 27 short treks of 2-6 days and 10 day walks in the mountains of Romania. Although there is a slight focus on Transylvania, most of the main massifs are included, with chapters covering the Mountains of Maramures, the Eastern Carpathians, the mountains around Brasov, the Fagaras, the region between the Olt and
Cycling the Camino de Santiago: The Way of St James – Camino Frances
The Camino de Santiago de Compostela (Camino Frances or Way of St James) is among the world`s most famous pilgrimages: Christian pilgrims have travelled to the shrine of St James in Santiago, northern Spain, since the ninth century. This guide provides all the information you need to successfully cycle the Camino. The Camino Frances is
Tea Shop Walks in the Peak District
What could be better than a country walk with the reward of afternoon tea? This guidebook contains twenty-six varied and attractive walks suitable for all the family. June and Norman Buckley describe them with accurate instructions, clear sketch maps and delightful photographs. To add to the pleasure, each walk includes one or more tea shops;
Sorry, I`m British
Explore the oddities of the British psyche with this informative and witty illustrated guide. From small-talk to superiority, from cricket to condiments, and curry to class, when wandering lonely through the clouds of British behaviour this is the perfect companion. Discover the fate of a pitbull named ASBO, find out why we get bank holidays
Walking the Northumberland Dales
This title presents an unique opportunity to discover and explore the lesser-known landscapes of the Northumberland Dales – a land of far horizons and secret corners. It includes routes in North and South Tynedale, Allendale, Hexhamshire, Blanchland and Hadrian`s Wall, and routes within easy access of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Durham and other popular locations – with forays
Lakeland`s Easiest Walks
This book features 36 walk through spectacular countryside, specially selected as equally suitable for wheelchairs, pushchairs, people with limited mobility and those with very young children. All paths featured are wheelchair accessible, and the guide gives points of interest – details of what can be seen on the walks.
Isle of Skye Natural History Walks
This is an alternative guide to the wildlife and geology of Skye detailing where to see the island`s lesser-known natural history. There are 20 walks based aroud Portree, Dunvegan, Broadford and Sleat together with detailed maps and quality photographs.
New Forest Walks
Explore the New Forest with this series of 16 walks through ancient landscapes where long-forgotten bumps, hollows and moss-clad earthen banks have stories to tell of Bronze and Iron Age peoples, Romans, Normans and others who lived, worked and hunted here.
Scandinavia – At War With Trolls
This work is a compact, briskly-written introduction to the history, politics and culture of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, from the Napoleonic era to the present. It aims to diminish national stereotypes. It describes the salient events and personalities, including artists, musicians and intellectuals such as Ibsen, Bergman, Kierkegaard, Munch and Sibelius.
The Armenians
The book traces the evolution of Armenia and Armenian collective identity, in the homeland and in the diaspora, from its beginnings to the eve of the Armenian nationalist movement over Gharabagh in 1988. The emphasis is on the modern era – the seventeenth century onwards, including the Soviet period. Panossian`s overall approach is that of
Understanding Somalia and Somaliland
Ioan Lewis details the history and culture of the Somali people, providing a unique window into this little-known culture and its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social, historical, and cultural hinterland that is the Somali heritage and pays close attention to the pervasive influence of traditional nomadism, especially its extremely decentralized
Madagascar
Two thousand years ago, Madagascar was probably uninhabited. An island twice the size of Great Britain, it was home to unique species of flora and fauna that were undisturbed by humanity until the first navigators landed on its shores. Since then, the changes imposed by humans on the wide range of environments to be found
Postcards from the Russian Revolution
The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century. It has been studied from many angles, but never before from the visual perspective of postcards, a surprising number of which were published around the event, many in Russia but also France, England, the USA and other countries. This
Expedition Naga
“Expedition Naga” is a multisensory trip into one of the world`s most remote and least accessible regions. Diaries written by British administrators/explorers during punitive expeditions in the 1920`s and -30`s against the Naga, a people once notorious for their headhunting activities, are compared with contemporary notes written during the last 5 years when the authors
London Peculiars: A Guide to the City`s Offbeat Places
A peculiar can be defined as something that `has eccentric or individual variations to the general or predicted pattern`. And, as it turns out, London is overflowing with them. This pocket-sized book will accompany you around the capital, guiding you from the tent-shaped tomb designed for Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton by his widow, Isabel
Trieste
Neil Kent`s portrait of Trieste fills a major gap in contemporary writing on Italy, an important task bearing in mind that the city is now one of Western Europe`s major gateways to the Balkans. It focuses in particular on the last two centuries: first, on the post-Napoleonic period-its heyday- when Trieste emerged as the otherwise
