Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Ashley Book of Knots
Describes every practical knot, what it looks like, where it comes from, and how to tie it. The book includes 4,000 knots, with all the varieties of shipboard knots as well as knots used by butchers, steeplejacks, electric linesmen, knitters, cobblers, surgeons, poachers and cowboys.
History Of Rome
From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians exert their influence over Western thought and civilisation.Michael Grant, the renowned
Unbearable Lightness of Being
In this novel – a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities – Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century `Being` in a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. We feel,
Faber Book of Reportage
What was it like to be caught in the firestorm that destroyed Pompeii? To have dinner with Attila the Hun? To watch the charge of the Light Brigade? To see the Titanic slide beneath the waves? John Carey`s best-selling “Faber Book of Reportage” draws its eyewitness account from memoirs, travel books and newspapers. This is
Omeros
A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events – the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement – and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual
The Joke
The Joke, Milan Kundera`s first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely revised translation is the definitive edition of his work. `It is impossible to do justice here to the subtleties, comedy and wisdom of this very beautiful
Conversation in the Cathedral
Conversation in the Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of General Ordia. Suspicion, paranoia and blackmail have become part of life. The conversation flows between two individuals, Santiago and Ambrosia, who talk of their tormented lives and of the degradation and frustration that has taken over their town. In this groundbreaking novel,
Overview
For ten years Berkoff has travelled all over the world – from Fiji to Acapulco – acting, directing and writing. This book is his diary of these trips Berkoff is the author of East, West, Sink the Belgrano!, Decadence and I am Hamlet.
Out of Romania
Dan Antal, a distant relative of Vlad the Impaler (Count Dracula), grew up in the mountains of Transylvania, and in this book he presents his story of life before, during and after the Romanian revolution. It is an account the disappointed hopes that mark the transition from dictatorship to democracy in Eastern Europe, and of
Expeditions and Endeavours: Images of Nature
Expeditions and Endeavours is illustrated with over 100 paintings and drawings created on some of the most significant voyages of natural history discovery undertaken over the past 300 years. Andrea Hart and Paul Martyn Cooper explore how these successive expeditions and the intrepid explorers who went on them have enhanced our scientific understanding of the
The Time of the Hero
The Time of the Hero” has been acclaimed by critics around the world as one of the outstanding Spanish novels of recent decades. In the author`s native Peru, this powerful social satire so outraged the authorities that a thousand copies were publicly burned. And that’s before you appreciate that it’s been written by an author
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Unforgettable Portraits
This is a collection of the most memorable portraits taken over the past decades of the international Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.Each portrait captures an intimate moment and reveals the character of both the individual and often of the species itself. Such images require both photographic skill and an intimacy with the subject that
Death in the Andes
Set in an isolated, run down community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa`s riveting novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange similarities to the Dionysian rituals of ancient Greece.Part-detective novel and part-political allegory, it offers a panoramic view
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio 22
Wildlife Photographer of the Year Portfolio 22, a collection of all the winning and commended images in the 2012 Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, the most prestigious event of its kind in the world. These memorable and inspiring photos were selected from more than 48,000 entries representing 48 countries.The photographs were chosen
The Art of Audubon II
The Birds of America is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also the most valuable – a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for GBP 7.3 million which is a world record for a book. First published in double elephant size (approximately a metre tall) in the first
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 24
For 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill and narrative excellence. This powerful collection of pictures features all the winning photographs from the prestigious 50th competition. The collection represents the work of many international photographers, both professionals
The Queen & Mr Brown: A Day for Dinosaurs
Join Britain`s much-admired monarch on one of her rare days-off, as she and her loveable pet corgi Mr Brown enjoy an action packed adventure at London`s Natural History Museum. On a grey, gloomy and unbearably miserable day, the two friends go in search of dinosaurs. Armed with sandwiches and biscuits they encounter immense skeletons, huge
The Queen & Mr Brown: A Night in the Natural History Museum
Britain`s monarch is back for another animal adventure as she and her loveable pet corgi Mr Brown visit London`s Natural History Museum after hours. In the dead of night, when all the visitors have left the Museum, the two friends go in search of the Queen`s secret passion – natural history. They encounter enormous woolly
Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Portfolio 25
For 50 years, the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has championed honest and ethical wildlife photography, while pushing the boundaries of artistic freedom, technical skill and narrative excellence. This powerful collection of pictures features all the winning photographs from the 2015 competition. The collections represents the work of many international photographers, both professionals and
