Category Archives: Travel Guides
North West Ulster: Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone Pevsner Architectural Guide
Ulster (North West): Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone Pevsner Architectural Guide Pevsner Architectural Guide, in a series of publications begun with the express aim of providing up-to-date guides to the most significant buildings in every part of the country, suitable for both general reader and specialist. Each volume provides an introductory overview of the architecture
Devon Pevsner Architectural Guide
Devon Pevsner Architectural Guide, in a series of publications begun with the express aim of providing up-to-date guides to the most significant buildings in every part of the country, suitable for both general reader and specialist. Each volume provides an introductory overview of the architecture of the area, followed by a descriptive gazetteer arranged alphabetically
Argyll and Bute Pevsner Architectural Guide
Argyll and Bute Pevsner Architectural Guide, in a series of publications begun with the express aim of providing up-to-date guides to the most significant buildings in every part of the country, suitable for both general reader and specialist. Each volume provides an introductory overview of the architecture of the area, followed by a descriptive gazetteer
Spice: Layers of Flavour
Spices are magical ingredients. Used well, they transform food from the ordinary to the extraordinary. The word `spice` should not only mean heat or quantity of chilli in a dish. Spice is a reference to the myriad of unbelievable ingredients that for centuries were one of the primary causes of war, of piracy, of exploration
Nina St Tropez: Recipes from the South of France
Bringing to life another side of St Tropez and the legendary Cote d`Azur, Nina shows us a place where cooking has brought people together for generations and creates recipes inspired by locals, places and stories from her childhood here. She explores the real St Tropez and the surrounding area through its secret, scenic walks, eccentric
Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony in the World
Densely populated, with a distressed economy and limited political freedom, the author of this book argues that the decolonisation of Puerto Rico should begin immediately. “A pithy account of Puerto Rico`s troubled 500 year history ยฟ [and] a carefully reasoned case for a new approach to the perennially unresolved issue of Puerto Rico`s status vis-ร -vis
Chechnya – Tombstone of Russian Power
The war between Russia and the Chechen separatist forces, from December 1994 to August 1996, was a key moment in Russian and even world history, shedding a stark light on the end of Russia as a great military and imperial power. Anatol Lieven, a distinguished writer and political commentator, was a correspondent for the London
Sir Francis Drake – the Queen`s Pirate
In this lively and engaging new biography, Harry Kelsey shatters the familiar image of Sir Francis Drake. The Drake of legend was a pious, brave, and just seaman who initiated the move to make England a great naval power and whose acts of pirac against his country`s enemies earned him a knighthood for patriotism. Kelsey
Thailand – A Short History
This highly acclaimed book, the standard history of Thailand for almost twenty years, has been completely revised, and the author David Wyatt has also added new sections examining the social economic changes that have transformed Thailand since 1980.
The London Town Garden
Much has been written about London`s terraced houses with their simple dignity, their economical use of space and their sense of comfort and human scale. Yet the small gardens that lie before or behind the houses in this great city have until now been overlooked. In this groundbreaking account of the development of the private
Inside Hitler`s Greece: The Experience of Occupation.1941-44
This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of resistance fighters and black marketeers, teenage German conscripts and Gestapo officers, Jews and starving villagers.
Hairy Bikers` Food Tour of Britain
Si King and Dave Myers are the Hairy Bikers who are eating their way around Great Britain. On their trusted Harleys the pair travel the length and breadth of the isles sampling regional dishes made with local produce – from well known favourites such as the Cornish pasty and Lancashire hotpot to `Cullen Skink` from
Letters From Mexico
Hernan Cortes`s Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes`s journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden`s English translation has been prepared from a close examination of the earliest surviving
Hairy Bikers` Family Cookbook – Mums Know Best
The Hairy Bikers` Family Cookbook – Mums Know Best accompanies Si and Dave’s nationwide search for Britain`s lost recipes, as seen on TV. The bikers send out a call-to-arms for mums, daughters and their grandmothers to unlock their private recipe archives and secret scribbles handed down through generations, and share them with, and learn from,
Vulcan`s Fury: Man Against the Volcano
This enthralling book describes fifteen of the most remarkable volcanic eruptions in history and, using rare firsthand accounts, analyses their impact on the humans in their paths. Alwyn Scarth surveys volcanic disasters from the violent eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. to the eruption of Montagne Pelee that killed 28,000 people in three minutes, to
Freeze: 120 Delicious Recipes and Fantastic New Ways to Use Your Freezer and Make Life Just That Bit Easier
It`s time to re-think how to use your freezer and in this book, highly regarded food writer and consultant Justine Pattison will show you how to prepare and heat a range of fabulously tasty dishes with minimal effort. Featuring all the family favourites – from Fabulous Freezer Fish Pie to Best-ever Freeze Ahead Lasagne, Classic
Buckinghamshire Pevsner Architectural Guide
Buckinghamshire Pevsner Architectural Guide, in a series of publications begun with the express aim of providing up-to-date guides to the most significant buildings in every part of the country, suitable for both general reader and specialist. Each volume provides an introductory overview of the architecture of the area, followed by a descriptive gazetteer arranged alphabetically
Inland
The new novel by the author of `The Tiger`s Wife`.”A tremendously talented writer” Ann PatchettA man searching for a home he can`t find.A woman bound to a home she can`t leave.Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life – her husband who has gone in search of water for
Yorkshire: York and East Riding Pevsner Architectural Guide
Yorkshire: York and East Riding Pevsner Architectural Guide, in a series of publications begun with the express aim of providing up-to-date guides to the most significant buildings in every part of the country, suitable for both general reader and specialist. Each volume provides an introductory overview of the architecture of the area, followed by a
The French Kitchen: 200 Recipes from the Master of French Cooking
French gastronomy is renowned for its classic recipes passed from generation to generation. From Burgundy to the Auvergne, Provence, the Loire and the Pyrenees, traditional family cooking has always been at the heart of the French kitchen and lifestyle. With its delicious dishes and exquisite ingredients as diverse as the regions from which they come,
