Category Archives: Travel Guides
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakin kept notebooks in which he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and observations. Discursive, personal and often impassioned, they reveal the way he saw the world, whether it be observing the teeming ecosystem that was Walnut Tree Farm, thinking about the wider environment, walking in
Italian Phrasebook
This newly revised and updated “Italian Phrase Book” contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers. The book includes basic grammar, a pronunciation guide and additional vocabulary, and is clearly presented in the perfect pocket size, with a clean and simple look.
French Phrasebook
This newly revised and updated “French Phrase Book” contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers. The book includes basic grammar, a pronunciation guide and additional vocabulary, and is clearly presented in the perfect pocket size, with a clean and simple look.
Spanish Phrasebook
This newly revised and updated “Spanish Phrase Book” contains a wealth of useful words and phrases for travellers. The book includes basic grammar, a pronunciation guide and additional vocabulary, and is clearly presented in the perfect pocket size, in a clean and simple look.
Swing Time
Two brown girls dream of being dancers – but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, black bodies and black music, what it means to belong, what it means to be free. It`s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be
Books v. Cigarettes
Beginning with a dilemma about whether he spends more money on reading or smoking, George Orwell`s entertaining and uncompromising essays go on to explore everything from the perils of second-hand bookshops to the dubious profession of being a critic, from freedom of the press to what patriotism really means.Throughout history, some books have changed the
Amazon
In Amazon Bruce Parry undertakes another epic journey, in the same vein as his adventures in Tibe, tracing the 6,000km route of the Amazon river from source to ocean. Along the way Bruce meets the people who live and work there. The truths he discovers are often frightening, but always eye-opening, reminding us that the
The Secret Life of Birds
In “The Secret Life of Birds”, lifelong bird enthusiast Colin Tudge explores the extraordinary variety, secret history and hidden importance of birds around the world. Birds are beautiful, intriguing and life-enhancing. They can do everything mammals can, and even more besides. Collected here are birds who navigate using the stars, tool-making crows, territorial robins, cooperative
The Unnamed
In an America gone awry with strange weather, New York lawyer Tim Farnsworth suffers a peculiar affliction: the inability to stop walking. While his wife, Jane, struggles to keep their family together in the face of the unfathomable, Tim alone must battle to survive pitiless surroundings, encounters with hostile strangers, and the unrelenting demands of
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Mapmakers do not simply represent the
Let Our Fame Be Great
Oliver Bullough`s “Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant Peoples of the Caucasus” is the extraordinary untold story of the inhabitants of the Caucasus and their unbreakable spirit. The Caucasus mountains are a land of jagged peaks and rugged people, who for over 200 years have rebelled against Russia`s attempts to add them
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys
From Rorke`s Drift to the Battle of Britain and Nelson to Neil Armstrong, “Amazing Tales” is about men who understood – as Scott always did – that it was more bravery and courageousness seperated the men from the boys; it tells you how ordinary men became the legends they are.It starts with a gripping account
The Secret Rooms
A Plotting Duchess, a Mysterious Death and a Castle Full of Intrigue in Catherine Bailey`s The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain`s wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a makeshift bed in a dank cramped suite of rooms in
Ways of Seeing
Based on the BBC television series, John Berger`s Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.`Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.`But there is also another sense in which seeing comes
Animal Farm
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey`s new look for Orwell`s timeless satire`All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.`Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the
Empire of the Mind – A History of Iran
From the time of the prophet Zoroaster, to the powerful ancient Persian Empires, to the revolution of 1979, the hostage crisis and current president Mahmud Ahmadinejad ‘“ a controversial figure within as well as outside the country ‘“ Michael Axworthy produces an account of Iran’s past. He explains clearly and carefully both the complex succession
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem ‘“ or thinks it does. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food’“ enough to feed all the world’s hungry at least three times over. Forests are destroyed and nearly
Tarzan of the Apes
Abandoned to his fate when his English parents die in the African jungle, a baby boy is rescued and reared by a loving ape foster mother. Conquering the savage laws of the wilderness, Tarzan grows into a mighty warrior and becomes leader of his tribe of apes until he encounters, for the first time, his
NW
“NW” is Zadie Smith`s masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith`s brilliant tragi-comic “NW” follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – after they`ve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful
Rivers of Gold – The Rise of the Spanish Empire
In this epic history from award-winning author Hugh Thomas, “Rivers of Gold” brings the early years of Spain`s imperial achievement vividly to life.250 years after Columbus launched the most important expedition of conquest in history, Magellan, sailing with a Spanish fleet, followed in his wake. The Spanish adventurers convinced themselves an Earthly Paradise existed in
