Category Archives: Travel Guides
Touring Spain and Portugal: 2020
Your essential companion to independent touring in Spain and Portugal in a caravan, motorhome, campervan or tent. The comprehensive handbook contains everything you need to know before you go, while your away and for your return to the UK. The guide contains over 500 sites, all visited and reviewed by users of the book.
Touring Europe 2021: in a caravan, motorhome or tent and over 3500 campsites reviewed
Everything you need to know about exploring Europe in a caravan, motorhome or tent. Touring Europe is your essential companion to independent touring in a caravan, motorhome or tent. This comprehensive handbook contains everything you need to know before you go, while you`re away and for your return to the UK. #The guide includes over
Travel Writer`s Field Guide
The world is full of stories. Write them. The Travel Writer`s Field Guide is an inspirational reference book for anyone who loves to travel. Inside its rugged pages, authors Phoebe Smith and Daniel Neilson offer advice about every element of travel writing, from structuring stories to pitching to editors. It uncovers the secrets of getting
The Living Days
A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, an elderly white woman, and Cub, a British-Jamaican boy, and drives her crumbling world into heightened delusion. The two struggle to keep their footing as white supremacy, desperation and class conflict collide on the streets of London. Through exquisite juxtaposition, Ananda Devi
Gamba`re!: The Japanese Way of the Rugby Fan
The Ultimate Guide to Japan and Japanese for Rugby SupportersJapanese for the rugby fan – buy a snack, find your seat, forecast the result, comment on play, cheer your team on… even question the judgement of the referee – everything you want to say in the stadium, in Japanese! Food and drink – finding places
Classic Krakauer: Mark Foo`s Last Ride, After the Fall, and Other Essays
Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to
Camino del Norte: Irun to Santiago along Spain`s Northern Coast
This Village to Village Map Guide to the Camino del Norte is a lightweight minimalist guidebook to walking the Way of Saint James from Irun to Santiago de Compostela on the Camino del Norte. The Camino del Norte traverses the rugged and stunning northern coast of Spain on a well-marked traditional pilgrimage route replete with
Vietnam War
More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. When the war divided the country, it created deep political fault lines that continue to
Camino de Santiago Maps: Camino Frances: St Jean – Santiago
This lightweight, minimalist map guide offers all the detailed maps, accommodations listings, and stage overviews available in the full Camino Frances Village to Village Guide, condensed to an ultralight 96 pages. The Camino Frances begins in picturesque Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France, crosses the Pyrenees and Basque country and the high plateau known as the Meseta before
A Trekking Guide to Dhaulagiri
Dhaulagiri (8167m), the seventh highest mountain in the world, is just a stone’s throw from its better-known neighbour Annapurna as the lammergeyer soars, yet its trails are a million miles away. Traditional villages are connected by enchanting woodland trails; further up eerie, primordial cloud forest leads to remote high altitude meadows surrounded by pristine peaks,
The Unofficial Ultimate Harry Potter Spellbook: A Complete Reference Guide to Every Spell in the Wizarding World
The Unofficial Ultimate Harry Potter Spellbook is a beautiful, elegantly designed reference that details all of the known spells cast in the Harry Potter films, books, video games and card games, as well as official Harry Potter spinoffs, such as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Each spell is given its own entry including
Close to the Edge
Morning rush hour on the London tube. Laurie Bateman witnesses a terrible accident. Life had been looking up – she`s dating a new man and finally getting praise at work. But after the accident everything seems to plummet downhill. In the space of a few days her flat is burgled and her flatmate assaulted –
The Incompletes
“Now I am going to tell you the story of something that happened one night years ago, and the events of the morning and afternoon that followed.”`The Incompletes` begins with this simple promise. But to try to get at the complete meaning of the day`s events, the narrator must first take us on an international
Meet Me in Buenos Aires
At the time of his death Eric Hobsbawm was the most famous historian in the world. He not only wrote history was also witness to it, from the Communist uprising in Europe to revolution in Cuba where he was Che Guevara`s interpreter. He was instrumental in the birth of New Labour and was also a
Why, Why, Why
A man tries to teach a stone to speak through sheer force of will. An engaged couple makes a pact to never lie, and their union dissolves immediately. Over the course of a phone call, a man learns that his girlfriend died months ago, and that hes been unknowingly seeing her twin sister. Prince Charming
Sonnets to Orpheus
The result of nearly two decades of fine-tuning, memorisation and research, Mark`s translations, only the second by a woman and the first by a native German speaker, recapture Rilke`s astonishingly contemporary, often colloquial style. Rainer Maria Rilker`s fifty-five `Sonnets to Orpheus` were written over a few days in an incredible burst of inspiration. Described by
