Category Archives: Travel Guides
2020/21 Pacific, Asia and Middle East – Superyacht Services Guide
This guide contains recommended services for ports and cruising destinations from Panama, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, the Pacific Islands to New Zealand, Australia, Asia and the Middle East. Includes some well known areas and others more off the beaten track. This guide will help ‘fast track’ captains to the very best services available,
2021 Caribbean – Superyacht Services Guide
Superyacht Services Guide Caribbean 2021 provides comprehensive information from Bahamas south to Trinidad and the ABC Islands, including the Windward & Leeward Islands.This wealth of information is a compilation of professional yacht Captain’s personal recommendations, providing efficient and effective Marine Services and yachting contacts available all around the world. These guides are published annually.Includes detailed
The Book of Sheffield: A City in Short Fiction
Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves. Bringing together fiction from some of the city`s most celebrated writers, The Book of Sheffield traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. From the city`s grand villas, elegant
2021/22 East Coast USA – Superyacht Services Guide
This Guide helps `fast track` yachtsmen to the very best services available in each coastal State heading north up the East Coast of America, from Florida to Southwest Harbor in Maine, including Bermuda.Make sure your next adventure is a smooth and successful one with The 2021/22 Superyacht Services Guide To The East Coast USA &
Barefoot at the Lake
To ten-year-old Bruce, the summer of 1954 seemed, at first, like any other on the lake: floating in the rowboat, watching the seagulls, frogs and herons, catching crayfish. But just when he thinks that life is perfect, everything starts to change, and over the summer both the harshness of the adult world and the patterns
The BBC National Short Story Award 2019
The BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University (NSSA) returns for the 14th year with broadcaster Nikki Bedi chairing the judging panel for 2019. Nikki is a television and radio broadcaster who writes and presents The Arts Hour on BBC World Service and BBC Radio London. The BBC National Short Story Award is one
Made in Sweden: 25 Ideas That Created a Country
What are the real Swedish Values? Who is the real Swedish Model?In recent times, we have come to favour all things Scandi – their food, furnishings, fiction, fashion, and general way of life. We seem to regard the Swedes and their Scandinavian neighbours as altogether more sophisticated, admirable, and evolved than us. We have all
Cornwall Coast Path – Bude to Plymouth (South West Coast Path Part 2)
Practical, complete hiking route guide, with maps and accommodation for the 288-mile footpath that runs around the entire coastline of Cornwall, from Bude to Plymouth; Part 2 of the South-West-Coast Path, a 630-mile National Trail from Minehead to Poole. Includes * 142 large-scale walking maps (3 1/8inches to 1 mile), 24 town plans, 21 stage
First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks
For the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people.”I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old, and don`t yet know that I
Goodnight Forest
Say goodnight to the sleepy creatures of the forest! Learn about each animal as you explore burrows, tiptoe along riverbanks and climb to treetops. This beautiful book combines facts and fun, with a gentle rhyming text that`s perfect for bedtime.
Goodnight Ocean
Say goodnight to a magical underwater land! Learn about sleeping sea creatures as you swim over carpets of coral to the deepest depths of the ocean. This beautiful book combines facts and fun, with a gentle rhyming text that`s perfect for bedtime.
Planet Banksy: The Man, His Work and the Movement He Inspired
Highlighting both the relevance of Banksy`s street art and how his impact has continued to spread, `Planet Banksy` brings together some of the very best pieces of art from all corners of the world that have been inspired by Banksy, as well as featuring some of his own innovative, profound and controversial work.”A thought-provoking comparison
Polar Eskimo
In December of 2013, Alex Hibbert led an international quartet of polar travellers to the extreme north of Arctic Greenland. After a huge storm destroyed their intended route to the North Pole in the darkness of winter, instead of retreating, they decided to explore the beautiful but unforgiving region of Avanerriaq, the home of the
My War Gone by, I Miss it So
`My War Gone By, I Miss It So` is a uniquely powerful piece of writing, unparalleled in the genre. Ex-infantry officer Anthony Loyd arrived in the Balkans hoping to become a war correspondent. He wanted to see `a real war`, and in Bosnia he found one. The cruelty and chaos of the conflict both appalled
Rock Pool: Extraordinary Encounters Between the Tides: A Life -Long Fascination told in Twenty-Four Creatures
An entrancing book of exploration, marine life and natural wonders.”Wherever I go, I seek out beaches. They are woven through my life; a changing constant in a constantly changing world. Every walk through the rock pools, from the tideline to the low water mark, takes me on a journey into the sea and challenges my
The London Underground: 50 Things to See and Do
Explore the rarest routes, take historic rides, visit abandoned stations, uncover secret shortcuts, discover letter-based odysseys and embark on unique Tube challenges with this lively, interactive book. Find secret staircases, take an escalator expedition, race the Tube between stops and find the strangest station on the network! Bursting with facts and activities from YouTube train
Great British Railways: 50 Things to See and Do
Take the rarest train routes, learn about the railways` people and animal friends, marvel at iconic stations, whizz over amazing bridges, steam through tremendous tunnels and visit the most spectacular railway sights. Ride across dramatic viaducts, visit Britain`s busiest railway hub and its least-used station, stop at Britain`s highest station, meet the railway cats and
A Raid Over Berlin
“I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this moment that I thought I was going to die because I became remarkably calm”Trapped inside a burning Lancaster bomber, 20,000 feet above Berlin, airman John Martin consigned himself to his fate and turned
I Hate the Lake District
An alternative view of the North West of England that delves into its stranger past.`I Hate the Lake District` offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author`s trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism,
The Rules in Practice 2021 – 2024
Rules in Practice has been the best-selling guide to the racing rules for the last 40 years. Now, in its 10th edition, it has been updated for (and contains in full) the 2021-2024 Racing Rules of Sailing and features a brand new chapter on the luffing rules and how they are being applied. The latest
