Category Archives: Travel Guides
RYA International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: 2015
To be safe at sea you must know the rules. This book explains the rules and regulations with footnotes to help you interpret them correctly.
Dickens`s London
Few novelists have written so intimately about a city in the way that Charles Dickens wrote about London. A near-photographic memory made his contact with the city indelible from a very young age and it remained his constant focus. Virginia Woolf maintained that, `we remodel our psychological geography when we read Dickens,` as he produces
Yachtmaster Scheme Syllabus & Logbook
The RYA’s renowned practical training is complemented by a structured shorebased learning process on the theory of navigation, safety, seamanship and by specialist one-day courses on skills such as first aid and sea survival.This book informs you of what to expect when taking any RYA sail or motor cruising course and also provides pages for
Salzburg: City of Culture
As the seat of prince-bishops it found wealth and power, as the birthplace of Mozart it found fame, and as a festival city it found its purpose and destiny. But can today`s Salzburg really be described by anything more than music and majestic baroque architecture? Hubert Nowak, who lived and worked in Salzburg for many
Start Sailing – Beginner`s Handbook (G3)
RYA Start Sailing is designed to help you learn to sail. Regardless of whether you go on a RYA course or learn from a friend, this book is packed with essential knowledge you need to get afloat.
Dh Lawrence in Italy
November 1925: In search of health and sun, the writer D. H. Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife, Frieda, and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives and vines. But over the next six months, Frieda will be fatally attracted to their landlord,
Churchill`s Britain: From the Antrim Coast to the Isle of Wight
More than half a century after his death, Winston Churchill, the most significant British statesman of the twentieth century, continues to intrigue us. Peter Clark`s book, however, is not merely another Churchill biography. Churchill`s Britain takes us on a geographical journey through Churchill`s life, leading us in Churchill`s footsteps through locations in Britain and Ireland
Hemingway in Italy
This book, the first full-length study on the subject, explores Hemingway`s visits throughout his life to such places as Sicily, Genoa, Rapallo, Cortina and Venice. Richard Owen describes how Hemingway first visited Italy during the First World War, an experience that set the scene for `A Farewell to Arms`. The writer then returned after the
The View from the Hill: Four Seasons in a Walker`s Britain
In Christopher Somerville`s workroom is a case of shelves that holds 450 notebooks. Their pages are creased and stained with mud, blood, flattened insect corpses, beer glass rings, smears of plant juice and gallons of sweat. Everything Somerville has written about walking the British countryside has had its origin among these little black-and-red books. During
One Woman Walks Wales
Ursula Martin never thought she would walk 3700 miles around Wales, but following a cancer diagnosis it seemed like the only reasonable thing to do. In 17 months, she traversed beaches and mountains, farms and urban sprawl. She received unimaginable support ‘“ people offered beds, food, cups of tea, donated to her chosen charities. Walking
Not Thomas
The lady`s here. The lady with the big bag. She`s knocking on the front door. She`s knocking and knocking. I`m not opening the door. I`m not letting her in. I`m behind the black chair. I`m waiting for her to go away.Tomos lives with his mother, and sometimes her boyfriend. He longs to return to another
Albi
Spain in the 1930s. Nine-year-old Albi runs messages for people. He likes to help out, especially now that his country is at war with itself. When his brother and papa become involved with the militia and the Guardia (nationalists) begin reprisals, Albi struggles to make sense of who is on the right side. His family
Reparation
1997 and Elizabeth`s emigre parents approach retirement in straitened circumstances. Mutti has come up with a novel solution – she is going to claim compensation from the Hungarian Government – hard enough for someone with a clear mind, but near impossible for an impulsive heavy drinker teetering towards dementia. TV journalist Elizabeth is pursuing a
God`s Children
Kate Marsden: nurse, intrepid adventurer, saviour of the lepers… or devious manipulator, immoral and dishonest? As she lies on her deathbed visited by the ghosts of her past, who should we believe, Kate or those who accuse her of duplicity? Memory is a fickle thing: recollections may be frozen in time or distorted by the
The Fault
Chilling thriller set on Gibraltar – at the heart of The Rock are secret tunnels, hard to navigate and even harder to escape. Sebastian is a civil engineering prodigy and his latest project is his most ambitious to date: to build a new city on the sheerest face of The Rock. His fiancee, Eva, a
Smile of a Midsummer Night: A Picture of Sweden
Lars Gustafsson and Agneta Blomqvist have written a personal guide to their Swedish homeland. Setting off from the south their journey leads them all the way up to Norrland, from the farms of Scania to the Laponian area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is the idyllic fjord in Bohuslan, in the Vastmanland region,
Black Earth: A Journey Through Ukraine
“Will someone pay for the spilled blood? No. Nobody.” Mikhail Bulgakov wrote these words in Kiev during the turmoil of the Russian Civil War. Since then Ukrainian borders have shifted constantly and its people have suffered numerous military foreign interventions that have left them with nothing. As a state, Ukraine exists only since 1991 and
The Liquid Continent: Alexandria, Venice and Istanbul
Combining history and travel narrative, Nicholas Woodsworth journeys around the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, the sea which gave birth to Western civilisation. This sea, he says, should not be seen as an empty space surrounded by Europe, Asia and Africa, but as a continent in its own right, a place from whose coastlines people
Borges in Sicily: Journey with a Blind Guide
When Alejandro Luque receives a book of photographs taken in Sicily by the Argentinian writer, essayist, and poet Luis Borges, he decides to trace the writer`s journey, setting off with a group of friends on his own Sicilian odyssey. Meticulously identifying the location of each photograph, Luque uses Borges`s pictures to imagine the range of
