Category Archives: Travel Guides
Pembrokeshire South: Circular Walks Along the Wales Coast Path
One of the series of books in the new Top 10 Walks: Wales Coast Path series. Handy, pocket-sized, full colour walking guides written by experts. Each volume outlines the most popular circular walks along key sections of the coast path. With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, enhanced
Rocks & Edges: Classic Walks on the High Escarpments of the Peak District
This attractive and cleverly structured guide gives walkers ten of the finest walks on the high escarpments of the Peak District National Park in a popular pocketable format.With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, and interpretation of points of
Waterside Walks: Classic Waterside Walks in the Peak District
These attractive and cleverly structured guidebooks give walkers the ten finest circular lakeside and riverside walks in the Peak District National Park in a popular pocketable format. With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, enhanced Ordnance Survey maps, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, and interpretation of points of interest along
Walks with History: Walks Through the Historic Landscape of the Peak District
ne in the Peak District: Top 10 Walks series. Handy, pocket-sized, full colour walking guides written by experts.With clear information, an overview and introduction for each walk, expertly written numbered directions, large scale Ordnance Survey maps, superb, eye-grabbing panoramic photographs, and interpretation of points of interest along the way, these guides set a new standard
Jerusalem, Palestine And Jordan
Dr Hisham Khatib has spent almost 40 years amassing the vast and historically valuable collection of representations of the Near East featured in this book. The artworks included here (paintings, prints, maps, books, photographs, and even postcards) depict the Holy Land during the Ottoman period (1517-1917). The stunning images are accompanied by an engaging and
The Story of Syria
Today Syria is in desperate turmoil – an unfathomable tragedy for anyone who has has followed the aspirations and dreams high civilised and educated people over the past century. Written by a distinguished British-Syrian diplomat and journalist who has experience of life in the inside of the the Assad regimes, balanced by a cosmopolitan London-based
Tahrir the Last 18 Days of Mubarak
For 18 days of his life, starting the 25th of January 2011 up to the 11th of February, Abdel Latif El Menawy slept in his office inside Egypt`s State TV building. The landmark building behind Tahrir Square was under constant siege, locked down by tanks and barbed wire as protesters massed outside the building. Throughout
Tripoli Witness
Rana Jawad, a British-Lebanese journalist who has reported from Tripoli for the BBC for seven years, found herself the last British journalist reporting from inside Tripoli early in 2010. Defiant and terrified in turns, she went into hiding and bravely issued the series of anonymous Tripoli Witness blogs that have become famous among anyone following
Damascus Diaries: Life Under the Assads
When Peter Clark arrived in Damascus 1992 to open the new British Council office, he was not to know that the next five years were to give him an unique window on the upper echelons of Syrian society in the last few years of Hafez Al-Assad`s rule. Here we see the dramas and routines of
Dictators` Dinners: The Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants
What did dictators eat? Sometimes simply obscene amounts of the best their nations could offer, but more often their despots` humble origins, or embarrassing medical conditions, or simple lack of interest in or time for food meant their tastes were surprisingly unpretentious – ranging from human flesh, to raw garlic salad, to Quality Street. Dictators
Yemen: A Photographic Journey
The staggering breadth and diversity of Yemen`s landscapes and peoples is not something easily conveyed. Here, in this remarkable celebration of his homeland, Mahmoud Al-Shaibani presents a breathtaking panorama that sweeps in the mountains and valleys, the plains and seas, and the myriad of different communities that live in this ancient land.His is a remarkable
The Man Who Loved Dogs
Cuban writer Ivan Cardenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him “the man who loved dogs”. The man eventually confesses that he is actually Ramon Mercader, the man who killed Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940, and that
Crossing the Empty Quarter: In the Footsteps of Bertram Thomas
In 1930…”Arabia`s Empty Quarter constituted the broadest expanse of unexplored territory outside the Antarctic continent…” The Explorers` ClubArabia`s vast Rub Al Khali desert is one of the world`s most extreme and inhospitable environments, and in 1930 the race was on to become the first European to cross what is the biggest sand desert on earth.The
Chernobyl Strawberries
How would you make sense of your life if you thought it might end tomorrow? In this captivating and best-selling memoir Vesna Goldsworthy tells the story of herself, her family and her early life in her lost country. There follows marriage, a move to England and a successful media and academic career, then a cancer
Bethlehem: Beautiful Resistance Recipes
A celebration of Palestinian cultural heritage and recent history through cooking and the oral tradition. Gathering the human narratives of inhabitants of Aida Camp, old and young, with traditional recipes and enchanting contemporary photography, Bethlehem, A Culinary Journey paints a picture of a besieged community coming to terms with a torturous history and the existential
A Fine Line
When Judge Larocca is the subject of corruption allegations, Guerrieri goes against his better instincts and takes the case. After all they had been at school and university together. Helped by Annapaola Doria, a motorbike-riding bisexual private detective who keeps a baseball bat to hand for sticky situations, he discovers the judge`s links to the
My Friend Matt And Hena The Whore
A continent of permanent revolution, of marauding rebels and despotic governments, yet one of love and laughter, and compassion: this is the Africa of today. 9-year-old Kimo is starved out of his home village by drought. Desperate for help, he sets out for the big city of Bader in the company of his resourceful friends,
The French in London: From William the Conqueror to Charles de Gaulle
Ever since 1066 there has been a substantial French presence in London. It is now said to be the sixth most populous French city and this book illustrates, explains, and exposes how this came about over more than a 1000 years. Full of individual stories and overlooked details covering a common history, from William the
Athenian Blues
Stratos Gazis hates being called a contract killer. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes problems that are only mentioned in whispers. That very few can fix. Things that people are willing to pay handsomely to get done, without wanting to know about the small stuff – just that the job was carried
Heretics
A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana`s port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become
