Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Bee Garden
Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables. The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive and more pleasant a place it will be. Yet bees are declining rapidly and many people, even if they do not wish to keep bees themselves, are asking what can be
How to Grow Your Own Fruit and Veg
Joe Hashman takes you outdoors and `in amongst it` on the vegetable plot where seeds are sown, plants nurtured, fruits tended and crops harvested. The natural history of the garden is noted, too, and delicious and often unusual recipes supplied. With his guidance – and your gardening – your kitchen garden, vegetable patch or allotment
Grow It, Cook It!
Many crops, including herbs, can be produced in a relatively small space with a little pre-planning and organizing: in containers, on a balcony, and indoors. Herbs are perfect for enhancing the flavour of cooking, treating minor ailments, and preventing colds and flu. Your own back garden will not only produce the best food on the
Plants and Planting Plans for a Bee Garden: How to Design Borders to Attract Bees
For many people gardening is predominantly about plants and choosing the right combination and balance to make beautiful borders. This book will help you achieve this – and more, because it will also help you create an ecologically sound, bee-friendly garden, showing that you can have an aesthetically pleasing garden full of beautiful flowers which
Everyday Thai Cooking
Everyday Thai Cooking brings you the secrets of cooking delicious Thai food straight from Thailand. Author Siripan Akvanich draws on her years of experience of cooking for her restaurant customers in Thailand to enable you to create authentic Thai dishes, ranging from curries and meat and fish dishes to wonderful Thai desserts. With clear instructions
Sinai – The Trekking Guide
Sinai in Trailblazer’s Trekking Guide with detailed trail guides and GPS co-ordinates covering the best in the High Mountain Region (St. Katherine), Wadi Feiran and the Muzeina deserts. Traiblazer’s guides are highly practical, informative and portable guides designed with the adventurous hiker and trekker in mind, and produced by one of the leading outdoor guide-book
The Walkers` Anthology
Almost every author who has ever written has had something to say on the subject of walking. In this anthology, Deborah Manley has drawn on the writings of more than 50 literary figures from around the world – Bill Bryson, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Peter Fleming, Rudyard Kipling, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Eric Newby,
Moroccan Atlas – The Trekking Guide
Moroccan Atlas in Trailblazer’s Trekking Guide series, with 73 detailed trekking maps, showing route times, places to stay and points of interests, including 13 town and village guides with town plans including Marrakech, Imlil, Ouarzazate and Azilal. Traiblazer’s guides are highly practical, informative and portable guides designed with the adventurous hiker and trekker in mind,
The Pornographer of Vienna
The Pornographer of Vienna is the superb debut novel of Lewis Crofts, about one of the great painters of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century painters. Egon Schiele was a passionate and lawless child; he loved painting and he loved his sister Gertrude – in his eyes, nothing else really mattered.At sixteen, driven to
The Railway Anthology
Anthology of short excerpts from the writings of more than 50 famous literary and historical figures on the subject of railways and rail journeys around the world – Bill Bryson, Agatha Christie, William Dalrymple, Peter Fleming, Kenneth Grahame, Rudyard Kipling, Eric Newby, Christopher Portway, Paul Theroux, Colin Thubron and Mark Tully among many others. Brief
Dancing on Ice – A 1930s Arctic Adventure
Dancing on Ice – A 1930s Arctic Adventure is the story of fourteen young men, with barely a shred of experience between them, who travelled to the Arctic and stayed for a year in a journey that was touched by outstanding success as well as hardship and tragedy.Led by Gino Watkins, they charted the east
A Vegetable Gardener`s Year
This book is for vegetable gardeners and nature-lovers everywhere. It is a `grow your own` manual, a recipe book, and a store of fascinating observations about natural history in the garden. The author writes a deeply personal account of the changing year based on his first-hand experience and a real affection for his subjects and
Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden
The Pocket Guide to the Edible Garden takes its readers through the fruit and vegetable gardening year, listing month-by-month the tasks to be done and showing in original hand-drawn illustrations exactly how to do them. It answers those awkward but essential questions regarding how deep, how far apart, how to tend and care, and how
A Good Egg: a year of recipes from an urban hen-keeper
An egg is the simplest and most versatile of ingredients. Nutritious, rich in protein, low in fat, perfect for a quick brunch, essential for baking and key to so many starters, main courses and puddings, there is something magical about the humble egg. Eggs are cheap and available to us all – particularly to those
Reading Latin Epitaphs – A Handbook For Beginners
This compact handbook enables users to quickly and accurately read Latin epitaphs in churches, no matter what their knowledge of the language is. John Parker has reproduced the text of 52 church memorials in Latin, and this edition is illustrated with photographs of eight of the epitaphs, providing explanatory captions that help contextualize each inscription.
