Category Archives: Travel Guides
Peoplequake
Wherever we look, population is the driver of the most toxic issues on the political agenda. But the population bomb is being defused. Half the world`s women are having two children or fewer. Within a generation, the world`s population will be falling. And we will all be getting very old. So should we welcome the
The Landgrabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth
What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the plains of Africa, the paddy fields of Southeast Asia, the jungles of the Amazon and the prairies of
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.
Chris Packham – 100 Things That Caught My Eye
Wildlife television presenter and award-winning photographer Chris Packham has travelled the world in his quest for the ultimate image. From the dirt tracks outside Mexico City, to the white light of Antarctica via the dead-ends of Wyoming in the heartland of the United States, Packham has documented all four corners of the world through photography,
In Bear Country
Bears are a symbol of the health of an ecosystem – and the global population is dwindling to the point where only eight different species remain. These creatures have long fascinated us and their influence on us can be traced back to the dawn of human history and our troglodyte homes.Brian Payton, journalist and novelist,
World Global Mapping Political Wall Map X-LARGE PAPER
This is the largest single sheet world map available. The map features political colouring with accurate digital hill shading created from over 80 million spot heights.
Under The Dust
Exploring a boy`s childhood in Barcelona during the Franco dictatorship, “Under the Dust” is based on the autobiographical experience of prize-winning Catalan author Jordi Coca. In period and location – an oppressive late 1940s and early 50s when the dictatorship`s repression was strongly felt at all levels of people`s everyday lives – the novel echoes
In Search of Eden
`As a young man, I walked for a time in paradise.` In the summer of 1977 James Weir came upon a walled garden in the south-east of Turkey that seemed to speak to him of something deep in our collective memory- reading ‘In Search of Eden” will reveal exactly why.`If Eden ever had an earthly
Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii
Susanna Moore cannot remember her first encounter with the sea ‘“ it has always been part of her life. ‘Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii” is a marvelous book detailing how she grew up in Hawai’i in the 1950s in a paradise of colour and light, a five-day voyage away from the US mainland.As a
The Liquid Continent – Volume I – Alexandria
In his ‘Liquid Continent” trilogy, Nicholas Woodsworth combines travel narrative, history and reflection of the essence of life in the Mediterranean.Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels overland around the eastern rim of the sea. Behind the spread of modern apartment blocks , he encounters an older, sophisticated existence – the city of Cleopatra; the city
Pacific Passages – Travelling the South Seas
In ‘Pacific Passages – Travelling the South Seas” travel writer Hans-Christof Wรคchter sails to Vanuatu, Ovalau, Fiji, Rarotonga and the Cook Islands looking to find the real rhythms of the lives of the islands and their inhabitants and discovers that the South Sea islands were never what the Europeans imagined them to be.The first Europeans
The Garden Of Evening Mists
Malaya, 1949, and Yun Ling Teoh, a Cambridge law graduate who`s spent time helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, has returned to the jungle-fringed plantations of her childhood. Herself a scarred prisoner of war survivor, Yun Ling has to battle her hatred of the Japanese when she meets the charismatic Aritomo; owner and curator of
Greenwood Dark – A Traveller`s Poems
Greenwood Dark” is an inspiring collection of 100 poems, all written between 1999 and 2008; Christopher Somerville has been walking, exploring and writing all over the world for 30 years, and these poems are the fruits of that long experience. Read individually, they are a true traveller`s observations of people, places, moods and reflections as
The Liquid Continent – Volume III – Istanbul
This wonderful book is part of Nicholas Woodsworth’s ‘Liquid Continent” trilogy, combining travel narrative, history and a reflection on the essence of life in the Mediterranean.Volume III, the final chapter in the trilogy, sees Woodsworth go to Istanbul. As ever, he takes the road less travelled, through Albania towards the Aegean archipelago, visiting Lesbos and
Alphabet French
An enchanting first alphabet book with carefully chosen words and pictures. The French words start with the same letter of the alphabet as the English. The bright, cheerful illustrations and page-by-page frieze will absorb children with lots of fascinating details For reading aloud, there is a simple pronunciation guide to the French words and letters
English Word Puzzle Book
A colourful, bilingual puzzle book arranged in 14 popular themes including farm, school, colours and clothes. There are handy picture clues on each page and answers at the back – no peeking! Perfect for young language learners.
