Category Archives: Travel Guides
Blue Guide Budapest
Designed for the traveler who wants to understand more fully what he or she sees. Blue Guides have been published continuously since 1918 and are the most comprehensive travel guides concentrating on history, architecture and art. This guide to Budapest, perhaps the most beautiful of the Central European capitals, covers the city in meticulous detail.
RYA Knots Splices and Ropework Handbook
Although written and illustrated specifically with the boating fraternity in mind, the content of RYA Knots Splices and Ropework is applicable to a much wider readership. Structured to guide everyone from a complete beginner to a seasoned sailor step-by-step through simple knots onto the advances knotting skills required to make a Turk’s Head and Star
Blue Guides Hungary Food Companion
A pocket-book for Hungary holidays, also ideal for at-home reference. Get to know Hungarian cuisine, learn to decipher a menu and know what to order in a restaurant or street market. Complements Blue Guide Budapest as preparation for and an accompaniment to your visit. Comprehensive coverage that goes well beyond goulash, introducing you to some
RYA Boat Buyers` handbook G62
The RYA Boat Buyers’ Handbook is written to assist anyone who has the difficult task of purchasing a vessel, especially if it is for the first time.This book takes you step by step through the complex process, starting with helping you to decide what sort of boat is most suitable for you. It aids you
The White Masai
At once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn and a fine piece of social anthropology, White Masai is a compulsive read. Whilst on holiday Corinne Hoffman fell in love with a Masai warrior. After overcoming all sorts of obstacles she moved into a tiny shack with him and his mother and spent
RYA Start to Race
RYA Start to Race is essential for anyone beginning, or wanting to further their racing experience. Packed with racing scenarios, information and tips this book is a real gem for all budding racing sailors. Written by yachting journalist and highly experienced sailor Jeremy Evans, who is also the author of the RYA Catarmaran Handbook.
Reunion in Barsaloi
Fourteen years after fleeing Kenya with her baby daughter, Corinne returned in the summer of 2004 to meet Lketinga and his family again in their village, Barsaloi. Nervous as she was, and uncertain as to how he would react on seeing her again, she found to her relief that she was welcomed unreservedly by all
RYA Passage Planning (G69)
RYA Passage Planning will provide you with the essential facts and methods that you need for your own journeys. Beginning with a systematic, step-by-step procedure on how to start your passage planning and what factors you should be considering, the book takes you ny way of scenarios through how you might plan a variety of
Back from Africa
Corinne Hoffman describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback.
RYA Day Skipper Handbook – Sail
Becoming a Day Skipper is exciting and opens up many opportunities. This new book provides all the information you need to help you work towards your RYA Day Skipper Sail Certificate and to enjoy cruising in a safe manner.Being a good skipper is not difficult- it requires essential skills, knowledge, experience, patience, good communication and
RYA Yachtmaster handbook (G70)
A handy companion to the RYA Yachtmaster syllabus, this title is essential reading for anyone taking on this course.
Lost Art of Walking
Walking was once the only way to get around but now we just walk to the bus stop, station or car. Or we walk as a lifestyle choice – trekking holidays, charity walks, urban explorations. Geoff Nicholson`s The Lost Art of Walking brings pedestrianism back to the centre of life by musing on his own
Smoothly from Harrow: A Compendium for the London Commuter
The 21st century commuter is a tragic hero. Long-suffering, long-journeying and subject to lengthy delays, he survives through an iron will and by burying his head in a freesheet. Chris Moss`s Smoothly from Harrow takes its title from John Betjeman, the bard of Metro-land, but brings the world of the London commuter up to date
War, Revolution and Society in the Rio De La Plata, 1808-1810
The year 2010 sees the official celebration of the bicentenary of the revolutions in the Ro de la Plata. This book contains the narrative that Thomas Kinder wrote of his voyage to that region in 1808-10 and of his stay in Madeira, Montevideo and Buenos Aires which has never been published nor, apparently, used by
RYA Safety Boat Handbook (G16)
The RYA Safety Boat Handbook aims to provide up to date advice to anyone providing Safety Boat back up and was written to accompany the RYA Safety Boat Course. It outlines all the practical techniques, expert advice and tips needed by Safety Boat crew. The format makes it quick and easy to use and the
Malta – A Travellers` Anthology
Malta – A Travellers` Anthology is a selection of extracts compiled by Deborah Manley, which reveals how generations of writers and observers have recorded their views of Malta and Gozo; its landscapes, its peoples, its capital Valetta and famous harbour, its festas and festivals and catholic identity. Whilst featuring comments from such names as Byron,
