Category Archives: Travel Guides
Building Paris
Bruce Marshall`s account of how Paris came to be the most admired city in the world is lavishly illustrated with rare, sometimes unpublished images from Getty Images, Roger- Viollet and other sources. Its accompanied by Marshall`s illuminating text which is always factual and often anecdotal.
Who`s Hiding?
“Dog, Tiger, Hippo, Zebra, Bear, Reindeer, Kangaroo, Lion, Rabbit, Giraffe, Monkey, Bull, Rhino, Pig, Sheep, Hen, Elephant, Cat” Someone is sleeping, someone has horns and someone is hiding! Can you find who it is?
The Tragedy Of The Street Of Flowers
One night at the theatre, Vitor da Silva, a young law graduate, sees a strikingly beautiful woman. Her name is Genoveva. Originally from Madeira, she has lived for many years in Paris. Her rich French husband has died and she is in Lisbon with a view possibly to settling there. Genoveva, however, is not what
West Country Climbs – Rockfax
The summer of 2010, will see the publication of the new Rockfax guidebook – “West Country Climbs” – a major new Rockfax guide to one of the UK`s most celebrated, sunny and diverse climbing regions. The book will be fashioned in Rockfax`s award-winning layout and design, and will be copiously illustrated with action photographs of
Snowdonia: Mountain Walks and Scrambles
This new book by Mark Reeves covers all the best mountain walks and scrambles in and around the Snowdonia area. The coverage is done in full Rockfax style with bigh overview photos, precise route descriptions and detailsed maps. It also has an extensive introduction covering some of the basic skills required for scrambling, route planning
Costa Blanca RockFax
Costa Blanca RockFax is a rock climbing guide to the Costa Blanca area in Spain. With English text and written in the characteristic Rockfax style, this the first Rockfax guidebook dedicated exclusively to the Costa Blanca and the most comprehensive book ever published on sport and trad climbing on Spain`s `white coast` ‘“ weighing in
Dorset: Portland, Swanage, Lulworth
The Dorset Rockfax is now the established source of climbing information for this increasingly popular area. With a huge increase in new climbers coming into the sport from the metropolitan areas of Southern England, this book represents their closest extensive sport climbing area.The fifth edition of the Dorset Rockfax and the biggest Rockfax guidebook yet.
Sportclimbing +
This is the rock climbing instructional book. Until now, instructional books for climbers have taken a largely `negative` approach, concentrating on how to reduce the inherent risks of the sport, and mentioning only in passing the equally important skills required to get to the top. This book represents a watershed in the genre, coming from
The Food Lover`s Companion to Tuscany
The result of a two year labour of love, a readable and comprehensive survey of food in Tuscany. Where to find excellent and unpretentious examples of Italian home cooking and extensive advice on local food markets and suppliers
Gardening & Horticultural Terms
This volume contains French and English gardening and horticultural terms.
Wild Italy
This is an extremely detailed and throughly researched book, whether you are looking for inspiration or whether you want to know more on Italy`s natural heritage.In popular imagination Italy is hardly seen as a wild country at all. Its countryside is the result of man-made shaping and ordering over the centuries. However, there are increadibly
Peak NE Pokketz – Rockfax
“Peak NE Pokketz” is a small compact guidebook covering the best of the north eastern grit crags in the Peak area, including Rivelin and Bamford, the majestic Stanage, the Burbage Valley, and Millstone and the other quarries. This book focuses on routes from Moderate to HVS and manages to pack more than 500 carefully chosen
Peak SE Pokketz – Rockfax
“Peak SE Pokketz” is the first Rockfax guide to the Peak area to include a mix of grit and limestone. The crags included are the grit edges from Froggatt and Curbar to Gardoms and Birchen; Stoney, Horseshoe, and Ravensdale for some low grade limestone. The final section covers the fine crags around Matlock. The book
Pure
Timothy Mo`s first novel in a decade is set within the battle for secession in the Muslim regions of southern Thailand. Pure covers epic expanses of time and is told through narrators who range from fanatical zealots to decorated Oxbridge dons. Everything that Mo`s readers expect abound in this long-awaited novel: versatile style, memorable characters,
Pembroke Rockfax
This is a new edition of the popular guidebook to the magnificent climbing found on the Pembrokeshire Coast in South Wales. The information is presented in the full colour Rockfax style with extensive route descriptions, maps, photo-topos and symbols. The guidebook is enticingly illustrated with many stunning action photographs. This is the 2009, 2nd edition.
