Category Archives: Travel Guides
Bridge Team Management
An industry standard for passage planning, the guide covers practical coastal and estuarial navigation and bridge organisation for use on both paper and electronic charts. There is detailed information on preparing a navigational plan and navigator’s notebook and ways to monitor progress in ‘safe’ water. Other chapters cover team management, error chains, casualties and causes,
Lakeland Fells: Keswick & the North (25 walks)
Lakeland Fells: Keswick & the North (25 walks) is the Hillside mini guide to walking shorter, concisely described routes of between 3 and 10 miles, through all corners of the Lake District including Keswick, Bassenthwaite Lake, Borrowdale, Caldbeck, Newlands, Thirlmere and Derwentwater.Hillside Great Britain Mini Walking Guides series is a collection of mini guides by
Three By The Sea
In a house by the sea there happily live a dog, a cat and a mouse. Well, happily enough until a stranger knocks on the door one night, offering them each a special free gift. Who is this mysterious salesman blowing into their little world and turning it upside-down? And can their happy home survive
Short History of Laos – The Land Inbetween
Laos, perhaps the least known country in mainland Southeast Asia, stands at the region`s crossroads. This small “land in between” is surrounded by China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma – countries that, in pre-modern times, provided Lao kings with a field for territorial expansion. But more often, Laos has been a bridge between these powerful
A Glass Apart: Irish Single Pot Still Whiskey
“A must read book for any fan of Irish whiskey. At a time when the category is making the mightiest of comebacks Fionnan O`Connor has written a gem of a book, digging deep in to the heart of his country`s whiskey history and telling its story with style and authority. Excellent.” Dominic Roskrow, Founding Director,
The Gardener`s Travel Companion to England: What to See and Where to Stay
There is nothing lovelier than England in June, when it`s in full blossom, when the sun is sinking down behind the hedgerows and the Queen Elizabeth rose, with its palest of pale pink petals, is unfolding into glorious summer bloom. Nothing lifts the spirit more than a meander through an English garden in full floraison.
Father Christmas Needs a Wee – A Festive Counting Book
`Father Christmas needs a wee. He`s been drinking drinks since half past three …` At each different house that he visits Father Christmas drinks and eats all the goodies left out for him. Before long he really, really, really needs a wee. So much so that he even forgets to leave the presents behind. But
Birds of Namibia
Namibia in the ‘Birds of” series from New Holland; a range of pocket-sized photographic guides targeted at both experienced ornithologists and amateur twitchers alike. Designed with practicality in mind, each title in the series has distinctive thumbnail colour tabs outlining each bird family group to enable quick identification. Authoritative text accompanies colour photography, with key
Planes, Trains & Elephants
Whether you`re an explorer or a tourist, the journey often proves to be more exciting than the place you arrive at. Not to mention more alarming, entertaining, spectacular, dangerous or farcical. All of which is pretty closely connected with the mode of transport you`re dependent on – from stubborn mule to ancient plane. Brian Thacker
Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa
This field guide to the trees of Southern Africa covers approximately 900 of the species found in the region. The trees are grouped into sections according to leaf shape, and each section is identified by a line drawing of the “leaf group”. Each species is illustrated by photographs of the diagnostic tree parts, which may
Photographic Guide to Tracks & Tracking
All groups of land animals are presented, including frogs, reptiles, birds and mammals. A special feature is also devoted to insects. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the animal together with diagnostic hand-drawings of the spoor and, in some cases, photographs of droppings and other signs to enable easy identification in the field. The accompanying text
Kin of Place: Essays on New Zealand Writers
The author addresses most of the leading New Zealand literary figures of the last decades of the last century including Allen Curnow, Lauris Edmond, Kendrick Smithyman, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame (two essays), Ian Wedde, Maurice Gee, and the talented younger writer Elizabeth Knox. The book represents a collection of perceptive, readable, opinionated comment on a
Welcome to Everytown
What do the English think? Every country has a dominant set of beliefs and attitudes concerning everything from how to live a good life, how we should organize society, and the roles of the sexes. Yet despite many attempts to define our national character, what might be called the nation`s philosophy has remained largely unexamined.
Dark Sparring
In emDark Sparring/em, Selina Tusitala Marsh combats family loss with all the techniques of poetry, ritual and Thai kickboxing at her disposal. The book and accompanying CD brim with fluid, humming list poems, literary shoutouts and personal elegies, as Marsh takes us through her mother`s diagnosis with cancer and the long journey out the other
Book Thief
It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. By her brother`s graveside, Liesel Meminger`s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger`s Handbook, left there by accident, and it is her
Collins Birds of New Zealand
To aid specific identification, information on bird behaviour, song, nesting, food, habitat and prevalent features is included. 230 subspecies are illustrated in the habitat where they may have been seen, showing seasonal, sexual and juvenile plumage variations.
Mission Survival: Gold of the Gods
Lost in the jungle! Beck Granger is on a trip to Colombia in his school holidays. His anthropologist uncle has taken him along on a visit to Don Rafael de Castillo, a descendent of a great explorer who is claimed to have discovered a lost City of Gold. But the secret of the city died
Mission Survival: Way of the Wolf
Mission: Survival. Location: The Alaskan mountains. Dangers: Blizzards; grizzly bears; white-water rapids. A fatal plane crash. A frozen wilderness. The world`s youngest survival expert is in trouble again…Beck Granger must find help across the mountains – but even if he survives the deadly cold, can he escape the hungry wolf that is on his trail?
