Category Archives: Travel Guides
Rats: A Year with New York`s Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Surprisingly funny and compulsively readable, “Rats” is an unlikely account of a year spent in a garbage-strewn alley in lower Manhattan. Sullivan spends the year with a notebook and night-vision goggles, hunting for fabled rat-kings, trapping a rat of his own, and trying (and failing) to conquer his own fear of rats. He meets the
Point of Departure
Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms – travel essay, narrative history, autobiography – but at its finest it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This new series, hailed as `a wonderful idea` by Don DeLillo, both restores to print and introduces for the first
Barrow`s Boys
“Barrows Boy`s” records the history of British exploration in the first half of the 19th century, examining events in the Arctic, Antarctic, Australia and West Africa. Fleming dusts down the surreal and unrepeatable adventures of a host of remarkable individuals. Behind all of the events lies Sir John Barrow, who provided the inspiration, drive and
Desert Divers
Officially about the hold the Sahara has over the western psyche, Sven Lindqvist’s short book continually evokes the starkness, harshness and loneliness experienced there. He also intertwines a memoir of his childhood and youth, remembered while he’s out in the sun-drenched wasteland, as well as examining the tragicomic aspects of colonialism.Lindqvist, who also wrote Exterminate
Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland
“Stone Voices” is Neal Ascherson`s return to his native Scotland. It is an exploration of Scottish identity, but this is no journalistic rumination on the future of that small nation. Instead it weaves together a story of deep time – the time of geology and archaeology, of myth and legend – with the story of
Oc Clarke Bordeaux: A New Look at the World`s Most Famous Wine Region
Refreshingly witty and readable guide to the world`s most famous wine region. Every producer in the world with ambitions to make great red wine still looks to Bordeaux for inspiration and the region is brought to life by Oz with his evocative descriptions and personal anecdotes, accompanied by stunning photographs and maps. Oz turns his
Death in Rome
In Rome, four members of a German family are reunited by chance. A young composer, Siegfried; his estranged father, Freidrich, who held office under the Nazis and is once more making his way in public life, this time as a democratically elected buromaster; Siegfried`s uncle, Judejahn, a unrepentant former SS general; and Judejahn`s renegade son,
Gastronomy of Italy
Gastronomy of Italy – the seminal work on Italian food, first published in the 1990s – is revised and updated and illustrated with new photography. This classic book leaves no stone unturned in its exploration of Italian gastronomy. Anna Del Conte, the doyenne of Italian cooking, defines the country`s regions, ingredients, dishes and techniques for
Bay Of Tigers
An extraordinary account of Pedro Rosa Mendes`s journey across Africa in 1997 – 6000 miles from the west to the east coast, from Angola to Mozambique – on trains with no windows, no doors, no seats, on wrecks of trucks and buses, on boats and motorcycles. In war-torn Angola, a country where the landmines outnumber
My Cool Bike
my cool bike celebrates a love affair with bikes and bike culture. The bicycle is the most popular form of transport on the planet. Cycling is simply ideal for many things and we are now at the dawn of a new golden age of this versatile machine. This book will appeal to all who have
Eurydice Street
Part anthropology, part biography and almost part guidebook, ‘Eurydice Street” brilliantly, light-heartedly and captivatingly tells of author Sofka Zinovieff’s attempts to understand Greece and integrate with its people.Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would return for good to Athens with an expatriate Greek husband
My Cool Allotment
An allotment is one of the best – and cheapest ways – of getting hold of valuable gardening space to grow your own produce, along with being sociable places, great for meeting like-minded people. This stylish book is the fifth title in the highly successful My Cool series and is packed with gorgeous photography and
Desparately Seeking Paradise
Ziauddin Sardar, one of the foremost Muslim intellectuals in Britain, learned the Koran at his mother`s knee in Pakistan. As a young student in London he set out to grasp the meaning of his religion, and, hopefully, to find `paradise`, his quest leading him throughout the Muslim world, from Iran to China to Turkey. Along
Oz Clarke`s Pocket Wine Book 2013
You can`t hold all the wine information you need in your head, but with this handy guide you can be sure it is available whenever you want it. Indispensable as ever, Oz Clarke`s now classic Pocket Wine Book is meticulously updated each year. This is the 21st edition and the book has more information, more
The Real Taste Of Spain
* From the famous Boqueria in Barcelona to the tiny village markets of rural Spain, market life and fresh regional products are at the heart of this book. *”The Real Taste of Spain” focuses on basic ingredients and core principles. * Simple and delicious Spanish recipes. From the famous Boqueria in Barcelona to the tiny
Dinner with Persephone
This volume explores the complicated relationship between the idea of classical Greece and the messy, Mediterranean reality of a country unsure of its place in the world. Modern Greece is the strangest nation in Europe, insisting on its privileged place as the “cradle of democracy”, while offering a less-than-perfect form of democracy to its own
Land of Green Plums
Set in Romania at the height of Ceausescu`s reign of terror, “The Land of Green Plums” tells the story of a group of young students, each of whom has left the impoverished provinces in search of better prospects in the city. It is a profound illustration of a totalitarian state which comes to inhabit every
Rodinsky`s Room
Rodinsky`s world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the thirties. This text weaves together Lichtenstein`s quest for Rodinsky -which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London
Out Of Place: A Memoir
Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late forties and early fifties. This account of his early life reveals the influences that have formed his books, “Orientalism” and “Culture and Imperialism”. Edward Said was born in Jerusalem, and brought up in Cairo, spending every summer in
Night Of Stone
This volume examines how Russia, Ukraine and other territories of the former Soviet Union have coped with more unnecessary death than any other countries on Earth during the 20th century. Two World Wars and one Civil War, state created famines and purges are only the most significant chapters in an unrelenting epic of destruction. The
