Category Archives: Travel Guides
Orchids of Britain and Europe
This is without doubt the most comprehensive field guide to the orchids of Britain and Europe. Every one of the 216 species and 30 subspecies are described and illustrated with superb colour photographs. For each species there is a close up photograph of the flower head and a more distant view showing the whole plant.
Good Bottled Beer Guide
The brand-new edition of the Good Bottled Beer Guide is completely updated to comprehensively cover the growth of British brewing. The British brewing industry has seen unprecedented growth in the last decade with over 1000 breweries in operation in the UK. Inside this new edition, bottled beer expert Jeff Evans showcases 500 of the very
100 Walks in Northumberland
100 walks in Northumberland” is an omnibus of local walks, with 100 route descriptions of circular walks from 3 to 12 miles.About this seriesNeatly laid-out walking guides, with one walk per double-page spread. The walks are mostly short and circular, arranged in ascending order of length. At the top of each entry is a brief
Good Beer Guide 2014
The Good Beer Guide is fully revised and updated each year and features pubs across the United Kingdom that serve the best real ale. Now in its 41st edition, this pub guide is completely independent with listings based entirely on nomination and evaluation by CAMRA members. This means you can be sure that every one
100 Walks in Surrey
About this seriesNeatly laid-out walking guides, with one walk per double-page spread. The walks are mostly short and circular, arranged in ascending order of length. At the top of each entry is a brief summary of the walk including Ordnance Survey map references. There are listings of points of interest and places of refreshment for
The CAMRA Guide to London`s Best Beer, Pubs & Bars
Fancy a pint? CAMRA presents the essential guide to beer drinking in London, completely revised for 2015. London`s Best Beer, Pubs & Bars is packed with detailed maps and easy-to-use listings to help you find the best places to enjoy perfect pints in the capital. Laid out by area, the book will be your companion
100 Walks in West Sussex
About this seriesNeatly laid-out walking guides, with one walk per double-page spread. The walks are mostly short and circular, arranged in ascending order of length. At the top of each entry is a brief summary of the walk including Ordnance Survey map references. There are listings of points of interest and places of refreshment for
100 Walks in Dorset
About this seriesNeatly laid-out walking guides, with one walk per double-page spread. The walks are mostly short and circular, arranged in ascending order of length. At the top of each entry is a brief summary of the walk including Ordnance Survey map references. There are listings of points of interest and places of refreshment for
Great Cycle Routes: The North and South Downs
Great Cycle Routes: The North and South Downs provides a selection of enjoyable on and off road rides in the area, varying length and level of difficulty, and ranging in duration from a leisurely couple of hours to full day excursions. The book features twenty five individually graded routes, each with a factfile and full
Field Guide to Insects of Britain & Europe
This guide will enable the identification of around 1,000 of the more common insects found in the region. The carefully chosen selection represents all insect groups, with a bias towards the more prominent species, so that all the butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets, damselflies, and dragonflies occurring in Britain have been included. Over 700 color photographs show
100 Walks in Warwickshire and West Midlands
About this seriesNeatly laid-out walking guides, with one walk per double-page spread. The walks are mostly short and circular, arranged in ascending order of length. At the top of each entry is a brief summary of the walk including Ordnance Survey map references. There are listings of points of interest and places of refreshment for
100 Walks in Greater London
100 Walks in Greater London offers the leisure walker the opportunity to discover both well-known tourist routes and, more importantly, the lesser known areas of Greater London – the area within the M25 circular around London. These range from historic Tower Bridge, Alexandra Palace, the modern Docklands areas to the green open spaces of Richmond
Poems, 1960-2000
Fleur Adcock is one of Britain`s most accomplished poets. Her poised, ironic poems are tense and tightly controlled as well as shrewdly laconic, and often chilling as she unmasks the deceptions of love or unravels family lives. Disarmingly conversational in style, they are remarkable for their psychological insight and their unsentimental, mischievously casual view of
In Person: 30 Poets Filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce
Thirty poets from around the world read to you in person. This is a new concept in publishing: your own personal poetry festival brought into your home. Each poet reads to you for about ten minutes – up to half a dozen poems chosen from across the range of their work. “In Person” is a
Dragon Talk
After the appearance of Fleur Adcock`s Poems 1960-2000 she wrote no more poems for several years. This cessation coincided with – but was not entirely caused by – her giving up smoking. When poetry returned to her in 2003 it tended towards a sparer, more concentrated style. This new collection continues to reflect her preoccupations
Glass Wings
Fleur Adcock`s title refers to the transparent, glittering wings of some of the species – bees, mosquitoes, dragonflies – celebrated or lamented in a sequence of poems on encounters with arthropods, from the stick insects and crayfish of her native New Zealand to the clothes` moths that infest her London house. There is an elegy
Great British Pubs
Great British Pubs is a practical guide that takes you around the very best public houses in Britain and celebrates the pub as a national institution. Every kind of pub is represented in these pages with categorised listings featuring full-colour photography illustrating a host of excellent pubs from the seaside to the city and from
300 Beers To Try Before You Die
From Belgian fruit beers to hoppy cask ales, small-production microbrews to Czech Republic lagers, this is a personal and comprehensive portfolio of international beers compiled by one of the world`s leading beer writers. In this unique and beautifully illustrated collection, he has distilled decades of beer knowledge into an entertaining and indispensable guide to the
Old London Engravings
Sheep grazing on Lord`s Cricket Ground, frost fairs on the Thames and rural scenes in Highgate and Notting Hill seem strange sights today, but a 17th-century view of Covent Garden is familiar enough to be recognized by any modern Londoner. This collection of images of old London includes more than 200 coloured engravings of the
CAMRA`s South East Pub Walks
CAMRA`s South East Pub Walks is a practical, pocket-sized guide to some of the best pubs and walking in the south eastern corner of England. This guide features walks throughout the English Home Counties which are aimed at both casual walkers and serious hikers, along with details of the region`s heritage and geography. Each route
