Category Archives: Travel Guides
A Swamp Full of Dollars
Nigeria is a country where petroleum prices and polio are both booming, where small villages challenge giant oil companies, and scooter drivers run their own mini-state. The oil-rich Delta region at the heart of it all is, as Peel shows us, a troublespot as hot as the local pepper soup. Through a host of characters,
Afghan Frontier
`The most dangerous place in the world` – Barack Obama. The borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan have become the arena for a global conflict with consequences that defy prediction. “Afghan Frontier” traces the history of this region as a hotly contested battlefield for millennia. At the crossroads of Central Asia, gateway to India and the
Flying Carpet
`I`ve just given myself an airplane and I want you to fly us to all the outlandish places in the world, Turkey, Persia, Paris and – Pasadena. We`re going to fly across deserts, over mountains, rescue imprisoned princesses and fight dragons. We must have the world. We can have the world!` Thirsting for a new
Penguin in Peril
With bare cupboards and hungry bellies, three cats formulate a brilliant plan to steal a penguin to catch fish for them. A hilarious sequence of events unfolds as the penguin makes his escape from his feline foes, becoming mistaken for a nun and a waiter, before finding his way safely home to his aquarium. Meanwhile,
Pictura: A Stroll in London
A Stroll in London by highly regarded graphic artist and illustrator Thomas Flintham is a very imaginatively designed colouring book for children, presented as one large (135x23cm) fold-out concertina panel. On one side is a lovely hotchpotch panorama of London, on the reverse, the capital’s most iconic landmarks: St. Paul’s, The Tower, Houses of Parliament,
Tomislav Tomic`s A Walk Through Paris (Pictura)
Pictura is a stunning range of black-and-white artworks to collect and colour, for ages 9 to 90. In this title from the urban strand, Tomislav Tomic takes us on a journey through glamorous Paris in the early 1900s. There are eight iconic buildings/places to be coloured in: Sacre Coeur, Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees, Grand
Dinosaur World Sticker Book
Each of these fun, interactive bumper-sized sticker books feature intricate images of dinosaurs from the ever-popular artist Maurice Pledger. Read about all of the different types of creatures, then turn to the back of the book where you`ll find lots of stickers to complete the activities by filling in the animal shapes. You can even
How Animals Live – A guide to the Animal World
Animals have cleverly adapted to life all over the planet, from the freezing poles to the hottest, driest deserts. This book explores the extraordinary diversity in animal life, and readers are encouraged to reflect on how a tiny change can have a huge impact on a whole habitat and beyond. The use of novelties and
My Zoo, Make Your Own Model
Every part of Ellen Giggenbach`s innovative model book, including the cover, can be used to create your very own play-zoo with over 40 separate models and a whole menagerie of animals. Will the visitors see the dolphin show, buy an ice cream or help to find a lost baby penguin? You decide in this inspirational
Walk this World
A composite of global cultures, Walk this World celebrates the everyday similarities as well as the exotic differences that exist between cultures around the world. Travel to a new country with every turn of the page, each with new surprises to discover: peep through windows, open doors and delve underground by opening the many lift-flaps
The Lemur`s Tale
A ring-tailed lemur is stowed away on a boat from Madagascar, and eventually ends up in the home of an eccentric but dysfunctional family. His night-time antics cause confusion, as he nibbles on the family`s plants and raids their larder. But he brings great joy once they discover him curled up in a teapot, filling
Great Walls and Linear Barriers
Everyone has heard of the Great Wall of China and knows of Hadrian`s Wall and the other barriers lining stretches of Rome`s imperial frontiers. But Peter Spring`s original new study demonstrates that far from being exceptional, the building of walls and other linear defences was commonplace among the peoples and states of pre-modern era. He
The Definitive Battlefield Guide to the D-Day Normandy Landing Beaches
Already the best-selling English-language guide to the area, universally known as `THE BIBLE`, this is the sixth, completely revised, up-to-date, much expanded edition of the DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO THE D-DAY NORMANDY LANDING BEACHES.Written to the same highly acclaimed formula as all of the other books in this important series of Battlefield Guides (Somme, Ypres, Gallipoli,
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS
Set off with Phileas Fogg and his manservant on a race to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days! Travelling by steamboat, train, and even elephant, the intrepid duo find themselves rescuing a young Indian woman from sacrifice, escaping kidnap, and battling hurricane winds – and all the while, tenacious Detective Fix of Scotland Yard
Carve Her Name with Pride
Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris Iin 1921 to an English motor-car dealer, and a French Mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a Captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Tania, her husband
Moroccan Dreams: Recreating Oriental Myth and Colonial Legacy
Morocco has long been a mythic land, firmly rooted in the European colonial imagination. For more than a century it has been appropriated by travellers, explorers, writers and artists. It is just these images and imaginings that are now being reconstructed for nostalgic consumption. In Moroccan Dreams, Claudio Minca examines this aestheticised re-enactment of the
New Spaces of Exploration
For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. “New Spaces of Exploration” challenges this assumption. Focusing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century, the authors demonstrate how new technologies and changing
Eric
Fans of Shaun Tan will love Eric, this beautifully illustrated addition to his oeuvre, every page of which lives up to his reputation as the producer of bright, bold and tactile children’s books. A story about the importance of accepting those who are different from ourselves, at home or abroad, this book makes the perfect
Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans
The Nabataean Arabs, one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world, are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital – Petra, a magnificent city carved out of the mountains, and one of the most breath-taking achievements of the ancient world. Yet they were famous in their day – Herod the Great
Emma Dodd Slipcase
In Sometimes …a mother elephant lovingly observes her baby and all his foibles, in When …a baby bear watches his Dad and dreams of growing up and in Me …a tiny penguin fears how small he is in the world but learns how big he is to his mother. They are touching, warm, fun and
