Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Kindness of Strangers: Travel Stories That Make Your Heart Grow
Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richerTravel opens our minds to the world; it helps us to embrace risk and uncertainty, overcome challenges and understand the people we meet and the places we visit. But what happens when we arrive home? How do our experiences shape us?The Kindness of Strangers
Slow Trains to Venice: A Love Letter to Europe
Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a few happy weeks, Chesshyre indulges in the freedom of the tracks. From France (dogged by rail worker strikes), through Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Poland
Once We Were Sisters
This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy of her fortieth birthday her husband, a brilliant and respected surgeon, drives their car off the road and kills her. Devastated, Sheila returns to the country of her
There Are Little Kingdoms
This award-winning story collection summons all the laughter, darkness and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hillwalkers take to the high reaches in pursuit of a saving embrace. A bewildered man steps off a country
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we
Shipwrecks
Introduced by David MitchellIn a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is forced to grow up well before his time. He must learn how to catch fish, how to distil salt, and about all the mysteries of
The Fortunate Brother
When a man is found stabbed and floating beneath the cliffs of the Newfoundland coast, the small outpost of Hampden is swept up in a storm of suspicion and paranoia.Grief-stricken and still struggling to cope with the death of one of their own a year earlier, the troubled Now family are among the first to
Spontaneous
Mara`s senior year is proving to be a lot less exciting than she`d hoped, until the day – KABAM! – Katelyn Ogden explodes during third period. Katelyn is the first, but she won`t be the last senior to explode without warning or explanation. The body count grows and the search is on for a reason,
C3 Isle of Wight
Plans included:Lymington River (1:17 500)River Hamble (1:20 000)Bembridge Harbour (1:20 000)Continuation of Southampton Water (1:45 000)On this 2018 edition the latest depth surveys have been applied. Completed works on the Capital Dredge Programme are included. The latest 2018 racing buoy positions are shown. There has been general updating throughout.
The Hidden Ways: Scotland`s Forgotten Roads
Shortlisted for the 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Outstanding General Travel Themed Book of the YearIn `The Hidden Ways`, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland – its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads – in a bid to understand how
For the Love of London: A Companion
Have you ever wondered…* Why the Queen asks permission to enter the City? * Where in London you are required to drive on the right? * What is the history behind Pearly Kings and Queens? From the garden suburbs to the action-packed centre, the city of London reveals layer upon layerof history, culture, delights –
Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea
Shortlisted for the 2020 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award`s Lonely Planet Debut Travel Writer of the Year”An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore” GuardianIn `Salt On Your Tongue`, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has
For the Love of Running: A Companion
Do you know…Who holds the world record for the fastest marathon run in flip flops, or dressed as a beer can?The stories behind the running legends known as `Grandma` and `The Buckeye Bullet`?Why a race in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is known as the Trail of Tears?Running is the simplest, the most natural, the most wildly liberating
Snowball Oranges: One Mallorcan Winter
I could hardly believe my eyes. A cold mantle of white was rapidly transforming our sunny paradise into a bizarre winterscape of citrus Christmas trees, cotton wool palms and snowball oranges. When the Kerr family leave Scotland to grow oranges in a secluded valley on the island of Mallorca they are surprised to be greeted
One Mallorcan Summer
Having battled and succumbed to the manana pace of rural Mallorca, spring sees Peter Kerr and family relaxing into a supposedly simpler way of life, growing oranges on their little valley farm, Ca`s Mayoral.However, even after the trials, tribulations and triumphs of their initiation, Spain has not yet finished with them. Embarrassing subtleties of the
Life Skills: Stuff You Should Really Know By Now
Could you make a fire?Are you able to sew on a button?Do you know how to negotiate a pay rise?If the answer to any of the above is no, then don`t worry – you`re not alone. Luckily, this book is here to give you a helping hand. Full of useful advice and practical skills that
2100 Kent and Sussex Coasts Chart Atlas – 2021 edition
For this February 2018 edition the latest depth surveys have been applied. The latest wind farm information is included where relevant. There has been general updating throughout.The 2018 edition is now wirobound and tidal stream information is included. Individual sheets of this atlas will no longer be sold separately. However, 1st edition charts Y7 and
C9 Beachy Head to the Isle of Wight
Plans included: Portsmouth, Langstone & Chichester Harbours (1:55,000) Littlehampton (1:13,500) Shoreham Harbour (1:20,000) Brighton Marina (1:8,500) Newhaven (1:16,500) Sovereign Harbour (1:15,000) On this 2013 edition, the latest known depths have been applied throughout the chart, particularly at Shoreham Harbour, Newhaven and Sovereign Harbour.
Y18 The River Medway and Approaches
Includes inset of River Thames Sea Reach (1:55 000) Plans included: Whitton Marine (1:6000) Port Werburgh (1:6000) Gillingham Marina (1:10 000) River Medway Continuation (1:25 000) On this 2016 edition the latest depth surveys have been applied along with general updating throughout. The secondary Yantlet Channel is shown.
Y7 Thames Estuary South
A brand new chart for 2018 covering the Thames Estuary South. This chart is a replica of Imray chart 2100.1. It is printed on water resistant paper.
