Category Archives: Travel Guides
Match a Track: Match 25 Animals to Their Paw Prints
Show off your best animal-tracking skills in this brilliant matching game. The task is to match 25 tracks to their animal owners. Has an elephant just crossed your path or was it an echidna? Can you track down a coyote, make out the trail of a peacock and recognise the paw-print of a panda? Beat
The Short Story of Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes and Techniques
The Short Story of Art is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of art. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to se ctions on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World
The most irresistibly witty and revealing tour of Paris in years…In this enchanting memoir, acclaimed author and Paris resident John Baxter recounts his year-long experience of giving “literary walking tours” through the city. Baxter sets off on the trail of Paris`s legendary artists and writers. Along the way, he tells the city`s history through a
Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed
Learning birdsong is not just a way to become a better bird-spotter. It is tuning in: a way of hearing the soundtrack of the planet earth…Why do birds sing? What are they trying to say? Birdsong is not just about natural history. It is also about our history. We got melody from the birds as
How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher
Look out of the window. See a bird. Enjoy it. Congratulations. You are now a bad birdwatcher. Anyone who has ever gazed up at the sky or stared out of the window knows something about birds. In this funny, inspiring, eye-opening book, Simon Barnes paints a riveting picture of how bird-watching has framed his life
A Plague of Caterpillars: A Return to the African Bush
This very failure, compounded by the plague of caterpillars of the book s title allows Nigel Barley to concentrate on everyday life in Dowayoland and the tattered remnants of an overripe French colonial legacy. Witchcraft fills the Cameroonian air; add an earnest German traveller showing explicit birth-control propaganda to the respectable Dowayos, an interest in
The House on Paradise Street
Athens, 1942 – two sisters divided by politics and tragedy…In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a
An Affair of the Heart
Despite personal tragedy, occupation and civil war, Powell s affair of the heart continued. She returned time and again through the 40s and 50s, and with each visit there was a reconciliation with her idyllic memories, despite the changing reality of Greece. Both with Hunfry and without, she explored remote mountains in the company of
Birds in a Cage
“In the summer of 1940, lying in the sun, I saw a family of redstarts, unconcerned in the affairs of our skeletal multitude, going about their ways in cherry and chestnut trees…” Soon after his arrival at Warburg PoW camp, British army officer John Buxton found an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of
Cut Stones and Crossroads: A Journey in the Two Worlds of Peru
We get to share in his personal discoveries through the humour and good fellowship of the road, full of entertaining misadventures. But there is never any doubt that there is an ultimate purpose to these journeys: a passionate need to bear witness to the truth about the past, after centuries of persecution by an alien
How to be Danish: A Journey to the Cultural Heart of Denmark
Denmark is the country of the moment. Recently named the happiest nation in the world, it`s the motherland of The Bridge, Borgen, and The Killing, and home to Noma, the world`s best restaurant. But though we wear their jumpers and watch their thrillers, how much do we really know about the Danes themselves? Part reportage,
Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico
The Maya of Central America created one of the most dazzling civilizations on this earth, which is often compared to Ancient Greece. The Maya had a delight in creation, expressed in art, architecture, pottery, astronomy, mathematics and mythology, all combined with a deep, metaphysical fascination with time. This civilization seems to have collapsed in the
A Commonplace Killing
London, July 1946. A woman`s body is found in a disused bomb site off the Holloway Road. She is identified as Lillian Frobisher, “a respectable wife and mother” who lived with her family nearby. The police assume that Lillian must have been the victim of a sexual assault; but when the autopsy finds no evidence
On Fiji Islands
In little more than a century, Fiji islanders have made the transition from cannibalism to Christianity, from colony to flourishing self-government, without losing their own culture. As Ronald Wright observes, societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that did, and often used this fact as an excuse to conquer, kill and enslave.
Borderlines: A Journey in Thailand and Burma
In 1986, Charles Nicholl travels through Thailand to learn about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism in the north of the country. But interesting things have a habit of getting in the way. When Nicholl meets Harry, an old French Indochina hand, on the night train north with his tales of Kachin jade and Shan
Airline: Style at 30,000 Feet
This fascinating book examines every aspect of airline style, from the company liveries and interior designs of planes to advertising, haute couture and airborne haute cuisine. Divided into four sections covering fashion, food, interior design and identity, Airline shows how airborne culture has changed since the 1920s. The book spans the conservative to the outrageous,
The Archidoodle: Design, Dream and Draw Buildings
This innovative book is the first to provide a fun, interactive way to learn about architecture. Filled with an array of beautiful and elegant drawings, it poses all manner of architectural challenges for the user: from designing your own skyscraper, to drawing an island house or creating a Constructivist monument, plus many others more. Aimed
Enchanted Forest: An Inky Quest and Colouring Book
This stunning colouring book by Johanna Basford takes readers on a inky quest through an enchanted forest to discover what lies in the castle at its heart. As well as drawings to complete, colour and embellish, there are hidden objects to be found along the way including wild flowers, animals and birds, gems, lanterns, keys
A Ride to Khiva: An Adventure in Central Asia
In the winter of 1875, a young British officer set out across central Asia on an unofficial mission to investigate the latest Russian moves in the Great Game. His goal was the mysterious Central Asian city of Khiva, closed to all European travellers by the Russians following their seizure of it two years earlier. His
So It Goes: Travels in the Aran Isles, Xian and places in between
A collection of Bouvier’s best travel stories, covering: the Aran Isles, lowland Scotland, Islay, Xian in China, Korea and Bouvier’s childhoodWhat makes Nicolas Bouvier such a well-loved travel writer is his exquisite sensitivity to the beauties of life, and his ability to capture those elusive moments in a style that is light, yet pregnant with
