Category Archives: Travel Guides
Handbook of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises
This outstanding new handbook to whales, dolphins and porpoises is the most comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date guide to these popular mammals. With nearly 1,000 accurate illustrations – complete with detailed annotations pointing out the most significant field marks – this new handbook covers all 90 species and every subspecies in the world.Many of the world`s
London: Second Edition
A brand new edition of a popular classic, London will appeal to the strategic thinker among board game fans. Tasked with rebuilding London in the decades following the great fire, players will juggle building requirements, bank loans and poverty as they strive to realise their vision for the city.The game features a unique mechanic of
The Lost Expedition: A Game of Survival in the Amazon
Number of players: 1-5 Ages: 14+ Playing Time: 30-50 minutes Components: 6 Character cards, 9 Jungle cards, 56 Adventure cards, 2 Reference cards, 2 Playing pieces, 24 Health tokens, 24 Food tokens, 12 Ammo tokens, 2 Expedition leader tokens Legendary explorer Percy Fawcett marched deep into the Amazon in search of El Dorado. He was
Concorde Pocket Manual
First flown in 1969, Concorde was the first supersonic aircraft to go into commercial service in 1976 and made her final flight in 2003. She was operated primarily by British Airways and Air France. British Airways` Concordes made just under 50,000 flights and flew more than 2.5m passengers supersonically. A typical London to New York
HMS Belfast Pocket Manual
A familiar sight on the Thames at London Bridge, HMS Belfast is a Royal Navy light cruiser, launched in March 1938. Belfast was part of the British naval blockade against Germany and from November 1942 escorted Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union and assisted in the destruction of the German warship Scharnhorst. In June 1944
The Sea Devil: The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail
In 1916, a three-masted windjammer bearing Norwegian colours sailed out of a quiet anchorage in Germany, loaded with cargo and apparently bound for Australia. Her true mission was quite different.The ship was, in fact, the SMS Seeadler, commanded by swashbuckling German aristocrat Felix von Luckner. Over an epic voyage, he used cunning and deception to
The Cutty Sark Pocket Manual
Constructed on the Clyde in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, Cutty Sark was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest. Cutty Sark spent just a few years on the tea routes before the opening of the Suez Canal and the increasing use of steamships made clippers
Love in Colour
“Perfection in short story form. So rarely is love expressed this richly, this vividly, or this artfully.” Candice Carty-WilliamsBolu Babalola takes the most beautiful love stories from history and mythology and rewrites them with incredible new detail and vivacity in her debut collection. Focusing on the magical folktales of West Africa, Babalola also reimagines iconic
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D`Oyly Carte family
“For The Gondoliers-themed birthday dinner, the hotel obligingly flooded the courtyard to conjure the Grand Canal of Venice. Dinner was served on a silk-lined floating gondola, real swans were swimming in the water, and as a final flourish, a baby elephant borrowed from London Zoo pulled a five-foot high birthday cake.”In three generations, the D`Oyly
Hunting the Hunters: At War with the Whalers
`As the rest of the world stood by and watched, Laurens risked everything to defend these extraordinary mammals from extinction. A truly powerful and inspiring story.` Susan SarandonLaurens de Groot was a detective for the Dutch police, specializing in organized crime and environmental pollution. He was rapidly promoted through the ranks, but became increasingly disillusioned
The Tower of London Puzzle Book
If you cracked the GHCQ Puzzle Book and tore through the Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book, you must show off your brainteaser abilities with the newest puzzle book from the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers…The Tower of London is one of the world`s most famous landmarks, with its iconic Beefeaters guarding the gates, Crown Jewels
The Last Winter: A Search for Snow and the End of Winter
As the planet warms due to greenhouse gas emissions, winter as we know it is disappearing. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack and in the US alone, snow cover has been reduced by 15-30%. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern
On Fire: My Story of England`s Summer to Remember
“He is the Special One, and I intend to call him that for the rest of his career” Sir Ian Botham, Daily Telegraph”There are not enough superlatives to describe Ben Stokes” Nasser Hussain”The undisputed hero of English cricket” The TimesEarly evening on Sunday 14th July 2019. Lord`s Cricket Ground in London. Something unprecedented had just
The Third Pole: My Everest climb to find the truth about Mallory and Irvine
Veteran climber Mark Synnott never planned on climbing Mount Everest, but a hundred-year mystery lured him into an expedition–and an awesome history of passionate adventure, chilling tragedy, and human aspiration unfolded.On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and “Sandy” Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before.
Ice: Tales from a Disappearing World
The curious and vanishing world of ice in Greenland, told through 24 hours in the life of a polar scientist.`Insightful, lyrical, and personal` – Jon Gertner`Evokes the ice sheet`s magnificence and fragility` – Elizabeth KolbertOne of the least inhabited and most mysterious parts of the world, Greenland is a singular place on Earth from which
A Curious Absence of Chickens: A journal of life, food and recipes from Puglia
`Puglia is a region I wanted to get to know intimately, to understand culture, life, history and geography, reflecting through the prism of the food that`s put on the tables of locals and tourists, too. I`m reminded of my 20-year old self, scribbling in notebooks as I first travelled through Italy`s south, only this time
Greatest British Railway Journeys: Celebrating the greatest journeys from the BBC`s beloved railway travel series
It is now over a decade since the much-loved Great British Railway Journeys series set off on its incredible run discovering the cultural, social and engineering landscape of the United Kingdom through the prism of George Bradshaw`s Handbook to rail travel. Veteran politician and ex cabinet minister Michael Portillo has since presented eleven seasons of
The Battle of Britain
In 1940 Britain was an island under siege. The march of the Nazi war machine had been unrelenting: France and Belgium had quickly fallen and now the British Empire and the Commonwealth stood alone to counter the grave threat. However, their fate would not be decided by armies of millions but by a small band
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
`Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy this book.` Suzannah Lipscomb, author, award-winning historian and broadcaster`Like all the best historians von Tunzelmann uses the
A Killer`s Confession: And a Mother`s Fight for the Truth
A mother`s story behind one of the most dramatic true crime cases in recent history.”I have lived every parent`s worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter`s 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me my beautiful Becky was dead. She had been found buried in a shallow grave
