Category Archives: Travel Guides
How To Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
“It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power? The impulse to
Route 66 West Butler Motorcycle Maps
This is THE all American open road motorcycle adventure. Route 66 stretches over 2,200 miles connecting LA and Chicago, and it is the story of early twentieth century America.There are plenty of road maps that will put you on and keep you on Route 66 . . . but there’s more. Butler Maps make maps
Walker`s Britain in a Box: Third Expanded Edition
WALKS FOR EVERYONEMost are easy half-day circular routes, but a few are more challenging. Some are two-day walks on folding four-page cards, ideal for a short walking break.TRANSPARENT SLEEVE PROVIDEDIf it rains, read the card through the transparent plastic sleeve.CHARMING PLACES TO STAYWalks near charming places to stay, some offering onward baggage transport. Combine great
Route 66 East Butler Motorcycle Maps
This is THE all American open road motorcycle adventure. Route 66 stretches over 2,200 miles connecting LA and Chicago, and it is the story of early twentieth century America.There are plenty of road maps that will put you on and keep you on Route 66 . . . but there’s more. Butler Maps make maps
Walker`s Scotland In a Box
Incredible walks through Scotland`s glorious landscape. In this boxed collection of walking cards you`ll find a happy mix of routes around Scotland`s loveliest towns, cities and countryside. Head to the Highlands or beat the streets of Edinburgh, these 35 walking cards are filled with unique half-day circular routes, as well as one and two-day walks.
Doctor Zipp`s Amazing Octo-com
The London Evening Press And Star is a local newspaper holding its own in a time of fast-moving, celebrity-obsessed, click-bait global news. And the unnamed narrator of this book is one of its reporters, an old-school journalist dedicated to his community and his craft. But with every news item there is a bigger, more complex
Night And The City
Harry Fabian is a cockney wide boy trying to make it big in the Soho underworld of the 1930s. He is a Flash Harry in an expensive suit, a chancer operating in a cosmopolitan corner of the city where villains, spivs, prostitutes and strong-arm men thrive. But his ambition and reckless nature are pushing him
A Modest Living, Memoirs Of A Cockney Sikh
Suresh Singh tells the candid and sometimes surprising story of his father Joginder Singh who came to Spitalfields in 1949. Joginder sacrificed a life in the Punjab to work in Britain and send money home, yet he found himself in his element living among the mishmash of people who inhabited the streets around Brick Lane.
The Creeping Plague Of Ghastly Facadism
A humour analysis of facadism in London – why it is happening and what it means – accompanied by a gallery of the most notorious examples guaranteed to induce laughter and horror in equal degree.
Reivers Cycle Routes – between Tynemouth & Maryport
The long-distance Reivers Cycle Routes are two intertwining signed / waymarked bi-directional ‘coast to coast’ cycle routes between the North Sea and the Irish Sea.The original Reivers Cycle Route was created in 1998 eventually becoming NCN Route 10 with interlinking on-road and off-road sections but this soon morphed into a one-size-fits-all route which never worked
Half A World Away
Charming and talented Alex dreams of becoming a professional saxophonist while working long hours in the family bakery. Detlef, lonely, repressed, and a small-time Stasi informer, develops an obsessive love for him. But Alex has eyes only for Nicky, an English woman visiting East Berlin as an au pair. With no natural outlet for his
River Wye Canoe Map 1: Glasbury to Hoarwithy
This is one of two strip maps for anyone wanting to explore the river Wye by canoe. Designed by canoeists for canoeists, it is very much a `hands on` map – waterproof and easy to use whilst paddling down the river – it even floats! It shows all the essential paddling information as clearly as
West of Scotland Sailing Map: A Planning Guide for Yacht Cruising
This second edition, 2018, shows – 8 new marinas, 11 new pontoons & 13 new sets of visitor moorings – also new roads and ferry routes.This high quality topographical map is specially designed to show the Big Picture for the yachtsman planning to cruise in the West of Scotland at a convenient scale of 1:350,000.
Best Canoe Trips in the South of France: A paddling guide to the friendly rivers of the Massif Central
This is the second edition of the popular paddling guidebook, “White Water Massif Central”. -newly researched, completely updated, and given a more focussed, title. It is written for the recreational canoeist, kayaker, or stand up paddle boarder going on holiday to the South of France. Rivers include the famous Gorges du Tarn, Gorges de l`Ardeche,
The Palace Lady`s Summerhouse: And other inside stories from a vanishing Turkey
From Istanbul`s palatial old embassies to its glorious Bosphorus summerhouses, from Ottoman Paris to Ankara`s Art Deco, from rainforest mansions to a mad mosque in the mountains… a diplomat`s wife reveals their secret histories. This book brings together essays by Patricia Daunt written over the past 25 years for Cornucopia Magazine. It concludes with her
Long Standing Ambition: The Story of the First Solo Round Britain Windsurf
If your life unravelled would you sink or swim?Jono Dunnett hit rock bottom. Then he launched into stormy waters to follow his dream – by his own estimation a foolish ambition ‘“ to windsurf round Britain.This powerful account charts the highs and lows of risking all, and the consequences of doing so.Beautifully observed, life-affirming and
The Yorkshire 3 Peaks
The Yorkshire 3 Peaks challenge is on many people`s bucket list, an achievable (but difficult) walk in an accessible part of the country. The fact the area is stunningly beautiful helps!The 3 Peaks book offers a detailed step by step description of the 3 Peaks route.However, there is much more to it than that:- Full
After Leaving The Village
Two women. Two villages. Different destinies. Odeta`s life has shrunk to a daily round of drudgery, running her father`s grocery store in a remote Albanian village. One day a stranger from Tirana walks into the shop and promises her a new career in London.Odeta`s life is about to change, but not in the way she
The Hills of Leicestershire & Rutland: A Guide to Walking
A guide to walking the hills of Leicestershire and Rutland and places to see when you are there. The hills are defined as summits with a drip of 30 metres on all sides. In hill-walking parlance these summits are called TuMPS (Thirty upward Metres Prominence).There are 31 hills in Leicestershire and Rutland that qualify as
