Category Archives: Travel Guides
Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie’s ‘The Satanic Verses” is one of those works of arts that suffers from the paradox of being as infamous as it is famous. Yet with all it’s supposed notoriety, there is, and always has been, a fantastic novel at the centre at it’s heart.Winner of the Whitbread Prize, and a fatwa for its
Tough Rides — Brazil: In to the Depths of the Amazon
Join adventurer motorcyclist Ryan Pyle as he spends months exploring the most exciting and remote locations in Brazil. In this book he takes us on the most incredible journey in an effort to better under-stand the stunning and complex country of Brazil. In the end, Ryan completed his circumnavigation of Brazil in sixty days, pushing
Malt Whisky Yearbook: 2016
Whisky enthusiasts all over the world look forward to the Malt Whisky Yearbook every autumn. This 11th edition is again fully revised and packed with new and up-to-date information on more than 300 whisky distilleries from all over the world. Distinguished whisky experts contribute with new features written exclusively for this new edition along with
The Gentle Author`s London Album
Discover more than 600 of the Gentle Author`s favourite pictures of London appearing in print for the first time, setting the wonders of our modern metropolis against the pictorial delights of the ancient city, and celebrating the infinite variety of life in the capital – with a special emphasis upon the East End. Among the
Spitalfields Nippers
Around 1900, photographer Horace Warner took a series of portraits of some of the poorest people in London – creating relaxed, intimate images that gave dignity to his subjects and producing great photography that is without comparison in his era.Only seen by members of Warner`s family for more than a century, almost all of these
London Life
Since 1948, Colin O`Brien has been photographing the life of Londoners, capturing dramatic and affectionate images which speak eloquently of change and continuity in the daily existence of the city and its people.Arranged chronologically and selected from seven decades of work in the capital, LONDON LIFE is a social record of breathtaking expanse and Colin
The Boss of Bethnal Green, Joseph Merceron the Godfather of Regency London
Julian Woodford uncovers the breathtakingly appalling life of Joseph Merceron (1764-1839), gangster and corrupt magistrate, who accumulated enormous wealth while presiding over the creation of the poorest slums in Georgian London.Ruling Spitalfields and Bethnal Green from his base in Brick Lane for half a century, Merceron gave the East End the bad reputation that still
The Gentle Author`s Cries of London
The Gentle Author assembles a choice selection of CRIES OF LONDON, telling the stories of the artists and celebrated traders, and revealing the unexpected social realities contained within these cheap colourful prints produced for the mass market. For centuries, these lively images of familiar hawkers and pedlars have been treasured by Londoners. In the capital,
East End
Perhaps no-one took more photographs in the East End of London in the sixties than John Claridge?”People say life was hard in the East End but I found the living was easy and I loved it.”Collecting together more than two hundred of John Claridge`s stylish and evocative images, this is a candid insider`s portrait of
Cruising the Coral Coast
The classic guide to the East Coast of Australia and the Great Barrier Reef.First published in 1968, this book has reached its eighth edition and remains the only guide to cover the whole of the east coast of Queensland, the Torres Strait and the Great Barrier Reef. The current edition, updated to 2014, includes notes
A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful
A young secular writer`s journey along ancient religious pilgrimage routes in Spain, Japan and Ukraine leads to a surprise family reconciliation in this literary memoir Gideon Lewis-Kraus arrived in free-spirited Berlin from San Francisco as a young writer in search of a place to enjoy life to the fullest, and to forget the pain his
Golfing in the Cape Winelands
One of a series of four mini-guides to the golf courses of the Western Cape Province in a format of a folded map. Each golf club is presented as a separate panel with a course layout and full details, symbols indicating level of green fees and what facilities can be found there (caddies/clubs for hire,
Brick Lane
A beautifully-produced hefty paperback of more than two hundred dramatic black and white photographs of Brick Lane in the East End of London in chronological sequence, telling the story of volatile social change on one of Britain`s most celebrated streets from 1982 until the present day.Phil Maxwell is the photographer of Brick Lane. Over the
Underground Maps Unravelled: Explorations in Information Design
Underground Maps Unravelled: Explorations in Information Design by Maxwell J. Roberts is much more than a book about diagrams of subway, metro or urban railway networks; it deals with the very essence of successful graphic design, expressed as an interaction between the information which needs to be conveyed and the visual discipline required to achieve
20th Century Pub
This book is a culmination of more than a decade looking and thinking about pubs of all kinds. With a huge current interest in craft beer and pubs, this is timely reflection on the various different guises of the English pub throughout the 20th century, from early working pubs, architecturally modern pubs of the 1950s
