Category Archives: Travel Guides
A Little Guide to Gardening
A garden can be anywhere – in pots, on a balcony, an allotment or a garden at home or school – and this is the perfect book to get you started.Packed full of simple gardening tips, interesting information, recipes and gorgeous illustrations, learn how to plant, nurture and even eat the things you grow.
Over the Border. The Other East End
In 2005 London was awarded the right to host the Olympic Games, and the central location of this extravaganza was to be Stratford. Overnight, this largely unnoticed part of the metropolis was thrust into the global spotlight. But prior to the arrival of the Olympics, Stratford was far from being an obscure outpost on 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
Countryside Dog Walks: North East Wales
This guidebook gives dog walkers access to 20 of the finest walks in the region of the North East of Wales. With clear information, an introduction for each walk, and simple, easy-to-read maps, it will appeal to all who want to venture out into the countryside with their dogs.
The Marine World: A Natural History of Ocean Life
`The Marine World` is a book for everyone with an interest in the ocean, from the marine biologist or student wanting expert knowledge of a particular group to the naturalist or diver exploring the seashore and beyond. With colour illustrations, line drawings, more than 1,500 colour photographs, and with clear accessible text, this book encompasses
A Sea Monster`s Tale: In Search of the Basking Shark
Colin Speedie`s new book takes us from swashbuckling hunts of giant sharks by reckless individuals with makeshift harpoons, through an age of mass slaughter, to the author`s personal shark-tracking adventures in the name of conservation.There are few marine creatures as spectacular as the Basking Shark. At up to 11 metres in length and seven tonnes
George Washington Wilson: Artist and Photographer
George Washington Wilson was one of Scotland`s leading photographer in Victorian times, particularly in the art of stereo photography. He began his career as a portrait miniature painter, but in the late 1840s was an early adopter of photography, and started offering his clients photographic portraits. Prince Albert commissioned him to photograph the the construction
Running Britain
Having already cycled and swum the length of Britain, endurance adventurer Sean Conway completed his trilogy by running all the way from John O`Groats to Land`s End. Read the awe-inspiring accounts from his journey – which he completed entirely unsupported, sleeping in a tent and carrying all his own equipment.
The Seven Moods of Craft Beer: 350 Classic Modern Beers You Must Try
ADRIAN TIERNY-JONES NAMED BEER WRITER OF THE YEAR 2017 BY THE BRITISH GUILD OF BEER WRITERS A fabulous new pocket guide to the world’s best craft beers by leading authority in which each beer is illustrated with specially commissioned line drawings. This is arguably the most exciting time ever in the world of beer. Craft
Goodbye to Soho
Goodbye to Soho is Clayton Littlewood’s vivid and entertaining non-fiction account of his and his partner’s struggles to keep afloat their designer menswear shop based in London’s Soho. Following on from his award-winning diary Dirty White Boy: Tales of Soho. Littlewood is at it again, watching the hookers, the gangsters, the rent boys and following
Full of Myself (The lLife of Johnny Dawes)
Praise for the man and book from Leo Houlding…”Johnny Dawes is the enigmatic front man of an eclectic band of British climbers who in the mid 1980`s redefined the standards of difficulty and danger in traditional climbing. Introducing the world to the impossible grades of E8 & E9, and laying the foundations of the modern
