Category Archives: Travel Guides
The Brick Lane Cookbook
Brick Lane is famous for many things: for being home to the biggest Bangladeshi community in the UK, for its curry houses and Bengali sweet shops, for its graffiti, its long-running market and its beigel shops. Now, its also increasingly well known for its thriving art and fashion scene and the incredible street food available
Fiva
“Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong” is the epic true account from Gordon Stainforth of a near-death experience on a mountain in Norway in 1969. In the summer of 1969, as Apollo 11 was blasting off to the moon, two teenage twin brothers, with only three years` mountaineering experience, set off to climb one of
Madame Mephisto
What would you talk about if you were stuck in a room with a drug dealer for five days? Magda, a Polish immigrant, grows cannabis in underground containers in eastern Poland and ships it to the UK. But her plans change when she has to attend a funeral of a family member and she only
Craft Beer World
Craft Beer World is the must-have companion for anyone who appreciates decent beer. The last few years have seen an explosion in the popularity of craft beers across the globe, with excellent new brews being produced everywhere from Copenhagen to Colorado, Amsterdam to Auckland. With more amazing beers available than ever before, it`s hard to
London Art Deco
New and updated edition featuring an exhaustive collection of London`s Art Deco style from factories and underground stations to theatres and private residences. Contains more than 200 stunning photographs offering a visual journey through London and beyond. The Art Deco style gained prominence at the 1925 Paris Exposition, after which each nation seemed to adapt
A Walk Through Fuerteventura
Fuerteventura is well known to tourists for its beaches and its windsurfing. But there is much more to it than this. This book is a passionate account of the island. It is not a guide book but an authoritative account written by someone who really knows the island. It describes the walk over the mountains
The Kackar – Trekking in Turkey`s Black Sea Mountains
Upcountry’s trekking guide to the Kackar covers 32 trekking routes in Turkey`s Kackar mountains, ranging from half-day walks to multi-day treks and allowing for walkers of varying abilities. You can cross the passes between the granite spires by paved pack-horse routes or walk traditional footpaths between timeless villages and high pastures where hardy locals graze
The St Paul Trail: Turkey`s second long distance walk
This is a brand new edition of the St Paul Trail guidebook, following the saint`s journey from Perge, near Antalya, Turkey to Antioch in Pisidia. This book is the essential guide and map to Turkey`s second long-distance walking route. St Paul Trail consists of about 500km of waymarked walking trail following Roman roads, village paths
The Lycian Way: Turkey`s First Long Distance Walking Route
The Lycian Way is one of the few guides dedicated to Turkey’s popular long-distance walking route, written by walker Kate Clow. The guide covers the 500km long-distance walking route along the coastline and is organized into 29 daily walking stages, allowing walkers to complete the entire distance or to choose individual routes. A double-sided fold-out
France en Velo: The Ultimate Cycle Journey from Channel to Med – St. Malo to Nice
In this beautifully illustrated guide to travelling across France by bike you will discover hidden lanes, stunning gorges, amazing places to eat and stay, plus the best of French cycling culture. This iconic journey of more than 1000 miles takes you through no fewer than 21 of France`s regional departements and into some of the
Prelude To A Certain Midnight
A sex killer haunts the afternoon fog of 1930s London. He is on the prowl, looking for a schoolgirl. This monster, in turn, is being hunted. Detective-Inspector `Dick` Turpin understands the psychology of his prey, but is more adept at finding habitual criminals than sex murderers. So it is up to formidable do-gooder Miss Asta
Only Planet: A Flight-Free Adventure Around the World
In an inspirational tale of global adventure Ed Gillespie takes anything but a plane to circumnavigate the world. Cargo ships to camels, hitch-hiking to hovercrafts. Playing table tennis with heavyweight Ukrainian boxers. Border arrests and drug searches. Communing with a Costa Rican jungle sloth. Illustrated with dramacic photography, Ed`s journey brings to vivid life the
London Hidden Interiors
London Hidden Interiors, a mighty 448-page glossy volume by Philip Davies with photos by Derek Kendall lets us into 180 of the buildings we all queue for every September during the capital’s highly popular Open Day, and a few more always out of bounds.Lavishly illustrated with over 1,700 excellent photos, the book covers a very
Soviet Space Dogs
This book is dedicated to the Soviet Space Dogs, who played a crucial part in the Soviet Space programme. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted the programmes criteria: weighing no more than 7kg, measuring no more than 35cm in length, robust, photogenic and with a calm temperament.
Invisibles
Joel Burns has always believed his father is still alive. His mother Jackie has long been glad to know Gilberto is dead. When a sighting on a news report from Rio de Janeiro suggests Joel might be right, he travels to Brazil determined to find his long-lost father. Nelson, a down-and-out musician guided by the
Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
Chicago, 1947: on a freezing February night, France`s feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir calls up radical resident novelist Nelson Algren, asking him to show her around. After a whirlwind tour of dive bars, cabarets and the police lockup, the pair return to his apartment on Wabansia Avenue. Here, a passion is sparked that will last
London: Independent Coffee Book 2013
London ‘“ Independent Coffee Book by Alex Evans, and Derek Lamberton and published by Vespertine Press, is a pocket guide to the cafรฉs and bars where to enjoy the finest coffee in the capital. Distinguishing between cafรฉs, coffee carts and roasters, for each entry the book features a brief introduction, providing a general feel of
