Category Archives: Travel Guides
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
Rose Petal Jam – Recipes and Stories from a summer in Poland
Beata Zatorska learned to make pierogi and other Polish recipes in her grandmother`s farmhouse kitchen, in the remote village in the foothills of the Karkanosze mountains where she grew up. When she returned years later her beloved grandmother was gone, but she found her handwritten recipes for preparing traditional Polish dishes, and for preserving the
The Somme Fir Tree Aerial Map
A contemporary map of the area of the Somme battlefields in 1916 created by cartographer and artist Richard Chandler, with an overprint indicating the two front lines, various places of interest and the cemeteries from World War I.The map covers an area between Albert and Bapaume, showing present day road network for access to the
Ypres Salient Fir Tree Aerial Map
Following on from the popular Somme Map, Richard Chandler has produced a WW1 Battlefield Aerial Map of the Ypres Salient. Richards hand painted, yet accurate portrayal of the landscape enables the user to gain an instant appreciation of the terrain that was the scene of 4 years bitter fighting around the town of Ypres, Belgium.Battle
The Adventure Map of Ireland
Ireland East in a series of four road maps at 1:250,000 covering both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, with detailed road classification, altitude colouring and tourist information, published by OSI, the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, with the northern sheet produced in cooperation with the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.Topography of the island is
9 Out of 10 Climbers Make the Same Mistakes
9 out of 10 climbers make the same mistakes is a guide for all those self-coached climbers stuck in the same old ruts that prevent them improving their climbing techniques. Some problems are age-old ‘“ motivation, time management, and not being able to analyse and correct their own basic technical or tactical errors. But the
Walk Ullswater & Patterdale
In many ways the Ullswater and Patterdale region provides some of the best and most varied walks in the Lake District. This famous, long and dog-legged valley, is at the heart of a superlative and diverse landscape. From the high adventures on Helvelly`s Striding Edge to the gentle beauty of Ullswater`s shores, the walking here
The Angel and the Cuckoo
Paul Auster, Ian McEwan and Don DeLillo all know that the city is a place of absurdity, and each of them have played with the form of their novels to accentuate and clarify the absurdities that city-dwellers face on a daily basis. Yet before any of them had their first novel published Gerald Kersh had
Being Dead is Bad for Business
A skinny Jewish kid from Philadelphia training to fight and likely die in the U.S. invasion of Japan in 1945, Stanley Weiss came home to the death of his loving but weak father, who left his mother penniless. Vowing on the spot not to let his insecurities limit him as they had his father, Weiss
The Long Haul
The Long Haul is Alex Hibbert’s account of his unsupported voyage, across the icecap to the Arctic coast of Greenland. Hibbert, and his expedition partner George Bullard, undertook four months, man-hauling 430lb sledges over 1,374 miles – further than any previous unsupported polar undertaking.Hibbert had devised an epic plan, with the conscious effort to undertake
Ring Of Bright Water
Hailed a masterpiece when it was first published, the story of Gavin Maxwell`s life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of the most lyrical, moving descriptions of a man`s relationship with the natural world. “One of the outstanding wildlife books of all time.”-New York Herald Tribune First published 1960 by
