Category Archives: Travel Guides
Appetite For Puglia
An Appetite for Puglia belongs to the innovative new series An Appetite For’ฆ which aims to help the reader get to know and appreciate a region through its food and the people who produce it. Offering a fresh approach to the enjoyment of a place, it combines interviews and profiles with beautiful, mouthwatering photography.This book
Atlantic Affair
Atlantic Affair consists of three parts. Part One is a description of Otway Waller`s single-handed voyage made in 1930 following the route of his friend and gun-runner Conor O`Brien`s circumnavigation, in which he demonstrated the value of the self-steering system he invented, the first to enable a yacht to run unattended before the wind. It
An Appetite for Lombardy: The People, the Places, the Food
An Appetite for Lombardy is a series of portraits of the most interesting characters behind some of the best food and wine in Lombardy. This book explores not only their cooking but also their stories and views, which are thought ‘“provoking and inspiring.
Meetings With Remarkable Muslims
Meetings with Remarkable Muslims is a collection of personal reminiscences of friendships and chance encounters which have left an indelible mark on the author. Throwing a bridge across the divide, it shows how immeasurably richer our lives are for sharing and understanding different cultural traditions – what a source of inspiration they can be. This
UK Breaks with Bikes
This (A5 size) guidebook to Mountain bike breaks around the United Kingdom has over 100 top rides around the country, specifically in the UK holiday hot spots, as well as the riding hot spots, so you can ride the best trails around whether you use the book to plan a cycling specific trip or you
Bangkok – The Story of a City
A fluent and affectionate portrait not only of the city of Bangkok, known to Thais as ‘the city of angels’, but also of the dynasty and culture that created it. Cutting through confusion and veiled mystery, Waugh unravels the plots, coups, wars, assassinations, invasions and counter-coups of two hundred years of history as if they
The Claude Glass
Set in the Welsh Borders in 1980, The Claude Glass charts an unlikely friendship between two neighbours: Robin, the seven year old son of English hippie sheep farmers, and Andrew, a child so neglected by his impoverished parents that he is left almost mute, seeking solace among the farm dogs. Exploring his parents` semi-derelict farmhouse,
A Winter Book
Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book – a collection of some of Tove Jansson`s best-loved and most famous stories, taking its cue from over five different collections of her work.Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides
The True Deceiver
In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house of an elderly artist in order to persuade her that she needs companionship. But what does she hope to gain by doing this? And who ultimately is deceiving whom? In this portrayal of two women grappling
Travelling Light
This newly translated collection of stories brilliantly evokes the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer. A professor arrives in a beautiful Spanish village only to find that her host has left and she must cope with fractious neighbours alone; a holiday on a Finnish Island is thrown into disarray when a disconcerting young boy arrives;
The Dangerous Journey
A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes and sea where birds fly upside down and wild things threaten to pounce. But she is not alone. Old friends from Moomin Valley – Hemulen, Sniff, Snufkin, Thingummy
Funny Weather
`Funny Weather` is a full-length comic book by one of Britain`s leading environmental cartoonists explaining the scientific principles behind climate change in a fun and accessible way.
The Cloths of Heaven
AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 WOMAN`S HOUR In this assured debut about loneliness and passion in Africa, Sue Eckstein enthrals with a deliciously intricate plot, compelling characters and razor-sharp dialogue. West Africa in the early 1990s. Isabel Redmond is tiring of her iconoclastic husband`s penchant for pendulous black breasts; the High Commissioner and his
Sea Kayak
Gordon Brown is a BCU Level 5 sea coach based on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. He shares his knowledge with you in his own succinct humorous style and very visual approach. In this book, Gordon covers topics of kayaking history, physiology, boat and paddle dynamics, seamanship and navigation, safety and rescue, weather forecasting, caves,
Navigation in the Mountains: Mountain Leader Training Guide Volume 4
Written by one of the best known navigation instructors in the UK this is the definitive and comprehensive `how to navigate` textbook. It covers every aspect of mountain navigation; summer, winter and overseas, using traditional map and compass as well as devices such as GPS and digital software applications. This book is a reference tool
Creeping Up On Auckland
Presents a voyage undertaken by twelve people on a North Sea trawler in 1959, from England to New Zealand with adventures along the way.
Rock Climbing: Mountain Leader Training Handbook Volume 2
This is the official handbook of `the Mountaineering Instructor, Single Pitch, Climbing Wall and Climbing Wall Leading Award Schemes`. Written by one of the best known rock climbing instructors in the UK this is the definitive and comprehensive `how to rock climb` textbook, now in its revised and updated second edition. It covers un-roped bouldering
Rough Passage
In 1934 Commander Graham set off singlehanded from Falmouth in Emanuel, a tiny seven-ton cutter, on a voyage to Labrador. On the passage home in heavy gales, the boom was smashed and the trysail ripped to shreds. Eventually he made Bermuda.
