Category Archives: Travel Guides
Aotearoa: The New Zealand Experience Std
This book aims to present a book for the New Zealand traveller that closely mirrors their experience in New Zealand. Using the best of contemporary digital photography, Aotearoa: The New Zealand Experience showcases both the extraordinary landscapes that draw people to this country, and the fantastic opportunities that visitors have to enjoy themselves and experience
Kingston Past
Kingston may have been the point of crossing for Caesar in his expedition to conquer Britain. It is the town where some Saxon kings were crowned, and it is one of only four royal boroughs in the country. The author describes Kingston`s unusual role in cinema, aircraft manufacture and boat making. However, she does not
Mountain Bike Guide: The Lake District, the Howgills & the Yorkshire Dales
36 circular Mountain Bike routes through the Lake District & the Yorkshire Dales for all abilities and all tastes. Covering some of the regions` most popular areas – Great Gable, Coniston, Helvellyn, the Calf and Arncliffe. Sketch route maps and plenty of photography complement the detailed route descriptions.About this seriesCovering most of the popular outdoor
West Midlands Mountain Bike Guide
Dave Taylor`s mountain biking guide to the West Midlands has 21 circular routes – with sketch maps – to suit all tastes, including the 120 km long West Midlands Bike Route. All routes are within an hours drive of Birmingham.Clear route maps and descriptions make for worry-free days, and each route is graded for length,
Derbyshire & the Peak District Mountain Bike Guide
Tom Windsor`s Derbyshire & Peak District Mountain Bike Guide includes 29 easily accessible, original and legal routes varying between 6 and 38 miles. Each circular route has clear and insightful instructions, a colour map and evocative photography.The guide includes classic routes such as Jacob`s Ladder and Stanage Edge. Together with a wealth of local information
North Yorkshire Moors Mountain Bike Guide
This mountain biking guide to the North Yorkshire Moors contains 22 well-researched and legal routes over open moorland and forests of the North York Moors National Park. All routes are clearly described and illustrated with full-colour maps and evocative photography. The guide caters well for all abilities and weather conditions with most routes having a
South Pennines of West Yorkshire and Lancashire
The South Pennines guide book introduces you to the wilderness and urban trail networks of Kirklees & Calderdale, Airedale & Wharfedale and Lancashire. New riding centres: Stainburn, Healey Nab, Gisburn Forest and Lee Quarry mix freely with classic Pennine riding on London Road, around Rivington Pike and on Ilkley Moor.This guide contains 26 meticulously researched
Seaman`s Guide To Basic Chartwork
Self teaching programme, including the Admiralty Practice Chart Falmouth to Plymouth. Comes with tracings that overlay your work. RYA recommended.
Hampstead Past
The recorded history of Hampstead goes back a thousand years. but it was only in the 18th century, with the first Hampstead Spa, that it became fashionable. Building took place on part of the heath land, but local opposition stopped further exploitation of this picturesque open space favoured by artists and the general public. Hampstead
Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Past
Hammersmith grew up by the river and was intimately connected with Fulham. Shepherds Bush was essentially agricultural, but transformed by the buildings of the White City stadium complex, Famous residents have included William Morris, Feargus O`Connor and the troublesome Queen Caroline, the cast-off consort of George IV. The book contains a rare photograph of the
Twist
Set in the politically charged climate of the Basque Country in the 1980s, Twist relates the disappearance and brutal murder of two ETA militants at the hands of the Spanish army. The novel centers on their friend and fellow activist Diego Lazkano, who, since revealing his comrades to the authorities, has been tormented by guilt.In
Letters from Russia
Translated by Anka MuhlsteinThe Marquis de Custine`s record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world`s most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself,
Incest
The narrator is falling out from a torrential relationship with another woman. Delirious with love and yearning, her thoughts grow increasingly cyclical and wild, until exposing the trauma lying behind her pain. With the intimacy offered by a confession, the narrator embarks on a psychoanalysis of herself, giving the reader entry into her tangled experiences
Pearls On A Branch: Tales from the Arab World Told by Women
While civil war raged in Lebanon, Najla Khoury travelled with a theatre troupe, putting on shows in marginal areas where electricity was a luxury, in air raid shelters, Palestinian refugee camps, and isolated villages. Their plays were largely based on oral tales, and she combed the country in search of stories. Many years later, she
California Road Map Global Graphics
Road map of Central and Southern California with legend. Insets of California mileage and driving times, Los Angeles and vicinity, San Diego and vicinity. On reverse road map of Northern California and inset of the San Francisco Bay area with legend. Street and places of interest index accompanies all maps.
