Category Archives: Travel Guides
Safety on Mountains
For new and experienced hill walkers, “Safety on Mountains” is full of advice for hill walkers. Whether planning a short summer walk or a multi-day winter trip, “Safety on Mountains” highlights the essential skills and techniques. Topics covered include: clothing and equipment, hazards, mountain weather, navigation, walking in winter – including axe & crampon use,
50 Great Walks in the Chilterns
These 50 walks have been selected because they represent the best of what the Chilterns have to offer. The book has been put together by a group of talented and highly motivated Chiltern Society volunteers – dedicated walkers with expert local kwledge. The walks vary in length but we hope we`ve given everyone plenty of
Somme 1916-1917 Vol 1
The first of a series of reproductions from the most successful series of battlefield guides produced during the inter war years, this Michelin guide to the Somme battlefield and Anglo-French operations in the region during 1916-17 will prove as relevant and interesting to visitors now as it did when first published. Based on authentic army
The Somme Vol 2
The second Battle of the Somme, Amiens, Mondidier, Compiegne.Illustrated guide to the battlefields (1914 – 1918)
Verdun and the Battle for its Possession
Verdun in the Lorraine region.Verdun is a small city in northeast France, on the banks of the Meuse river. It’s known as the site of the WWI Battle of Verdun. Verdun`s battlefields are marked by museums and memorials, such as the Douaumont Ossuary, with the remains of more than 100,000 soldiers. Northwest of the city
Granta 64 – Wild East
This issue on Russia explores how an old country is finding new ways to think and write. As well as fiction by Russian writers, there is a report on a visit to the once unvisitable Siberia, interviews with the survivors of Stalin`s gulag, and a discussion of the place of vodka in Russian culture.
Granta 67 – Women & Children First
This issue reflects a variety of the extreme individual experience provided by the 20th century. James Hamilton-Paterson recounts his rape by five men in the Libyan desert; Joy Williams decides that her dog should die; Marlon Brando reveals the stupidities of celebrity to Studs Terkel; Andrew Brown describes the death of God in the Church
Australia: The New New World
Granta has dedicated its Summer 2000 issue of the Magazine of New Writing to Australia. The natural beauties of Australia have made it a favourite tourist destination and the millennium Olympic Games have put the country more than ever in the focus of worldwide attention, but how much does the West know about Australians? The
Granta 71 – Shrinks
A collection of essays, both fiction and non-fiction, examining psychiatry from the patient`s couch and the psychiatrist`s chair.
Overreachers – Granta 72
New fiction from Matt Condon. Panos Karnezis, and Olga Tokarczuk with a story on the hiden lives of hotel rooms, the first translation of Poland`s most acclaimed young novelists.
