Category Archives: Travel Guides
Lower Wye Valley
A useful, practical and comprehensive illustrated guide to climbing in the Lower Wye Valley, produced by The Climbers’ Club. This volume includes only the five major Lower Wye crags between Chepstow and Tintern. Though labelled Volume One, this is the second to be published (Nov 2007) of a new series of three books covering the
RSPB Nature Reserves
This slim guide details about 170 RSPB nature reserves throughout the UK. Contains information such as opening times, location, travel, facilities available, maps and each reserve`s habitats and other wildlife.
Pembroke Range East ‘“ Vol 3
A completely new and fully revised climbing guide to the Range East section of the Pembrokeshire sea cliffs – the guide is packed with full colour photo-topos, detailed route descriptions and loads of fantastic full colour action shots. Also included with the guide is a 1:15 000 scale Harvey map on waterproof paper of the
Pembroke Range West ‘“ Vol 2
Pembroke Range West – volume 2 – is the last in the definitive series (but by Range West devotees is not viewed as the least). As the name suggests it covers the part of Castlemartin Range extending westwards from Stack Rocks car park.By UK climbing standards this is a `new` climbing area, which in main
Ivereagh Peninsula : An Archaeological Survey of South Kerry
This comprehensive study documents the archaeological richness of the Iveragh Peninsula from the Stone Age to the end of the medieval period. The survey covers a broad range of archaeological field monuments, over 1,500 sites in all. The vast majority are previously unlisted and are described and categorized in separate chapters. Each chapter features a
Rhyming Cockney Slang
Includes the meanings of being all on your jack, using your loaf, having a butchers and what you do when you scapa.
Unseen: London, Paris, New York: Photographs by Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert 1930s-1960s
The first publication to bring together three major twentieth- century photographers – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Dorothy Bohm and Neil Libbert – presenting their artistic responses to three great world cities across three crucial decades. Today, London, Paris and New York are so familiar that it is hard for a modern viewer to imagine them afresh without
Mont Blanc Massif (Vol.I): Selected Climbs
A selection of hut based climbs at both high and low altitude. Many of the popular routes are described in detail. More remote routes are described in less detail, reflecting the fact that these are for the more experienced climber looking to get away from the crowds and able to make his or her own
An Outbreak of Peace – Angola`s Situation of `confusion`
`The colonel talked to me about the women coming back to look for their husbands. What if a woman came back with a child fathered by someone from the other side, would they welcome her,` I asked. He gave me that non-smile. `To accept a woman who is carrying another man`s child – that`s all
Icelandic-English, English-Icelandic Dictionary
Perfect for students or travelers, this dictionary has over 10,000 entries in a concise and easy-to-use format. Gender of Icelandic nouns are given and lists of English irregular plurals and verbs are provided.
The 4000m Peaks of the Alps
The “4000m Peaks of the Alps” provides a practical companion guide to the Alpine 4000ers with detailed description of every worthwhile route from Facile (F) to Difficile (sup) (D+/TD-). As well as the 50 major mountains, every significant subsidiary top is visited by one or more route. In total over 230 routes are described, ranging
De Chirico: The Song of Love
The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball and the head from the classical statue of the Apollo Belvedere gives rise to one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist art: Giorgio de Chirico`s “The Song of Love” (1914). De Chirico made his career in Paris in the years before
