Category Archives: Travel Guides
Atlas of Ocean Adventures: A Collection of Natural Wonders, Marine Marvels and Undersea Antics from Across the Globe
Set your spirit of adventure free with this journey to the world’s great oceans, discovering the diversity of life that exists in the deep blue sea. Whether you’re travelling long haul with leatherback turtles across the Pacific, snoozing with sea otters or ice bathing with a walrus, this book celebrates the very prescient topic of
Drink London
The go-to-guide to the top 100 finest bars and pubs in the city, revised and updated with 14 new locations. From rooftop cocktail lounges to low-beamed old inns, from underground speakeasies to the coolest craft beer bars, this is an authoritative yet lively guide to the capital`s thriving drinking scene. London is famous the world
Into The Land Of Dinosaurs
`Into the Land of Dinosaurs` is a layered, touch-and-feel board book for pre-school children that introduces them to dinosaurs and their main characteristics. Through a simple narrative about a baby T-rex who has lost his mum and is searching for her, it shows different dinosaurs and how the main features by which they can be
Far Eastern Fells – Book 2 (Readers Edition)
One name above all others has become associated with walking in the Lake District: Alfred Wainwright, whose seven-volume Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, first published in 1955-66, has become the definitive guidebook. Wainwright`s meticulously hand-drawn maps, diagrams and drawings take walkers up the 214 principal hills and mountains of the Lake District, describing the
Sri Lanka: The Cookbook
Feather-light hoppers, fiery sambols, subtly spiced curries and unique `vada` (fried snacks) come together in this definitive collection of Sri Lanka`s most authentic and vibrant recipes. As Sri Lanka is being rediscovered a travel destination, its varied cuisine is also under the spotlight. As well as absorbing influences from India, the Middle East, Far East
Secret Gardens of East Anglia
The big skies and the extraordinary light of East Anglia make it unlike anywhere else in Britain, and offer the most amazing natural conditions in which to create gardens. The twenty-two gardens selected for Secret Gardens of East Anglia celebrate the culture, beauty and diversity of the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex, and
British Embassies: Their Diplomatic and Architectural History
British Embassies have a special role in our history. They represent our country in bricks and stone and have often expressed – at least in the eyes of foreigners – our national character. Whether they are Lutyens buildings in Washington, grand palaces in Europe, beautiful old colonial buildings in Asia, or secure compounds in the
London Theatres
London is the theatre capital of the world. From world-famous musicals to West End shows, from cutting-edge plays to Shakespeare in its original staging, from outdoor performance to intimate fringe theatre, the range and quality is unsurpassed. Leading theatre critic Michael Coveney invites you on a tour of the forty-five theatres which make the London
Spirit of Place: Whisky Distilleries of Scotland
`Superb regional guide … Shots of the distilleries combine with wonderful landscape photography` Country Life `Mr MacLean serves up dram after dram of useful detail… This is armchair travel at its best` Wall Street Journal A new handbook sized editon of Spirit of Place, a wide-ranging and evocative portrait of Scotland`s distilleries, with text by
Good Together: Drink & Feast with Mr Lyan & Friends
Good food, good drink, good company – that`s the recipe for a good time. Good Together sees Mr Lyan call on his many friends from the world`s best restaurants to share their favourite dishes, and shows how a great feast and delicious cocktails can easily be part of everyone`s lives and social gatherings. The book
Pilgrimage: The Great Pilgrim Routes of Britain and Europe
Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.Ten historic pilgrim routes of Western Europe, inspiration for today`s long distance walker. Pilgrimage in Europe is thriving on a massive scale. In 1990 the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela recorded less than 5000 pilgrims: today that figure is at least 200,000 a year. Author Derry Brabbs`
Wainwright`s Coast to Coast Walk: From St Bees Head to Robin Hood`s Bay
The first fully revised and updated edition of A. Wainwright`s pocket-sized guide to the classic Coast to Coast Walk. From St Bees Head on the Irish Sea by way of the Lake District, the Pennines, Swaledale and the North York Moors and ending at Robin Hood`s Bay on the North Sea, this 190-mile walk has
Secret Houses of the Cotswolds
A personal tour of twenty of the UK`s most beguiling castles, estates, palaces and manor houses in this much-loved area of western England, including Daylesford, Stanway, Sudeley Castle and Hilles House. Author and architectural historian, Jeremy Musson, and Cotswolds-based photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas, offer privileged access to twenty houses, from castles and manor houses, as
London in Fragments: A Mudlark`s Treasures
Mudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in England`s capital. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap. Today`s mudlarks unearth relics of the past from the banks of the Thames which tell stories of Londoners throughout history.
RHS A Nation in Bloom: Celebrating the People, Plants & Places of the Royal Horticultural Society
`Never has the work of the Royal Horticultural Society been more important or more far reaching.` Foreword by Alan Titchmarsh The RHS is the world`s largest gardening charity but what it does and why is little understood and rarely celebrated. From defining new gardening trends at the Chelsea Flower Show, to ranking the best dahlias
Eastern Fells – Book 1 (Readers Edition)
This is the original Pictorial Guide to the Eastern Fells of Lakeland freshly reproduced from Wainwright`s original pages. The Eastern Fells include the greatest single concentrated mass of high ground in Lakeland: a tremendous barrier running north and south, high and steep all along its length, rising to above 3000 feet on Helvellyn – the
Modern Women: 52 Pioneers
Modern Women is a celebration of some of the- influential and inspiring women who have changed the world through their lives, work and actions. From suffragettes to scientists, activists to artists, politicians to pilots and writers to riot grrrls, the women included have all paved the way for gender equality in their own indomitable way.
Southern Fells – Book 4 (Readers Edition)
This is the original Pictorial Guide to the Southern Fells of Lakeland freshly reproduced from Wainwright`s original pages. The Southern Fells include the highest, roughest, grandest fells in Lakeland including the highest mountain in England, Scafell Pike. Wainwright – a fell-walking legend in his own lifetime – knew the terrain and conveyed its grandeur and
Western Fells – Book 7 (Readers Edition)
The Western Fells offer widely diverse scenery and popular resorts such as Buttermere and Wasdale Head. They include fine peaks such as Pillar and Great Gable that rise close to 3,000 feet. There is also the fascinating Haystacks (where Wainwright asked that his ashes be scattered) and valley and lake scenery of the very best
North Western Fells – Book 6 (Readers Edition)
The North Western Fells are bounded by the River Derwent and the River Cocker – an area lauded by Wainwright as first-class fell-walking territory. The ridge walking here is some of the finest in the Lake District, offering views of unsurpassed beauty. There is something for all walkers: steep, high mountains such as Grasmoor, rugged
