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Cycling Back to Happiness - Adventure on the North Sea Cycle Route
| Author: | Bernie Friend |
| Publisher: | Pen Press Publishers Ltd. |
| Catalogue number: | 167268 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Cycling Back to Happiness” is a hugely entertaining and truly inspirational piece of travel writing, an extremely personal story that will have you hooked from start to finish.
'Don't let your biggest...
| Author: | Steve Haywood |
| Publisher: | Summersdale Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 120406 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
Jolted into action by the arrival of his 50th birthday, Steve Haywood embarked on a country-wide exploration by narrow boat and trusty Triumph Herald to attempt to nail down the essence of what makes...
| Author: | Michael Wood |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Catalogue number: | 92238 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
Michael Wood seeks to explore "The Matter of England", by offering a selection of close-up examinations of English history. Taken at different times and places, these snap shots of history are used...
In Search of The English Eccentric
| Author: | Henry Hemming |
| Publisher: | John Murray |
| Catalogue number: | 166089 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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‘In Search of the English Eccentric’ tells of author Henry Hemming’s year-long journey around England in search of larger-than-life, almost unbelievable characters of a quintessentially...
Left for Dead - The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race
| Author: | Nick Ward |
| Publisher: | A & C Black |
| Catalogue number: | 165752 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This is the true story of Nick Ward’s harrowing time in the tragic Fastnet Race of 1979. The yachting race runs from the Isle of Wight, around Lands End and north-west to Ireland most south-westerly...
| Author: | Josie Dew |
| Publisher: | Time Warner |
| Catalogue number: | 123361 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 2 weeks |
Setting off in a clockwise direction after a Shetland grandmother warns her that she'll end up meeting the devil if she travels anti-clockwise, Josie Dew travels through rain, hail, floods, bitter temperatures...
Wilfred Thesiger: The Life of The Great Explorer
| Author: | Alexander Maitland |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 154012 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
A legend in his own lifetime, the explorer and traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for 60 years in some of the remotest most dangerous places on Earth. His books are widely acclaimed, yet his character...
| Author: | John Simpson |
| Publisher: | Macmillan |
| Catalogue number: | 148361 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood, through which he paints a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s and 50s.
'I have already touched on my childhood in...
| Author: | H.V. Morton |
| Publisher: | Methuen Publishing |
| Catalogue number: | 88314 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
H. V. Morton travels through England by motor car in the 1920s and encounters ruined gothic arches in Glastonbury, farmers bartering for cigars in Norfolk and what now seems like an idyllic way of life...
RSPB Children's Guide to Birdwatching
| Publisher: | A & C Black |
| Catalogue number: | 131806 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This new RSPB-endorsed book is a practical and comprehensive introduction to watching birds, for children aged 8-12 years.
Lavishly illustrated throughout with full-colour photographs and paintings...
| Author: | Jean-Pierre Mohen |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson |
| Catalogue number: | 79679 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
About this series
Extensively illustrated series of historical mythology books covering a variety of topics, from Antarctic exploration and the Aztec Empire to mummies and voodoo. Photographs and many...
The Barefoot Book of Fairy Tales
| Author: | Malachy Doyle |
| Publisher: | Harry N Abrams |
| Catalogue number: | 136360 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Follow a journey to magical and memorable lands with this anthology of classic fairy tales from cultures around the world.
This marvellous collection includes twelve popular and lesser-known fairy tales...
Traveller's History of England
| Publisher: | Windrush Press |
| Catalogue number: | 137078 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
About this series
Concise and accessible historical guides to popular tourist destinations. This series provides a good introductory overview for travellers who want to know more about a destination...
| Author: | Zadie Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 135365 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel on a scrambled, heterogeneous sprawl of mixed-race and immigrant family life in 20th-century gritty London.
It follows the roots and the lives of...
Pies and Prejudice - In Search of the North
| Author: | Stuart Maconie |
| Publisher: | Ebury Press |
| Catalogue number: | 162198 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Pie and Prejudice” is a charming, wise and witty travel book that takes place on our very own shores. A northerner in exile, stateless and confused and hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and...
| Author: | Roger Deakin |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 89049 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Waterlog” was inspired by John Cheever’s classic short story “The Swimmer”; Roger Deakin set out from his moat in Suffolk to swim through the British Isles.
The result of his journey is a maverick...
| Author: | Mark Cocker |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 168047 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Shortlisted for the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, "Crow Country" is Mark Cocker's brilliant description of his journeys in search of crows and ravens of England, birds that obsessed him...
| Author: | P. D. A. Harvey |
| Publisher: | The Public Record Office |
| Catalogue number: | 30148 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The map as we understand it today - a plan, drawn accurately to a defined scale, constructed by triangulation, and showing features by a range of conventional signs - was effectively an invention of...
| Author: | Judith Hurdle |
| Publisher: | RDR Books |
| Catalogue number: | 78497 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Practical advice for travellers wishing to visit many of the places that featured in or influenced Agatha Christie's novels. Also includes a great deal of biographical insight into her life. Part one...
| Author: | Sarah Hartley |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Catalogue number: | 104097 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
This is the story of Phyllis Pearsall, the woman who mapped London's A-Z and founded the Geographer's Map Company. Mapmaking was traditionally a man's world and she took it by storm by creating a map...
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Not since William the Conqueror recorded England in the Domesday Book has there ever been such a record of the country. A record that is so detailed as to show every road, every house, and every tree...
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The Charlie Connelly Interview
When Charlie Connelly came to Stanfords recently to sign copies of his hugely successful Attention All Shipping just prior to the launch of his latest book, In Search of Elvis, James Innes Williams...
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