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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: | Griff Rhys Jones |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 127310 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
In the summer of 2002, two profoundly amateur sailors, Griff and Bob, set off in an elderly yacht for Russia, because, on the map, it looked easier than sailing to Cornwall. They took Baines with them...
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
| Author: | Peter Hoeg |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 137446 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow” is a novel that has been translated into countless different languages, and even made into a film starring Juliette Binoche. Yet despite the film’s release, the text...
| Author: | Peter Webb |
| Publisher: | Seafarer Books |
| Catalogue number: | 164790 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Ice Bears and Kotick” is the extraordinary true story of a boat journey that two men made for the fun of it. They rowed and sailed through pack ice, past glaciers and icebergs. They survived whales...
| Author: | Tove Jansson |
| Publisher: | Sort of Books |
| Catalogue number: | 148835 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling "The Summer Book", here is "A Winter Book" collection of some of Tove Jansson's best-loved and most famous stories, taking its cue from over five different...
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 163574 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“Out Stealing Horses” is a beautiful novel, though not in the obvious sense: with its beguiling prose communicating loss and melancholy that even translation cannot tarnish. In 1948, when he is fifteen...
| Publisher: | Peter Owen |
| Catalogue number: | 148051 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas, Arto Paasilinna’s “The Year of the Hare” loses none of its enchanting lightness, and it’s easy to see even in English why other translations (such as the...
| Author: | Helen Dunmore |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 154162 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“House of Orphans” opens in Finland in 1901, when Finland was still part of the Russian Empire. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from Helsinki to a country orphanage. Once...
| Publisher: | Winged Chariot |
| Catalogue number: | 142628 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock |
‘What will you dream about tonight, Sari?’
‘I’ll dream about bears or elk calves.’
With touching observations and poignant moments of self-discovery, this picture book follows a trip taken by a mother...
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At 66 1/2º north the sun never sets on the longest day of the year, yet never rises on the shortest. This is the Arctic Circle, encompassing a suprisingly large part of Europe, including northern Scandinavia, to the east of this the Kola Peninsula in Russia, Greenland to the west and the Norwegian-owned Svalbard archipelago 1,000 miles north of Norway.
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