New in Stock - April 2008

At Stanfords we’re always receiving new stock, whether it’s the recent edition of your favourite guidebook packed full of the latest information and things to do or a new map from our expert international suppliers, opening roads to new places. It may be a new edition of a classic travel tale or the latest fictional masterpiece. Whatever it is, we’ve selected the best of our new arrivals so that this page promises to give you a whole new view on the world.

Excellent new title from the publishers specialising in maps of Tanzania and its protected areas: Kilimanjaro National Park and the surrounding area, extending south to Moshi and showing access to the park through all its gates. The map has contours at 100m intervals and indicates various types of vegetation and terrain. The peak of Kibo is also shown as an inset at 1:50,000 with contours at 50m intervals.

Kilimanjaro National Park
£13.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

The first ever full guidebook on both Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the People's Republic of Congo (PRC) in well over a decade, the Bradt guide provides full coverage of the major cities and national parks of the two countries.

Congo
£15.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Accompanying the recent BBC series, here is the lavish book of Around the World in 80 Gardens. BBC Gardener’s World presenter, Observer gardening columnist & celebrated gardening author Monty Don explores the full range of gardens in all habitats, climates and cultures across the globe. Here are 80 gardens large and small, from the practical to the ornamental, the wild to the perfectly manicured.

Around the World in 80 Gardens
£20.00 Not available

Thijs Heslenfeld’s Cold - Sailing to Antarctica is a truly unique book here at Stanfords, a personal journey recorded in both photography and print that will captivate and inspire. Heslenfeld wanted true adventure. He boarded the Dutch barque Europa - not for a holiday, but for a journey of discovery to some of the loneliest, coldest and most beautiful places on earth.

Cold
£24.50 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

From Bangkok to Bogotà, Smile When You’re Lying is a hilarious behind-the-brochures tour of picture-perfect locales, dangerous destinations, and overrated hellholes from a guy who knows the truth about travel. Chuck Thompson has spent more than a decade traipsing through countries across the globe, and he’s had enough of returning home from assignments and leaving the most interesting stories on the editing-room floor...

Smile When You're Lying - confessions of a rogue travel writer
£7.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

This is one of the titles in a series of large, attractive topographic maps with contours at 100m intervals. Spot heights and trigonometric points are marked and physical features shown include moraine, snow fields, rock outcrops, coastline with flat foreshore, etc.

Svalbard 3
£27.95 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

This new edition of the Times Reference Atlas of the World has been fully revised to bring all the maps and geographical information completely up to date. As with its larger sibling the Comprehensive, it offers great authority, outstanding quality and attention to detail.

The Times Reference Atlas of the World
£30.00 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

We have an exciting choice of three delightful new notebooks brought to us by the Katy & June Company all the way from Korea. A wide-ruled soft cover notebook with margins, from the Magic Note series, with cute, fun cover art and small illustrations from Magic Soup. Choose from Day Dreaming Titta, Femme Fatale Shaa or Mayo in Green Dream.

Day Dreaming Titta - Magic Soup Notebook
£2.98 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

In Adventures in Architecture Dan Cruickshank, of BBC TV fame, tells the story of architecture in all its diversity, looking at 40 buildings that have impressed, astonished or delighted us or changed our perception of the world.

Don't miss our event with Dan Cruickshank on 29th April. See the event listing for details!

Adventures in Architecture
£20.00 Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days

A4 format, paperback atlas with additional maps of selected popular tourist region, 20 street plans and introductory pages on general geography of the 16 countries wholly or partially covered by it. The road mapping is presented on 108 pages at 1:1,500,000 covering Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and all countries to the south including the southern third of the Democratic Rep. of Congo.

Africa: Southern & Eastern Africa Road Atlas
£17.95 Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 2 - 3 weeks

Indiana Jones fans and adventure lovers alike will be thrilled with this shoulder bag. Where Indiana kept ancient artifacts, you will find room for tickets and passport, SLR camera, water bottle, guide books and more. Use the compartments underneath the buttoned-down flap to keep your contents zipped away safely into dividers.

Indiana Shoulder Bag
£19.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

The latest edition of Lonely Planet's guide to Italy - one of the bestselling guides from these market-leading publishers. The guides are predominantly practical in content and aimed at independent travellers. Frank and informal in style, with a layout that makes for exceptional ease of use, these guides cover an extensive range of sights of interest, activities, accommodation and restaurants.

Italy
£15.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Henry Morton Stanley is arguably Britain’s greatest land explorer of all time. His character though, is held in an entirely different regard - today he is remembered as a cruel imperialist in Africa, and as an American Journalist who said: “Dr Livingstone, I presume?”. In this compelling biography, Tim Jeal reveals the truth about Stanley. Grab our signed copies of Stanley while you can!

Stanley
£9.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Stealing Water tells the tale of author Tim Ecott’s childhood in apartheid Johannesburg in the 1970s; a captivating and, given the situation, surprisingly funny account of an Irish emigré family finding themselves bankrupt in a slum suburb, living a poor, criminal and - quite literally - underground life.

Stealing Water
£16.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

The name of every Parisian metro station tells a story; in Metrostop Paris, Gregor Dallas recounts a series of extraordinary but true tales about the city as he leads his readers around the metro. Both the armchair traveller and the visitor will enjoy an illuminating journey in the company of a compelling storyteller and veteran of the city.

Metrostop Paris
£16.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours

Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Lloyd Jones's Mister Pip is an unforgettable tale of survival by story; a superb piece of writing that will both captivate and inspire. Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific. War is encroaching from the other end of the island and the island's only white man, Pop Eye, aka Mr Watts, explains he will introduce the children to Mr Dickens...

Mister Pip
£7.99 In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours