The acclaimed history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand accounts 496 pages 17 colour photographs & illustrations Boyd Julia ...

Tracklist A1 Moments Like Switches Written By
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In the aftermath of a devastating earthquake Sarah travels back to her home town with her young son & is forced to face what she fled from years ago Set in the wild beautiful & unreliable landscape of southern New Zealand Emma Timpany's novella is an evocative story of a woman coming to terms with her past & forging a brighter future 180 pages na Timpany Emma ...

A charming & beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel
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A charming & beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel
- for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor Colin Thubron &
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This lovely mug & coaster set is a great gift for jet setters & those who love travelling Made from bone china ...

Since 911 the reader has been inundated with academic volumes about radical Islam the geo-political alliances of Pakistan & the identity of the Taliban What has been lacking is Travels in a Dervish Cloak an affectionate hashish-scented travel book full of humour & delight written by a young Irish foreign correspondent living on his wits on the contacts from his grandmother s address book & with a kidney given to him by his brother Others might have conserved this gift of a life-saving kidney by living a sober & quiet life but it had the opposite affect on Isambard Wilkinson who took to the adventurous life of a Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent like a cat assured of nine lives His rich & wonderfully intimate picture of Pakistan describes the country in all its exuberant colourful contemporary glory It s a place where past empires be they Mughal or Raj continue to shine like old gold beneath the chaotic jigsaw of Baluch Punjabi Sindi & Pashtun peoples not to mention warlords hereditary saints bandit landlords smugglers & party-mad socialites The only way to understand the contradictions is to plunge into the riot of differences & to come out grinning ...

' You will hear it for yourselves & it will surely fill you with wonder' In this selection from Marco Polo's famous travel book the intrepid Venetian describes the customs of India recounts the story of the king who died eighty-four times & explains how to retrieve diamonds from snake-infested caves Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Marco Polo (1254-1324) Polo's Travels are available in Penguin Classics ...

Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore & to the Khanates of Afghanistan & Central Asia in the 1830s spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the ' Great Game' His account of these travels was a bestseller in its day & this brand new edition brings the heady sense of excitement risk & zeal bursting from the pages ...

With the help of a Maratha nobleman Mark Shand buys an elephant named Tara & rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela the world's oldest elephant market From Bhim a drink-racked mahout Shand learned to ride & care for her From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways & with Tara his new companion he fell in love " Travels on my Elephant" is the story of their epic journey across India from packed highways to dusty back roads where communities were unchanged for millennia It is also a memorable touching account of Tara's transformation from scrawny beggar elephant to star attraction & of the romance that developed between her & her owner Mark Shand For what began as an adventurous whim has developed decades later into a life of campaigning to provide vital migratory corridors for these magnificent creatures whose habitat is under constant assault from man ...