London's streets built up over more than two thousand years are a maze of history cultures & stories In his fantastically detailed maps of the city Stephen Walter converts the densely packed streets into a tangle of insightful yet humorous words & symbols As The Guardian notes "the features Walter selects in a map are by turns funny crass touching burlesque murderous & uncanny" Jokingly dismissing neighboring cities the artist reimagines London as an insular body of land surrounded by water The book

Includes:: posters of all 33 London boroughs that can be pulled out framed & displayed & a further poster contains a key to the many symbols used by the artist to help readers navigate their way through the maps Walter's cartographic creations have a cult following & his books enable a wider audience to immerse themselves in his personal vision that celebrates the art of mapmaking & pokes intelligent fun at the city he calls home

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Amihan lives on Culion Island where some of the inhabitants
- including her mother
- have leprosy Ami loves her home
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It is 1908 & Sir Antony Ross (Donald Sinden) from London has co-ordinated a team of explorers to go looking for his missing son in the Arctic Circle The group&s expert is John Ivarson (David Hartman) a professor of Nordic history On their voyage they stumble into uncharted land
- a mysterious valley next to a huge volcano which they discover is a lost Viking kingdom
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They don&t want you to know what you are Lincoln Six-Echo (Mc Gregor) is a resident of a seemingly utopian but contained facility in the mid 21st Century Like all the inhabitants of this carefully controlled environment Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to & The Island&
- reportedly the last uncontaminated spot on the planet
- until he makes a terrible discovery that everything about his existence is a lie & that he is actually more valuable dead than alive Together with a beautiful fellow resident named Jordan Two-Delta (Johansson) Lincoln makes a daring escape to the outside world he&s never known Now with the forces of the institute that once housed them relentlessly hunting them down Lincoln & Jordan engage in a desperate race for their lives Actors Ewan Mc Gregor Scarlett Johansson Djimon Hounsou Sean Bean Steve Buscemi Michael Clarke Duncan Ethan Phillips Brian Stepanek Noa Tishby & Siobhan Flynn Director Michael Bay Certificate 12 years & over Year 2005 Languages English Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish Subtitles English ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 2 hours & 7 minutes (approx)

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The Island is the million-copy No 1 bestseller & winner of Richard & Judy's Summer Read 2006 from Victoria Hislop From the thirties to the present day it is a tale of four generations rent by war illicit love violence & leprosy A beautiful 10th anniversary paperback edition that

Includes:: a new essay by Victoria Hislop on the impact of this million-copy bestseller This was not the start of a short trip to deliver supplies It was the beginning of a one-way journey to start a new life Life on a leper colony Life on Spinalonga Fifty years later making a life-changing journey of her own Alexis Fielding feels the pull of the abandoned island A distant shadow off the coast of Crete she knows it holds the secrets to her mother's past buried for so long but surely not forgotten Acclaim for The Island' Passionately engaged with its subject meticulously researched' The Sunday Times' Hislop carefully evokes the lives of Cretans between the wars & during German occupation but most commendable is her compassionate portrayal of the outcasts' Guardian' Vivid moving & absorbing' Observer

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Funny warm & beautifully written
- I loved it MILLY JOHNSON Can one woman's marriage survive her best friend's divorce? Veronica
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Life on the remote island of Papavray in the 1970s was a world away from the author's urban existence in the south of England & this peaceful environment was just what she was looking for This title offers an account of community life on a small island in a bygone era 352 pages Mac Leod Mary J ...

The Island of Adventure is the first thrilling instalment in the Adventure series by Enid Blyton one of the best-loved children's writers of all time For Philip Dinah Lucy-Ann Jack & Kiki the parrot the summer holidays in Cornwall are everything they'd hoped for Until they begin to realize that something very sinister is taking place on the mysterious Isle of Gloom
- where a dangerous adventure awaits them in the abandoned copper mines & secret tunnels beneath the sea
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The hunter becomes the hunted in The Island of Doctor Lucky In this tropical spin on Kill Doctor Lucky you&re still competing to kill the old man but this time you picked a dangerous place to do it Isla Fortuna his mysterious tropical island You can still attempt murder the old fashioned way using a weapon when no one can see you or you can take advantage of the new hazard cards to hit him from anywhere else on the map! While hazards aren&t usually as strong as a murder attempt they give you faster movement for the rest of the game What&s more you can also throw hazards at players! Dodge hazards like the fire pit the hunting snare & the hammerhead crabs as you navigate the perilous regions of Isla Fortuna Find the old man alone & kill him with whatever you can find the shark tooth the elephant gun the bad dates or (if you must) your bare hands Every murder attempt makes you stronger & if you play your cards right you can kill Doctor Lucky! Players 2-8 Playing time 40 mins Ages 12 ...

' The creatures I had seen were not men had never been men They were animals humanised animals' A shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island the guest of a notorious scientist Doctor Moreau Disturbed by the cries of animals in pain & by his encounters with half-bestial creatures Edward slowly realises his danger & the extremes of the Doctor's experiments Saturated in pain & disgust suffused with grotesque & often unbearable images of torture & bodily mutilation The Island of Doctor Moreau is unquestionably a shocking novel It is also a serious & highly knowledgeable philosophical engagement with Wells's times with their climate of scientific openness & advancement but also their anxieties about the ethical nature of scientific discoveries & their implications for religion Darryl Jones's introduction places the book in both its scientific & literary context; with the Origin of Species & Gulliver's Travels & argues that The Island of Doctor Moreau is like all of Wells's best fiction is fundamentally a novel of ideas ...