` Your letters are a great pleasure. I lap them down with breakfast & they do me more good than tonics, blood capsules or iron jelloids` Lytton Strachey Dora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury, but she lived right at its heart. Known only by her surname, she was the star of her year at the Slade School of Fine Art, but never achieved the fame her early career promised. For over a decade she was the companion of homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, & killed herself, stricken without him, when he died in 1932. She was also a prolific & exuberant correspondent. Carrington was not consciously a pioneer or a feminist, but in her determination to live life according to her own nature
- especially in relation to her work, her passionate friendships & her fluid attitude to sex, gender & sexuality
- she fought battles that remain familiar & urgent today. She was friends with the greatest minds of the day & her correspondence stars a roster of fascinating characters
- Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Rosamund Lehmann, Maynard Keynes to name but a few. Carrington`s Letters introduces the maverick artist & compelling personality to a new generation for the first time with fresh correspondence never before published. Unmediated, passionate, startlingly honest & very playful, reading Carrington`s letters is like having her whisper in your ear & embrace you gleefully.


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Carros de Foc (Chariots of Fire) Hiking Circuit, a five to seven day long hiking route in the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, shown on a 1:25, 000 map from Editorial Alpina. The map, from the publishers of an extensive hiking series for the Spanish Pyrenees, has contours at 20m intervals, relief shading, & vegetation colouring. The route, which

Includes:: sections of the GR-11 long distance path, is clearly highlighted on the map, along with refuges, as well as campsites & other accommodation facilities near in the nearby villages. The map has a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks at 1’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. The accompanying booklet

Includes:: a 16-page section in English, providing brief descriptions of the route, plus contact addresses of the refuges. To see the list of all the maps from Editorial Alpina covering long-distance hiking routes please click on the series link.





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` Must-read...A funny yet tragic tale of a husband & wife`s car journey across the US with Albert the alligator in tow. Yes, really.` Marie Claire A journey of a thousand miles. With an alligator on the back seat. & John Steinbeck as a passenger. This is a tale where everything is true, except the bits that are made up. In 1930s America, the Great Depression made everyone`s horizons smaller, & Elsie Lavender found herself back where she began, in the coalfields of West Virginia. She had just one memento of her halcyon days
- a baby alligator named Albert. Then one day, her husband`s stoical patience snapped & Elsie had to choose between Homer & Albert. She decided that there was only one thing to do: they would carry Albert home to Florida. & so began their odyssey
- a journey like no other, where Elsie, Homer & Albert encountered everything from movie stars & revolutionaries to Ernest Hemingway & hurricanes in their struggle to find love, redemption, & a place to call home. From the bestselling author of Rocket Boys-the basis of the movie October Sky-comes a long-awaited prequel. Big Fish meets The Notebook in this novel about a man, a woman, & their alligator.

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The years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin & Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the great events
- technical & spiritual
- of our lifetime. In this remarkable book, Michael Collins conveys, a very personal way, the drama, beauty, & humour of that adventure. He also traces his development from his first flight experiences in the air force, through his days as a test pilot, to his Apollo 11 space walk, presenting an evocative picture of the joys of flight as well as a new perspective on time, light, & movement from someone who has seen the fragile Earth from the other side of the moon.

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Buckle up for an exuberant ride
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