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Alone In The Forest
£10.99
” The terrifying experience of being alone in the woods is rendered through the eyes of a young Indian boy... A familiar story arc conveyed through traditional art captivates with its freshness & originality.” Starred Review, ” Kirkus Reviews”
” To be read aloud... Evolving slowly from darkness into light, the color scheme matches Musa`s transition from terror into peace.”
- ” Fore Word Reviews”
One day Musa sets off from his village to collect firewood. It is the first time he has ventured out alone. Suddenly he hears a loud noise & becomes very afraid. Was the sound a wild boar? A whole herd of wild boars? Or something even worse?
What happens to Musa & how he learns to deal with his fear is explored in this powerful yet sensitive visual story of the psychology of fear. Typography, book design, contemporary tribal artwork, & narrative combine in this new children`s title from Tara Books. Artwork by the talented Bhajju Shyam, the celebrated Gond folk artist from India, whose previous books include ” The Night Life of Trees” & ” That`s How I See Things.”
US Grade Level Equivalent: 1, US Guided Reading Level: I




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Alone On A Wide Wide Sea
Alone On A Wide Wide
Sea
£5.99
How far would you go to find yourself? The lyrical, life-affirming new novel from the bestselling author of Private Peaceful There were dozens of us on the ship, all up on deck for the leaving of Liverpool, gulls wheeling & crying over our heads, calling good-bye... That is all I remember of Engl&. When six-year-old orphan Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII he loses his sister, his country & everything he knows. Overcoming enormous hardships with fellow orphan Marty, Arthur is finally saved by the extraordinary people he meets & by his talent for boat-design & sailing. Now he has built a special boat for his daughter Allie
- a solo yacht designed to carry her to England in search of his long-lost sister. Will the threads of Arthur`s life finally come together? I was there on the quayside to see Allie take her out for the first time, saw her dancing through the waves, & I knew I`d never built a finer boat.
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Alone on the Ice - The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
Alone On The Ice -
The Greatest Survival
Story In The History
Of Exploration
£20.00
Alone on the Ice by David Roberts is the account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1911 – 1913 & Douglas Mawson’s incredible effort for survival, after falling into a crevasse & making his way back to camp in a desperate solo 30 days trek. Mawson was a lecturer in mineralogy & petrology at the University of Adelaide & served under Shackleton in 1907-1909. In leading the AAE multi research expedition, consisting of weeks of marching & months spent in the hostile territory, he aimed to map Antarctica, a largely unknown land at the time. Extracts from the personal diaries of the crew members reveal the men’s commitment to the mission, despite enduring extreme cold & hunger, in such an isolated place. Their stories are enriched by parallels drawn from Scott, Shackleton & Amundsen experience along the same uncharted regions & illustrated with photographs by Frank Hurley, the official photographer in the team. David Roberts meticulous & extensive research does justice to Douglas Mawson’s & his expedition shining light onto an almost forgotten story & personalities of the age of exploration. Alone in the Ice is an incredible, but true gripping story of adventure, tragedy & most of all of human endurance. ...
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Alone On The Ice: The
Greatest Survival
Story In The
History Of Exploration
£11.99
On 17 January 1913, alone & near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Then Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling & one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had detached from the flesh beneath. On 8 February, he staggered back to base, his features unrecognisably skeletal. Illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley`s Antarctic photographs, this thrilling, almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers & expedition leaders. ...
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Alone On The Wall
Alone On The Wall
£4.99
` Riveting... Honnold is neither crazy nor reckless. Alone on the Wall reveals him to be an utterly unique & extremely appealing young man.` Jon Krakauer A twelve-year-old kid in the audience raised his hand & asked, ` Aren`t you afraid you`re gonna die?` Without missing a beat, Alex shot back, ` We`ve all gotta die sometimes. You might as well go big.` Alex Honnold is 28 years old, & perhaps the world`s best `free solo` climber, scaling impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or support of any kind. There is a purity to Alex`s climbs that is easy to comprehend, but impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed `free soloing` to the razor edge of risk. Half of them are dead. From Yosemite`s famous Half Dome to the frighteningly difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall is structured around Alex`s seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far. These are tales to make your palms sweat & your feet curl with vertigo. Together, they get to the heart of how
- & why
- Alex does what he does. Exciting, uplifting & truly awe-inspiring, Alone on the Wall is a book about the essential truths of risk & reward, & the ability to maintain a singular focus, even in the face of extreme danger.

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Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure
Alone On The Wall:
Alex Honnold And The
Ultimate Limits Of
Adventure
£8.99
` Riveting... Honnold is neither crazy nor reckless. Alone on the Wall reveals him to be an utterly unique & extremely appealing young man.` Jon Krakauer A twelve-year-old kid in the audience raised his hand & asked, ` Aren`t you afraid you`re gonna die?` Without missing a beat, Alex shot back, ` We`ve all gotta die sometimes. You might as well go big.` Alex Honnold is 28 years old, & perhaps the world`s best `free solo` climber, scaling impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or & support of any kind. There is a purity to Alex`s climbs that is easy to comprehend, but impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed `free soloing` to the razor edge of risk. Half of them are dead. From Yosemite`s famous Half Dome to the frighteningly difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall is structured around Alex`s seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far. These are tales to make your palms sweat & your feet curl with vertigo. Together, they get to the heart of how
- & why
- Alex does what he does. Exciting, uplifting & truly awe-inspiring, Alone on the Wall is a book about the essential truths of risk & reward, & the ability to maintain a singular focus, even in the face of extreme danger.

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Alone Time: Four seasons, four cities and the pleasures of solitude
Alone Time: Four
Seasons, Four Cities
And The Pleasures Of
Solitude
£16.99
Travelling with friends & family is usually thought of as a privilege. In theory, anyway. In practice, it`s more often about debating which sights to see, panicking over diminishing phone batteries & bickering over what to eat. Not much joy in that. But alone you can do as you please. You can wander markets, relish silence, go to a park. Go to Paris. Why not? In Alone Time, New York Times travel columnist Stephanie Rosenbloom travels alone in four seasons to four remarkable cities
- Paris, Istanbul, Florence & New York
- exploring the sensory experience of solitude. Along the way she illuminates the psychological arguments for alone time, revealing that whether you recognize it or not, it`s good to be alone now & then. This is a book about the pleasures & benefits of savouring the moment, examining things closely, using all your senses to take in your surroundings, whether travelling to faraway places or walking the streets of your own city. Through on-the-ground observations & anecdotes, & drawing on the thinking of artists, writers & innovators who have cherished solitude, Alone Time lays bare the magic of going solo.

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Alone: Britain,
Churchill, And
Dunkirk: Defeat
Into Victory
£23.99
In an absorbing work peopled with world leaders, generals & ordinary citizens who fought on both sides of the Second World War, Alone brings to resounding life perhaps the most critical year of twentieth-century history. May 1940 was a month like no other, as the German war machine blazed into France while the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line crumbled, & Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in an astonishing political drama as Britain, isolated & alone, faced a triumphant Nazi Germany. Against this vast historical canvas, Michael Korda relates what happened & why, & also tells his own story, that of a six-year-old boy in a glamorous family who would himself be evacuated. Alone is a work that seamlessly weaves a family memoir into an unforgettable account of a political & military disaster redeemed by the evacuation of more than 300, 000 men in four days-surely one of the most heroic episodes of the war. ...
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Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
Alone: Lost Overboard
In The Indian Ocean
£13.99
In April 2013 a global breaking-news story surfaced on social media & in the world press, & rapidly gathered momentum. A South African man had fallen overboard in the night during a storm in remote Indonesian waters, without anyone else on board realising. Eight hours later a frantic search was underway. The incident caught the world`s attention as readers were instantly transported into the terror of the moment
- imagine being left alone, 100 kilometres out to sea in the middle of a storm, watching your friends sail into the distance... Had he been dealt a fraction more bad luck, Brett would have died immediately. According to the experts, he should have died within 10 to 14 hours. But he chose not to die. Instead for 28-&-a-half hours Brett Archibald endured
- the ocean, the elements, the creatures of the deep, & his own inner demons. Alone: 28 Hours Alone in the Indian Oceanis the incredible but true story of what it takes to defy needle-in-a-haystack odds & survive what should have been certain death. Outdoor savvy, astonishing imagination, mental toughness, a refusal to give up hope & a canny rescuer with an unbelievable background ultimately saw him through. Most of all this is a story of the power of the human spirit that defies rational explanation.

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Along Main Lines
Along Main Lines
£25.00
The successful running of Britain`s mainline railways was a great achievement for those operating them, & a great thrill for those travelling on them. Over the years railway photographers have recorded the glamour & excitement of our glorious railway story. Along Main Lines celebrates the most dramatic & best-remembered aspects of Britain`s rail heritage, focusing on the famous main line routes, big city stations, record-breaking locomotives & the renowned express trains. Packed with archive photographs, old postcards, badges & other railwayana, this book is crammed with fascinating material that Atterbury has himself collected from tireless searching at postcard & antique fares & auction sites. Therefore, many of the illustrations are original & previously unpublished. Paul Atterbury offers a rare insight into the main line story all over Britain. Organised regionally, the book

Includes:: major routes, classic trains, important stations in London & elsewhere, railway sheds & works, along with features that highlight forgotten corners of railway history.

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Alone On The Wall: Alex Honnold And The Ultimate Limits Of Adventure

`Riveting...Honnold is neither crazy nor reckless. Alone on the Wall reveals him to be an utterly unique and extremely appealing young man.` Jon Krakauer A twelve-year-old kid in the audience raised his hand and asked, `Aren`t you afraid you`re gonna die?` Without missing a beat, Alex shot back, `We`ve all gotta die sometimes. You might as well go big.` Alex Honnold is 28 years old, and perhaps the world`s best `free solo` climber, scaling impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or and support of any kind. There is a purity to Alex`s climbs that is easy to comprehend, but impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed `free soloing` to the razor edge of risk. Half of them are dead. From Yosemite`s famous Half Dome to the frighteningly
difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall is structured around Alex`s seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far. These are tales to make your palms sweat and your feet curl with vertigo. Together, they get to the heart of how - and why - Alex does what he does.Exciting, uplifting and truly awe-inspiring, Alone on the Wall is a book about the essential truths of risk and reward, and the ability to maintain a singular focus, even in the face of extreme danger.
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` Riveting... Honnold is neither crazy nor reckless. Alone on the Wall reveals him to be an utterly unique & extremely appealing young man.` Jon Krakauer A twelve-year-old kid in the audience raised his hand & asked, ` Aren`t you afraid you`re gonna die?` Without missing a beat, Alex shot back, ` We`ve all gotta die sometimes. You might as well go big.` Alex Honnold is 28 years old, & perhaps the world`s best `free solo` climber, scaling impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or & support of any kind. There is a purity to Alex`s climbs that is easy to comprehend, but impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, only a handful of climbers have pushed `free soloing` to the razor edge of risk. Half of them are dead. From Yosemite`s famous Half Dome to the frighteningly difficult El Sendero Luminoso in Mexico, Alone on the Wall is structured around Alex`s seven most extraordinary climbing achievements so far. These are tales to make your palms sweat & your feet curl with vertigo. Together, they get to the heart of how
- & why
- Alex does what he does. Exciting, uplifting & truly awe-inspiring, Alone on the Wall is a book about the essential truths of risk & reward, & the ability to maintain a singular focus, even in the face of extreme danger.

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Stanfords
Stanfords was established in 1853 and opened their iconic Covent Garden flagship store in 1901. They have become the top retailer of maps, travel books and accessories in the UK and arguably offer the largest selection of maps and travel books worldwide. Famous names such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Ranulph Fiennes and Michael Palin have purchased from Stanfords. They now have a shop in Bristol and both stores together with other venues operate a calendar of events including talks, book signings and exhibitions. As a specialist map retailer, the map selection is comprehensive and includes road maps, street maps and walking maps from worldwide destinations, as well as a selection of world atlases and wall maps. Books include travel guides and travel literature. Stanfords also stock globes, from miniatures made of blue marble to magnificent floor-standing globes. The website features a selection of interesting articles on travel topics.
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