Miles Morland is an adventurer. He was born in India to a naval father & a dangerously glamorous mother. When his parents divorced, Miles followed his mother to Tehran, which they had to leave in a hurry, & on to Baghdad, which they also had to leave in a hurry after the 1958 revolution. His early years were filled with desert journeys, riots, perilous near-misses, & adventures worthy of Kipling, after which he was sent to England for a `proper` education. Later, following years of shouting down a Wall Street telephone, Miles threw in his job, bought a giant motorbike & set off to discover things in places others did not want to go. Deported at gunpoint from Romania, saved from assassination in Ethiopia by a lucky plane crash, riding an Enfield Bullet through Ooty & following Che over the Andes
- Miles has a knack of finding trouble. Brilliantly observed & told with unique humour, Cobra in the Bath will have you crying with laughter & scared out of your wits.
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When his father dies suddenly, Grant Gordon`s life descends into freefall. Having long harboured an obsession with the British in India, & in particular what they did for recreation, Grant goes to find the golf courses the British built during the Raj & decides to play them. Along the way, he has a golf lesson on the highest golf course in the world, in the mountains of Kashmir; negotiates cobras, peacocks & monkeys in Delhi
- on a course moulded by the British around the ruins of a Mughal emperor`s palace; has a round with Indian Army colonels in the shadow of Everest; gets drenched several times over on the wettest golf course on Earth; &, searches on Tiger Hill for Darjeeling`s lost British golf course. In Agra he tees off in full view of the Taj Mahal, while in Lucknow, the ghosts of the famous siege during the 1857 Mutiny seem to affect his swing. Throughout, he is faced with the challenge of getting his golf clubs to increasingly obscure locations, using an array of quirky transport. As Grant travels across India, he slowly begins to understand the relationship he had with his father.” Cobras in the Rough” is a book about golf but also about fathers & sons, & the ways in which they follow, or refuse to follow, in each other`s footsteps.
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Coburg in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Ahorn, Rödental, Lautertal, Meeder, Neustadt b. Coburg. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Coburg
- Upper Maintal on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75, 000 from the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher
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A warm & funny account of what it is like to live in & run a National Trust house: Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk. When Mary Mackie`s husband became Houseman at Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk she suddenly found herself running one of the most elegant 17th-century houses in East Anglia. During their first year living in the National Trust house she was endlessly running up & down corridors, making visitors welcome, keeping unwelcome visitors at bay, arranging concerts, dinners & vast cleaning programmes. But leavening all the hard work were the exciting discoveries
- hidden staircases, treasures in the attic & an ice house in the woods. COBWEBS & CREAM TEAS reveals the tribulations & excitement that occur in any house open to the public, & it assures us that living in a National Trust house provides only the certainty that life will never be dull, or idle, again.
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From South American coca in the fifth century BC, to Queen Victoria's endorsement of cocaine wine & Freud's use of cocaine in his discoveries, to the discovery of crack in 1983, cocaine has played a very important political, economic & social role. In the US, in one year alone, cocaine-related business costs the best part of $125 billion: cocaine as a commodity has an economic importance that far outweighs its intrinsic value. & now there's a new strand to this story
- the possible discovery of a vaccine. Is this the end of the line for cocaine? In Cocaine, Dominic Streatfeild sets out to discover not the history of organized drug crime, but the story of the drug itself. His research takes him from the arcane reaches of the British Library to the isolation cells of America's most secure prisons; from the crack houses of New York to the jungles of Bolivia & Colombia.
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Cocaine is the world`s most notorious narcotic. It underpins a vast, multi-billion pound underworld with a dark & deadly side. But who really are the shadowy people behind this chilling network? The coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the smugglers, the suppliers, &, ultimately, the dealers who provide for the world`s hundreds of millions of users. Cocaine Confidential goes inside the lives of all these characters to reveal their stories for the first time. Along the way you`ll meet hitmen, pimps, desperate former international footballers, coke barons, mules, hardened traffickers & corrupt cops as the truth is unravelled in a roller coaster ride through this secret world. ...

' It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did
- I got caught.' Caught smuggling
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Stephen Smith`s Cocaine Train is an extremely personal piece of travel writing that takes place in one of the most violent countries on earth, where the cause of death is regularly `massacre`, drink drivers play chicken & kidnap stories pass for dinner party conversation; nine times more dangerous than the United States, Colombia is no place for the nervous traveller. So it is much against his better judgement that, in the summer of 1998, coinciding with a World Cup & a general election, journalist Stephen Smith finds himself boarding the Cocaine Train out of Cali, home of Colombia`s infamous drugs cartel. Its passengers prey to thieves, extortionists & a dozen different varieties of paramilitary, the Cocaine Train is one of the last remnants of a once great railway system, & Smith is riding in it in search of a grandfather he barely knew: Fred Leslie Frost, pioneering railway man, upright citizen & diplomat, with a Colombian mistress & an illegitimate son. As remote from his suburban British origins as it is possible to imagine, the Colombia Smith uncovers on his extraordinary journey is surreally beautiful, unfathomably savage, seedily glamorous & mercilessly corroded by the trade in drugs. ...

First travel map of the valleys Cochamó, Manso & Puelo, an area known for the climing area at La Junta, wild water rivers & the Tagua Tagua private nature park. General map at 1:75, 000 scale, with altitude levels every 50m, hiking trails (distances in km & hours), lodgings, huts, camps etc. Detail map 1:25, 000 of La Junta with climbing & hiking routes & tourist services. Detail map 1:25, 000 of Parque Tagua Tagua with hiking trails (km & hours), huts & attractions. Landscape pictures & drawings of the local fauna. GPS compatible. Map developed with the support of the Institute for Cartography at the Dresden Technical University. ...