Hip Hotels London focusses uniquely on the world's most sophisticated cities. In a smaller, more easily portable format than the standard Hip Hotels style, these beautifully designed & lavishly produced books offer up a breathtaking selection of destination hotels. Whatever your taste, whatever your budget, & whether you are travelling for business or pleasure, Hip Hotels will never fail to inspire. ...

The Orient has held sway over the Western imagination since the days of Marco Polo & Genghis Khan. & that remains true in the 21st century, even if the world east of Istanbul is today a very different place, where potent symbols of age-old cultures exist alongside bold expressions of modernity & futuristic style. These are some of the most extraordinary Hip Hotels yet. Live like a maharaja
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- in the Umed Bhawan Palace in Rajasthan, a splendid art deco fantasy designed between 1929 & 1932. Or relax in a guest villa of King Sihanouk, now the setting for Cambodia's sophisticated new Aman hotel. One of the most remarkable projects here is the Commune by the Great Wall, a highly innovative development by an all-star cast of Asian design talent for a stunning location beside China's most famous ancient monument. & then there's Benesse House on the remote Japanese island of Naoshima, the Zen-like retreat designed by renowned architect Tadao Ando. From Istanbul to Indonesia, from Luxor to Laos, Hip Hotels: Orient promises to be Herbert Ypma's most exciting book to date.

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Hip Hotels Paris is one of two special Hip Hotels editions publishing this spring, the first book in the series to focus uniquely on cities. In a smaller, more easily portable format than usual, these beautifully designed & lavishly produced books offer up a breathtaking selection of destination hotels. Whatever your taste, whatever your budget, & whether you are travelling for business or pleasure, Hip Hotels will never fail to inspire. ...

Hip Hotels is all about winter action & sharp style. With ever more people catching on to the thrill & spectacle of the mountains, the choice of ski hotels has become mind-boggling
- & overwhelmingly mediocre. In this volume Herbert Ypma, himself an avid skier, proves that there are alternatives to the tired formulae of the typical resort hotel. You can go for a remote lodge in the Canadian Rockies or Wild West authenticity, alpine log cabin or sleek contemporary style.
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For this latest addition to the HIP Hotels series, Herbert Ypma has journeyed almost 4, 000 miles in search of that special combination of authenticity & style that defines a HIP Hotel. His travels have taken him beyond the big cities & deep into the famously lush & beautiful British countryside, which boasts an exciting range of contemporary, hedonistic hotels & retreats. With a fresh look but all the style & vision that have made HIP Hotels a travel publishing phenomenon, this new volume is guaranteed to appeal to HIP Hotels devotees everywhere. ...

Hip-Hop Hares brings more of what was loved in The Polar Bear Waltz. It`s another quirky, eye-popping collection that celebrates the blunders & bizarre coincidences of outdoor life
- the comic circumstances of relatively tame mammals (us) spending time close to wild animals. Each of these seventy-one shots will wow you & make you chuckle, if you don`t laugh out loud. It`s a rare chance to look into the wide world outside & laugh at both ourselves & that infinitely wondrous, entertaining, three-ring circus we call the universe.
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Hipperholme & Shibden Hall in 1930 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the area east of Halifax from Shibden Hall & Shibden Park eastward to Hipperholme. Features include Stump Cross, Intake Wood, LMS railway with Hipperholme station, Hipperholme Works, Hipperholme Mill, Shibden Hall Colliery, Hipperholme Brewery, Upper Brear, Hough Mills, Gardner Square Tannery, etc. On the reverse is a directory of Hipperholme, plus street entries for Staups Lane & Stump Cross. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

In HIPPIE, his most autobiographical novel to date, Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to re-live the dream of a generation that longed for peace & dared to challenge the established social order
- authoritarian politics, conservative modes of behavior, excessive consumerism, & an unbalanced concentration of wealth & power. Following the ”three days of peace & music” at Woodstock, the 1969 gathering in Bethel, NY that would change the world forever, hippie paradises began to emerge all around the world. In the Dam Square in Amsterdam, long-haired young people wearing vibrant clothes & burning incense could be found meditating, playing music & discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness & the search for an inner truth. They were a generation refusing to live the robotic & unquestioning life that their parents had known. At this time, Paulo is a young, skinny Brazilian with a goatee & long, flowing hair who wants to become a writer. He sets off on a journey in search of freedom & a deeper meaning for his life: first, with a girlfriend, on the famous ” Death Train to Bolivia, ” then on to Peru & later hitchhiking through Chile & Argentina. His travels take him further, to the famous square in Amsterdam, where Paulo meets Karla, a Dutch woman also in her 20s. She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip to Nepal, aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe & Central Asia to Kathmandu. They embark on a journey in the company of fascinating fellow travelers, each of whom has a story to tell, & each of whom will undergo a transformation, changing their priorities & values, along the way. As they travel together, Paulo & Karla explore their own relationship, an awakening on every level that brings each of them to a choice & a decision that sets the course for their lives thereafter.
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This unusual travel guide is written for those people who want to read beyond the jumble of blurbs & information that fills most travel books. Readers who want to enhance their visit to Britain by knowing something about language use, won`t be teased by short & superficial remarks, nor exhausted by the task of ploughing through several volumes. Yet, this book is also very practical, giving information about such things as accommodation & food. Highlights include: castles, cathedrals, stately homes, villages, & towns. An essential guide covering history, geography, politics, culture, economics, climate & language use. ...

During the first half of the 19th century, individuals in Wales were inspired by the idea of establishing a Welsh colony. They wanted to leave for numerous reasons; to escape poverty, to seek religious freedom & to establish a new country where Welsh would be the language of religion, government, trade & education. In Wales at that time, it was not possible as Wales was gradually being absorbed into Engl&. For these reasons, on May the 28th, 1865 a group of 153 Welshmen & women set sail for a new life in Argentinian Patagonia to save & hold on to what they believed in, their religion, dying language & culture. Hiraeth unearths the fascinating history of the Welsh experience in Patagonia in time to celebrate the 150th anniversary of their voyage, & is told through passionate, honest & inspiring stories from the people who now live their lives as part of the Welsh Colony in Patagonia. ...