' One of the very few people who in our time could be put on the pedestal of the great explorers of the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries' David Attenborough An exquisite pictorial record, charting the career & outstanding achievements of one of the country's most distinguished travel writers & photographers, & the twentieth century's greatest explorer. Sir Wilfred Thesiger was born in 1910 at the original British Legation -- a collection of wattle-&-daub tukuls -- in Addis Ababa, & spent his early years in Abyssinia. He was educated at Eton & Oxford & at the age of twenty attended the coronation of HIM Haile Selassie at the emperor's personal invitation. Three years later he made his first expedition into the country of the murderous Danakil tribe. He joined the Sudan political service in 1935 & served in the War in Abyssinia & the Middle East with Special Operations Executive & the Special Air Service under David Stirling. After that, he traversed the Empty Quarter twice whilst living among the Bedu, & spent several years with the Marshmen of Iraq. He made many mountain journeys in the awesome ranges of the Karakorams, the Hindu Kush, Ladakh & Chitral. Following these varied & often dangerous adventures among fast-disappearing cultures, Thesiger settled down to spend over twenty years living among the pastoral Samburu in Kenya, until returning to England in 1994. He died in Surrey in August 2003. Over the years Thesiger's experiences provided rich material for several books, all received with great acclaim. His always loved to record his exploits on film, & his nationally recognized collection of photographs now resides at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. This beautifully produced, coffee-table book contains 250 of his most stunning images, which capture the spirit of a bygone era. These are accompanied by Thesiger's own recollections, his vivid prose expressing a romantic but austere vision. ...

Alexander Maitland’s Wilfred Thesiger in Africa is a unique hardback collection of essays & personal photographs of the explorer on what was known in his time as the ‘ Dark Continent’. The book is a worthy testament to an exceptional life
- & as an authorised biography it is also the last cry of Thesiger himself, someone who vividly evoked complete worlds of brutal majesty from bygone eras & dying cultures.
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A legend in his own lifetime, the explorer & traveller Wilfred Thesiger journeyed for 60 years in some of the remotest most dangerous places on Earth. His books are widely acclaimed, yet his character & motivations have remained an enigma. Maitland was Thesiger`s close friend & literary executor, & this biography which had Thesiger`s support before he died in 2003, has been written with exclusive access to the rich Thesiger archive
- vivid, intimate family correspondence & his own letters, diaries & notebooks which are far more confiding than his scrupulously edited published accounts.
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Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. She knows what she thinks & she acts according to her principles. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on renowned artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, & when the two meet afterwards, he has the same effect on her. From now on Ester`s existence is intrinsically linked to that day, & the chain of events that unravels will change her life forever. Bitingly funny & darkly fascinating Wilful Disregard is a story about total & desperate devotion & about how willingly we betray ourselves in the pursuit of love. ...

Ester Nilsson is a sensible person in a sensible relationship. She knows what she thinks & she acts according to her principles. Until the day she is asked to give a lecture on renowned artist Hugo Rask. The man himself sits in the audience, spellbound, & when the two meet afterwards, he has the same effect on her. From now on Ester`s existence is intrinsically linked to that day, & the chain of events that unravels will change her life forever. Bitingly funny & darkly fascinating Wilful Disregard is a story about total & desperate devotion & about how willingly we betray ourselves in the pursuit of love. ...

Will & Tom is a glimpse into the life of the infamous artist JMW Turner as a young man during a week spent at Harewood House fighting for a commission against his childhood friend & rival Tom Girtin. 1797, West Yorkshire. When rising artist Will Turner arrives at Harewood House in high summer, his intention is to sketch the house & grounds, receive his commission & return to London, where he has started attracting serious attention at the Royal Academy. But things at the grand house are not quite as he expects. The atmosphere is strange, both above & below stairs, & Will`s treatment by his hosts is surprisingly offh&. Most perplexing of all, however, is the appearance of another painter
- his childhood friend & now rival, Tom Girtin. While Tom is welcomed into the aristocratic circle, Will finds few allies. As it becomes harder to ignore the whispers of scandal, Will witnesses something that will threaten both his commission & his friendship. Alive with intrigue, artistic rivalry, Will & Tom offers a glimpse into the early life of Britain`s greatest painter, J M W Turner, through the story of a complicated, vibrant friendship, & how it is tested by the dark dynamic of art & power.
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Will Eisner, the master & pioneer of American comics art, presents graphic fiction's greatest celebration of the Big Apple. No illustrator evoked the melancholy duskiness of New York City as expressively as Eisner, who knew the city from the bottom up. This new hardback presents a quartet of graphic works (New York, The Building, City People Notebook & Invisible People) &

Includes:: cameo appearances by the author himself; several new illustrations sketched by Eisner, posthumously inked by Peter Poplaski; & three previously unpublished out-takes. Eisner's character, The Spirit, has been optioned to be a major film. It contains an introduction by Neil Gaiman.

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One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, teenager Will Grayson crosses paths with...” Will Grayson”! Two teens with the same name who run in two very different circles suddenly find their lives going in new & unexpected directions. Culminating in epic turns-of-heart on both of their parts, they team up to produce the most fabulous musical ever to grace the high-school stage. Told in alternating voices from two award-winning, popular names in young-adult fiction
- John Green (author of ” The Fault in Our Stars”) & David Levithan (author of ” Boy Meets Boy”)
- this unique collaborative novel features a double helping of the heart & humour that has won both authors legions of fans. John Green has a huge online presence through his 1.1 million Twitter followers & You Tube channel Vlogbrothers, which has been viewed over 200 million times & has 660, 000 subscribers, making it one of the most successful online channels in history. This is a Penguin logo edition.

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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) was the first major-press short-story collection by American writer Raymond Carver. Described by contemporary critics as a foundational text of Minimalist fiction, its stories offered an incisive & influential telling of disenchantment in the mid-century American working class. ...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour & tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people, & won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories, poems & essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life. ...