Born & bred in the North East of Engl&, David Moffatt had no intention of disturbing his deep roots in the banks of the Tyne until his University tutor asked him to go to Mato Grosso in Brazil. With a fraught love life, & his football team heading for relegation, suddenly a year in the jungle sounded like a good idea. His life is changed forever... Against a backdrop of growing up in postwar Tyneside, Without a Paddle describes David`s travels in a series of tales & delightful vignettes. Amusing, sometimes hilarious, occasionally sad, we meet his drunken bush guide that he has to disarm, his incompetent camp cook who nearly poisons his boss, an odd assortment of expeditionaries from the elderly entomologist that David has to save from the wasps to a sexchange capybara, & the young female zoologist who...well, it`s all in the book. With a major bid submission hours away, David gets locked stark naked in his bathroom in Cairo, exiting via the window to a busy street seems his only option. At the height of the `red terror` in post-revolutionary Ethiopia, his room is searched while he sleeps
- & was the hammering on his door in a seedy hotel in Ogaden the beginning of a kidnap? New Year`s Eve in Rio finds him in a club to which he doesn`t belong & discover what happens to the Gambian beauty queen in Banjul market. After growing up on Tyneside with a teddy bear that travelled to South Africa, playing & watching football & more football, singing with The Invaders & being suspended from school, none of this had equipped David with the paddle he needed to steer him through his travels. Without a Paddle is a light-hearted memoir that will appeal to those with an interest in foreign travel, or who simply enjoy a good laugh.
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On the surface Joseph Pullman seems to have left his unhappy childhood far behind: as the town undertaker & a council member, he is now a respected citizen of Henderson, Maryl&. But Joe`s father is in jail for the brutal murder of a young boy & despite his wife`s questions, Joe can`t
- or won`t
- talk about his past. When his wife disappears, & a woman`s severed hand is found inside a glove, Joe decides it`s finally time to confront his past: only to discover that his past has beaten him to it...

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It is 2011, & all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, except for the all-male Pyongyang University of Science & Technology. This is where Suki Kim has accepted a job teaching English. Over the next six months she will eat three meals a day with her young charges & struggle to teach them to write, all under the watchful eye of the regime. Life at the university is lonely & claustrophobic. Her letters are read by censors & she must hide her notes & photographs not only from her minders but also from her colleagues, evangelical Christian missionaries, whose faith she does not share. As the weeks pass she discovers how easily her students lie, & how total is their obedience to Kim Jong-il. She also, bravely, hints at the existence of a world beyond their own: the internet, free travel, democracy, & other ideas forbidden in a country where torture & execution are commonplace. Yet her pupils are also full of boyish enthusiasm, with flashes of curiosity not yet extinguished. Without You, There Is No Us offers a moving & incalculably rare glimpse of life inside the world`s most inscrutable country. ...

In a small town in the heart of India, a young girl, barely alive, is found in a sprawling house where thirteen people lie dead. The girl has been beaten & abused, & the house still smoulders from the fire that raked through it. The girl now awaits her trial for the murders that the local police believe she has committed. But an unconventional social worker, Simran Singh, is convinced of her innocence. As Simran begins to examine the circumstances around the case, she encounters a terrifying web of prejudice & deceit in which lives of women are endangered from birth. Brilliantly descriptive of tradition-bound Punjab, Kishwar Desai`s debut novel introduces the feisty & independent Simran, whose determination to seek out the truth places her at odds with her environment. What she discovers will change her forever. ...

[ Previously published as ` Went The Day Well`] ` Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best` Spectator `A book to die for` Evening Standard From Samuel Johnson Prize shortlisted author David Crane, this is a breathtaking portrait of the Britain that fought the battle of Waterloo. As Wellington`s rain-sodden army retreated towards an obscure valley called Waterloo, the men & women of Britain were still going to the theatre & science lectures, working in the fields & the factories, reading & writing books & sermons, painting their pictures & sitting in front of Lord Elgin`s marbles. David Crane`s stunning freeze-frame of Britain on this day of momentous change shifts hour by hour between Britain & Belgium. The Britain that fought Waterloo
- its radicals & patriots, artisans & aristocrats, prisoners & poets
- appears through the smoke of battle & the mythology of Waterloo in this magnificent & original tracing of the endless, overlapping connections between people`s lives.

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Witten & Langendreer in 1944 in the Alan Godfrey series of reproductions of British War Office survey first published in 1945 prior to the Allied occupation of the area. The map is in colour & covers the area from Langendreer in the north southward to Witten. Features include railways, roundhouses, marshalling yards, collieries, tramways, Witten town centre, Laer, Annen, Kley, �-spel, Düren, etc To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. This series of reproductions from Alan Godfrey covers the major industrial area east of the Rhine that

Includes:: Bochum, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Oberhausen & other towns, with their great network of railways & industries. The maps are taken from the British War Office 1:12, 500 plans & reduced at Approx. 1:19, 000. Published in 1945, prior to the Allied occupation of the area, the maps are especially good at showing industry, collieries & transport. They are not bombing maps
- indeed, they make clear that allowance is not made for bomb damage
- but show the areas with all their industrial sites & railways largely as they were before the bombing raids of 1943-44. The maps have additional information added by British intelligence. This is normally accurate but allowance must be made for the `fog of war` & occasional spelling mistakes, etc. Each title has on the reverse a specially written introduction to the area in English, with a shorter text in German. Map legend is in English only.



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Wittenberge on a topographic map at 1:200, 000 from the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Germany’s federal mapping agency. The map covers an area of Approx. 100 x 90km. This map is belongs to a series of 58 topographic maps from Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, the federal cartographic agency of Germany responsible for topographic mapping at 1:200, 000 & maps at smaller scales (the more detailed topographic & leisure maps are prepared & published by the survey organizations of the individual states). Cartography is from the 200K topographic survey & the maps have very elegant, modern look whilst retaining the traditional German presentation of names of smaller towns & villages in italics. Contours are at 12, 5m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, with colouring for woodlands, moors, marches, vineyards & hop plantations. Waterways & rivers are also described in detail, with currents, waterfalls, dams, & jetties clearly marked. Road network, graded into five types, highlights in colour national & regional roads; no driving distances are marked Railway network is also shown in detail, with stations, goods only lines, etc. The maps show administrative boundaries of states & counties, & have a UTM grid plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 2’ intervals. Map legend is in German only.PLEASE NOTE: maps in this series provide an excellent presentation of the areas covered by them, with plenty of place names & detailed representation of the road network, & will appeal to anyone who likes quality cartography, but they are not necessarily the best option for holiday & business travel. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Witton Gilbert & Langley Park in 1895 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 is double-sided for maximum coverage. The main map has the village of Witton Gilbert in the north-easten corner, & the centre of Langley Park in the south west corner; it extends south as far as Quebec Street & Cooperative Terrace. Features include Langley Park Hotel, Wall Nook, Stobbilee, Bleach Green, Witton Gilbert station, Kaysburn Pumping Station, Kaysburn brickworks, St John`s Green, Witton Hall, St Michael`s church, Glendinning Arms, Travellers Rest pub, etc. On the reverse is part of the adjacent sheet 19.10 extending coverage westward to include Langley Park Colliery, coke ovens, waggonway to pit & drift, Park House, All Saints church, Quebec Street, etc. 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. ...

Wivenhoe in 1896 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. SThe map covers most of this small, compact town, including its railway station, St Mary`s church, Wivenhoe Hall, shipbuilding yards, Station Hotel, wharf. Across the River Colne are gravel pits & Fingringhoe Quay. To the north is Wivenhoe Mill & cemetery. A directory of Wivenhoe is included, plus a railway timetable for the local lines in 1915. 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. ...

Like ” Star Wars” before it, ” The Wizard of Oz” is a marriage of phenomenal Scanimation
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