An exquisite new picture book from renowned illustrator, Emma Chichester Clark, creator of Blue Kangaroo. A magical story of friendship to power the imagination & encourage children (and bears!) towards a lifelong love of reading. ” That`s just silly!” said his sister. ” Bears don`t read!” George isn`t happy doing the usual bear things like chatting & fishing. But what else is there? Then one day, he finds a book beneath a tree & knows... More than anything he wants to learn to read! But, arriving in town, George soon discovers that it`s not easy to be a bear at school! If only he could find someone to teach him the alphabet & change his life forever... Perhaps a little girl called Clementine can help? A feel-good story of determination & friendship
- sure to encourage a lifelong love of books.
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Follow the epic journey of wildlife conservationist & bear biologist Chris Morgan as he travels by motorcycle across Alaska while filming the PBS Nature documentary Bears of the Last Frontier. From thick forests to the icy arctic, his immersion into the bears` world reveals, as never witnessed before, an astonishingly intimate portrait of North America`s three bear species: brown bears, black bears, & polar bears. Morgan treks deep into the wild & magical habitat of brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula, grizzly bears in the Denali National Park, & polar bears on the sea ice & uncovers the mystery & beauty of these awe-inspiring animals as well as the native people who live in the same landscape. The book also follows the PBS TV crew as they travel more than 4, 000 miles around Alaska, & it details the hardships & challenges that come with filming a nature documentary. Packed with gorgeous colour photographs of bears in their natural habitats, Bears of the Last Frontier is a keepsake for anyone interested in wildlife conservation. ...

Outdoor recreation map, topographic shaded relief printed on waterproof plastic paper.

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Bearwood in 1903 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 Bearwood & Rotton areas, west of Birmingham & south of Smethwick. Coverage stretches from Warley Road & Abbey Road eastward to Rotton Park Road, & from Edith Road southward to Hagley Road. Features include Thimblemill Pool, Lightwoods, Old King`s Head pub, St Mary`s church, Bell House, stretch of LNWR Harborne Branch with Rotton Park Road & Hagley Road stations, Upper Edgbaston Reservoir, canal feeder, etc. On the reverse are street directory extracts for Bearwood Road, Gillott Road, Lightwood`s Road, Poplar Avenue & Poplar Road. The map

Includes:: parts of Warwickshire sheet 13.07 & Worcestershire sheet 5.07. 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.

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Rabbit loves adventure stories, Hedgehog adores happy endings, & Mouse & Fox enjoy reading together. So when the friends discover a mysterious house full of books, it`s a dream come true! But
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- these books belong to a very grumpy bear! Bear`s House of Books is a new book with a classic feel
- perfect for bookworms big & small! Featuring beautiful & heart-warming illustrations from Alison Edgson (Waiting for Santa & Me & My Dad), this picture book is perfect for teaching little ones about the joys & rewards of sharing with others.


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Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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What kind of man am I? I wonder what I think about that now that I have spent a year here, watching the layers peel off, stripping myself back... Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man living alone on a west-country moor. What he has left behind we don`t quite know; what he faces is a battle with himself, the elements & with the animal he begins to see in the margins of his vision. A creature that will become an obsession... ...

David Attenborough, Dion Leonard (Finding Gobi), Dervla Murphy & Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences, from hilarious holidays with pets to journeys on which wild animals somehow came along for the ride, including: David Attenborough tries to get an armadillo through Paraguayan customs; adventurer Ash Dykes takes a white cockerel to Maromokotro to ward off evil spirits; Mike Gerrard shares a car journey from Belsize Park to Canvey Island with a python; Brian Jackman rides, walks & swims with Abu the elephant; Bradt New Travel Writer of the Year Dom Tulett rows with a kingfisher; & John Rendall travels to Africa with Christian, the lion he bought at Harrods & raised in west London. Also included is a brand new piece of writing from ultramarathon runner Dion Leonard about his experience with Gobi, the stray dog who accompanied him for 80 miles over the treacherous Tian Shian mountains. A mix of new, previously unpublished writers & old favourites are included, with extracts from writers such as Mark Shand (Travels on my Elephant), Dervla Murphy (Eight Feet in the Andes) & Robert Louis Stevenson (Travels with a Donkey), not to mention Gerald Durrell, 19th-century explorer Isabella Bird & renowned publisher Michael Joseph. Compelling, engaging, surprising, humorous & entertaining. if this book proves one thing it`s that travel with animals is every bit as unpredictable as you would expect it to be. ...

When a body is found floating in a canal, strangely disfigured & with multiple stab wounds, Commissario Brunetti is called to investigate & is convinced he recognises the man from somewhere. However, with no identification except for the distinctive shoes the man was wearing, & no reports of people missing from the Venice area, the case cannot progress. Brunetti soon realises why he remembers the dead man, & asks Signorina Elettra if she can help him find footage of a farmers` protest the previous autumn. But what was his involvement with the protest, & what does it have to do with his murder? Acting on the fragile lead, Brunetti & Ispettore Vianello set out to uncover the man`s identity. Their investigation eventually takes them to a slaughterhouse on the mainl&, where they discover the origin of the crime, & the world of blackmail & corruption that surrounds it. Both a gripping case & a harrowing exploration of the dark side of Italy`s meat industry, Donna Leon`s latest novel is a compelling addition to the Brunetti series. ...

Here are India`s best-known beasts -- tiger, elephant, deer, snake... rendered by a variety of folk & tribal artists. Each of their artistic traditions conceives of the beast in distinctive ways, as original in the imagining as it is in the rendering. This handmade book is a new updated version of our classic Beasts of India, long out of print. Individually screenprinted on handmade paper, this wonderful introduction to Indian painting styles is an art & book lover`s dream. ...