This book tells a magical tale of love & hardship in ancient China, set against the backdrop of the Great Wall. In Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then one day Qiliang disappears. Binu learns that he has been transported hundreds of miles & forced to labour on a project of terrifying ambition & scale
- the building of the Great Wall. Binu is determined to find & save her husb&. Inspired by her love, she sets out on an extraordinary journey towards Great Swallow Mountain, with only a blind frog for company. What follows is an unforgettable story of passion, hardship & magical adventure.
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When Biografi was first published, it was met first with enormous critical acclaim
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Biography of British Train Travel is a collection of mainly previously unpublished articles & short stories, covering a lifelong interest in railways. It spans a wide spectrum over the years, from the early days in Kent in 1960, through the many hours on the lineside on the Surrey Hills line & the South Western main line, to the last frantic years of steam on the Southern, & the current steam scene, as well as the privileged & exciting times spent riding on the footplate of steam locomotives. It majors on the author`s main railway passions of steam locomotives, train running performance, including modern motive power & all matters Southern. Locomotive performance in Europe & a tramway are also included, as is a fascinating minor- & little-visited narrow gauge railway in southern Engl&, plus heritage traction on the London Underground. The book comprises Approx. 350 illustrations, many in colour, as well as contemporary timetable extracts & copies of notebook pages, which cover shed visits in Scotl&. Fifty train running logs are included, together with some detailed records of days spent by the line sides of railways when steam was still the predominant motive power in parts of the south. ...

Read the extraordinary story of Elizabeth I`s life, from her troubled childhood to her remarkable adult life as queen of Engl&. Following the execution of her mother & disownment by her father, Elizabeth was never expected to sit on the throne. She rose above her imprisonment in the Tower of London & rejected several marriage proposals to emerge triumphant as England`s most powerful queen. Pushing the boundaries of the British Empire ever further through exploration, patronage of the arts, & strengthened trade, Elizabeth became a glorious monarch, loved & celebrated by her people. ...

Biokovo Mountains on the Adriatic coast of Croatia on a contoured & GPS compatible, double-sided map at 1:25, 000 from the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service. Coverage

Includes:: the resorts of Baška Voda, Makarska, , Tucpi & Podgora. Contours at 10m intervals enhanced by relief shading provide excellent presentation of the terrain, with markings for various topographic features. Waymarked hiking paths are highlighted & the map also indicates which local roads & tracks are suitable for cycling or mountain biking. Symbols show various facilities & places of interest, including different types of tourist accommodations (hotels, apartments, campsites, mountain refuges), restaurants, beaches, paragliding locations, etc. The map has a 1km UTM grid. Map legend

Includes:: English. This map is printed on dem&, & if it`s out of stock it could take 3
- 4 months waiting time. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.




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Bird Bingo by Laurence King is a bingo game with a twist or rather … birds! This colourful & educational game, featuring 64 species of birds will help you learn about the names, feathering & beak of different birds worldwide, from the Scarlet Ibis to the Shoebill & the Rhinoceros Hornbill. Just like in a bingo game, one player draws one tile at a time & calls out a bird that the other player need to mark off their card. Who gets all the birds on the card called wins. The Bird Bingo is also beautifully made & every detail carefully thought out. The sturdy hard pressed board is lined with a white canvas, coated with sealant to give a semi glossy finish. The board, bingo cards & tiles are illustrated by Christine Berrie. Her vivid, detailed & colourful images complement & enhance the beauty & quality of this game. The pack contains 64 bird tiles (4.5cmx 4.5cm each) stored in a cotton pouch featuring red birds’ silhouettes, one foldable board (43x 50cm when open), 12 bingo cards (21.5x 21.5 cm) & markers for covering the selected birds. The instructions leaflet features a small description & basic information for each species in the game. Not suitable for children under 36 months due to small parts. ...

An ornithological quiz book packed with challenging questions for birders, based on the popular ` Bird Brain of Britain` contest at the annual Bird Fair. The British Birdwatching Fair, held every August at Rutland Water Nature Reserve, attracts over 30, 000 visitors every year. One of the most popular attractions in the events marquee is the ` Bird Brain of Britain` contest. Each of the four contestants must answer a set of questions on their nominated specialist subject, & a second set on general (ornithological) knowledge. The participants have included popular presenters & experts throughout the years, including Stephen Moss, Chris Harbard, Mark Andrews, Nigel Redman, Mike Dilger & David Lindo, among many others. The book will feature the questions asked in the contest over its 30-year lifespan. Many seemingly simple questions turn out to have complex answers, & some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. The questions are difficult & varied enough to test any birder`s knowledge, & will provide many hours of challenging entertainment. Be they trivial, idiosyncratic, baffling or strange, the varied bird trivia included makes this compilation as entertaining & enlightening as it is educational. ...

Annie Proulx, one of America`s finest writers, invites us to share her experience in the building of her new home on a rich plot of untouched, unspoilt prairie & her pleasure in uncovering of the layers of American history locked beneath the topsoil. ` Bird Cloud` is the name Annie Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands & prairie & 400 foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. Proulx also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer & a dozen antelope. She knew she had to purchase the l&, then owned by the Nature Conservancy, & she knew what she would build on it
- a house in harmony with her work, her appetites & her character
- a library surrounded by bedrooms & a kitchen. Proulx`s first non-fiction in more than twenty years, Bird Cloud is the story of building that house
- solar panels, a Japanese soak tub, a concrete floor, elk horn handles on kitchen cabinets
- & an enthralling natural history & archeology of the region, inhabited for millennia by Ute, Arapaho & Shoshone Indians. It is also a family history, going back to nineteenth century Mississippi river boat captains & Canadian settlers, & an illuminating autobiography. Proulx, a writer with extraordinary powers of observation & compassion, turns her lens on herself. We understand how she came to be living in a house surrounded by wilderness, with shelves for thousands of books & long worktables on which to heap manuscripts, research materials & maps, & how she came to be one of the great American writers of her time.



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I want to find out how they behave when they`re free. Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life & loves behind, retire to the English countryside & devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds. Moving to a small cottage in Sussex, she wrote two bestselling books, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits, robins, sparrows & other birds that lived nearby, flew freely in & out of her windows, & would even perch on her shoulder as she typed. This moving novel imagines the story of this remarkable woman`s decision to defy society`s expectations, & the joy she drew from her extraordinary relationship with the natural world. ...

Following on from its hugely successful launch in 1999, Collins Bird Guide
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