This black table is made from solid wood French distressed in 2 tone honey with solid brass hardware. A coffee table on a stand that knocks-down for easy transport & storage. Eight practical drawers allow for storage of books, mail, keys, & ephemera. 75 (L) x 27 (W) x 123 (H) cm. Always practical, decorative, & never boring. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

This book comes with an introduction by Mohammed Hanif. Bombay in the 1930s & 1940s reigned as the undisputed cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent
- an exhilarating hub of license & liberty, & a city bursting with both creative energy & helpless despondency. It was to be the favourite city & muse of the most celebrated short story writer of India & Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto. His hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling & provocative. In searching out those forgotten by humanity
- prostitutes, pimps, intellectuals, aspiring film actors, conmen & crooks
- Manto wrote about what it means to be human. Matt Reeck & Aftab Ahmad`s translations reach into the streets & capture Manto`s world in contemporary, idiomatic English.


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Bombay is a city always on the move. Driven by multiple impulses, it has been the site for a Buddhist ethos, a safe haven for refugees from Persia, a hub of maritime trade & a melting pot of European & Eastern influences. Enriched with in-depth historical research & exclusive photographs, ` Bombay: Then` documents the transformation of the once `insignificant cluster of islets` into one of the most exciting spots for cultural exchange in South Asia. Among other views, the book illustrates the Mankeshwar temple & the Rajabai Clock Tower wrapped in scaffolding; the construction of Victoria Dock & the opening of its massive underwater gates; a lush & sparsely populated Malabar Hill; a rare view of the interior of a Parsi fire temple; factory scenes inside the Royal Mint & the Times of India units; what the stock exchange looked like nearly a century ago; & many breathtaking aerial shots of this beautiful isl&-city. A sheer visual treat through extraordinary historical photographs, ` Bombay: Then` is for keeps. Mumbai has always been a city of dreams
- shiny, colourful, nebulous dreams that melt away the moment you try to grasp them. Yet it beckons & the charm of the mirage is too seductive to let pass. Mumbai has moved from being Bombay to Bambai to Mumbai in four centuries & yet it is all three: encompassing all manner of paradoxical realities within its moist borders. Mumbai is restless, transient but the pulse of its past still runs through its streets. The fifteen million souls that inhabit this great isl&-city belong to all walks of life, numerous ethnic & religious backgrounds, & manage to communicate through the Babel-like confusion of different tongues & diverse histories. ` Mumbai: Now` brings this shape-shifting, elusive city to you
- from the stories of the first Goan migrants to the lives of native Koli fishermen; from the tradition of dabbawalas to that of `cutting` chai; & from the potters in Dharavi to the pink flamingos in Sewri
- in a series of beautiful, moving pictures that capture the many moods & faces of Mumbai.


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Patrick Bishop looks at the lives & the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan Mc Gregor. They came from every corner of Britain & its Empire. They were the best of their generation...heading for one of the worst tasks of WWII. Like RAF pilots, the thousands of brave young men who joined Bomber Command took to the air to help Britain triumph in World War Two. But in the glow of victory, the fighter pilots were lauded for their efforts while the Bomber Boys faded in national memory. Crucial in the heat of combat, they were politically awkward afterwards. Yet with an average life expectancy shorter than that of soldiers on the Western front in WWI, these men faced death, injury & capture time & again to send bombs through the shrieking flak onto enemy territory. ` Bomber Boys` is a tribute to their strength, courage & heroism
- filling in the historical blanks & immortalising their memory.
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Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France & the French. As the retired schoolmaster from Provence says ` The religion of France is food. & wine, of course.` & they put their money where their mouth is, spending a greater proportion of their income on food & drink than any other nation in the world. Literally hundreds of gastronomic fairs & festivals take place throughout the year all over France
- a frog fair, an hommage to the sausage, to the turnip, to the quiche & the noble Camembert. What kind of person is a snail-fancier? Is there a brotherhood of sausage connoisseurs? How can you devote an entire weekend to the French fry? Peter Mayle finds out & brings hilariously & affectionately to life the people who can get passionate about a frog`s leg or a well-turned omelette. Over ten years ago he transformed our feelings about Provence, now he captures the irresistible essence of France herself
- & her food.

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Sooner or later in this island nation of ours you come to the end of the l&. There, the water begins, & further travel becomes a voyage. Little wonder, then, that our journeys along rivers & across seas have made up such an important part of our history, or that Britain's writers have described them so eloquently & so often. The vessel may be as small as a canoe or as vast as an ocean liner, the hazards a hippo or a hurricane, the fellow voyagers troops on their way to war or well-heeled pensioners cruising into the luxurious autumn of their lives: the result is always an elemental experience, & never less than adventure. Now, Michael Kerr, deputy travel editor of The Daily Telegraph, has gone back through the archives of the paper & its Sunday sister to compile an enthralling anthology of the best writing they have published on travel by river & sea. Here are historic events such as the D-Day landings, which Martha Gellhorn stowed away to cover, & the sailing of the Task Force for the Falklands, which Michael Nicholson watched from the poop deck of HMS Hermes. There are arduous adventures on the Congo in the heart of Africa with H.M. Stanley (a Telegraph correspondent in the nineteenth century) & then Tim Butcher a hundred & thirty years later. There is the first transatlantic voyage of the new Queen Mary, & one of the last cruises of the QE2. There are glimpses into the cabins of lone seafarers from Joshua Slocum to Ellen Mac Arthur. Sometimes the encounter
- indeed, entanglement
- with water leads to comedy, or even black farce, as when Tim Moore took his daughter rafting in Sweden, without realising that he would first have to build the raft. At other times, as with Jasper Rees's account of the lonely, tragic demise of the round-the-world-yachtsman Donald Crowhurst, the ocean is a place of pitiless indifference. But whether the voyage is out to the tiny island of St Kilda beyond the Outer Hebrides, or by icebreaker to the dazzling white ice sheet of Antarctica, or with the Bishop of Oxford on a coastal tour of India, Bon Voyage is an indispensable companion for your cabin, or even for a deckchair up on the sun deck.

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Spell out a traditional BON VOYAGE message with a ready-to-hang Bon Voyage decorative garland from Galison. Airplane images & vintage map details complete the travel theme. Galison makes the decorating simple, but getting your traveler to the airport on time is up to you! ...

Elegant, yet whimsical, playful & practical, these labels are perfect for adding characters to your luggage, correspondence, scrapbooks, journals & everyday embellishments. The package contains 24 sheets measuring 10x 13.5cm & containing assorted vintage travel posters images. Packaged in a tin this collection makes a unique & great gift idea. ...

Decorate cupcakes, wheels of cheese, etc. with party picks from Galison. Twelve 2 x 1-1/2 decorative picks are packaged in a 6-1/2 x 5 window envelope with a hang tag for convenient display. The four complementary designs per set coordinate with other party decor. ...

Set a festive table with party place cards from Galison. Each 3-1/2 x 2 card is die-cut with a design element popping up above the card's fold. A set of 24 cards

Includes:: 6 each of 4 complementary designs. Place cards are packaged in a clear-top box that measures 7-1/2 x 6 x 5/8 & coordinate with other party decor.

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