Deep in the woods was a little wooden house with nine neat windows & a red front door. When a little mouse decides it will make the perfect home, so do the other animals in the wood--including a great big bear! But will the bear be able to put everything right when their home comes tumbling down? Find out in this beautifully illustrated retelling of a classic Russian folk tale, now available in a miniature gift edition. ...

Fred Pearce is a former news editor at New Scientist magazine, & is currently its environment & development consultant. He also writes regularly for the Independent & the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Boston Globe & Foreign Policy in the US & has written reports & extended journalism for WWF, the UN Environment Programme, the Red Cross, UNESCO, the World Bank & the UK Environment Agency. He is syndicated in Japan, Australia & elsewhere & has filed articles from more than 50 countries in the past decade. He was voted BEMA Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 & has been short-listed for the same award in 2000, 2002 & 2003. He is a past recipient of the Peter Kent Conservation Book Award & the TES Junior Information Book Award. His books (for both adults & children) have been translated into eight languages. He is a regular broadcaster on radio & TV, with interview credits from Today to Richard & Judy to the Open University. ...

Winner of the 1997 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Paul Pritchard`s Deep Play is a unique, stylish & timeless commentary reflecting the pressures & rewards of climbing some of the world`s hardest & most challenging rock climbs. Pritchard started climbing in Lancashire before moving to join the vibrant Llanberis scene of the mid 1980s, at a time when the adventurous development of the Dinorwig slate quarries was in full swing. Many of the new slate routes were notable for their fierce technical difficulty & sparse protection, & Pritchard took a full part in this arcane sub-culture of climbing & at the same time deployed his skills on the Anglesey sea cliffs to produce a clutch of equally demanding wall climbs. Born with an adventurous soul, it was not long before Pritchard & his friends were planning exotic trips. In 1987, paired with Johnny Dawes, Pritchard made an epoch-making visit to Scotland`s Sron Ulladale to free its famous aid route, The Scoop. Pritchard & Dawes, with no previous altitude experience, then attempted the Catalan Pillar of Bhagirathi III in the Garwhal Himalaya in India, a precocious first expedition prematurely curtailed when Pritchard was hit by stonefall at the foot of the face. In 1992, Pritchard & Noel Craine teamed up with the alpinists Sean Smith & Simon Yates to climb a big wall route on the East Face of the Central Tower of Paine, Patagonia. Pritchard followed this with an equally fine first ascent of the West Face of Mt Asgard on Baffin Isl&. Other trips
- to Yosemite & Pakistan as well as returns to Patagonia
- resulted in a clutch of notable repeats, first ascents & some failures. The failure list also included two life threatening falls (one on Gogarth, the other on Creag Meaghaidh), which prompted the author into thought-provoking personal re-assessments, in advance of his later near-terminal accident on The Totem Pole in Tasmania. A penetrating view of the adventures & preoccupations of a contemporary player, Deep Play stands alone as a unique first-hand account of what many consider to be the last great era in British climbing.

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There are 100, 000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear & work with. & yet this massive global industry has remained largely unexamined: it passes by out of sight for most of us &, through the `flags of convenience` system, its dubious practices often slip under the radar of regulators. In this unique investigation, Rose George travels the high seas with their powerful naval fleets, pirate gangs, & illegal floating factories, & visits the ports & their l&-bound dockworkers, tycoons, missionaries, stevedores, border control guards, & ship-spotters. She meets the beachcombers who track the 10, 000 containers that are lost every year, the robots who are gradually replacing human crews, & the environmentalists campaigning against the tide of marine pollution. Intrepid, informed & tenacious, George steers a sure course through the murky, character-rich waters of international shipping. ...

The 110 galaxies, star clusters & nebulae catalogued by the comet hunter Charles Messier in the late 1700s are still the most widely observed celestial wonders in the heavens. They are the favourite targets of amateur astronomers, with such rich variety & detail that they never cease to fascinate. This book provides new & experienced observers with a fresh perspective on the Messier objects. Stephen James O' Meara has prepared a visual feast for the observer. Using the finest optical telescopes available for amateur work, superior eyepieces & the darkest site on Earth, he describes & sketches the view from the telescope as never before. There are new drawings, enhanced finder charts, & new astronomical data on each object, including findings from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is truly the Messier Guide for the modern age. ...

Deep South: Mississippi to Florida Zoom Map from Michelin at 1:1, 267, 200 (1” to 20 miles), with highlighting of All-American Roads & National Byways, Michelin’s selections of best sights & scenic routes, plus enlargements of the Orlando area, Greater Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham AL, & Memphis. Coverage extends to the western border of Louisiana, & north to include southern Tennessee with Memphis & Nashville, the Great Smoky Mountains, & the southern part of North Carolina with Charlotte. Each map in the Michelin Zoom series of USA covers a large area, presenting its topography by unobtrusive background shading with plenty of names of mountain ranges, valley, deserts, etc. Peak heights are given in feet. Colouring highlights national/state forests & other protected areas, Indian lands, & restricted entry military zones. Road network clearly distinguishes between free & toll routes & indicates toll barriers, interchange numbers, services, rest areas & Travel Centers. Road numbers are clearly marked on all types of roads & driving distances, in miles, are shown on interstate, main state & selected provincial routes. The maps show state borders & the time zone boundaries. Symbols indicate campsites, sights recommended in Michelin’s Green Guides & other places of interest. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at 1º intervals. The index, arranged by state, is next to the map & also provided is a separate list of sights from the Green Guides annotated with their star ratings. Each map also contains street plans of main cities highlighting places of interest, a month-by-month list of events & celebrations, contact details for national parks, plus a distance table in both miles & kilometres. ...

Deep South at 1:1, 000, 000 in a series of indexed touring road maps of USA from Hallwag, with each title conveniently covering a large region & providing enlargements of most visited areas, city maps & other useful tourist information. Enlargements cover Memphis TN, Nashville, Birmingham AL, Atlanta, New Orleans, & Houston. The map is part of Hallwag’s series covering USA at 1:1, 000, 000. The series has been revised from its earlier version & now uses cartography from Hema which provides an excellent combination of information about the terrain, the road network & places of interest. The base map has effective but unobtrusive relief shading with plenty of names of mountain ranges, peaks (heights in feet), deserts, etc. Colouring prominently highlights national or state parks, forests & other protected areas, as well as Indian Reservations & military zones. Road network clearly shows road numbers, indicates free & toll highways with locations of services, & gives driving distances on interstate & primary routes. The maps also show Amtrak railway lines with stations, local airports, state borders & time zone boundaries. An extensive range of symbols indicate various places of tourist interest. Each map is indexed & for GPS navigation has latitude & longitude lines drawn at 30’ intervals. Each title also

Includes:: enlargements of most visited areas – please see individual descriptions for more information – & useful tourist information such as metric conversion tables, traffic signs, phone numbers/websites for many organizations including recommended accommodations, etc. Map legends & all the text include English.

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For the past fifty years, Paul Theroux has travelled to the far corners of the earth; to China, India, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America, Russia, & has brought them to life in his cool, exacting prose. In Deep South he turns his gaze to a region much closer to his home. Travelling through North & South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama & Arkansas, Paul Theroux writes of the stunning landscapes he discovers
- the deserts, the mountains, the Mississippi
- & above all, the lives of the people he meets. The South is a place of contradictions. There is the warm, open spirit of the soul food cafes, found in every town, no matter how small. There is the ruined grandeur of numberless ghostly towns, long abandoned by the industries that built them. There are the state gun shows & the close-knit, subtly forlorn tribe of people who attend & run them. Deep in the heart of his native country, Theroux discovers a land more profoundly foreign than anything he has previously experienced.

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From its roots in Cajun & Creole to the barbecue & smoking techniques of rural communities, Deep South showcases southern cooking as a cuisine that deserves to be heralded alongside that of Italy, France & Japan. Chef Brad Mc Donald runs the Lockhart & Shotgun restaurants in London & is the foremost authority on the food of his homel&, Mississippi. Brad`s food is modern, seasonal American cooking. Contemporary & innovative, with classics including Jambalaya, Cornbread with Honey Butter, Tomato Pie, Pimiento Cheese, & Lemon Icebox Pie, this is comfort food given an urban edge
- a neat spin on soul food classics. Brad`s recipes cover southern US staples done properly, showing off American food`s culinary heritage. & with insights into the meaning of ` Southernness`, the importance of community & hospitality, Southern parties & the effect of the hot climate on the dishes of the region, Deep South provides a glimpse into a unique way of life
- & a new take on a style of cooking that has been so influential & yet remained relatively unchanged for generations.

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In Deep Survival, Laurence Gonzales combines hard science & powerful storytelling to illuminate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life`s great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art & science of survival, will change the way you see your world. ...