Step onto the scorching sands of Desperate Deserts. Discover where in the world you can spot sand dunes that bury whole villages, come face to face with a deadly rattle snake & follow in the footsteps of daring desert explorers. With a br&-new cover design, format & inside look for 2016, it`s geography with even more gritty bits left in! ...

In the vein of Daniel Woodrell`s Winter`s Bone & the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a rough-&-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, & the desire for revenge violently intersect For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sat in Parchman penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His time now up, & believing his debt paid, he returns home only to discover that revenge lives & breathes all around. On the day of his release, a woman named Maben & her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate & exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a motel room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, & a dead deputy sprawled across the road in the glow of his own headlights. With dawn, destinies collide, & Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save his own or that of the woman & child? ...

Dessau – Flaming on a waterproof, tear-resistant, GPS compatible cycling map at 1:75, 000 from the ADFC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrrad-Club
- the official German cycling federation), in a series of maps with extensive overprint for long-distance & local cycling routes. GPS waypoints, route profiles, details of online links for information about accommodation etc. are also provided. Maps included in this series are contoured & the interval varies according to the type of the terrain. Steep sections are annotated with gradient markings. Colouring and/or graphics show various types of landscape: woods, vineyards, etc. An overprint highlights both the national long-distance cycling routes & the shorter local cycling trails, each clearly identified by a symbol and/or an abbreviation of its name. Sections with heavy traffic and/or poor road surface are clearly marked. Symbols indicate various facilities, such as railway stations with cycle hire, cycle repair shops, campsites, youth hostels, shelters, country restaurants/bars, sport & leisure facilities. Maps have a UTM grid for measuring distances & for determining location using GPS device & they are printed on weather resistant & tear-resistant paper. Each map covers an area of Approx. 130 x 87 km & the map legend is in German only. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link.
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Dessau may be a mere speck on the map, but to this day the city of Bauhaus still occupies the most important place in the development of the New Building
- otherwise known as the Neues Bauen
- movement. Alongside the Modernist architecture, there is another World Cultural Heritage site which draws in visitors from all over the world to the region, namely the Garden Kingdom of Dessau Worlitz (Gartenreich Dessau-Worlitz). In the shape of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau) & the Dessau-Worlitz Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung Dessau Worlitz), two institutions have come together to publish the first comprehensive architectural guide on Dessau-Rosslau & Worlitz, areas most closely linked to the UNESCO World Heritage sites domiciled there. The eighteenth-century Garden Kingdom of Dessau Worlitz & the twentieth-century Bauhaus School of Design (Bauhaus Hochschule fur Gestaltung) have not only bequeathed the city & its surrounds inestimable architectural urban & rural properties & spaces, but also an associated intellectual heritage which has made a lasting impact on the world &, last but not least, accounts for the attraction the area holds for tourists. These & other notable historic & contemporary buildings alike are presented in this architectural guide which also raises issues about the nuanced handling of this architectural & cultural legacy & of future planning.

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The definitive architecture travel guide that lets you visit 1, 000 of today`s most must-see contemporary buildings
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First published in 2006, Destination Art remains the only illustrated guide to modern & contemporary art sites outside the confines of museums & galleries. Revised & updated in paperback, the book profiles more than 200 of the most important contemporary art sites around the world, including four new sites in Tennessee, Norway, China & Scotl&. From massive land & environmental works to extensive sculpture parks, some of the most crucial & popular international artists are profiled, from Henri Matisse, Anoni Gaudi & Constantin Brancusi to James Turrell, Antony Gormley & Olafur Eliasson. ...

A global guide to the 500 works of permanently installed modern & contemporary art worth traveling to experience Enjoy a world tour from the comfort of your reading chair or plan a detailed & engaging art itinerary for your next trip with Destination Art, the essential guide to 500 must-see examples of permanently installed art from the last 100 years. With the book`s geographical organization & logistical details
- including GPS coordinates, addresses, websites, & symbols indicating the degree of possible access, travel planning is made easy. Discover hidden gems in big cities, explore art in nature, & trek to remote locales for one-of-a-kind experiences of art in unique locations. The artists featured in this global selection are among the world`s best & most beloved from the past century, including Marina Abramovic, Alexander Calder, Jenny Holzer, Yayoi Kusama, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Richard Serra, & many more. Highlighting the best & most significant of public art in city centers, sculpture parks, site-specific installations in museums, memorials designed by contemporary artists, works of land art, & much more, Destination Art is an informative & enjoyable overview of the most significant & travel-worthy art around the globe. From the publisher of Destination Architecture.
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Beijing, one of the four Great Ancient Capitals of China is a metropolis in every sense of the word. It has a great history & is at the same time on top of the 21st century as a vibrant & exciting city. Destination Beijing shows you, in 300 pages of stunning photography "es, the greatest treasures of the centre of Chinese art & culture. From ancient monuments such as the Tiananmen, the Temple of Heaven, Beihai Park, the University & other palaces, temples & gates, to the newest districts & buildings. We visit the National Stadium (built for the 2008 Olympic Games), the Beijing Financial Street & the 798 Art Zone, which mixes old & new styles of architecture. ...

From the rich tropical city of Phnom Penh, to the wonders of Ankor Wat & the oddly loveable country town of Kampot to Sihanoukville named after the movie-directing, womanising former-king, Walter takes the reader on another colourful adventure in one of the world`s hottest new destinations. With his friends, Simon a taxi-driver & unlikely middle-aged gigolo, & Lan a leggy Vietnamese transsexual, he explores Phnom Penh`s underworld. He seeks out his old friend Pek, he of the mysterious scars, in amongst the Chinese merchants & the proprietors of Vietnamese coffee houses & Khmer restaurants. Resting in the bars & cafes that line the banks of the river, he notes the strong French influence from a colonial past. He also befriends Mak Suong, a gifted young writer who scandalised Cambodian society with his racy, wildly popular novel about the lives of gay men in Phnom Penh. Walter retreats to the cool courtyard of Wat Koh, an enormous Buddhist monastery in the centre of Phnom Penh, with his friends, both monks
- Sim, a big country lad who flirts with girls who come to visit, & dreams of leaving the monastery to marry; & morose, brooding Sakol who unloads his troubles to Walter, revealing how he is haunted by the demons of war, cruelty & murder from Cambodia`s dark past.
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` Katy writes with humour & heart. The Lonely Hearts Travel Club is like Bridget Jones goes backpacking.`
- Holly Martin, author
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