Nick Thorpe was innocently travelling around South America with his wife, Ali, when he came across an American adventurer planning to sail from Chile to Easter Island on a Bolivian boat made from reeds. Inspired by the great Thor Heyerdahl, Phil Buck had recruited seven men to join him on this experiment to discover whether it might have been possible that Polynesia was first settled from South America rather than Asia. But when one of them dropped out a place in the crew became available for Nick. What followed was a somewhat bizarre expedition undertaken by a rather makeshift vessel, a couple of ducks (one of which could have only guessed at its fate) & a group of men, who, when all was said & done, weren`t quite sure how to sail a boat... Brilliantly told, EIGHT MEN & A DUCK is a feel-good, hilarious tale of storms, amateur seamen & the occasional shark. ...

An unforgettable journey through the experience of time & desire, where passion & fear & the sheer craving to ask for love & to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: 'I am Clara.' Over the following seven days, they meet every evening in the snowy city. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly & won't hazard a move. The tension between them builds, marked by ambivalence, hope, & distrust. Moving both closer together, then further apart, this amorous dance builds towards a New Year's Eve charged with magic, the promise of renewal & love. ...

” Eight White Nights” is an unforgettable journey through the experience of time & desire, where passion & fear & the sheer craving to ask for love & to show love can forever alter who we are. A man in his late twenties goes to a large Christmas party in Manhattan where a woman introduces herself with three words: `I am Clara.` Over the following seven days, they meet every evening in the snowy city. Overwhelmed yet cautious, he treads softly & won`t hazard a move. The tension between them builds, marked by ambivalence, hope, & distrust. Moving both closer together, then further apart, this amorous dance builds towards a New Year`s Eve charged with magic, the promise of renewal & love. ...

From bird-watching to beach parties & diving, this small city in the Negev
- Israel's ' Great Outdoors'
- packs a punch. Footprint

...

Indexed street plan of Eilat (Elat) from Israel’s national survey organization, extending south of the city to include beaches & campsites around the Coral Beach Reserve. The plan highlights beaches & other sea front facilities, indicating wheelchair access. Various institutions (governmental & municipal, education, medical, culture, etc.), hotels, campsites, beaches, sport & leisure facilities, shopping centres, etc. are numbered on the plan & listed next to the street index. All place names are in Roman alphabet & map legend is in English. The area outside the town has contours with relief shading & shows hiking cycling & 4WD trails. ...

When Louis Hagen returned to Berlin immediately after the war, having survived not only incarceration & torture in a German concentration camp but also the Battle of Arnhem, it was through a desire to see the great German eagle toppled, its talons drawn. The son of a wealthy Jewish banker, he had seen his family flee their home, & many of his relatives had died at the hands of the Third Reich. He wanted to understand the German people; why had so many welcomed the Nazi Party, & were they now humbled & wiser? Hagen interviewed nine people he had known before the war who represented a wide spectrum of German society. They were an SA officer, a businessman, a doctor, a socialite, a journalist, a professional soldier, an SS wife, a member of the Hitler Youth & a mischling, or half Jew. Four were Nazis, three were collaborators, & two were anti-Nazi. The very fact that none of these people was a high-ranking Nazi official or a survivor of the Holocaust provides an insight into the Third Reich that is a revelation even for those who know this period of history intimately. How could the Baroness sent to Theriesenstadt concentration camp hold salons for ex-Nazis after the war? Through the lives of nine ordinary Germans, tracing their experiences of Nazism from the first hopeful days until the horrors of the Russian occupation of Berlin, Louis Hagen provides a salutary & unforgettable record of the German people in the shadow of the swastika. ...

Eindhoven in a series of handy size, detailed & indexed city centre street plans of main towns in the Netherlands & Flanders including Brussels from Falk, highlighting recommended walks & places of interest, with six best sights prominently marked & cross-referenced to brief descriptions. The plans also indicate publishers’ recommendations for shopping and/or bars & restaurants. The network of streets & small connecting passages is very clearly presented. Metro stations are marked & tram routes are shown with line numbers & stops. The plans show cycle paths & for drivers indicate main traffic arteries & car parks. Symbols show various facilities such as tourist information centres, markets, canal cruise offices, etc. On the reverse, the street index is accompanied by a calendar of main events, a list of museums, plus contact details for publishers’ recommendations. Map legend & all the text about recommended sights, etc, include English. To see the list of other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


...

Surland Falk, leading publishers of street plans of Dutch towns, produce clear & detailed maps that make strong use of colour. The plans extend into the outlying suburbs & include an enlarged inset of the central area. One-way streets & public transport routes are clearly shown. Useful addresses for tourists & a full street index can be found on the reverse. Map legend

Includes:: English.

...

Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


...