This handcrafted wooden elephant jigsaw is ideal for children that are learning to count. Children will learn the number sequence as they slot each interlocking piece of the puzzle together to form an elephant. A fair trade toy handcrafted from sustainable rubber wood.WARNING! not suitable for children under three years, choking hazard due to small parts. ...

Elephant & Castle area of London in 1872 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). ...

Everyone has wanted a piece of paradise Sri Lanka is a small island with a long, violent & enthralling history. Home to thousands of wild elephants, this is a place where natural beauty has endured, indifferent to human tragedy. Journeying through its many regions
- some haunted by war, many rarely seen by our eyes
- award-winning travel writer John Gimlette interviews ex-presidents & cricketers, tea planters & terrorists, negotiating the complex relationships of Sinhalese, Tamil & Muslim communities & the more sinister forms of tourism. Each city raises the ghosts of old colonies: Portuguese, Dutch & British armies striving to claim the most significant ports in the southern seas; each site resurrects a civilization that preceded, & sometimes, outfaced them. The political families of Colombo lead Gimlette through recent years of turmoil, survivors of the tsunami tell of their recovery &, tale by tale, scrap by scrap, the thorny truths of the civil war emerge
- a war whose wounds have yet to heal. As he walks in the steps of old conquerors, follows the secret paths of elephants & marches alongside pilgrims, Gimlette seeks the soul of a country that is struggling to free itself from trauma & embody an identity to match its vitality, its power & its people.


...

Stanfords Adult Book of the Month August 2016 Sri Lanka is a small island with a long, violent & enthralling history. Home to thousands of wild elephants, this is a place where natural beauty has endured, indifferent to human tragedy. Journeying through its regions
- some haunted by war, many rarely seen by our eyes
- award-winning travel writer John Gimlette interviews ex-presidents & cricketers, tea planters & terrorists, negotiating the complex relationships of diverse communities & the more sinister forms of tourism. Each city raises the ghosts of Portuguese, Dutch or British colonies; each site resurrects a civilization that preceded, & sometimes, outfaced them. The political families of Colombo lead Gimlette through years of turmoil, survivors of the tsunami tell of their recovery & the thorny truths of the civil war emerge
- a war whose wounds have yet to heal. As he walks in the steps of old conquerors, follows the secret paths of elephants & marches alongside pilgrims, Gimlette seeks the soul of a country that is striving to free itself from trauma & embody an identity to match its vitality, its power & its people.


...

Ravi is fascinated by his grandfather's stories of India & descriptions of a sun like a ferocious tiger, wind like a wild horse, & monsoon rains which cascade like waterfalls from the sky. Ravi also loves to hear the story of Divaali, where the parading elephants play a key role, & dreams of having an elephant dance to the sound of his flute. This is a beautifully written exploration of India through the conversation between a grandparent & grandchild, & also has informative endnotes on Indian culture, animals & peoples. ...

Someone has smashed Father Giant`s favourite elephant. It wasn`t Olive & her brother Grub. Nor was it the naughty newt, the laughing lady or the yucky yak. So WHO is the culprit? A magnificently madcap mystery that will keep readers guessing until the very end. ...

The rangers closed in, firing steadily. Within minutes all the adult animals were down. Only the calves still raced in bewildered circles, stumbling over the bodies of the dead & dying. Six minutes after the first shot, a silence fell over the killing ground on Long Vlei.. . In the blinding light of Zimbabwe`s Chiwewe National Park, Dr Daniel Armstrong, world-famous TV naturalist, films the slaughter of a herd of elephant. In London, anthropologist Kelly Kinnear is forced into violent confrontation with the shareholders of the most powerful conglomerate in the City of London, warning them of the destruction of an African country. Now the time has come to act. Together, Armstrong & Kinnear forge a passionate alliance
- & begin the fight against the forces of greed, evil & corruption attacking a land they would both give their lives to save.. . Combining breathtaking realism & thrilling suspense, the world`s master storyteller takes us on a journey deep into the heart of a wild, magnificent continent, threatened forever by the destructive hand of man.
...

For five hundred years, the Forbidden City was the seat of power of China's emperors. It is a vast & beautiful complex that housed the ruler & his thous&-person court. This rare look inside the walled city brings its colourful history to life for young readers. Twenty-four emperors made their home there, including K'ang Hsi, who road to his coronation with a procession of elephants & Empress Dowager Cixi, who felt the loss of a fingernail would symbolize the loss of power, so wore golden nail guards. These stories, coupled with new photographs, make this an unforgettable tour of a fascinating place. ...

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband & wife double murder that is still an open verdict... Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies
- a husband & wife
- shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past & discovers that `old sin leave long shadows`.

...

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband & wife double murder that is still an open verdict... Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two more bodies
- a husband & wife
- shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past & discovers that `old sin leave long shadows`.

...