This is a groundbreaking experiment in multi-media storytelling. Far South is the casebook of Juan Manuel Perez, an investigator in search of Gerardo Fischer, a Uruguayan theatre director who has gone missing. Called in by the community of artists with whom Gerardo lived, Perez quickly becomes enmeshed in the mystery. In searching for another, whether we want to or not, we often uncover knowledge of ourselves. Perez discovers he is no exception...A multi-platform experiment in the possibilities of digitised fiction as well as a compelling work on paper, Far South

Includes:: video witness depositions, a graphic novella, short films & sound recordings. The Far South Project brings together the work of artists, designers, musicians & filmmakers from Uruguay, Wales, Argentina, Irel&, all over the world. They blur the line between truth & misinformation. They hope that the project will make you question everything you see in newspapers, on television, or in the world around you. If you wish to participate & make work inspired by the site, you can post a link to the message wall.

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Fantastic story of pirates, fishermen & sailors written in a style which forces you to read it in creole. The stuff of which great books are made. Far Tortuga is about the sea & sailors & change; but mostly it is a novel of the human spirit.
- Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The Far West of Nepal in the Newgrove Consultants’ series covering the course of Great Himalaya Trail High Route at 1:100, 000 on nine maps printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper. The map is double-sided, with a very generous overlap between the sides. PEASE NOTE: this map covers an area outside the course of the High Route. It shows the route of the Lower Great Himalaya Trail. The base map, derived from satellite imagery, has contours at 200m intervals enhanced by relief shading & colouring to show glaciers, the snow line at 6000m, barren l&, forests, etc. Numerous spot heights are marked in the high-laying areas, but not very many & in places none on the south side of the trail. Important peaks & mountain passes are prominently marked. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are also shown. The High Route of the GHT is clearly highlighted & adjoining local routes are divided into main trails & footpaths. Icons indicate locations of campsites & hotels/lodges, health posts, stupas, gompas & mani walls both along the GHT itself & in other locations on the map. Settlements are graded into large towns, towns, villages & small villages. The maps have latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 5’. All information is in English. Seven of the maps are double-sided, with the last three maps covering the easternmost part of the country from Rolwaling Himal & Mt Everest to Kanchenjunga on single-sided maps. According to the publishers’ notes: “ The maps have been created & published by Newgrove Consultants on behalf of The Great Himalaya Trail Development Programme which is funded by the UK Department for International Development & managed by SNV Netherland’s Development Organization. United Nations World Tourism Organization through its “ Sustainable Tourism – Eliminating Poverty” programme ahs played a key role in bringing the project into fruition. The maps are based on data from the National Geographic Information Infrastructure Programme (NGIIP) of Nepal. The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) also provided low scale data. Trekkers & guides have been consulted on current routes.” ...

Wilfrid Noyce is best known for his mountaineering exploits during the period before the Second World War & until his death in 1962 in the Pamirs; he made a major contribution to the success of the 1953 Everest expedition. There were however many other sides to this quiet, diffident unassuming man. This book tells of his scholarly prowess from an early age right through Charterhouse & King's College, Cambridge to his War service in India & beyond. He led the cryptography team that broke a key Japanese code & significantly enhanced the ability of the allies to understand the plans of the Japanese & to intercept the movements of their forces. After the war he became a schoolmaster, first at Malvern College &, after his marriage in 1950, at his old school, Charterhouse. He taught Classics initially & then French & Italian & was appreciated for the quiet manner in which he delivered his lessons. He was a popular master & many are the boys who are grateful to him for introducing them to the mountains & inspiring them with a love of adventure & the outdoors. Poetry & writing came naturally to him. Articles & poems flowed from his pen from early on & when he was established as a writer, he published a new book almost every year. Most of these concerned the mountains & adventure but the biography-poem Michael Angelo was published in 1953 & Poems in 1960. The citizens of Godalming elected him on two occasions to the Borough Council where he served on several sub-committees & took as his particular constituency the young people of the borough. He actively promoted not only adventurous but also literary activities for them. Noyce was instrumental in the creation of the Youth Centre in Godalming, which was completed just before his death & subsequently named after him. This book describes Noyce's life & achievements & seeks to show the motivation & driving force of a man who spanned two very different eras of mountaineering achievement. ...

Ashley Dartnell`s mother was a glamorous American, her father a dashing Englishman, each trying to slough off their past & upgrade to a more romantic & exotic present in Iran. As the story starts, Ashley is eight years old & living in Tehran in the 1960s: the Shah was in power, life for Westerners was rich & privileged. But somehow it didn`t all add up to a fairytale. There were bankruptcies & prisons, betrayals & lovers, lies & evasions. & throughout it all, Ashley`s passionate & strong-willed mother, Genie. Stories of mothers & daughters are some of the most compelling in contemporary memoir, from The Liar`s Club & The Glass Castle to Don`t Let`s Go to the Dogs Tonight & Bad Blood. Farangi Girl deserves to be in their company. It`s an honest & endlessly recognisable portrait of a mother by a daughter who loved her (and was loved in return). Against this extraordinary background, Ashley`s journey into adulthood was more helter-skelter than most & this portrait of a bewitching & endlessly inventive mother is surprising & deeply moving. ...

Fareham, Hambledon & Havant in 1894 in a series of reproductions of Ordnance Survey’s famous ” Inch to the Mile” maps published in the Alan Godfrey Editions to provide a historical record of England & Wales in the second half of 19th & early 20th century. The map covers an area from Fareham & Titchfield eastwards to Emsworth & northwards to East Meon, including the Forest of Bere. Other locations include: in HAMPSHIRE Bedhampton, Bishops Waltham, Blendworth, Buriton, Catherington, Chalton, Clanfield, Corhampton, Cosham, Droxford, Exton, Farlington, Meonstoke, Porchester, Sobrton, Southwick, Upham, Warblington, Waterloo & Wickham; plusin SUSSEX Bosham, Chidham, East Marden, Funtingdon, North Marden, South Harting, Stoughton, Up Marden & Westbourn. On the reverse is a more detailed map of the village of Hambledon. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the OS Inch to the Mile Maps: the maps provide an invaluable overview of a wider area, typically 18 x 12 miles (29 x 19 kms approx.), & offer historical mapping for small towns & villages not covered by the more detailed series for which the Godfrey Editions are better known. On the reverse all the maps have historical notes & most titles also include a more detailed, large scale map of a small town or a village in the area. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. ...

From the award-winning co-author of `I Am Malala`, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries & 140, 000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students & farmers? How did it go so wrong? ` Farewell Kabul` tells how the West turned success into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history & by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It is the story of well-intentioned men & women going into a place they did not understand at all. & how, what had once been the right thing to do had become a conflict that everyone wanted to exit. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest & most dangerous nations on earth. The leading journalist on the region with unparalleled access to all key decision makers, Christina Lamb is the best-selling author of ` The Africa House` & `I Am Malala`, co-authored with Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. This revelatory & personal account is her final analysis of the realities of Afghanistan, told unlike anyone before. ...

A landmark in Bengali literature, Farewell Song has been described as Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore`s masterpiece. Amit Ray, an Oxford-educated intellectual who aims to overthrow the old order of Indian literature, is on holiday in the Shillong hills when his car hits that of Labanya, a scholarly local governess. Unharmed, he immediately succumbs to her charms, & they embark on an erudite & passionate love affair, but their hilly idyll is threatened by ghosts from Amit`s more sophisticated past. This celebrated work is Tagore`s triumphant response to those who criticised his supremacy in Bengali literature. Interweaving original verse & beautiful yet playful prose, he writes of earthly love &, in doing so, creates timeless literature. ...

Jan Morris traces the momentous decline & fall of the greatest of empires
- from Queen Victoria`s Diamond Jubilee to the death
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In this enchanting & moving memoir, Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the First World War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica (now Thessaloniki in Greece). Under the Ottoman Empire, the city`s diverse communities
- Jews, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks & Bulgarians
- met, traded & lived alongside each otherday-to-day in an atmosphere of tolerance. Farewell to Salonica offers a fascinating insight into a lost society in which an older tradition ofmutual respect was finally overcome by the pressures of nationalism & war, the after-effects ofwhich are felt in the region to this day.

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