Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass` modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, & the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography &, without question, one of Gunter Grass` finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum. ...

Belle`s inventor father stumbles upon the Beast`s castle & is taken prisoner, Belle comes to the rescue & agrees to take her father`s place. She sees beneath the Beast`s exterior & discovers the heart & soul of a human prince. Delicate cutaways & holes to peep through are layered on top of each other to create a magical filigree effect, drawing children in to the story. Illustrations: Full colour throughout ...

Journey into the woods with Little Red Riding Hood, peeping through the trees, lifting flaps to see what`s beneath things, & watching granny`s cottage emerge with each turn of the page. Delicate cutaways & holes to peep through are layered on top of each other to create a magical filigree effect, drawing children in to the story. ...

Cursed at birth, Sleeping Beauty is destined to fall asleep for a hundred years on her sixteenth birthday. Can the good fairies, & true love`s first kiss, save her? Delicate cutaways & holes to peep through are layered on top of each other to create a magical filigree effect, drawing children in to the romantic fairy tale. Illustrations: Full colour throughout ...

A sunny garden hums, buzzes, creeps & crawls with life. Lift the flaps & peep through the delicate laser-cut holes to discover a whole host of butterflies, birds & bees, caterpillars, squirrels, frogs & other garden wildlife. A delightful information book for the very young. ...

Peep Inside is the very young children`s lift-the-flap information book series, the younger cousin of the Look Inside series which is, in turn, the younger relative of the bestselling See Inside series. With flaps & holes to peep underneath & through, life at the zoo is revealed. Snippets of information are combined with intriguing & stylish pictures. ...

Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex & literature. He is obsessed by the life & work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century
- & by Barney as a `prurient little Victorian ratbag`. This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, & out of the life he shares with Sharon & her `rampant marvellings`, to Cornwall. There he offends serious ramblers with his slip-on snakeskin shoes, fur coat & antagonism to all things green & growing as he stomps the wild Atlantic cliffs on long, morbid walks, tampering with the truth, tangling with the imperious Camilla
- & telling a riotous tale. By the winner of the Man Booker Prize & author of The Finkler Question.

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Peer Gynts Rike: Kvitfjell
- Gålå
- Skeikampen area in Norway in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at 1:50, 000

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Pegnitz in a series of GPS compatible recreational editions of the Bavarian topographic survey at 1:25, 000, with waymarked hiking trails & cycling routes, campsites & youth hostels, etc. Coverage

Includes:: Creußen, Ahorntal, Pottenstein, Glashütten, Hummeltal, Schnabelwaid. Contours used in this map vary between 5 to 20m according to the terrain, with 20m interval predominantly used for hilly areas. Varied colouring show different types of landscape: woods, vineyards, fields etc. Maps in this series feature extensive overprint highlighting local & long-distance footpaths & cycle routes, including King Ludwig Way or different variants of the Way of St James, indicating their waymarking. Symbols highlight different types of accommodation (campsites, youth hostels, refuges, etc), sport & recreational facilities, various places of interest, etc. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend & all the text are in German only. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Pelagic birding is an increasingly popular pastime in both Europe & North America, with ever greater numbers of people taking boat trips offshore to see birds such as the various species of petrels, skuas & shearwaters. This innovative new guide, printed on waterproof paper to withstand the rigours of oceanic trips, gives annotated illustrations of every plumage of every pelagic species, including vagrants, which could be encountered in the North Atlantic, from the Caribbean & Cape Verde Islands right up to the Arctic. In total 56 species are covered, from albatrosses right through to phalaropes. The book has received high praise already, with world expert on seabirds, Hadoram Shirihai, having seen the prototype in action off the US coast & declaiming about how useful such a simple, waterproof guide would be if it were to be widely available. In short, this is a must-have guide for serious birders on both sides of the Atlantic. ...