In 1996, former Country Living garden editor Miranda Innes decided to change her life completely. Tired of urban living, bored of her career, out of love with her long-standing partner, she & her son spied a romantic ruin in Andalusia amid its own olive groves, & made an offer. What happened next
- selling her London house, & handing in her notice at the magazine
- was going to be straightforward, or so she thought. She had not counted on the sudden emergence of a New Man in her life, the plans of Arsenal football ground to purchase her back garden, a badly slipped disc & the logistics involved in moving a lifetime's possessions. Nor had she realised what a struggle re-building the house, room by room, or planting a garden in the hostile terrain of southern Spain would be. But helped by her new husb&, Dan, & an assortment of eccentric locals, not least by the worldly wisdom of Juan the builder, she made it, & over the ensuing four years, the house & pool were built & the garden began to take shape. This is the story of how Miranda got to manana, of her love affair with Spain, & a countryside where 'great jagged peaks range above little fields, white villages tumble like sugar cubes down the sides of hills, & white houses grow room by room in a puzzle of rectangles, topped by corrugated cinnamon-brown terracotta tiles moulded on a man's thigh'. Illustrated throughout with line-drawings by Dan Pearce, Getting to Manana is a book to read & treasure.

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Imagine your dream job as a National Geographic photographer. This inspirational how-to photography book helps you get a step closer. The photography experts at National Geographic share their invaluable tips, advice & insights alongside more than 200 breath-taking photos ranging from glorious landscapes to intimate moments, from black-&-white to exuberant colour, from the exotic to the homespun. These stunning & evocative photos, drawn from National Geographic`s thriving online photography community, Your Shot
- with 400, 000 members in 196 countries
- provide inspiration for photographers of all skill levels. Inside you`ll find: * Hundreds of how-to photo tips & ideas from the photo experts at National Geographic. * 20 themed sections, each guest-edited by a National Geographic photographer. Themes include After Midnight, Adventure, The Moment, Catch the Light, Foodscapes & others. * The ultimate primer for taking amazing photos. Packed with gorgeous photos, this book reveals inside stories on how the featured photographers were able to get these incredible shots, & is filled with encouragement & inspiration for the artist & dreamer inside all of us.

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Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania on a contoured map from Trailhead Graphics, showing locations of historic sites & monuments of the battle in 1863, maps of troop movements, order of battle charts, etc. Printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper, the map covers the Gettysburg National Military Park & the adjoining Eisenhower National Historic Site at 1:12, 000. Topography of the area is clearly shown by contours at 10 feet (3.05 metres) intervals, with colouring indicating present-day woods, plus woods & orchards at the time of the battle in 1863. Symbols, colour-coded to indicate Union & Confederate forces, show locations of headquarters monuments, markers & tablets, & are cross-referenced to a list next to the map. Also marked are various facilities for visitors to the park: information centre, car parks, picnic areas, toilets & the amphitheatre. On the reverse two sections of the main map are shown in greater detail at 1:6, 000, with an additional panel providing the coverage of the East Cavalry Battlefield east of the main site. Also provided are maps showing troop movements on 1st, 2nd & 3rd July 1983, plus order of battle chards for the Union & the Confederate armies. ...

Map No. 1280, Gex, in the topographic survey of Switzerland at 1:25, 000 from Bundesamt für Landestopographie (swisstopo), covering the whole country on 247 small format sheets, with special larger maps published for popular regions including some titles now available in hiking versions. Highly regarded for their superb use of graphic relief & hill shading, the maps give an almost 3-D picture of Switzerland`s mountainous terrain. Contours are at 10 m intervals, with 20m intervals in the mountainous areas. All the maps have a 1-km grid for Swiss national coordinates (datum CH 1903). * Small format sheets (Nos. 1011
- 1374)* Map legend in the language of the area covered by the map. Additional margin ticks show latitude & longitude in steps of 2`. The area covered by each map is 17 x 12 km (11 x 7 miles approx). * Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – STANDARD editions:* No map legend is included but a separate leaflet can be provided instead. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).* Special larger sheets (Nos. from 2501 onwards) – HIKING editions:* An overprint highlights hiking, mountain & alpine paths, including regional & national long-distance trails. The maps also show bus routes with bus stops, plus inns in remote locations. The area covered by each map is 25 x 17 km (15 x 11 miles approx).
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In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after the narrator`s uncle founds a successful spice company. As the narrator
- a sensitive young man who is never named
- along with his sister, his parents, & his uncle move from a cramped, ant-infested shack to a larger house & encounter newfound wealth, the family dynamics begin to shift. Allegiances & desires realign; marriages are arranged & begin to falter; & conflict brews ominously in the background. Their world becomes `ghachar ghochar`
- a nonsense phrase that, to the narrator, comes to mean something entangled beyond repair. Told in clean, urgent prose, & punctuated by moments of unexpected warmth & humour, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings
- & consequences
- of financial gain in contemporary India.




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Ghana at 1:750, 000 on a map from Peter Meyer Verlag, publishers of a very successful guide to the country, available only in German. The map shows road & rail networks, ferry routes on Lake Volta & local airports or airfields. Roads are shown with locations of petrol station & indicate border crossings to the neighbouring countries. Topography is presented by altitude colouring with spot heights. National parks & protected areas are prominently marked. Also shown are internal administrative boundaries with names of the regions. Symbols mark various places of interest, beaches, waterfalls, caves, mines & industrial sites, etc. Compared with currently available alternatives, the map shows fewer small villages & fewer local tracks but, judging by the praise received by the guide, one would assume that the information presented on the map is well researched & accurate, & that the selection is based on tourism within the country. The map has latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 1º. There is no index. Map legend is in German only. Current edition of this map was published in 2012. ...

Friendly, safe & inexpensive, Ghana is an ideal destination for first-time visitors to Africa. It is rich in little-visited national parks, forest reserves, cultural sites & scenic waterfalls & blessed with bleached white beaches & the lush rainforest of the Atlantic coastline. Updated throughout, this revised guide

Includes:: authoritative history & wildlife sections, accommodation & restaurant recommendations & a wealth of background & practical information. Written by Africa expert Philip Briggs, it provides unrivalled detail & knowledge of this little-visited nation. This sixth edition is the first time the book has been updated by the original author since the 3rd edition. Philip has more than 20 years experience writing travel guides to Africa, & has overhauled the content to reflect broader changes in the Ghana travel scene over the past six years or so. This has resulted in a new look guide, with better maps, revised structure, along with the usual routine updating of all locations covered.

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Bradt's Ghana has remained the bestselling guide to the country since it was first published in 1998, being used by almost every English-speaking visitor. Readers will discover a country steeped in a rich cultural tradition & little-visited attractions. Ghana is an uncrowded place to go for game-viewing, with Mole National Park & Baobeng Monkey Sanctuary among the highlights. ...

Ghana – A Portrait is a photographic celebration of the colours & tastes of the West African country. Max Milligan spent months travelling around Ghana’s regions, from Elubo to Aglao, & Lawra to Bawku, recording what he saw before him. Commissioned to celebrate the country’s golden jubilee & with a foreword by Kofi Annan, the book is literally a portrait of the nation; its culture, landscapes, architecture, wildlife & people. The image journey captures Ghana’s coast, fishing villages & resorts, its forest reserves & historical monuments, its Slave Trade heritage & thirteenth century mud & stick mosques, its Ashanti gold mines & dry northern landscape, as well as the ecological marvel of Mole National Park & the vibrant sprawl of the capital Accra. ...

This particular guide to Ghana is notable for the fact that is both locally published & locally written, with author Frank Kofigah being born in & living his whole life in Ghana. Although it lacks the detailed reviews of its contemporaries, the regional guides to have small descriptions on culture, history, architecture, & local wildlife, as well as listing for food & accommodation. Unlike most other guides to the country though, it does have a wealth of information regarding your actual stay in the country, such as useful hints, traditional Ghanaian hospitality, cultural essentials, festivals, music & dance, folk stories & even a chapter on Ghanaian Pidgin English. ...