It is spring 2009, & prosecutor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw
- he has said goodbye to his family & to his career in the
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Originally published in 1967, Ngugi wa Thiong`o`s third novel is his best known & arguably most ambitious work. “A Grain of Wheat” portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. As the novel follows the village`s arrangements for Uhuru (independence) Day, this is a story of stories within stories, a narrative interwoven with myth as well as allusions to real-life leaders of the nationalist struggle, including Jomo Kenyatta. At the centre of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village`s chosen hero & a man haunted by a terrible secret. As events unfold, compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed & loves are tested. It’s easy to see once read why this is still a great work over a half a century later. ...

Driven by a desire to explore the most remote, barren yet romantic places on earth, Martin Buckley set off on a two-year journey through the world`s deserts. In the Sahara he was threatened with murder. In the Gobi, he hijacked a cycle-rickshaw. Dehydrating in the Sonora, he hallucinated fruit cocktails. Encountering the desert at its most extreme, he learned how to find water
- & how to spit tobacco into a camel`s nostril. Images of the desert exert a powerful grip on the human imagination, from ” Lawrence of Arabia” to ” Star Wars”. Deserts feel familiar, yet mysterious. The truth is that they are even stranger than we imagine. ” Grains Of Sand” is a passionate, profound & frequently funny evocation of the world`s deserts & the people who live in them; an extraordinary global adventure, & a personal voyage of discovery.
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Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...

A handy little book that explains all the basic rules of grammar & punctuation. It shows you the difference between subjects, objects, verbs, nouns & adjectives, where to use an apostrophe or a semi colon, how to use capital letters & lots of other rules & helpful hints. ...

Just like the real thing
- only shorter! Help your child prepare for the SATS with these bite-sized National test papers. This
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From the deep trench of Glen Mor
- the Great Glen of Scotland
- to the Highland Border, this guide describes the complex geology

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” The Quarry Wood”, although published well before ” Sunset Song”, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of a Chris Guthrie who did go to university. Compassionate & humorous, the grace & style of Shepherd`s prose is heightened by a superb ear for the vigorous language of the north-east. ” The Weatherhouse”, Shepherd`s masterpiece, is an even more substantial achievement which belongs to the great line of Scottish fiction dealing with the complex interactions of small communities, & especially the community of women
- a touching & hilarious network of mothers, daughters, spinsters & widows. It is also a striking meditation on the nature of truth, the power of human longing & the mystery of being. The third & final novel, ”A Pass in the Grampians”, describes Jenny Kilgour`s coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather`s life on a remote hill farm, & the vulgar & glorious energy of Bella Cassie, a local girl who left the community to pursue success as a singer, & has now returned to scandalise them all. ” The Living Mountain” is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Shepherd`s knowledge of the natural world, & a poetic & philosophical meditation on our longing for high & holy places. This is the first omnibus edition of Shepherd`s prose works
- her sensitivity & powers of observation raise her work far above the status of regional literature & into the front rank of Scottish writing.

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Granshi Prefecture at 1:95, 000 in a series of handy size, waterproof & tear-resistant, contoured & GPS compatible road maps from the Tirana-based publishers Vektor. Landscape is presented by altitude colouring & contours lines at 100m intervals, with spot heights & a few more names of topographic features than found on Vektor’s 200K road maps of the country. National parks & nature reserves are prominently highlighted. The prefecture maps appear to show the same small local dirt roads as in the 200K series, but given the increase in scale do so with greater clarity & also provide more detailed GPS coordinates (latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals), useful when travelling across the more remote parts of the country. Railway lines are included & local airports are marked. Symbols highlight campsites, beaches, archaeological & historical sites, caves, etc. The maps also show subdivisions of prefectures & names of the communes, & indicate administrative status of towns. Map legend

Includes:: English. Please note: border crossings are prominently marked but beyond topographic colouring no road or other information is provided outside the country’s borders.

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Gran Canaria at 1:75, 000 from Freytag & Berndt on a road map clearly presenting its network of main roads & various places of interest or tourist facilities, whilst also including topographic information & selected hiking routes. The map has contours with relief shading & spot heights to show the island ...