` Delicious`. I licked my lips. The wine filled me with joy. A picture of a vineyard drenched in sunlight formed in my mind. Sean drew me rudely back to the lounge of our semi-d. ` How can they be in liquidation if they make wine this good?` When Caro & Sean find the perfect ten-hectare vineyard in Saussignac, it seems their dreams of becoming wine-makers in the south of France are about to come true. But they arrive in France with their young family (a toddler & a newborn) to be faced with a dilapidated eighteenth-century farmhouse & an enterprise that may never, ever make them a living. Undeterred by mouse infestations, a leaking roof, treacherous hordes of insects, visits from the local farm `police` & a nasty accident with an agricultural trimmer, Caro & Sean set about transforming their `beyond eccentric` winery into a successful business as they embark on the biggest adventure of their lives
- learning to make wine from the roots up.
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Shortlisted for a 2018 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. Grape, Olive, Pig is a deeply personal exploration of Spain, a country where eating & living are inextricably linked. Crafted in the style of the acclaimed Rice, Noodle, Fish (which explored Japan) & written with the same evocative voice of the award-winning magazine Roads & Kingdoms, this magnificent gastronomic travel companion takes readers through the key regions of Spain as they`ve never seen them before. A food-driven travel guide, it

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” An exhilarating wine book... No serious wine lover`s library is complete without it” Wine Spectator Grapes & Wines is the key to enjoying modern wine. Approaching wine through grapes is in tune with the way consumers now think & learn about wine. Most wines, especially those from the Americas, Australasia & South Africa, are now sold under the name of the grape variety used rather than under the old European system of chateau & appellation name. You`re standing in a wine shop & see bottles labeled Aglianico or Tannat. Do you know what they are? Garnatxa sounds familiar & it is, as it is the Basque name of the popular Grenache grape, but how do you know this? You`ve heard of Carmenere from Chile, & probably bought the wine, but did you know it is an old historic Bordeaux variety? This is the perfect book to help you find out more about the world`s top classic grapes, from Cabernet Sauvignon to Zinfandel
- the history, the places, the people, the wine styles & the flavours are covered in detail. It is also just the book for dipping into as you come across an unfamiliar grape variety. Grapes & Wines has been thoroughly revised & updated.
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Approaching wine through grapes is in tune with the way consumers now think & learn about wine. This is the definitive, up to date guide to the world`s greatest grapes & the wines they make
- the history, the places, the people, the wine styles & the flavours. Highly acclaimed winner of the Lanson Wine Book of the Year award, ` Grapes & Wines` has been updated to make it once again a helpful, thorough & very readable guide to the world`s most interesting wines & grapes.
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Five hundred of the most iconic graphic designs of all time, from the beginnings of mechanical reproduction to the present The process of visual communication & problem-solving through the use of typography, space, image, & colour informs the way we connect across languages & cultures. Derived from the acclaimed Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, this fascinating compendium celebrates the long, rich history of graphic design, from the first sample of movable type & the Nuremberg Chronicle of the fifteenth century to the cutting-edge magazines, posters, & ephemera of today. Compiled & written by a global team of experts, this book is international in its scope & appeal. ...

Grasses of the Kruger National Park is designed to provide a handy, easy-to-use- guidebooks for tour guides, tourists & students. The guide is arranged in three sections
- Introduction, Identification of the Grasses & Pasture Management. The first section explains the terms used in the guide, the seond chapter is the grass identification section & a last chapter provides a short summary of the most important pasture management strategies, pasture pests & a short summary of grazing animals. Two photographs are included of every grass covered in the guide, one of the inflorescence & one of the complete grass with a ruler for size. in addition, there is a line drawing of each grass, to show details that are difficult to show in the photograph. The accompanying text provides an overview of the grass, with information on growth form, ecological status, successional status, nutritive status, palatability, habitat, preferred soil type & its value as an indicator species. Distribution maps for the southern African sub-region accompanies each grass; most grasses discussed in the book occur throughout southern Africa. Tne guide is colou-coded for quick reference & the colour codes are indicated in the contents for cross-referencing purpose.
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The latest volume in the highly acclaimed New Naturalist series, this is a detailed & up-to-date account of the behavior & ecology of grasshoppers & crickets. Renowned expert in the field Ted Benton offers a comprehensive account of the appearance, variations, behavior, habitat, life-cycles, & distribution of all the native British species of bush-crickets, crickets, groundhoppers, & grasshoppers. Many details from direct field observation are included, which are published here for the first time. With up-to-date information on newly arrived & recently established species, as well as long-established non-native species—such as the house cricket & greenhouse camel cricket— Benton pays special attention to a key area of evolutionary thought that has stimulated an international research focus on grasshoppers & crickets. Recent approaches to mating & reproduction emphasise differences & even conflicts of interest between males & females. The sexually selected adaptations & counter-adaptations to such conflicts of reproductive interest are used to explain the astonishing diversity of reproductive behavior exhibited by grasshoppers & crickets: male territorial behavior, coercive mating, complex songs, elaborate courtship performances, the donation of edible ”nuptial gifts, ” the reversal of sex-roles, mate-guarding, keeping of ”harems” &, in a few species, parental care of the offspring. These chapters provide an introduction to the theoretical issues & an overview of many case studies drawn from research on orthopterans from across the world (but including British species where relevant). A unique DVD features many aspects of the behavior of nearly all British species, including song, conflict, courtship behavior, sex-role reversal, & egg laying. The book is lavishly illustrated with color photographs & line drawings, covering all the British species (including immature stages in most cases), key habitats, & many aspects of behavior. ...

Small map from Harvey highlighting 8 walks in the Grassington area of the Yorkshire Dales, at 1:25, 000. Cartography shows the eight routes with bold colours overprinted on the mapping & detailed descriptions for each walk including along the map edge. Points of interest & local facilities such as tea shops, accommodation, toilets, bus stops & parking are prominently indicated. Topography is displayed through contour lines at 75m intervals, with other terrain details marked such as cliffs & sink holes. The map also has some information on travelling by bus in the region, as well as historical information for the area. ...

This highly illustrated guide helps you to spot Britain's varied selection of wild flowers. Each entry features a log section where you can record your own findings, there is key information on each species, what to look for & where to find them, plus high quality photographs & illustrations, with close-up images to aid identification. ...

Grasslands National Park: East Block in Saskatchewan at 1:50, 000 in a series of GPS compatible recreational maps at various scales from Go Trekkers highlighting recreational possibilities including trekking and/or snowshoe trails, canoeing & kayaking routes, campgrounds, warden stations, etc. Cartography of each title varies according to the terrain of the national park, but the maps are contoured & have spot heights plus, as appropriate, graphics to show wetlands, relief shading in mountainous areas, etc. All the titles are GPS compatible with either a UTM or latitude/longitude grid. Presentation of trails, recreational facilities such as campgrounds, access to the park by road or air, etc, also varies according to what each park has to offer & where it is situated. Each map also

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