In 2007, after twenty years of living in London, Kate Humble & her husband Ludo decided it was time to leave city life behind them. Three years later, now the owner of a Welsh smallholding, Kate hears that a nearby farm is to be broken up & sold off. Another farm lost; another opportunity for a young farmless farmer gone. Desperate to stop the sale, Kate contacts the council with an alternative plan
- to keep the farm working & to run a rural skills & animal husbandry school alongside it. Against all odds, she succeeds. Here, in Humble By Nature, Kate shares with us a highly personal account of her journey from London town house to Welsh farm. Along the way we meet Bertie & Lawrence the donkeys, Myfanwy & Blackberry the pigs & goats Biscuit & Honey, not forgetting a dog called Badger & his unladylike sidekick Bella. & we are introduced to the tenant farmers Tim & Sarah, the locals who helped & some who didn`t, & a whole host of newborn lambs. Full of the warmth & passion for the natural world that makes Kate such a sought after presenter, Humble By Nature is the story of two people prepared to follow their hearts & save a small part of Britain`s farming heritage, whatever the consequences.
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For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher & Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, & Charlie`s life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, & he`s enmeshed in an acrimonious divorce, infatuated with a highly unsuitable young woman & involved with a neurotic mafioso. & then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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Humla region 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, & covers the westernmost section of the High Route between the Chinese border & the Nara La Pass & Melchham/ Chauthala. 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. PEASE NOTE: Sheet No. 1, Far West, covers an area outside the course of the High Route. It shows the route of the Lower Great Himalaya Trail. 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.” ...

Winner of the Hayes & Jarvis Fiction, with a Sense of Place at the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2018” What you could change & alter could never be finished or complete or dead. This is what I had been told back then, & what I had tried very hard to believe in since.” Beside a lake in the northern Canadian wilderness, fifteen year old Zachary Tayler lives a lonely & isolated life with his father. His only neighbours are a leech trapper, an eccentric millionaire, & an expert in snow. But then one summer the enigmatic & shape-shifting Eva Spiller arrives in search of the remains of her parents & together they embark on a strange & disconcerting journey of discovery. Nothing at Sitting Down Lake is quite as it seems. The forest hides ruins & mysteries; the past can never be fully understood. & as Zach & Eva make their way through this haunted landscape, they move ever closer towards an acceptance of what in the end is lost & what can truly be found. ...

Like dazzling jewels, hummingbirds tirelessly dart among flowers, probing for nectar with their needlelike bills. They are poetry in motion, their purring wings tracing a perpetual figure eight. Now you can marvel at a year of their delicate beauty, iridescent feathers, animated energy & extraordinary diversity. Watch them work & play, shimmer & flash in the sky with their stained-glass radiance. In HUMMINGBIRDS 2013, world-renowned nature photographers Michael & Patricia Fogden celebrate these tiny, alluring creatures. Informative captions shed further light on the secret & very busy lives of hummingbirds. ...

Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight dexterity & jewel-like size & colour. Only recently has their serious scientific study started to gain the attention it demands. With the increasing interest in biodiversity, they are a subject growing in significance with every new species discovery made. Hummingbirds presents every species, with over 300 birds shown in dazzling, life-size, cut-out photography. ...

This is a beautifully produced collection of stories written & illustrated by Radiohead`s celebrated cover artist. Welcome to Stanley Donwood`s fictional universe: a landscape of dark streets & high-rise concrete, creeping shadows & shifting perspectives; its citizens forever caught between boredom & paranoia, alive to the threat of menacing machines & Aliens from Outer Space. Here disappearances (people, things) are everyday. Relationships are unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. Unsettling dreams segue into waking nightmares. In Humor, Stanley Donwood reveals himself as a contemporary master of the micro-narrative, riffing on the four humors of the human body
- sanguine, phlegm, choler & melancholy
- to rummage beneath the veneer of sanity that passes for civilised society. Apocalyptic, funny & hallucinogenic in their intensity, these stories present a series of brief, haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense & consequence.

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First published in 1921, this volume collects some of the most comical stories Kipling published throughout his writing career. These tales derive their humour from absurd situations
- a drunken Irish soldier waking up to find himself worshipped as a god in the Indian holy city of Benares, a monkey let loose in an English village
- & from lampooning the attitudes & discourses of the time.

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Founded in 1982 by Mr Peng, Hunan is a legendary London restaurant which attracts customers from all over the world. At Hunan, diners don`t choose
- they simply say what they don`t eat & how spicy they like their food. Mr Peng then does the rest, serving up small portions with the emphasis on sharing many courses. The orders are h&-written & are sent down to the kitchen by a chute & the food travels up in a dumb waiter. Mr Peng is a firm believer in simplicity. Hunan is a landmark book that captures the essence of a unique menu from a unique character. Among the 70 must-have recipes are Mr Peng`s `absurdly delicious` prawn dumplings, lettuce wraps filled with diced chicken, `which you just pop into your mouth & scrunch` & mouth-melting double-cooked pork. As Mr Peng says: `I often say to people I`ve only just met: I`m a very strange person. & then I have to explain: food is my life. Despite being close to 70 I`m still in the kitchen at Hunan, on the floor almost every day doing prep, working the wok & talking to guests, most of whom have been regulars for years. The food is the only thing which has changed, & which changes almost daily. It is really about bringing out the most in the ingredients. Subtle blends of chilli & Sichuan peppercorns push enormous pearly scallops to the edge while the gentle salty miso cuts through the tenderest slivers of corn-fed chicken. It is possible because the ingredients I use are fresh & of faultless quality.
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