In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK`s most loved & lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books & bookshops
- the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, & the memories they evoke. From a basement of forgotten books to the shelves of a cramped Welsh arcade, from the poetry corner of the local bookstore to the last bookshop standing in a post-apocalyptic world, these are poems that pay tribute to all the places that house the stories we treasure. With poems from Carol Ann Duffy, Scottish Makar Jackie Kay, National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke, as well as Clive James, Michael Longley, Don Paterson, Patience Agbabi & many more, this beautiful anthology is a heart-warming reminder of how books nourish us, save us, & inspire us.
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One of the titles in a series of maps of the administrative departments of Peru, with topography shown by altitude colouring & spot heights. Most maps also indicate cultivated areas. Scales vary considerably, given different sizes of the departments. Railways & four different types of roads & dirt tracks are shown, as well as local airports & aerodromes. The maps also show the subdivisions of the departments into provinces & districts, indicating administrative capital of each unit. Most sheets also include a panel with general information about the state (e.g. population distribution, climate, etc.). Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at 1º intervals, making this series very useful for identifying the locations of small places on the 1:100, 000 topographic survey of the country. Map legend is in Spanish only. Publication dates vary from mid-1980s to mid-1990s, with a handful of titles revised later. Each map shows one department only & no detail of any kind is given for the adjacent departments, beyond their names. ...

In the summer of 1947, a young priest, Petter, his wife & baby daughter, arrive by mail boat at a tiny isl&. They are to take over its drafty homestead from where Petter is to minister to the scattered community. In this evocative tale, Ulla-Lena Lundberg draws us into the minutiae of an austere yet purposeful life where the demands of self-sufficiency
- cows to milk & sheep to graze
- are tempered by the kindness of neighbours. With each season, the family`s love of the island grows & when the winter brings ice a new & tentative link is created. Told through the eyes of Petter, the wholehearted if naive novice priest, & Mona, his tough-minded wife, a story unfolds that is as immersive as it is heartrending. Winner of the Finlandia prize & nominated for the Nordic Critics Prize, Ice was a huge bestseller in Finl&.

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The polar bear is one of the most recognisable animals on the planet. Yet if global warming continues at its present pace, summer sea ice could disappear entirely from the Arctic Ocean by the year 2040. Polar bears could be extinct within a generation. ” Ice Bear” is the definitive account of an iconic species: its life, its past, & its uncertain future. These beautiful bears are creatures of paradox: Arctic residents whose major problem is not staying warm, but keeping cool. Officially classed as marine mammals, they are the world`s largest land carnivores. They begin life in a snowdrift; at birth they weigh just twenty ounces. Fully grown, they become massive predators that can walk almost silently, ten feet in length & close to 2, 000 pounds. Wandering thousands of miles over the course of a year, they are, above all, creatures of the ice. Without sea ice & the life it supports, polar bears cannot survive. Kieran Mulvaney is an expert on the Polar regions who has led three expeditions to the Arctic as well as Project Thin Ice 2006: Save the Polar Bear
- the successful first attempt to reach the North Pole in summer & draw attention to the impact of climate change on polar bears. This book blends natural & human history, myth & reality with scientific & personal observation, to tell the story of these remarkable animals, the region in which they dwell, & the rapid changes overtaking planet Earth.
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“ Ice Bears & Kotick” is the extraordinary true story of a boat journey that two men made for the fun of it. They rowed & sailed through pack ice, past glaciers & icebergs. They survived whales, polar bears, starvation & capsize. In doing so they completed the first circumnavigation of the Arctic island of Spitsbergen in an open rowing boat. Along the way they learned about themselves & about life, & experienced a frozen wilderness that will most likely disappear before the century is out. This is a story for small-boat sailors, for lovers of ice & snow, & for anybody who knows anybody who ever wanted to run away to sea. ...

This mouth-watering book is brimming with delicious ice cream concoctions & iced wonders from the world of Ben Vear, expert on frozen delights. Over 100 recipes scale an impressive colourful rainbow of ice cream flavours & iced treats, including a fantasia of sorbets, gelatos, kulfis, lollies, frozen yoghurts, parfait & desserts. From chocolate & caramel, to citrus & berries, from botanical infusions, herbs & spices to alcoholic temptations; Ben has a recipe for every iced desire, including the best ways to transform the humble vanilla scoop into a show-stopper. Old favourites such as strawberries & cream & mint choc chip are revisited with simple twists, & different quirky flavours like earl grey, orange marmalade, birthday cake, candied bacon, & Guinness ice cream are alluringly refreshing. Easy step-by-step instructions show how to make the perfect ice cream base from which you can create your own experimental flavours. This exciting ice cream collection is completed with Ben`s recipes for cones, nests & baskets. Lush, inventive photography captures not only the artistry & fun at the heart of Ben`s kitchen, but also the magic & wonder of ice cream in the most visually arresting book ever published on the subject. The essential science, ingredients & equipment behind ice cream are explored, as well as a personal history of the ice cream dynasty that Ben hails from. Winstones is one of the UK`s longest running & most respected family ice cream producers, founded by Ben`s great grandfather Albert Winstone in 1925 in the heart of the Cotswolds. All of the ice cream recipes in this book remain true to Albert`s original base recipe, with flavours brought up to date by Ben. ...

Ice cream has been served in Britain since the seventeenth century. Tt has graced the tables of kings, & the cones of the working man; it has been plain, flavored, molded, sliced, squirted & scooped. It has made the fortunes of industrialists & put bread on the table of generations of Italian emigres.
This new history of ice cream by food historian Ivan Day tells the whole story of ice cream in Britain, a story that has seen both the democratization of this favorite frozen dessert, & a fall in the standards of its production & presentation. It is a story of fine cuisine, of entrepreneurship, & of food for fun. Illustrated with archive material & photographs of historic ice cream desserts made from original recipes especially for this book, this is a remarkable tale of an extraordinary & much-loved food.
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The third book in the delightful series set in Carrington`s Department Store. Georgie Hart & Carrington`s Department Store have got the world at their feet. Since a reality TV series put them both on the map, life has been amazing! Carrington`s profits are in the pink, Georgie has carved herself a place in the nation`s heart & her romance with Tom, the store`s boss, has finally blossomed. Now summertime has come to Mulberry-on -Sea & Georgie is in great dem&. The town is holding a big summer festival & she & her mates from Carrington`s are planning on making sure that Mulberry puts on the show of its life! But Georgie is about to get the offer of a lifetime
- one that is just too good to turn down & something that will test her loyalties to their limits... Will Georgie be able to pull off it off once again, or has her luck finally run out?
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Jess is allergic to the sun. She lives in a world of shadows & hospitals, peeking at the other children in the playground from behind curtains. Her only friend is a boy in a coma, to whom she tells stories. One night she sneaks out to explore the empty playground she`s longed to visit, where she discovers a beautiful impossibility: a magical garden wrought of ice. But Jess isn`t alone in this fragile, in-between place.. . ...

Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the Lost Franklin Expedition of 1845-whose two ships & crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice-with the tale of the incredible discovery of the flagship`s wreck in 2014. Paul Watson, who was on the icebreaker that led the discovery expedition, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story: Sir John Franklin & the crew of the HMS Erebus & Terror setting off in search of the fabled Northwest Passage, the hazards they encountered & the reasons they were forced to abandon ship hundreds of miles from the nearest outpost of civilization, & the decades of searching that exposed rumours of cannibalism & a few scattered papers & bones-until a combination of Inuit lore & the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages. ...