Enjoy the cuisine of Ibiza as celebrated at Les Terrasses, a boutique hotel where locals & lucky guests alike gather to enjoy chef Francoise Pialoux`s inventive creations-prepared with fresh ingredients from the sea, vegetables from the finca`s own kitchen garden, & other locally grown organic produce. Immerse yourself in the colors & energy of this fabled island & its neighbor, Formentera: discover the tastes of the earth & the sea, have lunch in the shade of a palm or fig tree, or improvise a meal on a friend`s terrace, cooled by fragrant breezes. More than 100 easy-to-follow illustrated recipes accompany lush color photographs revealing the stunning landscape, local architecture, & exotic atmosphere of this fabulous resort locale. ...

In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous & astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table manners, religion & sexual practices, as well as the only eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between the ninth & fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn Fadlan journeyed widely & frequently into the far north, crossing territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan. Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes & people they encountered traded furs, paid tribute & waged wars. This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into the world of the Arab geographers, & the medieval lands of the far north. ...

Exclusive to Stanfords. Ibn Saud`s (Abd al-Aziz Ibn Saud`s) army on the march, near Habl, Saudia Arabia, photographed by William Shakespear, 1911. One of the most significant explorers of eastern & central Arabia, he served with the Bengal Lancers before transferring to a role in the consular service; he later became a political agent in Kuwait. Printed on matte archival quality photographic paper & cardboard mounted.* About this range: Exclusive to Stanfords, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) has selected a range of vintage photographs of travel & exploration. The images are from the Society’s prestigious archive collection. As they are printed from the original negative, there is only a limited amount available. ...

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. ...

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. ...

Ice Bird is one of the great true sea stories of the twentieth century. It is also a tale of human endurance; a testimony of one man's will to overcome almost anything & everything
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- to stay alive. David Lewis & his 32 foot yacht, Ice Bird, set sail from Sydney, Australia in 1972 on a search for high adventure. The voyage, full of drama, emotion, & pain took place in the least hospitable & most fascinating part of the globe, the Antarctic, through some of the most treacherous waters in the world. Along the way he would not touch land for more than fourteen weeks, facing mountainous seas, constant gales, snowstorms, & freezing temperatures & he would be fighting for his life. Twice his small yacht was capsized & once it was dismasted 3, 500 miles from help. His survival was a miracle of fortitude, skill, & some luck.

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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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