Timothy King's mountain biking guide to Inverness, the Great Glen, & the Cairngorms 21 routes characterised by the splendour of the scenery & by the variety of the terrain. Each has been throughly researched by the author who has consulted widely with local authorities, forestry groups & landowners; clear route maps & descriptions make for worry-free days, & each route is graded for length, amount of ascent, surface conditions & degree of remoteness. Road & rail access for each route are detailed as are facilities at adjacent towns. The guide has routes of 15km at low level for family parties, with others of plus 50km over high ground for the fit. The guide is a pleasure to read & use, either on the trail or off. ...

Inverurie street map from Nicolson Maps; coverage

Includes:: Balmedie, Blackburn, Kenmay, Kintore, Newburgh,

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Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet & student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, & his silent & seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 & moves from New York to Paris & to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger & a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth & memory, authorship & identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America`s most spectacularly inventive writers. ...

In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ` Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult & in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.` ...

Ellison`s blistering & impassioned first novel, winner of the prestigious American National Book Award, tells the extraordinary story of a man who is invisible `simply because people refuse to see me`. Yet his powerfully depicted adventures
- from a terrifying Harlem race riot to his expulsion from a Southern college
- go far beyond the story of one man. The lives of countless millions are evoked in this superb portrait of a generation of black Americans.

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A highly amusing memoir from a newly published author, Invisible Pleasures beautifully & vividly describes his life from the first tremors of his imagination as a child, through his early memories in the War, to the wild youthful Rabelaisian excitement of the 60s in London & his subsequent working in Borneo & Malaya as an architect. It is an unrequited love story & a travelogue through parts of the `pre-globalised world` where many places on the map then, before mass tourism had sucked them dry of mystery, were yet to be visited. & it asks the question of what we are & where we come from in either God`s World or the Universe of Science. This exciting memoir of love affairs & overseas adventures will appeal to those with an interest in the arts & foreign travel. ...

This book brings Rome's invisible inhabitants to life. Robert Knapp seeks out the tradespeople, innkeepers, housewives, priests, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers & gladiators who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome & the outlaws & pirates who lay beyond it. Robert Knapp brings invisible inhabitants of Rome & its vast empire to life. He seeks out the ordinary men, housewives, prostitutes, freedmen, slaves, soldiers, & gladiators, who formed the fabric of everyday life in the ancient Roman world, & the outlaws & pirates who lay beyond it. He finds their own words preserved in literature, letters, inscriptions & graffiti & their traces in the nooks & crannies of the histories, treatises, plays & poetry created by members of the elite. He tracks down & pieces together these & other tell-tale bits of evidence cast off by the visible mass of Roman history & culture, & in doing so recreates a world lost from view for two millennia. We see how everyday Romans sought to survive & thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, & violence, & to control their fates before powers that variously oppressed & ignored them. Chapters on each of the main groups reveal how their worlds were linked in need, dependence, exploitation, hope & fear. Slaves & ex-soldiers merge into the world of the outlaw; slaves become freedmen; the sons of freedmen enlist as soldiers; &, the concerns of women transcend every boundary. We see them all at last in the tumult of a great empire that shaped their worlds as it reshaped the wider world around them. ...

The hilarious & magical adventures of everyone`s favourite flat hero
- Flat Stanley. With brilliant new illustrations by the award-winning
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Sara, a therapist, always thought her husband Mike died in Afghanistan
- but when she learns he was actually killed in India,
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Joel Burns has always believed his father is still alive. His mother Jackie has long been glad to know Gilberto is dead. When a sighting on a news report from Rio de Janeiro suggests Joel might be right, he travels to Brazil determined to find his long-lost father. Nelson, a down-&-out musician guided by the spirits of Jesus, Yemanja & his late Aunt Zila, helps Joel retrace his childhood steps
- & face up to the contrast between his rosy memories of Gilberto & his mother`s accounts of the man`s cruelty. Back at home in Brighton, Joel`s trip stirs up Jackie`s own recollections of her life in Rio
- from the beautiful early years, when Gilberto was trying to make it in the Bossa Nova scene, to the violent times following his arrest & imprisonment by the military authorities. Invisibles spans two cities by the sea & four decades of music, torture & romance. From the streets of Brighton to the bars of Rio, Ed Siegle weaves the rhythms of Brazil & the troubles of his characters into an absorbing story of identity, love & loss. At once familiar & foreign, this sweet, sad & compulsively readable first novel throngs with visceral memory & unbreakable ordinary heroes.

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