Bold, moving, entertaining & controversial, this is the great novel of 1960s Lagos life
- with one of the most unforgettable
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Sir William Lyons enjoyed a seemingly unstoppable rise to fame & fortune in the motor industry, & the Jaguar brand that he introduced became world-famous. Yet it did not happen overnight. In the 1920s he was in Blackpool, styling motorcycle sidecars, & in the 1930s in Coventry developing the SS motor car, with the st&-alone Jaguar company not appearing until 1945. The company`s success was aided by the amazing new XK engine of 1948, by motor racing success at Le Mans, & by the stunning styling of cars like the XK120, the Mk 2 saloons & the extraordinary E-Type. Graham Robson here explores the history of the Jaguar company & its many classic marques. ...

In this brilliantly focused & haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the l&, & the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986. What he discovered was overwhelming: a land of difficult, often beautiful contradictions, of strange heroes & warrior-poets. Rushdie came to know an enormous range of people, from the foreign minister
- a priest
- to the midwife who kept a pet cow in her living room. His perceptions always heightened by his sensitivity & his unique flair for language, in The Jaguar Smile, Rushdie brings us the true Nicaragua, where nothing is simple, everything is contested, & life-or-death struggles are an everyday occurrence.

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Jaguars & Electric Eels presents extracts from the work of Alexander von Humboldt, chronicler of the New World. A great, innovative & restless thinker, the young Humboldt went on his epochal journey to the New World during a time of revolutionary ferment across Europe. This part of his matchless narrative of adventure & scientific research focuses on his time in Venezuela
- in the Llanos & on the Orinoco River
- riding & paddling, restlessly & happily noting the extraordinary things on every h&. About this series: Penguin's Great Journeys series presents extracts from some of the most important classic travelogues in a compact paperback format. The series allows readers to travel both around the planet & back through the centuries
- but also back into ideas & worlds frightening, ruthless & cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent & implacable jungles, deserts & mountains, multitudes of birds & flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends & stories were treated as facts & in which so much was still to be discovered.


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Tim Cahill has clambered up Mount Roraima in the Guyana highlands, searching for the site of Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost World. He's dined on baked turtle lung in the desolate northeast of Australia & harvested poisonous sea snakes in the Philippines. He's watched a wrestling match between a shark & an underwater zombie during a horror movie shoot off the coast of Mexico. In this collection of adventure travel writing, Tim Cahill writes about these close encounters, giving new meaning to the expression going to extremes. He also briefs us on gorilla etiquette, porcupine vendettas, & the loathsome fate awaiting those who disturb ruins in the jungles of the Amazon. ...

Map produced in India, showing the provinces in different colours. The network of designated national highways is shown with the highway numbers & other major roads. Railways are marked & a large number of towns. The map also

Includes:: a distance chart & an index. The map is on waterproof paper &

Includes:: a booklet which lists places of interest in each state.



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Jakarta with its southern suburbs at 1:30, 000 on a double-sided indexed street plan from Periplus, extensively annotated with numerous places of interest, hotels & other facilities. Trans-Jakarta Busway routes are shown with stops. The map divides the city north/south, covering the city within its outer ring road, & in the south well beyond it. Main traffic arteries are highlighted &, where appropriate, smaller streets are named. Also provided are names of numerous districts & neighbourhoods. The map is extensively annotated with names of various places of interest & facilities & its index

Includes:: a list of over 100 hotels.

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Jakarta in Marshall Cavendish`s Culture Shock! Series; comprising a range of guides that inform visitors of the finer points & details relating to social etiquette, traditions & customs; bringing visitors to a sensitive yet substantial understanding of the country or city in question. The series targets those who are planning long stays in the destination or extended periods of residence. The guides are written by authors who have experienced the joys & pitfalls of cultural adaptation, & so are ideally placed to provide informative & relevant advice. Each title contains insights into local culture & traditions, guidance on adapting to the local environment, linguistic help & lots of general advice about local culture & idiosyncrasies to help prepare readers for their visit. Each title is structured similarly, beginning with the first impressions a visitor might expect to have. The guides aim to help readers understand the local culture through first appreciating the motivations, beliefs & attitudes of the local people. Practical advice on settling in is provided, with focused sections on accommodation, utilities, health, education & telecommunications. There is also extensive information on the destination’s culture, food & leisure, in addition to a specific section addressing the concerns of those travelling on business. ...

Jakarta on a very large, indexed street plan from Freytag & Berndt. Coverage extends south beyond the inner motorway road to include Mampang & Pancoran districts, westwards beyond the outer ring to Cengkarend & Larangan, & east to Semper & Pd. Kelapa districts. Main through routes are highlighted; the number of smaller streets with names varies from district to district. Public buildings are prominently marked & most are also named, & colouring indicates industrial areas. Symbols highlight locations of selected hotels, museums, shopping centres, car parks, bus terminals, golf courses, hospitals, etc. as well as numerous mosques & other religious buildings. Map legend

Includes:: English. Extensive street index is on the reverse of the map.

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Jakarta on a double-sided map from ITMB combining a street plan of city’s central district at 1:21, 000 with a more general overview of Greater Jakarta at 1:75.000. Both plans are indexed & highlight places of interest, services & facilities, etc. On one side is a street plan at 1:21, 000 of the city’s central districts with coverage extending south to include the Halim Perdana Kusumah airport. Bus routes are shown with names of stops & railway stations are also clearly marked. Main traffic arteries are highlighted. Districts & neighbourhoods, larger streets & many of the smaller ones are named, & a wide range of symbols highlight various institutions, services & places of interest including temples & other religious buildings, museums, selected hotels (all named), embassies, shopping centres, petrol stations, etc. On the reverse is a map at 1:75, 000 covering Greater Jakarta, naming main streets & neighbourhoods. Coverage

Includes:: the city’s international airport & extends south beyond Kota Bogor. The map is indexed & annotated as the main plan.

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