In 1980 seven-year-old Sabine Kuegler & her family went to live in a remote jungle area of West Papua among the recently discovered Fayu
- a tribe untouched by modern civilisation. Her childhood was spent hunting, shooting poisonous spiders with arrows & chewing on pieces of bat-wing in place of gum. She also learns how brutal nature can be
- & sees the effect of war & hatred on tribal peoples. After the death of her Fayu-brother, Ohri, Sabine decides to leave the jungle &, aged seventeen, she goes to a boarding school in Switzerland
- a traumatic change for a girl who acts & feels like one of the Fayu. ' Fear is something I learnt here' she says. ' In the Lost Valley, with a lost tribe, I was happy. In the rest of the world it was I who was lost.' Here is Sabine Kuegler's remarkable true story of a childhood lived out in the Indonesian jungle, & the struggle to conform to European society that followed.


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This is the story of a young Royal Artillery officer, Lieutenant Ronald Williams, who was held as a prisoner of war in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies from 1942-45. It is a true account of the alternate horror & banality of daily life, & the humour that helped the men survive the beatings, deprivation & death of comrades. Told through the diary & papers of Williams & others, Jungle Journal

Includes:: many cartoons & poems produced by the prisoners, as well as extracts from the original Jungle Journal, a newspaper created by the men under the noses of their guards. Ronald Williams was the `editor` of this potentially fatal `publication`. Jungle Journal describes the survival of hope even in desperate straits, & is a testament to those men whose courage & fortitude were tested to the limit under the tropical sun.

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New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) * THE ”MASTERFUL CHRONICLE”* OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CIVILIZATION OF THE MAYA--AN ”ADVENTURE TALE THAT MAKES INDIANA JONES LOOK TAME”* In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world`s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens & British artist Frederick Catherwood-both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy L&, Greece, & Rome-sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, & Mexico. What they found would upend the West`s understanding of human history. In the tradition of Lost City of Z & In the Kingdom of Ice, former San Francisco Chronicle journalist & Pulitzer Prize finalist William Carlsen reveals the remarkable story of the discovery of the ancient Maya. Enduring disease, war, & the torments of nature & terrain, Stephens & Catherwood meticulously uncovered & documented the remains of an astonishing civilization that had flourished in the Americas at the same time as classic Greece & Rome-and had been its rival in art, architecture, & power. Their masterful book about the experience, written by Stephens & illustrated by Catherwood, became a sensation, hailed by Edgar Allan Poe as ”perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever published” & recognized today as the birth of American archaeology. Most important, Stephens & Catherwood were the first to grasp the significance of the Maya remains, understanding that their antiquity & sophistication overturned the West`s assumptions about the development of civilization. By the time of the flowering of classical Greece (400 b.c.), the Maya were already constructing pyramids & temples around central plazas. Within a few hundred years the structures took on a monumental scale that required millions of man-hours of labor, & technical & organizational expertise. Over the next millennium, dozens of city-states evolved, each governed by powerful lords, some with populations larger than any city in Europe at the time, & connected by road-like causeways of crushed stone. The Maya developed a cohesive, unified cosmology, an array of common gods, a creation story, & a shared artistic & architectural vision. They created stucco & stone monuments & bas reliefs, sculpting figures & hieroglyphs with refined artistic skill. At their peak, an estimated ten million people occupied the Maya`s heartland on the Yucatan Peninsula, a region where only half a million now live. & yet by the time the Spanish reached the ” New World, ” the Maya had all but disappeared; they would remain a mystery for the next three hundred years. Today, the tables are turned: the Maya are justly famous, if sometimes misunderstood, while Stephens & Catherwood have been nearly forgotten. Based on Carlsen`s rigorous research & his own 1, 500-mile journey throughout the Yucatan & Central America, Jungle of Stone is equally a thrilling adventure narrative & a revelatory work of history that corrects our understanding of Stephens, Catherwood, & the Maya themselves.* Missourian* Tampa Bay Times ...

This bumper activity book contains jungle scenes set in the Amazon River, the African jungle & a hot & steamy swamp. With over 170 stickers of gorillas, elephants, leopards, lemurs & more, plus plenty of colouring pages including noisy parrots in the jungle tree tops & crocodiles dozing on the river bank. ...

** The Air Ministry`s emergency survival series makes the perfect gift for those who think they`d survive the world`s most hostile environments
- or at least imagine they could do!** First issued to airmen in the 1950s, the Air Ministry`s Jungle Survival guide

Includes:: original & authentic emergency advice to crew operating over the jungle regions. With original illustrations & text, these survival guides provide an insight to military survival techniques from a by-gone era. Packed with original line drawings & instruction in:
- What to do if `jungle hiking becomes boring`- How to stay safe from poisonous reptiles & insects- The benefits of using a `fire thong` Focussing on one of the most hostile environments on Earth, Jungle Survival is one of four reprints of The Air Ministry`s emergency survival pamphlets. Others include: Sea Survival Desert Survival Arctic Survival



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I heard the rustle again, too close & too real to ignore. I clutched the flashlight, stuck my head out of the mosquito net...and found myself face-to-face with a jaguar. Four travellers meet in Bolivia & set off into the Amazon rainforest on an expedition to explore places tourists only dream of seeing. But what begins as the adventure of a lifetime quickly becomes a struggle for survival when they get lost in the wilds of the jungle. The group splits up after disagreements, & Yossi & his friend try to find their own way back without a guide. But when a terrible rafting accident separates them, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone. Stranded without a knife, map or survival training, he must improvise in order to survive. He wonders if he will make it back alive. Ghinsberg`s terrifying true account of his ordeal is simply impossible to put down. ...

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. ...

Junior Builder: Emergency Vehicles is ideal for youngsters who want to know how fire trucks & other emergency vehicles work. Nine different rescue vehicles are shown: discover how a fireboat fights fires at sea & how a rescue helicopter, ambulance, police car, police motorbike & lifeboat work. The tuck box contains the die-cut parts to make a colourful, robust fire truck model, complete with working ladders & wheels that go round, with all the nuts & bolts you need to fit them together. The Junior Builder series

Includes:: the following titles: Racing Machines: 978-1-78493-295-4 Emergency Vehicles: 978-1-78493-296-1

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Junior Builder: Racing Machines is an exciting introduction to vehicles that are specially designed for speed & endurance. Nine different racing machines are explored: Drag racer, Funny Car Drag Racer, Formula One Race Car, Nascar, Rally Car, Go-Kart, Sports Car, Superbike & a Monster Truck. Build your own dragster! The tuck box contains die-cut parts for a 12-inch model of a dragster, plus an easy-to-follow guide to help you fit it together. The Junior Builder series

Includes:: the following titles: Racing Machines: 978-1-78493-295-4 Emergency Vehicles: 978-1-78493-296-1

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” Junior Jetsetters City Guides” are geared toward curious, independent young kids travelling with their parents, & local kids in need of great tips to discover their city. ” The Junior Jetsetters” hosts-Keira & Jordi-are joined by local friends & take kids aged 8+ on adventures through the coolest cities on earth. These complete books, focused on history, cultural diversity, environment, educational activities & fun stuff, combine photography, cityscape drawings by local artists, & practical information for kids & parents. ” The Junior Jetsetters City Guides” are a great gift for kids on the go. ” Keira, Jordi & Brigitte, the French Poodle, take you through the City of Lights: scout the shops & the flea markets for the best bargains; gaze at the Tour de France arriving at the Champs-Elysees; peer down from the Eiffel Tower; eat baguettes in the Luxembourg Garden; & go Quasimodo in Notre Dame. This is Paris in your pocket, packed & ready to go! ...