Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria & Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality & tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure & freedom. Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their colourful, contradictory history, from the beginning of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to their decline in the mid twentieth century. Smyrna was burnt; Alexandria Egyptianised; Beirut lacerated by civil war. ...

Anissa Helou`s Levant is a collection of mouth-watering recipes inspired by Anissa`s family & childhood in Beirut & Syria, & her travels around the exciting regions of the eastern Mediterranean & the Middle East. ` This treasure trove of a book is all you need, really, to cook the food of the Levant. It is as comprehensive & conclusive as it gets, but it also tells charming personal stories & masterfully takes you on a journey to all those enchanted lands.` Yotam Ottolenghi Levant, or rising of the sun, is the crossroads where western Asia, eastern Mediterranean & northwest Africa meet. A land that is culturally diverse but united by common culinary threads. In this personal tour Anissa introduces the stunning food of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Iran, Palestine & Jordan. She draws them together through the themes of family, farm, souks (markets), restaurants, bakeries & the sweetmakers & attempts to record the food traditions of countries that are changing beyond recognition & at risk of disappearing. Levant

Includes:: 150 inspired recipes for soups & sides, salads & mezze, meats, fish & vegetarian, sweets, preserves & breads. Dishes include Lemony Swiss Chard & Lentil Soup, Fried Eggs with Sumac, Kibbe Balls in Yoghurt Sauce, Cabbage & Tomato Salad, Sweet Pistachio Pie, Wild Chicory in Olive Oil with Caramelized Onion, Grilled Aubergines with Tahini Sauce, Turkish Cheese Pie, Lebanese Morning Bread, Halva, & Milk Pudding.

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You put together two things that have not been put together before. & the world is changed. In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist & aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed. This is a book of intense honesty & insight; it is at once a celebration of love & a profound examination of sorrow. ...

Levenshulme in 1905 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers most of Levenshulme, south of Manchester. Coverage stretches from Slade Lane eastward to Houldsworth Street, & from Crowcroft Park southward to Broom Lane End. Features include a stretch of the GCR railway with Levenshulme station, a stretch of the LNWR main line with Levenshulme station, Rushford Park, Atlas Tool Works, Back Levenshulme, St Agnes church, Slade Hall, Coston Park, Alma Park, Levenshulme Bleach Works, Levenshulme Print Works, Albert Mill, Print Works Farm, etc. A small section of the Stockport Branch canal is in the south-eastern corner, with cotton mill & chemical works. On the reverse are street directory entries for Albert Road, Mayfield Road & Stockport Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

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Pictura is a stunning range of black-&-white artworks to collect & colour, for ages 9 to 90. A friar, a jester, a thief ...

TV chef, dragon slayer & bestselling author Levi Roots brings carnival to the kitchen with his hot`n`spicy Caribbean cookbook. After winning over the business minds of The Dragon`s Den with little more than a song & a smile, entrepreneur Levi Roots has since sold more than one million bottles of his delicious Reggae Reggae Sauce & now he has his very own cookbook! Levi Roots` Reggae Reggae Cookbook brings the excitement & vitality of Caribbean flavours to your own cooking. An eclectic & colourful range of recipes from simple dishes for students to fantastic feasts for friends are all accompanied by heart-warming anecdotes in Levi`s incomparable tell-it-like-it-is style. This bright & colourful book brings together influences as diverse as Jamaican folk tales, Notting Hill Carnival & the music of Bob Marley to create family-friendly food with that famous jerk kick. Levi Roots` Reggae Reggae Cookbook will surely add a funky beat to what you eat! Levi Roots` Reggae Reggae Cookbook features more than 80 simple & exciting recipes such as Mash-Up Eggs, Salmon St Jago de la Vega, Guinness Punch, Rum Cake & Sweet Potato Pudding. Levi also offers a diverse range of vegetarian dishes & puts a Caribbean twist on classic European favourites such as pizza & pasta. ...

TV chef, dragon slayer & bestselling author Levi Roots brings carnival to the kitchen with his hot`n`spicy Caribbean cookbook. After winning over the business minds of The Dragon`s Den with little more than a song & a smile, entrepreneur Levi Roots has since sold more than one million bottles of his delicious Reggae Reggae Sauce & this is the original Reggae Reggae cookbook. Levi Roots` Reggae Reggae Cookbook brings the excitement & vitality of Caribbean flavours to your own cooking. An eclectic & colourful range of recipes from simple dishes for students to fantastic feasts for friends are all accompanied by heart-warming anecdotes in Levi`s incomparable tell-it-like-it-is style. This bright & colourful book brings together influences as diverse as Jamaican folk tales, Notting Hill Carnival & the music of Bob Marley to create family-friendly food with that famous jerk kick. Levi Roots` Reggae Reggae Cookbook will surely add a funky beat to what you eat! Levi Roots` Reggae Reggae Cookbook features more than 80 simple & exciting recipes such as Mash-Up Eggs, Salmon St Jago de la Vega, Guinness Punch, Rum Cake & Sweet Potato Pudding. Levi also offers a diverse range of vegetarian dishes & puts a Caribbean twist on classic European favourites such as pizza & pasta. ...

In Leviathan, or The Whale, the acclaimed writer Philip Hoare explores his own passion for whales & charts the troubled history of their relationship with man. He seeks to discover, on his own journey from the north of England to Cape Cod
- & finally into the middle of the Atlantic
- exactly why these strange, beautiful, & mysterious animals still exercise such a hold on our collective imaginations. Moby Dick is a book made mythic by its whale; but the reverse is also true. After Melville published his book in 1851, no one saw whales in quite the same way again. Melville created a modern myth out of an already legendary beast. But what is the true nature of the whale? Why does it fascinate us? All his life, Philip Hoare has been obsessed with these creatures, from the huge skeletons in London’s Natural History Museum to adult encounters with the wild animals themselves. Whales haunt him, as they seem to elide with dark fantasies of sea-serpents & other antediluvian monsters that swim in our collective unconscious. In ‘ Leviathan’, he seeks to locate & identify that obsession. Why does the whale so vividly inhabit our imaginations? Is it a symbol of Edenic innocence in a time of threatened species & climate change? Or an older emblem of evil, the grotesque fish which swallowed Jonah? Travelling around the globe in search of the whale, Philip Hoare sheds light on our perennial fascination with the strange creatures of the sea, whose nature remains tantalizingly undiscovered.

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The history of Britain as never before told, ' Leviathan' overturns long-held beliefs about our ancestry & weaves together the disparate strands that made the fabric of the Empire. The 350 years between the accession of the Tudors & the beginning of the Victorian era saw one of the great transformations of any nation in history: Britain emerged from its lowly position as European underdog to become the world's only maritime superpower. It was a period that saw the creation of Protestant kingdoms in England & Scotl&, the gain & loss of American colonies & the beginnings of a new empire in Africa, India & Australasia. It is a slice of our past represented by some of the most compelling personalities to have graced the historical stage
- Elizabeth I, Nelson, Cromwell & Byron amongst them. In this wide-ranging yet succinct history, David Scott challenges some of our longest held beliefs in how Britain achieved its constitutional might. Where other histories have concentrated on a narrow chronology, ' Leviathan: A World of Ships & Men' encompasses a broad spectrum, tracing the connections made across time as never before.
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