` Hand (man) wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure.` So read the crew notice placed in the personal column of The Times by H.W. ` Bill` Tilman in the spring of 1959. This approach to selecting volunteers for a year-long voyage of 20, 000 miles brought mixed seafaring experience: ` Osborne had crossed the Atlantic fifty-one times in the Queen Mary, playing double bass in the ship`s orchestra`. With unclimbed ice-capped peaks & anchorages that could at best be described as challenging, the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet & Kerguelen provided obvious destinations for Tilman & his fifty-year-old wooden pilot cutter Mischief. His previous attempt to land in the Crozet Islands had been abandoned when their only means of landing was carried away by a severe storm in the Southern Ocean. Back at Lymington, a survey of the ship uncovered serious Teredo worm damage. Tilman, undeterred, sold his car to fund the rebuilding work & began planning his third sailing expedition to the southern hemisphere. Mischief among the Penguins (1961), Tilman`s account of landfalls on these tiny remote volcanic islands, bears testament to the development of his ocean navigation skills & seamanship. The accounts of the island anchorages, their snow-covered heights, geology & in particular the flora & fauna pay tribute to the varied interests & ingenuity of Mischief`s crew, not least after several months at sea when food supplies needed to be eked out. Tilman`s writing style, rich with informative & entertaining"ations, highlights the lessons learned with typical self-deprecating humour, while playing down the immensity of his achievements. ...

` Only a man in the devil of a hurry would wish to fly to his mountains, forgoing the lingering pleasure & mounting excitement of a slow, arduous approach under his own exertions.` H.W. ` Bill` Tilman`s mountain travel philosophy, rooted in Africa & the Himalaya & further developed in his early sailing adventures in the southern hemisphere, was honed to perfection with his discovery of Greenland as the perfect sailing destination. His Arctic voyages in the pilot cutter Mischief proved no less challenging than his earlier southern voyages. The shorter elapsed time made it rather easier to find a crew but the absence of warm tropical passages meant that similar levels of hardship were simply compressed into a shorter timescale. First published fifty years before political correctness became an accepted rule, Mischief in Greenland is a treasure trove of Tilman`s observational wit. In this account of his first two West Greenland voyages, he pulls no punches with regard to the occasional failings, leaving the reader to seek out & discover the numerous achievements of these voyages. The highlight of the second voyage was the identification, surveying & successful first ascent of Mount Raleigh, first observed on the eastern coast of Baffin Island by the Elizabethan explorer John Davis in 1585. For the many sailors & climbers who have since followed his lead & ventured north into those waters, Tilman provides much practical advice, whether from his own observations or those of Davis & the inimitable Captain Lecky. Tilman`s typical gift of understatement belies his position as one of the greatest explorers & adventurers of the twentieth century. ...

` So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins & humming birds, of the pampas & of gauchos, in short, of Patagonia, a place where, one was told, the natives` heads steam when they eat marmalade.` So responded H. W. ` Bill` Tilman to his own realisation that the Himalaya were too high for a mountaineer now well into his fifties. He would trade extremes of altitude for the romance of the sea with, at his journey`s end, mountains & glaciers at a smaller scale; & the less explored they were, the better he would like it. Within a couple of years he had progressed from sailing a 14-foot dinghy to his own 45-foot pilot cutter Mischief, readied her for deep-sea voyaging, & recruited a crew for this most ambitious of private expeditions. Well past her prime, Mischief carried Tilman, along with an ex-dairy farmer, two army officers & a retired civil servant, safely the length of the North & South Atlantic oceans, & through the notoriously difficult Magellan Strait, against strong prevailing winds, to their icy landfall in the far south of Chile. The shore party spent six weeks crossing the Patagonian ice cap, in both directions, returning to find that their vessel had suffered a broken propeller. Edging north under sail only, Mischief put into Valparaiso for repairs, & finally made it home to Lymington via the Panama Canal, for a total of 20, 000 nautical miles sailed, in addition to a major exploration `first`-all here related with the Skipper`s characteristic modesty & bone-dry humour, & many photographs. ...

This book relates the adventures of Cinta, a pig of the `cinta senese` breed (dark with a large white stripe) portrayed in the famous 14th-century fresco cycle ” The Effects of Good & Bad Government in the City & Countryside” by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Cinta moves around the various scenes in the fresco
- it strolls through the countryside, enters the city, goes to the marketplace, eats everything in sight, causes commotion in the streets, appears before the Virtues guiding the city
- & interacts with various characters before returning safely home to its farm. The character of Cinta is drawn in pencil, while all the other scenes are details from the original fresco.

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Published for the first time in flipback
- the new, portable, stylish format that`s taken Europe by storm. Paul Sheldon used
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Miskolc in a series of street plans of Hungary’s main towns from Cartographia in Budapest. The plans cover the whole town with its outer suburbs &, where appropriate, have an enlargement for the central area. All the plans have a street index. Map legend varies; in plans of larger towns or popular tourist destinations it usually

Includes:: English. Many plans also include additional

Features: insets with plans of larger satellite developments or villages, lists of sights and/or various municipal offices & facilities, etc. Some titles include on the reverse a road map of the town’s environs or the administrative province.* In this title: English map legend;* an enlargement for the city centre at 1:10, 000; a list of over 260 places of interest, services & facilities; a plan of Lillafüred; a road map of the Borsod
- Abadúj
- Zemplén province at 1:200, 00 (map legend in Hungarian only).





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A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR & FOUNDER OF THE EVERYDAY SEXISM PROJECT, LAURA BATES. ` Following [ Everyday Sexism] will make most women feel oddly saner.` Caitlin Moran ` Piercingly astute.` Stylist Laura Bates, pioneering feminist, activist & bestselling author, has given voice to hundreds of thousands of women through her international Everyday Sexism Project. Drawing attention to both hidden & blatant sexist acts & attitudes, Laura has exposed the startling truth behind misogyny in our society: systemic, ingrained & ignored. From Weinstein to Westminster, a torrent of allegations of sexual harassment & assault have left us reeling. One hundred years since some women were first given the right to vote, we are still struggling to get to grips with the true extent of gender inequality that continues to flourish in our society. In this collection of essays, originally published in the Guardian, Laura Bates uncovers the sexism that exists in our relationships, our workplaces, our media, in our homes & on our streets, but which is also firmly rooted in our lifelong assumptions & in the actions & attitudes we explain away, defend & accept. Often dismissed as one-offs, veiled as `banter` or described as `isolated incidents`, MISOGYNATION joins the dots to reveal the true scale of discrimination & prejudice women face. A bold, witty & incisive analysis of current events, MISOGYNATION makes a passionate argument for stepping back, opening our eyes & allowing ourselves to see the bigger picture.IN PRAISE OF LAURA BATES ` Funny & clever.` Telegraph ` Girl Up is an essential compendium of wit, wisdom, advice & straight-talk.` Sarah Knight ` We owe Bates a great debt of gratitude for her Everyday Sexism Project.` LA Times ` Laura was one of the first women to harness the power of social media to fight sexism & misogyny & give millions of young women a voice.` Grazia ` Bates takes a myth-busting approach to body image, food, sex & advertising & is particularly good at boiling down feminist language into a snappy, everyday vernacular` Metro ` For any woman who is sick of being told how to act, how to dress, or how to ward off unwanted advances, [ Girl Up] is for you. Independent `[ Girl Up is] another hard-hitting book which exposes the truth surrounding pressures on body image, false representations in the media, & lots of issues very relevant to girls today. Red ...

`A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows` Sunday Times ` Part period piece, part courtroom drama, this is a touching love story` Daily Mail One day in 1940 Rene Hargreaves walks out on her family & the city to take a position as a Land Girl at the remote Starlight farm. There she will live with & help lonely farmer Elsie Boston. At first Elsie & Rene are unsure of one another
- strangers from different worlds. But over time they each come to depend on the other. They become inseparable. Until the day a visitor from Rene`s past arrives & their careful, secluded life is thrown into confusion. Suddenly, all they have built together is threatened. What will they do to protect themselves? & are they prepared for the consequences?
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