` 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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` Mishmash` is a narrative poem about a funny mix up that happens amongst a group of animals. These animals refuse to stick to their own conventional sounds & take on the sounds of other animals instead. Here you will find kittens that `oink` like pigs & ducklings that `ribbit` like frogs! A truly delightful tale of animal mischief. The author Korney Chukovsky was a renowned Russian writer & poet. This book is illustrated by an award-winning artist Francesca Yarbusova, the wife & collaborator of Yuri Norstein. She was the co-creator of the animated films ` Hedgehog in the Fog` & ` Tale of Tales`
- the films that were declared to be the Best Animated Film of All Time. Also available in the Norstein & Yarbusova Collection
- a beautiful series of children`s picture books based on the art of famous Russian artists & animators Yuri Norstein & Francesca Yarbusova are: ` The Fox & the Hare` & ` The Hedgehog in the Fog`.

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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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Startlingly radical, dazzlingly witty, unlike anything that has come before
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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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Longlisted for the Women`s Prize for Fiction 2018 Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction After attending school in Calcutta, Benny settles in Rangoon, then part of the British Empire, & falls in love with Khin, a woman who is part of a long-persecuted ethnic minority group, the Karen. World War II comes to Southeast Asia, & Benny & Khin must go into hiding in the eastern part of the country during the Japanese Occupation, beginning a journey that will lead them to change the country`s history. After the war, the British authorities make a deal with the Burman nationalists, led by Aung San, whose party gains control of the country. When Aung San is assassinated, his successor ignores the pleas for self-government of the Karen people & other ethnic groups, & in doing so sets off what will become the longest-running civil war in recorded history. Benny & Khin`s eldest child, Louisa, has a danger-filled, tempestuous childhood & reaches prominence as Burma`s first beauty queen soon before the country falls to dictatorship. As Louisa navigates her newfound fame, she is forced to reckon with her family`s past, the West`s ongoing covert dealings in her country & her own loyalty to the cause of the Karen people. Based on the story of the author`s mother & grandparents, Miss Burma is a captivating portrait of how modern Burma came to be & of the ordinary people swept up in the struggle for self-determination & freedom. ...

Sisters Three, Five & Six don`t have much education, but they know two things for certain: their mother is a failure because she hasn`t produced a son, & they only merit a number as a name. Women, their father tells them, are like chopsticks: utilitarian & easily broken. But when they leave their home in the countryside to seek their fortune in the big city, their eyes are suddenly & shockingly opened. Together they find jobs, make new friends, & learn more than a few lessons about life... ...