` However many times it has been done, the act of casting off the warps & letting go one`s last hold of the shore at the start of a voyage has about it something solemn & irrevocable, like marriage, for better or for worse.` Mostly Mischief`s ordinary title belies four more extraordinary voyages made by H.W. ` Bill` Tilman covering almost 25, 000 miles in both Arctic & Antarctic waters. The first sees the pilot cutter Mischief retracing the steps of Elizabethan explorer John Davis to the eastern entrance to the Northwest Passage. Tilman & a companion land on the north coast & make the hazardous crossing of Bylot Island while the remainder of the crew make the eventful passage to the southern shore to recover the climbing party. Back in Engl&, Tilman refuses to accept the condemnation of Mischief`s surveyor, undertaking costly repairs before heading back to sea for a first encounter with the East Greenland ice. Between June 1964 & September 1965, Tilman is at sea almost without a break. Two eventful voyages to East Greenland in Mischief provide the entertaining bookends to his account of the five-month voyage in the Southern Ocean as skipper of the schooner Patanela. Tilman had been h&-picked by the expedition leader as the navigator best able to land a team of Australian & New Zealand climbers & scientists on Heard Isl&, a tiny volcanic speck in the Furious Fifties devoid of safe anchorages & capped by an unclimbed glaciated peak. In a separate account of this successful voyage, Colin Putt describes the expedition as unique-the first ascent of a mountain to start below sea level. ...

Moston in 1933 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 the Moston area of north east of Manchester. Coverage stretches from Arran Street & Lily Lane eastward to Hale Lane & Hardman Fold, & from Bluestone Road northward to Charlestown Road. Features include Broadhurst Park, Street Fold, tramways, Blackley Golf Course, the eastern half of Boggart Hole Clough, St Joseph`s Cemetery, Shackcliffe Green, Moston Collieries, Moston Mill, New Moston, Engineering Works; the LMS railway with Moston Exchange Sidings runs through the map. On the reverse are extracts from a 1917 street directory for Lightbowne Road & Moston Lane. 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. ...

Cycling routes in the Moststrasse region of Austria between the Danube, the Enns & the Ybbs presented at 1:75, 000 by Verlag Esterbauer with essential information on accommodation, repair facilities, etc. All the text is in GERMAN only but extensive map legend

Includes:: English, as shown on our sample image. Esterbauer’s Bikeline guides in this series can be used without any knowledge of German, particularly in the absence of similar products in English from other publishers. Each atlas

Includes:: a selection of local cycling routes & tours, presented on clear, easy to follow maps. The overprint highlighting the routes indicates road surface & density of motorized traffic. Gradients, intermediate distances, danger points & roads closed to cyclists are marked, & route profiles show the degree of difficulty for each cycle path. A wide range of symbols indicate everything from covered & lockable bicycle stands, repair workshops & bike rentals to viewpoints, nature parks, leisure & sport centres, local shopping facilities, emergency services, etc. The guides also give opening hours of museums & other local places of interest. A separate section at the end of each guide lists accommodation addresses with phone numbers. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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Opening like an early Tom Waits barstool-tale, The Motel Life tells the story of two brothers, Frank & Jerry Lee. Taking to the road in an attempt to escape the hit & run accident caused by Jerry Lee, the novel goes back to tell the story of their unhappy lives. With intense feeling & compassion, Vlautin explores the frustrations & failed dreams of the two brothers
- one a natural storyteller, the other an artist
- & renders perfectly the sense of entrapment they feel. Will the kid`s death shock them out of their torpor or send them ever deeper into trouble? Can Annie James, a girl from their past, offer them any sort of redemption, however slim? Interspersed with drawings that come to form an integral part of the narrative, The Motel Life is a poetic, moving, beautifully naive & tragic fictional debut. Alongside such seminal works as Annie Proulx`s Postcards, Raymond Carver`s What we talk about when we talk about love & Denis Johnson`s Jesus` Son, it should come to be seen as a classic of downbeat American prose.

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Helplessly drawn like moths to the light, two girls go missing in an evocative & gripping tale.. . They called them the Moth Girls because they were attracted to the house. They were drawn to it. Or at least that is what is written in the newspapers that Mandy reads on the anniversary of when her two best friends went missing. Five years have passed since Petra & Tina were determined to explore the dilapidated house on Princess Street. But what started off as a dare ended with the two girls vanishing. As Mandy`s memories of the disappearance of her two friends are ignited once again, disturbing details will resurface in her mind. ...

In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife & child, an expensive foreign education
- & a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle. As jealousy sets in, Daru`s life slowly unravels. He loses his job. Starts lacing his joints with heroin. Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver. & falls in love with Ozi`s lonely wife. But how low can Daru sink? & is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for?
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Press out the mother & daughter dolls, then pick which beautiful traditional costume to dress them in, using the easy fold-down tabs, before adding a hat or headdress & sticking on some accessories. From fabulous flamenco dresses to colourful kimonos, there are so many different costumes & cultures to explore. & you can learn about their different celebrations too! Discover the music & dancing at the Rocket Festival in Thail&, a lively Heritage Day barbeque in South Africa, some delicious Mid-Autumn Festival mooncakes in China, & much more. ...

Mother India at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow, has been an institution since 1996 & specialises in dishes such as ginger & green chilli fish pakora, seasoned Scottish haddock with Puy lentils, & Delhi-style Scottish lamb, all cooked fresh to order, reflecting Mother India owner Monir Mohammed`s commitment to cooking quality Indian food without pandering to the British taste for inauthentic korma or masala. The strategy has been hugely popular, allowing expansion to five outlets, including tapas, take- aways & a Mother India Cafe in Edinburgh. Mother India is regularly ranked in Herald restaurant critic Ron Mac Kenna`s top 10 Scottish restaurants. The book will incorporate a first person account of Monir`s personal culinary journey, with a photo essay of the life of one of the world`s great Indian restaurants as an integral cog in the cultural melting pot of a modern British city. Alongside this will be a collection of recipes, some of which are signature Mother India dishes, & others designed specifically for home cooking. Each recipe will draw upon Monir`s story: his beginnings as a boy from a British Asian family who started working in restaurants at 14 & his pivotal stay in the Punjab in his late teens where he learned the ancient principles of Indian home cooking from scratch. The book will tell the story of the risks he took to build a personal, authentic style of Indian cooking. There are human stories running through the recipes as well: Hajra Bibi`s Salmon was inspired by a dish his mother (Hajra Bibi) used to make them as children. ...