`I stood on the beach truly alone for the first time. I would not see another person for sixty days. I was on an uninhabited tropical island & I had nothing with me to help me survive. No food, no equipment, no knife & not even any clothes. All I had was my camera kit so that I could intimately record my self-inflicted sentence.` What if you were abandoned on a tropical island with no food or water, no basic equipment, not even a knife, & no clothes
- could you survive? Extreme adventurer Ed Stafford isn`t sure, but he`s about to find out as he pushes himself to the limit in this gripping & inspirational test of human survival. For sixty days, with only his explorer`s instinct & a video camera to record his experiences, Ed faces the ultimate feat of physical & mental endurance. He confronts blazing heat & brutal loneliness; eats snails to escape starvation & battles illness, dehydration & fatigue in what is his most dangerous, & at times life-threatening, challenge to date. This epic story of survival, full of exhilarating highs & devastating lows, is told with raw emotion & captivating honesty. This book will leave you amazed & exhausted.
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Naked at Lunch is one man`s cracklingly witty, compellingly odd & oddly life-affirming journey into the subculture of nudism. Celebrated journalist Mark Haskell Smith meets, & indeed joins, those shucking off social conventions by shucking off their clothes
- he hikes bare-back in the alps with a naked rambler`s society; he buys baguettes in the buff in a French resort & he meets the marginally dressed mayor of a Spanish clothes-optional municipal. But this is not just a book of naked adventures & sun-warmed genitals. It is a study of 20th-century Western cultural & social mores; a record of radical history & politics practised by those made radical by their refusal to get dressed; an investigation of why people feel the need to get together & disrobe; & a heart-felt ‘crie de couer’ for reclaiming pride in our bodies & rejecting those who would make us ashamed.
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A book that explains how power works & why diplomacy matters more than ever in our digital age. Who will be in charge of the 21st century? Governments? Google? & how do we influence the future? In the next 100 years, the world will need to deal with the same amount of social development witnessed in the last 43 centuries
- from the rebirth of the city state, the battle for new energy, disappearing borders, the desire of the world`s people to move to developed nations. Naked Diplomacy is written by a former ambassador
- the youngest appointed for 200 years. He explores the core principles of a progressive 21st century foreign policy: how to balance interventionism & national interest, use global governance to achieve national objectives & sets out an agenda for representative international systems. Fletcher discusses smart power, soft power & the new interventionism alongside lessons from history from the most notorious leaders & diplomats across the world
- Talleyr&, Kissinger, Mandela & the Kennedys included. Offering real-world examples of how diplomacy continues to have a significant impact on people`s lives, & why it will continue to do so, the question at the heart of this book for all those in power is: Who do you represent? How can you do it better. Naked Diplomacy provides the answers.


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One of Bath`s principal industries is tourism, with more than one million staying visitors & 3.8 million day visitors to the city on an annual basis. The visitors come to this World Heritage Site mainly for the Roman Baths & to admire the city`s Georgian elegance. The Naked Guide to Bath provides in-depth information for all the must-see sites, but is also a modern guide book for a modern city. The Naked Guide recommends the best places to eat, drink & shop &

Includes:: advice on children`s activities, day trips & much more.

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Topographic survey of Denmark at 1:100, 000 from Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen, the country’s national survey organization. The maps have contours at 5 metre intervals, with colouring and/or graphics showing various types of terrain & land use: woodlands, orchards, heath, sand & dunes, tidal flats, meadows & marshl&, etc. The maps provide detailed presentation of the road & rail networks & other information expected of topographic mapping at this scale. No specifically tourist information such as waymarked cycling or hiking routes is shown. Standard size sheets cover an area of 56 x 45km / 35x 28 miles approx. Map legend

Includes:: English. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING:AVAILABILITY: all the maps are now printed on dem&. Delivery from Denmark can take over 4 weeks. Once an order has been placed we cannot accept any returns for credit.COORDINATES: although the maps are meant to have UTM coordinates for EUREF 89 (WGS 84) datum, sheets are sometimes delivered printed without any grid or margin ticks for UTM or latitude & longitude.

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Namche Bazar, sheet no. 2786-03, in the topographic survey of Nepal at 1:50, 000 published by the Nepali Government in the late 1990s & early 2000s & produced from remote sensing data by Finnish cartographers as part of that country’s international aid program. The maps cover 15’ x 15’ quadrangles.IMPORTANT – PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: AVAILABILITY: although, theoretically at least, still in print, these maps are very difficult to get locally in Nepal and/or from various suppliers elsewhere specializing in obtaining such maps. DELIVERIES MAY TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OR EVEN MONTHS.PROBLEMS WITH PLACE NAMES: reports from previous users indicate that transliteration of place names differs from that used widely not only on other maps & in guide books but also on the ground itself, in road signs & in the tourist & trekking industry in general. Whilst most names are similar enough to be easily recognizable, e.g. Namche Bajar for Namche Bazar or Lantan for Langtang, we have been told of confusion & difficulties arising from different spellings appearing on these maps.TREKKING ROUTES & TOURIST INFORMATION: whilst the maps show foot trails & mark locations of temples, etc, they carry no specific trekking information. Major trekking routes & places of interest are not highlighted. There is no marking for base camps & other tourist facilities. Map specifications: Contours are at 40m intervals, with graphics and/or coloring to show various features of the terrain (glaciers with moraines & crevasses, quarries, gravel or clay pits, etc.) & vegetation (forests, bush, grass, orchards & plantations, etc). Additional comments such as “open mixed forest mainly bajh & pine” annotate many area. The maps have numerous spot heights, but relatively few peaks are named. Areas outside the country’s borders are left blank. Settlements in remote areas are indicated by markings for individual buildings & the placing of names does not always make it clear which group of buildings they refer to. Road network distinguishes between major & minor foot trails. Symbols mark features such as temples, schools & hospitals, police stations, etc. Also shown are the country’s administrative divisions. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 5’. Map legend & all the text is in English. Coverage: the whole country is now covered, with the north at 1:50, 000, plus central & southern Nepal at 1:25, 000. The two series are complementary, do not overlap & use the same grid & numbering system (apart from the Lumbini Zone, where a different grid & numbering are used). For areas not shown on our grid & titles not listed here, please contact us by e-mail, but please do bear in mind the problems with availability & the likely very long delivery time. ...

Name That Movie: 100 Illustrated Movie Puzzles by Paul Rogers, published by the San Francisco-based Chronicle Books, enables you to check your knowledge of mostly American films by presenting each title as a rebus with six drawings. Some are, inevitably, obvious; no proper cinema buff would puzzle over Rick’s Café Americain, Rosebud, a shower head or a statue of Christ flown by a helicopter, but many more are quite challenging! Accompanying indexes are arranged both by title & by page number, so if you are stuck you can easily find the answer or see if your favourite film is included. ...

A Commissario Ricciardi Neapolitan mystery that packs a real punch. Years ago, Vinnie Sannino left Naples on a ship bound for America, where he found fame & wealth as a boxer. But his gilded life in the new world came to an abrupt end when, during a fight, with a heavy punch to the head of his opponent, Vinnie killed a man in the ring. Now, Vinnie`s back in Italy, pining for the woman he left behind. Cettina, however, is now a married woman. She was, at least, until recently when her husband was found dead, killed by a single blow to the head. For Commissario Ricciardi, one of the most faceted cops in fiction, & his partner Maione, it is a going to be a long, rainy, week in Naples. ...

Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Icel&, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland & applied on a whim, despite having two young children & a comfortable life in Kent. The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland`s economic collapse, which halved the value of her salary, by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull & by a collection of new friends, including a poet who saw the only bombs fall on Iceland in 1943, a woman who speaks to elves & a chef who guided Sarah`s family around the intricacies of Icelandic cuisine. Moss explored hillsides of boiling mud & volcanic craters & learned to drive like an Icelander on the unsurfaced roads that link remote farms & fishing villages in the far north. She watched the northern lights & the comings & goings of migratory birds, & as the weeks & months went by, she & her family learned new ways to live. ...

Namibia at 1:1, 000, 000 on a large, double-sided map from Tracks 4 Africa: GPS compatible, with roads & tracks showing both driving times & distances, & printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant plastic paper. The map divides the country north/south with a generous overlap & Windhoek included on both sides. The Caprivi Strip is shown as an inset at the same scale of 1:1, 000, 000. Topography is shown by altitude colouring with graphics/colouring for salt pans, swamps & marshes, plus plenty of peaks, passes, names of mountain ranges, etc. National parks & other protected areas are highlighted. The map provides for independent travellers an excellent picture of Namibia ...