Nevados de Chillán group at 1:50, 000 in a series of contoured, GPS compatible trekking & exploration maps at various scales form Trekkingchile. The map is centred on El Trumao & extends north-east to include the main group of the volcanos: Nevado, Vidaurre, Chillán Nuevo & Chillán Viejo. Contours are at 50m intervals. Symbols show campsites, refuges, rangers’ huts, viewpoints, thermal springs, etc. The map has a latitude & longitude grid at 1’ intervals. On the reverse is a street plan of Las Trancas annotated with various facilities & places of interest. The map also

Includes:: colour photos of local flowers, plus advertisements for local tourist facilities with text in English and/or German. Maps in the Trekkingchile series use satellite imagery as a base, with contour lines & colouring to indicate different types of terrain & habitats. Unless indicated to the contrary in the individual descriptions, the maps have a UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude. The maps are annotated with tourist information & most titles include a street plan of the region’s main town. Many are illustrated with drawings of local fauna or flora. Map legends & other text include English. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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Elderly British men display a variety of annoying habits. They write letters to the newspapers; they drink too much; they reminisce about the old days; they make lewd comments to younger women; they shout at the television screen; & they go for long walks & get lost. Jeremy Cameron chose the last of these options. Trying to emulate Patrick Leigh Fermor`s feat of 1933, he walked from Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Leigh Fermor was a legendary figure. Scholar, multilinguist, beautiful prose stylist, war hero, tough guy, charmer & famous lover: Cameron is none of these things & he also suffers from a heart condition. Rest assured that there will be no tedious details of operations or stoicism in this book. Nor will there be descriptions of understated generosity, quiet irony or British phlegm. The main point of travel is to recognise the virtues of staying at home. When at home, it is not possible to get bogged down in Alpine snow, fall over on one`s face on Kosovan tarmac or suffer a comprehensive mugging on deserted roads in Greece. Nor does one have to speak foreign languages, eat foreign food or, above all, drink terrible tea. It is about two thousand miles from Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Thirteen countries lie in wait for the walker. They have many wonderful sights & much fascinating history. Readers will not find them in this book. They will, however, find a number of stories of varying authenticity & some very dubious observations about life. By the time Turkey arrived, Cameron was utterly & completely fed up with the whole process. Never again would he do anything quite so stupid. He is currently walking round all the places in England beginning with the letter Q. ...

Trying to be Ernest Hemingway is never easy. After reading A Moveable Feast, aspiring novelist Enrique Vila-Matas moves to Paris to be closer to his literary idol, Ernest Hemingway. Surrounded by the writers, artists & eccentrics of `70s Parisian cafe culture, he dresses in black, buys two pairs of reading glasses, & smokes a pipe like Sartre. Now, in later life, he reflects on his youth while giving a three-day lecture on irony. & he`s still convinced he looks like Hemingway. Never Any End to Paris is a hilarious, playful novel about literature & the art of writing, & how life never quite goes to plan. ...

Ever thought about sharing your toothbrush with a shark? Or using a tiger as a towel? Well, think again.. . This brilliantly daft, witty cautionary tale will guide you safely through the perils of dinner, bathtime & bedtime
- helping you to snuggle down for a lovely sleep, free from dinosaurs, tigers & sharks. A wickedly funny & reassuring bedtime read.
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Bognor Regis... Aberystwyth... Glasgow... Can you place them on a map? Most people can`t these days. What kind of countryside do you pass through on your way to the Cairngorms, or the Fens, or Northumberland? What`s north of the Pennines? & what`s it like when you get there? Most folk wouldn`t have a clue. Increasing numbers of us don`t have a basic geographical notion of these islands. Blame it on a decline in formal geography teaching, or Sat-Nav & other `A to Z & nothing in between` devices that make us lazy
- we are becoming the best travelled & least well orientated Britons ever seen. Now Christopher Somerville, bestselling author of Coast & many other books of UK exploration, presents the basics of what belongs where, which counties border one another, & what lies beyond the Watford Gap. He reminds us of the watery bits, the lumpy bits & the flat bits, & gets to grips with the smaller islands surrounding Britain
- & much more. Never Eat Shredded Wheat is a reminder of all the fascinating British geography once learned at school
- geography that brings our islands vividly to life
- geography which we have forgotten, or never even knew.



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Born in 1901 into a troubled childhood in rural Devon, he suffered through the sadism of the English public school system, then in 1918 left for New Zealand where he made his first fortune. There he took up flying & in 1930 became one of the first aviators to fly from London to Sydney. After being the first solo flyer across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Austria, he set off to circle the world, only to crash, nearly fatally, in Japan. After serving in the RAF in the Second World War, he took up sailing at the age of fifty-four & in twelve years became the most famous yachtsman in the world. Along the way there are struggles & triumphs, climaxing in being knighted with Sir Francis Drake`s sword in Greenwich. Ian Strathcarron, himself an aviator, yachtsman & adventurer, follows him all the way, comparing what Sir Francis found then to what he finds now, meeting the descendants of the people who played important parts in his life & getting under the skin of what made the man, the man. ...

Sally & Joe discover a mysterious set of footprints leading out into their garden & beyond
- & they are convinced the footprints
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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary Engl&. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, & with the fate that has always awaited her & her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship & memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life. If you enjoyed Never Let Me Go, you might also like Ishiguro`s The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics. ...

Unlike some small towns that gradually peter out into the wilderness, this one just ends. On the west edge of town sits the Iceberg Tavern; behind it there's a steel-mesh garbage cage, rusted by the salt air & battered by encounters with something even more inhospitable & frightening than the Arctic elements. Beyond that...there's nothing. Standing on the roof of the bar you can throw a rock that would land in Hudson Bay. Nearby, a signpost is planted in the ground, with a picture of a polar bear & an admonition not to go any further. Take one step backwards & you can be inside enjoying caribou steaks & Canadian whiskey. One step forward & you're in bear country--over a million square kilometers of frozen sea ice, dotted with blood stains where the largest land predators on earth have dragged their prey from the water. Welcome to Churchill, Manitoba, Polar Bear Capital of the World. Human population: 943. In Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye, Zac Unger takes us to an utterly unique & remote place like no other--a realm once reserved exclusively for one of the most majestic predators on earth, & where now the line between man's territory & mother nature's has become perilously blurred. It is one man's journey to develop a deeper understanding of an animal that has become a lightning rod for environmental debate, as well as the uneasy relationship between polar bears & the people whose presence is both at odds with & dependent on the bears' survival. ...

From the folklore of Nigeria to the connivery of Wall Street, a vibrant cross-cultural memoir from acclaimed Nigerian-American author Okey Ndibe. Okey Ndibe`s funny, charming, & penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential
- but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency
- African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe`s relationships with Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, & other literary figures; examines the differences between Nigerian & American etiquette & politics; recalls an incident of racial profiling just thirteen days after he arrived in the US, in which he was mistaken for a bank robber; considers American stereotypes about Africa (and vice-versa); & juxtaposes African folk tales with Wall Street trickery. All these stories & more come together in a generous, encompassing book about the making of a writer & a new American.

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