The astonishing tale of the first sea voyage to circumnavigate the entire globe. Magellan's dramatic maritime expedition in 1519 discovered the straits that enabled Europe to trade with the Eastern spice islands & changed the course of history. In an era of intense commercial rivalry between Spain & Portugal, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator sailed to explore the undiscovered parts of the world & claim them for the Spanish crown in one of the largest & best-equipped expeditions ever mounted in the Age of Discovery. Yet of the fleet of five vessels under his comm&, only Victoria was to return to Spain after three harrowing years, her captain murdered, more than two hundred of her sailors dead from scurvy, torture, execution & drowning, & a small, ravaged crew that survived to tell the extraordinarily dramatic story. What emerged was a tale of mutiny, of orgies on distant shores, of claims of cannibalism, of death & disease, of missionary zeal & base cruelty, & of incredible discoveries: the earth was indeed round, the Americas were not part of India, the earth was covered mainly by oceans, & a new route that allowed Europe access to the fantastic wealth of the Eastern spice islands. Indeed, despite the devastating loss of life & vessels, the Victoria sailed back laden with enough cloves & other spices for the expedition to be considered a remarkable financial success. Accomplished despite the fact that European mariners were exploring a world that was unmapped & misunderstood, where superstition held sway & there were real fears that you could literally sail over the edge of the world, that sea monsters lurked in the briny depths, or that if you passed the equator, the ocean would boil & scald you to death, this was a truly spectacular achievement. The shockingly explicit diaries of Antonio Pigafetta reveal much of the story. This is a many-layered book
- a voyage into history, a tour of the world as it was emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, an anthropological account of exotic tribes & a chronicle of a desperate grab for political & commercial power. It is also a gripping adventure story, compelling & full of suspense & drama.
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From early childhood, when her eccentric mother would take her on trips along her beloved Ridgeway in a horse-drawn cart, Candida Lycett Green has retained a love of travelling at a horse's pace & casting an eye on the beauty of England through the back door. Framed by a recent 150-mile journey through Yorkshire & Northumberl&, Over the Hills & Far Away also dips back into the journeys by horse Candida has taken at the turning points in her life. From her idyllic childhood in the bohemian Betjeman household, through a charmed youth in the Swinging Sixties, Candida tells a story made all the more poignant by her parents' deaths & her own recent fight with breast cancer. ...

Beatrix Potter is one of the world`s bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter`s remarkable & unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three `tales`, Matthew Dennison takes a selection of"ations from Potter`s stories & uses them to explore her multi-faceted life & character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals & fairy tales into a bestselling author & canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter`s life & her own illustrations, this short biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter`s work. ...

Beatrix Potter is one of the world`s bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred years. Yet how she achieved this legendary status is just one of several stories of Beatrix Potter`s remarkable & unexpected life. Inspired by the twenty-three `tales`, Matthew Dennison takes a selection of"ations from Potter`s stories & uses them to explore her multi-faceted life & character: repressed Victorian daughter; thwarted lover; artistic genius; formidable countrywoman. They chart her transformation from a young girl with a love of animals & fairy tales into a bestselling author & canny businesswoman, so deeply unusual for the Victorian era in which she grew up. Embellished with photographs of Potter`s life & her own illustrations, this short biography will delight anyone who has been touched by Beatrix Potter`s work. ...

Edward Lear (1812-1888) is one of the best-loved of English poets. His comic invention & unconstrained sense of the absurd have been enjoyed by generations of children, & treasured by adults conscious of the subtle melancholy that underlies the fun. This collection

Includes:: all the favourite nonsense poems. Peter Swaab sets them alongside a generous selection from Lear`s six travel books (including his three Journals of a Landscape Painter), first published between 1841 & 1870, & long out of print. For the first time Lear is presented as an adventurer, not only in the fabled lands of the Jumblies & the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo, but also in nineteenth-century Albania, Greece, Calabria & Corsica, where his encounters with the people & customs of these sometimes equally strange & challenging cultures are recorded with the same acute & rueful comic imagination.

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In 1975, when Adrian Flanagan was fifteen, he read Sir Francis Chichester's account of his record-breaking circumnavigation & a dream began to form. Thirty years later, on 28 October 2005, Adrian set sail from the south coast of England on his quest to voyage vertically around the earth by the most difficult route imaginable, via Cape Horn & the icebound waters of the Russian Arctic. The challenges would test the limits of his endurance. Adrian faced death when a rogue wave swept him from the deck. He was chased by pirates off Brazil, dislocated both wrists &, at Cape Horn, his boat capsized in a hurricane. He also swam in water ten miles deep, sailed in the company of whales, hunted with a spear gun & came to appreciate the fragile balance of the natural world from a perspective that few have ever seen. After 30, 825 miles, Adrian arrived home on 21 May 2008, with a Royal Navy escort. ...

Only one person has ever sailed vertically around the world singlehandedly
- Adrian Flanagan. Sailing horizontally is difficult
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Overberg Whale Coast on a very attractive & detailed, double-sided map from Slingsby Maps, with many additional street plans & area maps. Relief is depicted by elevation tinting, spot heights, & contours at 100m intervals. Road information

Includes:: minor gravel roads, private road, mountain passes & intermediate driving distances on most roads. Routes which are particularly attractive
- or conversely, worth avoiding
- are indicated. Railways are marked, showing local stations. Symbols depict an enormous range of

Features: accommodation & camping sites, farm stalls & other local produce shop (cheese, dried or fresh fish, olives, etc.), wine cellars, breweries, various outdoor recreation sites (golf, paragliding, etc), landmarks, monuments, nature reserves, animal & bird watching sites, botanical sights, wheel-chair routes, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5





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Overberg Whale Coast on a very attractive & detailed, double-sided map from Slingsby Maps, with many additional street plans & area maps. Relief is depicted by elevation tinting, spot heights, & contours at 100m intervals. Road information

Includes:: minor gravel roads, private road, mountain passes & intermediate driving distances on most roads. Routes which are particularly attractive
- or conversely, worth avoiding
- are indicated. Railways are marked, showing local stations. Symbols depict an enormous range of

Features: accommodation & camping sites, farm stalls & other local produce shop (cheese, dried or fresh fish, olives, etc.), wine cellars, breweries, various outdoor recreation sites (golf, paragliding, etc), landmarks, monuments, nature reserves, animal & bird watching sites, botanical sights, wheel-chair routes, etc. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 5’ intervals.A particular feature of the map is its depiction of the coastal areas, where the overprint indicates not only the usual facilities founds in such places: best beaches, yachting, diving, board sailing, angling, but also the best places for spotting whales, plus sites of numerous shipwrecks with dates when sunk, going back to the 17th century. Inset maps at 1:25, 000 or larger scale are arranged around the main map & on the reverse. These display enlargements of 25 towns & localities, including Hermanus, Bredasdorp, Betty`s Bay, Gansbaai, Kleinmond, Montagu, Swellendam, etc., with relief, accommodation, petrol stations, & other facilities marked. Contact details for further tourist information resources are provided. The map was researched & drawn by Peter Slingsby
- renowned environmental educator & cartographer. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.






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This handy ANWB map full of great cycling routes, spread across the province & neighboring regions. Each guide contains 14 separate routes, printed on a card in A4 format. The route map contains clear route descriptions, sights, current cycling junctions long-distance routes, street names & all ANWB Hospitable Points. There is also a sheet with ANWB Node Cards & a brochure with the user manual & tips for each route map. With a scale of 1: 100, 000 (1 cm = 1 km) the cards are very readable. The ANWB Fietsgids is available in a series of 11 parts, in which all provinces are described in detail. ...