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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It is September 2009, Ramadan & the eve of Afghanistan`s first `democratic` elections when young American Malone, pilot for an aid airline, does Fatima Hamza the favour of flying her out of Kabul to Bamiyan, while his surgeon wife Kim heads south to Kandahar. The beguiling, Oxford-educated Pashtun Fatima has left Pakistan to rediscover the country she comes from, she tells him, to retrace the places that were important to her spy-chief father, ex-military man & writer with a disturbing gift of prophecy. For both Kim & Malone, the foray into that dangerous territory is to become a prolonged adventure, their former lives receding as they lose touch with one another & enter the world of the enemy. Each is to witness the horror of an air raid, & each is to come face-to-face with the Taliban. They will glimpse hell, but paradise, too, & be changed. ...

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’ 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. ...

When the body of a young mother is found washed up on the banks of the Mataura River, a small rural community is rocked by her tragic suicide. But all is not what it seems. Sam Shephard, sole-charge police constable in Mataura, soon discovers the death was no suicide & has to face the realisation that there is a killer in town. To complicate the situation, the murdered woman was the wife of her former lover. When Sam finds herself on the list of suspects & suspended from duty, she must cast said her personal feelings & take matters into her own hands. To find the murderer.. . & clear her name. A taut, atmospheric & page-turning thriller, Overkill marks the start of an unputdownable & unforgettable series from one of New Zealand`s finest crime writers. ...

Welcome to Overland! Where the California sun shines down on synthetic grass & plastic oranges bedeck the trees all year round. Steam billows gently from the chimney tops & the blue tarpaulin lake is open for fishing... Hollywood set-designer George Godfrey has been called on to do his patriotic duty & he doesn`t believe in half-measures. If he is going to hide an American aircraft plant from the threat of Japanese aerial spies he has an almighty job on his hands. He will need an army of props & actors to make the Lockheed factory vanish behind the semblance of a suburban town. Every day, his ” Residents” climb through a trapdoor in the factory roof to shift model cars, shop for imaginary groceries & rotate fake sheep in felt-green meadows. Overland is a beacon for the young women labouring below it: Queenie, dreaming of movie stardom while welding sheet metal; Kay, who must seek refuge from the order to intern ” All Persons of Japanese Ancestry”. Meanwhile, George`s right-hand Resident, Jimmy, knows that High Command aren`t at all happy with the camouflage project... With George so bewitched by his own illusion, might it risk confusing everybody
- not just the enemy? Overland is a book like no other -- to be read in landscape format. Based on true events, it is a novel where characters` dreams & desires come down to earth with more than a bump, confronting the hardships of life during wartime. As surreal & playful as it is affecting & unsettling, no-one other than Graham Rawle could have created it.
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Chris Scott & his band of globetrotting contributors & specialists have put together the definitive manual for planning & undertaking a vehicle-dependent overlanding adventure across the wilds of Africa, Asia & Latin America. The Overlanders` Handbook is written in the same entertaining yet clear jargon-free English for which Chris`s other books are known
- it doesn`t assume you know your plug gap from a radiator cap. This second edition has been re-researched & updated into a more compact book published as a paperback, rather than a hardback as before.
Includes:: 1. Planning
- When to go; typical costs; documentation; sponsorship; early overland journeys. 2. Vehicle choice & preparation
- The Overlanders` Handbook is the most comprehensive account in print, covering everything from adapting a cheap car to equipping a campervan or 4x 4 for months on the road, or even building & outfitting your own accommodation module to mount on an all-terrain truck chassis. 3. Life on the road
- How to handle dodgy borders, haggle over a purchase, treat a dodgy stomach & cope with crazy driving conditions. Guidance on wild camping; navigation & mapping strategies; onward shipping; advice for solo women overlanders; travelling with children or with pets; vehicle repairs & troubleshooting; & off-road driving techniques. 4. Continental route outlines
- Guidelines on both popular & obscure overland routes through Africa, Asia & Latin America.

Includes:: fuel prices, easiest borders & best seasons, visa strategies, danger zones & regional highlights. 5. Overlanders` Tales
- Half a dozen accounts of global adventures lasting months or even years in vans, 4x 4s & all-terrain trucks
- from contributors aged from 9 to 69. 6. Supported by the online resource: www.overlanders-handbook.com.









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