Panorama Editions’ series comprises a range of single destination titles featuring an especially chosen selection of fifty full spread panoramic colour photographs of eye-catching, interesting & beautiful subject matters, often away from the main tourist routes. Panoramic celebrations illustrate better & lesser known countries, cities & regions of the world; realizing in print the touristic viability of a location & stimulating interest in the subject in front of the lens. Literary texts, by location specific authorities, introduce each title, describing the place, its people & its history & illuminating the evocative panoramic photographs. ...

This historical gift book is a reincarnation of a guide to the river Thames first published 1829 by Samuel Leigh. The original was a concertina of 45 printed & h&-coloured sheets, glued together to form a magnificent 60ft depiction of the rivers north & south banks or Middlesex & Surrey banks, as they were then from Westminster Bridge to Petersham Meadows in Richmond. Among the buildings that stood along this 30-mile stretch of river in those days were many that no longer exist including the Houses of Parliament before they burned down in 1834, or the factory owned by the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel but others still stand today. A great deal of the original panorama shows just trees & foliage, so for this book it has been edited down to feature the most interesting sections. These are grouped into 19 villages, each with a short 200-word introduction. The buildings are captioned (in the present tense, for vivid appeal), & there is an AZ detailing landmarks & key buildings in each section. Written in collaboration with local experts & various local history societies, these descriptions are richly informative & include information on the waterway, the landscape, & the people who lived & worked on the banks of the river at the end of the Georgian era. ...

The London 3D Expanding City Skyline
- Pocket Pop up Book by Walker Books features twelve of London’s most famous sites accompanied
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English villages have long been celebrated for their timelessness & romance. Here the panoramic camera provides a fresh, sweeping perspective, from mellow Cotswold cottages to Celtic villages in Devonshire to medieval structures of the West. Some 80 full-color photographs, most of them splashed across two pages, capture the pastoral elegance of pubs, cottages, village greens, churches, & farmhouses. Paired with enlightening, insightful commentary, they offer a spectacular exploration of a remarkable & enduring feature of English life.

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Panoramas of Lost London
- Work, Wealth, Poverty & Change 1870-1945
- by Philip Davies, with a foreword by historian & presenter

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Pantanal Wildlife in the unique Wildlife Guide series by Bradt; focusing exclusively on the wildlife of selected regions & countries worldwide, exploring birds, mammals, insects, plants, habitats, geology, conservation, hikes & top bird-watching sites. Each title in the series is an ideal introduction to the wildlife of the destination & an ideal visitors’ souvenir. Bradt are one of the country’s leading independent publishers & have an ethos that focuses on responsible travel, in alliance with a philosophy of sustainability; both in the destinations the guides cover but also in encouraging tourists to limit the impact they have on the local environment. An introductory section gives a wildlife overview of the destination, human history, national parks & other protected areas & alien invasion. Further initial chapters cover The Land & habitats, with detailed information on geography & geology, the history of the l&, climate & weather, the coast, forests, lakes & rivers & alpine & sub-alpine climates. Individual animal groups – Birds, Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians & Freshwater Fish, Invertebrates & Plants & Fungi – have dedicated chapters, & detailed descriptions of the animals are accompanied by colour photographs, aiding identification. Inset boxes throughout the text also provide detailed examination of a particular species or notable feature about the indigenous wildlife. A Where to Go chapter at the end of each guide provides details of the destination’s national parks & protected areas, activities, wildlife hotspots & practical planning & travel information, including local transport & accommodation. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:25, 000 published by the Centro Nacional de Información Geograficá, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 10m intervals & colouring and/or graphics to show different types of vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information shown on topographic maps at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites. The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.PLEASE NOTE: our grid for the whole of Spain is in preparation
- in the meantime, for areas other than those shown on the attached grid please use CNIG’s topographic survey at 1:50, 000 by searching for ‘SI00000832’. Each 25K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 50K map, with the numbering system: I = NW quarter, II = NE quarter, III = SW quarter & IV = SE quarter. CNIG maps in the Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 survey & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K or 25K title in more detail. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series grid
- for map numbers not yet listed on our website please contact us by email.

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The darkest secrets of World War II! finally revealed. The number one bestseller returns with his most explosive book to date. Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the fight against Nazism. & James Zennor, a brilliant, troubled, young Oxford don is horrified. He returns one morning from rowing to discover that his wife has disappeared with their young son, leaving only a note declaring her continuing love. A frantic search through wartime England leads James across the Atlantic & to one of America's greatest universities, its elite clubs & secret societies -- right to the heart of the American establishment. & in his hunt for his family, James unearths one of the darkest & deadliest secrets of a world at war! ...

Brian Blessed has a lifelong love of animals & over the years has rescued cats & dogs, horses & ponies, & even a very ungrateful fighting cock. All were characters in their own right, such as Jessie, a dog left languishing for a year at the local RSPCA, who ruled the entire household with a rod of iron, when she wasn`t out harassing the local vicar. Then there was Bodger, an abused terrier cross breed, who was nursed back to health by Brian & his wife, & Peppone, a stray cat & notorious thief, who was responsible for a crime epidemic in the Bagshot area. Most of all there was Misty, a soul mate & the first Jack Russell Brian met who didn`t take an instant dislike to him. Over the years Brian has encountered more exotic animals too, from Kali the black panther who had free run of his kitchen & the gentle boa constrictor Bo Bo who went for walks with him in Richmond Park to the female gorillas who found him incredibly attractive. Written with all of Brian`s ebullience, The Panther in My Kitchen is a laugh-out-loud, life-affirming book about the joy animals bring & why we should care for them. ...

By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. The future of our world had been contested here, in the hinterlands of France & across the German plains. But what`s become of the battlefields now? Or the people that lived on them? & is there any trace of the 2.7 million Americans who smashed their way into the Reich (or the 12 million that followed)? With questions like these, the award-winning travel writer John Gimlette, guided by WWII veteran Putnam Flint, sets off on an astonishing journey into the past. ...