For advice you can trust, look no further than Marco Polo. Perfect Days in South Africa Travel Guide is a compact guide for people who have little time to prepare for a trip, don`t want to miss anything, like to be inspired by great ideas for exciting days out & love all things ultra-practical & easy to use. The unique spiral binding lays flat & is perfect for people on-the-go. Inside your Perfect Days in South Africa Marco Polo Guide: Top 10 sights
- we highlight the most important sights & sites of the diverse & beautiful country of South Africa. The South Africa Feeling
- gives tips to help you experience the essence of this wonderful destination from where to enjoy a Braai, a traditional barbecue festival to exploring one of the many national parks. Let Marco Polo help you get under the skin of South Africa to see what makes it tick. The Magazine section
- provides an interesting & entertaining account of life in South Africa. This melting pot of cultures, languages & beliefs, this diversity of national parks & wildlife reserves, the dry deserts to the green valleys, the sandy beaches to the barren mountains, this guides digs deep into this varied country to see what shapes modern South Africa. Don`t miss
- each chapter highlights the absolute must-sees for each area & what to do at your leisure if time permits. Five chapters organised by region & city
- each chapter provides restaurant recommendations, the best shopping streets & the hottest places to go for a night out. Perfectly planned itineraries
- you can explore the essence of South Africa with these perfectly planned itineraries. All you need to do is decide whether you want to travel on foot, by bike, car or public transport for perfect days out in this awe-inspiring country. Detailed 3D graphic
- see inside Table Mountain in Cape Town with this amazing 3D graphic which offers a stunning insight into this South African landmark. Street Atlas & pull out map
- the best of both worlds! Some people prefer an atlas while others prefer a separate map
- Marco Polo Perfect Days Guides have both. The separate, fully indexed pull-out map is handily placed in a high-quality plastic wallet at the back of the guide, which can also be used as a storage pocket. Top 10 reasons to come back
- for those undecided about a return visit... there is a list of Top 10 reasons to come back again!









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Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King & Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, & the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, at great personal cost she has steadfastly opposed Burma`s brutal military regime since 1988, when she emerged as the leader of the Burmese democracy movement. As well as house arrest she has endured every kind of intimidation, including an attempt on her life in 2003. Yet if her exemplary fortitude has earned Aung San Suu Kyi world-wide admiration, inside Burma itself little has changed
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In an English seaside town, lovers & children, young men & middle-aged women, weave in & out of each other`s lives & stories. A mother is tormented by her daughter`s tattoo; another only pretends to love her baby. A wife stalks her husband & his new lover; a broken egg through a letterbox tells a story that will not go away; the cat thinks he knows best. Threaded throughout are longings for love & poignant disappointments, surprising pleasures & temptations. Some will fall but some, like the small boy at the circus who sees his babysitter fly past on a trapeze wearing little more than a blue bra & spangles, will retain their feeling of awe. PERFECT LIVES, follows Polly Samson`s rapturously received first collection, LYING IN BED. They are rueful, knowing, witty, poignant, bashful, bold. Her genius is in the nuance. ...

Norman had always been perfectly normal. That was until the day he grew a pair of wings! Norman is very surprised to have wings suddenly
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This is the second book in the Small Blue thing trilogy. Still recovering from her earlier brush with death, Alex`s source of strength & comfort is Callum, still locked in a sad half-life after drowing in the river Fleet that flows into the Thames. & she needs all the strength & comfort she can get: someone is out to make her life a misery, & someone is out to get hold of the extraordinary bracelet that enables her to communicate with Callum. ...

It is December 6 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans
- but now, war fever & race hate grip the city & the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men & one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He`s superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up & consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith
- Irish emigre, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist & the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. The investigation throws them together & rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm centre that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls
- comrades, rivals, lovers, history`s pawns. Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, & Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss & the precipice of America`s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. It is a great American novel.


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` Crackling with zeitgeisty energy... Sam Byers`s dizzying second novel comes over like an episode of Black Mirror as scripted by a ”woke” Martin Amis.` Welcome to Edmundsbury, a small town in Engl&, some time in the recent future. Brexit has happened & is real. Fear & loathing are on the rise. Grass-roots right-wing political party England Always are fomenting hatred. The residents of a failing housing estate are being cleared from their homes. A multinational tech company is making inroads into the infrastructure. Just as the climate seems at its most pressured, masked men begin a series of `disruptions`, threatening to make internet histories public, asking the townspeople what don`t you want to share? As tensions mount, lives begin to unravel. Jess Ellis`s research into internet misogyny pushes her relationship with her over-exposed opinion columnist boyfriend Robert Townsend to breaking point. Robert`s championing of the inhabitants of the threatened estate begins to erode the edges of his fragile idealism. Local England Always politician Hugo Bennington finds his twisted loyalties catching up with him. At the nearby tech park, behind the utopian rhetoric, Trina James finds that something is dangerously amiss.A controversial tweet; a series of ill-judged thinkpieces; a riot of opinions. Suddenly Edmundsbury is no longer the peaceful town it has always imagined itself to be. Things are changing. No-one is quite who they appear. The future has arrived, & it is not what anyone imagined. ...

The new consolidated edition of Performance Standards for Shipborne Radiocommunications & Navigational Equipment incorporates all amendments adopted up to December 2015 including:
- Electronic inclinometers
- Bridge equipment & systems
- Revised performance standards for shipborne voyage data recorders (VDR)
- Revised performance standards for the long-range identification & tracking of ships
- Amendments to the performance standards for devices to measure & indicate speed & distance
- Worldwide radionavigation system.





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Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human`s. Soon, he is creating the most sublime fragrances in all the city. Yet there is one odour he cannot capture. It is exquisite, magical: the scent of a young virgin. & to get it he must kill. & kill. & kill... ...

The original story of falling for France, ” Perfume from Provence” was first published in 1935 & became a best-seller. Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome & George Bernard Shaw when she married Sir John Fortescue, the king`s librarian & archivist & famous historian of the British Army. Tempted by a better climate & the cheaper cost of living, they left England & found a stone house amid olive groves, high in the hills above Nice. Almost at once they were bewitched by the landscape & especially their garden
- delightful terraces of vines, wild flowers, roses & lavender
- & by the charming, warm-hearted & wily Provencals. Winifred`s witty account of life with stonemasons, craftsmen & gardeners as they extend the house is an enchanting read.

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