Following the phenomenal success of ” The Silver Spoon”, this book presents a collection of 380 summer recipes for all lovers of Italian food, collected by the team behind the original book. ” Recipes from an Italian Summer” presents a range of easy-to-follow, authentic Italian recipes using the most delicious seasonal ingredients. From informal picnics to family barbecues & entertaining outdoors, ” Recipes from an Italian Summer” has the perfect dish for every day of summer. ...

In this affectionate & informative account of Spain`s food, Nicholas Butcher focuses on the traditional cooking of Spain through its regions & its produce. The book starts with a journey through Spain, region by region. Then there are chapters on tapas, salads, soups, vegetables, eggs, rice, sauces, fish & shellfish, meat, poultry & game & puddings. The author`s enthusiasm for Spanish cooking permeates every page. He explores his favourite dishes, the culture & history behind them & how best to recreate them. Their origins lie in the authentic cuisine of the Spanish cities, towns & countryside. From the bustling capital Madrid & Basque seaside towns to rustic Andalucia he highlights the pillars of Spanish cooking, & the culture in which the food is grown, prepared & eaten. With a love of vibrant flavours & uncomplicated ingredients, Spanish cuisine has its roots firmly in home cooking & has developed out of the ingenious use of local raw ingredients
- olives, almonds, saffron, garlic, paprika
- together with magnificent fish, shellfish & charcuterie. First published in 1990 but out of print for many years this beautifully written travelogue goes beyond the familiar to the heart of the country, its culture & its food. It`s a wonderful read & is regarded by many as one of the best books on the subject. Nicholas Butcher was born & brought up in England & ran the family restaurant in Chichester before moving permanently to Spain in the early 1980s.

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100 delicious recipes featuring game & foraged ingredients showcase the pleasure of cooking from the woods Respected French chef & writer Jean-Francois Mallet has assembled 100 delicious recipes featuring game & foraged ingredients, such as chestnuts, dandelion leaves, nettles, & wild strawberries. Organized into chapters based on food type
- furred game (venison, wild boar, hare); feathered game (partridge, pheasant, quail); mushrooms, herbs, & snails; & nuts & berries
- the recipes encourage readers to source & discover the pleasure of cooking game & wild foods. From sauteed venison with port & chestnuts to stuffed partridge with kale, these beautifully illustrated dishes bring the flavours of the woods directly into home kitchens.

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Falk, one of Germany`s leading publishers of street plans, produce their town plans in two different formats. Falk Extra plans are folded in a standard way, where the whole map can be opened to view the entire area it covers. For larger cities, the same mapping is also published with a special folding system designed to show only a small section of the map at one time. The whole map can be opened but it will be cut in several places. Many find these street plans very user-friendly & easier to handle than conventional maps. The plans, which cover towns with their outer suburbs, indicate main landmarks & public buildings & show all the public transport facilities, one way streets & car parks. Plans of lager cities include a separate map of the town centre at a more detailed scale & a diagram of the underground & the suburban rail network. The plans also show the postal divisions & have an extensive street index which, where appropriate, shows individual postal codes for each street. Map legend

Includes:: English. Falk Extra plans also include on the reverse a road map of the surrounding area.

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Thirty years after completing his military service Ziya flees the spiralling turmoil of one of Turkey`s great sprawling cities to seek a serene existence in a village of which he has long heard dreamlike tales. Having endured two years of gruelling military life, taking brutal orders from a man hiding behind his rank, & then losing his wife & child in a terrorist attack, Ziya has never quite been able to return to the life he once had until one day he breaks free. Arriving in the village, Ziya is greeted by his old friend from the army, Kenan, who has built & furnished a vineyard house for him. There he is welcomed by Kenan`s family, but the village does not provide the total isolation Ziya yearns for & he is forced back through the tangled web of his memory to the time he & Kenan spent defending the treacherous Syrian/ Turkish border in search of the reason why Kenan feels so extravagantly in his debt. Hasan Ali Toptas masterfully blurs the boundaries between dream & reality, truth & memory, past & present, to create a gripping & surprising tale that introduces a major writer to English-language readers for the first time. ...

Jacob has saved his brother from the Mirrorworld, but now he will pay a terrible price. A fairy`s curse is burning in his heart, & to break the spell he must embark upon a perilous journey
- with his trusty friend Fox by his side
- to seek out the only treasure that could save him. Jacob`s search for the golden crossbow will lead him across hundreds of miles by land & sea, to an invisible, enchanted palace within the Dead City. It will bring him face to face with vicious beasts, bloodthirsty giants, & a deadly stone-faced rival. It will test his courage like never before. Living Shadows is the second book in the thrilling Reckless series.

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The third book in Cornelia Funke`s internationally bestselling Reckless series After a perilous encounter with an Alder Elf, Jacob must journey into the enchanted Mirrorworld once again. Together with Fox, his beautiful shapeshifting friend, Jacob has no choice but to follow his brother on the trail of the Dark Fairy, who has fled deep into the East: to a land of folklore, Cossacks, spies, time-eating witches & flying carpets. But what exactly is the Dark One running from? The third book in the series, The Golden Yarn is a thrilling tale of courage & fear, jealousy & forbidden desire; in which love has the power both to save a life
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Luis Ocana seemed doomed to live in the shadow of cycling`s greatest ever rider, Eddy Merckx
- ` The Cannibal`. Their rivalry
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Recklinghausen & Herten in 1944 in the Alan Godfrey series of reproductions of British War Office survey maps first published in 1945 prior to the Allied occupation of the area. This map covers an area from Westerholt village eastward to the historic town of Recklinghausen, & also

Includes:: Herten. Features include König Ludwig Mine, Rollinghausen area, Hochlarmark Estate, Hochlar, General Blumenthal Mine, Ewald Mine, railways, Ewald Estate, Schloss Herten, Buer-Resse, Schlägel & Eisen Mine, etc. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. This series of reproductions from Alan Godfrey covers the major industrial area east of the Rhine that

Includes:: Bochum, Cologne, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Oberhausen & other towns, with their great network of railways & industries. The maps are taken from the British War Office 1:12, 500 plans & reduced at Approx. 1:19, 000. Published in 1945, prior to the Allied occupation of the area, the maps are especially good at showing industry, collieries & transport. They are not bombing maps
- indeed, they make clear that allowance is not made for bomb damage
- but show the areas with all their industrial sites & railways largely as they were before the bombing raids of 1943-44. The maps have additional information added by British intelligence. This is normally accurate but allowance must be made for the `fog of war` & occasional spelling mistakes, etc. Each title has on the reverse a specially written introduction to the area in English, with a shorter text in German. Map legend is in English only.





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Based on a controversial opinion piece originally published in the ” New York Times, ” ” Reclaiming Travel” is a provocative meditation on the meaning of travel from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Ilan Stavans & Joshua Ellison seek to understand why we travel & what has come to be missing from our contemporary understanding of travel. Engaging with canonical & contemporary texts, they explore the differences between travel & tourism, the relationship between travel & memory, the genre of travel writing, & the power of mapmaking, Stavans & Ellison call for a rethinking of the art of travel, which they define as a transformative quest that gives us deeper access to ourselves. Tourism, Stavans & Ellison argue, is inauthentic, choreographed, sterile, shallow, & rooted in colonialism. They critique theme parks & kitsch tourism, such as the shantytown hotels in South Africa where guests stay in shacks made from corrugated metal & cardboard yet have plenty of food, water & space. Tourists, they assert, are merely content with escapism, thrill seeking, or obsessively snapping photographs. Resisting simple moralizing, the authors also remind us that people don`t divide neatly into crude categories like travelers & tourists. They provoke us to reflect on the opportunities & perils in our own habits. In this powerful manifesto, Stavans & Ellison argue that travel should be an art through which our restlessness finds expression--a search for meaning not only in our own lives but also in the lives of others. It is not about the destination; rather, travel is about loss, disorientation, & discovering our place in the universe. ...