` Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, & what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning & tireless legwork, is Hersh`s warmth & humanity. Essential reading for every journalist & aspiring journalist the world over` John le Carre In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school & university
- while running the family`s struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America`s premier investigative journalists, whose fearless reporting has earned him fame, front-page bylines in virtually every newspaper in the world, a staggering collection of awards, & no small amount of controversy. Reporter is the story of how he did it. It is a story of slog, ingenuity & defiance, following Hersh from his first job as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, through his Pulitzer Prize-winning freelance investigative exposes, to the heights of his reporting for The New York Times & the New Yorker. It is a tale of night-time encounters with great Civil Rights leaders, unauthorised meetings with Pentagon officials, raucous dinners with Canadian soldiers in Hanoi, tense phone calls with Secretaries of State, desperate to save face; of exposing myriad military & political wrongdoing, from My Lai to Watergate to Abu Ghraib, & the cynical cover-ups that followed in Washington & New York. Here too are unforgettable encounters with some of the most formidable figures from recent decades, from Saul Bellow to Martin Luther King Jr., from Henry Kissinger to Bashar al-Assad. Ultimately, in unfurling Seymour Hersh`s life & career, Reporter tells a story of twentieth-century America, in all its excitement & darkness.
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With ” Letters From America”, Alistair Cooke became one the greatest reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. ” Reporting America” presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War through to the assassination of John Kennedy & Bobby Kennedy (Cooke was actually present), the moon landings & the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Almost all the material will be new to Cooke fans
- transcripts of his legendary ” Letters from America”, long-forgotten reports in the Guardian (whose correspondent in New York he was for 25 years) & other freshly discovered writings- they`re all here.
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Repovesi area of Finland at 1:25, 000/50, 000 in a series of beautiful & informative maps of popular outdoor leisure areas with cartography of the country’s topographic survey. Excellent use of colours, shading & symbols provides a very detailed picture of the terrain & vegetation. Extensive overprint highlights routes for hiking, and/or other outdoor pursuits, a wide variety of accommodation, from hotels & holiday villages to Lapland tepees, food & fuel supplies, etc. The maps have a UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude. Map legends include English. ...

Map No. 10181, Repparfjorddalen, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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This work provides an account of the mapping of the United States from its colonial origins to 1900. Many of the significant maps & mapmakers are discussed in a chronological narrative that begins with the first European mappings of the New Netherlands (New York State, Massachusetts & Connecticut) in the early 17th century & concludes with the Rand Mc Nally atlases of the 1890s. Maps tell us a great deal about the transformation of America`s national identity. Having undertaken extensive research in map collections & with rare archival material in the US & overseas, geographer John Rennie Short provides a description of how maps have both embodied & reflected power, conflict & territorial expansion throughout American history. His illustrated text focuses on maps of colonial claims, surveys of the American West, & national atlases, paying particular attention to how & why certain groups
- Native Americans, for example
- were included on or excluded from maps.

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Everyone has heard of the tuatara, New Zealand's unique 'living dinosaur'; but equally fascinating, if less well known, are the country's other reptiles. There are more than 65 species of lizards (including skinks & geckos), frogs & other reptiles & amphibians native to New Zeal&, & scientists such as author Tony Jewell are still discovering new species & subspecies today. In this new addition to a popular New Holland series, Tony covers all the known species from Northland to the far south; his text is backed up by outstanding photographs of their many geographic colour variants, so that readers will be equipped to identify almost any specimen encountered in the wild. This is a groundbreaking handbook & a superb aid for natural history enthusiasts, trampers & educationalists. ...

South-East Asia is one of the richest parts of the world in terms of reptiles. The first comprehensive guide to the reptiles of this region, A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia covers all the reptiles recorded from mainland South-East Asia, from Thail&, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia to Singapore & Peninsular Malaysia, as well as the islands of the Great Sundas (including Sumatra, Java, Borneo & Bali). A detailed account with key identification characteristics, habitat & behaviour is included for each species, from crocodiles, tortoises & turtles, to lizards & snakes. Every recognized species is described, & 74 magnificent specially commissioned colour plates by top wildlife artists depict nearly 700 major species in meticulous detail. Where useful, details such as plastrons (for turtles & tortoises), juveniles, variants & head patterns are also shown on the plates. ...

” The spell of Alaska, ” Ella Higginson wrote in 1908, ”falls upon every lover of beauty who has voyaged along those far northern snow-pearled shores...or who has drifted down the mighty rivers of the interior which flow, bell-toned & lonely, to the sea... No writer has ever described Alaska; no one writer ever will; but each must do his share, according to the spell that the country casts upon him.” In A Republic of Rivers, John Murray offers the first comprehensive anthology of nature writing in Alaska & the Yukon, ranging from 1741 to the present. Many of the writers found here are major figures-John Muir, Jack London, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, & Edward Abbey-but we also discover the voices of missionaries, explorers, mountain-climbers, Native Americans, miners, scientists, backpackers, & fishermen, each trying to capture something of the beauty of this still pristine l&, to render in their own words the spell that the country casts upon them. The range of viewpoints is remarkable. With Annie Dillard we look out at ice floes near the remote Barter Island & see ”what newborn babies must see: nothing but senseless variations of light on the retinas.” With Frederick Litke we mourn the senseless slaughter of sea mammals. We join scientist Adolph Murie, the father of wolf ecology, as he probes the daily life of an East Fork wolf pack. & we listen as Tlingit Indian Johnny Jack relates the difficulty of maintaining a dignified life close to nature at a time of cultural upheaval for his people. Most of these selections have never appeared in any anthology & some entries-particularly those written by early American & Russian explorers-have never been available to general readers. There is laughter here & there is sorrow, but finally there is communion & liberation as generation after generation encounter the unsurpassed beauty & wildness of the Arctic. Taken together, these forty-nine men & women provide a unique portrait of America`s final frontier. ...

There are a couple of hundred songs that are sung by millions across the world each day, that school children know by heart & sports fans belt out perfectly even after eight beers. & they aren`t pop songs
- they are national anthems. These are songs which inspire the fiercest of feelings: for some they are a declaration of nationalistic pride; for others a rallying cry for revolution; & for others still they serve as a shameful reminder of past wrongs. & yet, despite the fact that for many of us they form a fundamental part of our national consciousness, the fascinating stories underlying the creation & adoption of each national anthem have rarely, if ever, been told. In Republic or Death, Alex Marshall brings the incredible stories of the world`s national anthems to life. Taking in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa & the Americas North & South, he embarks on an adventure that

Includes:: cycling the route along which French revolutionaries marched as they first sang La Marseillaise; entering a competition for the best singer of the Star-Spangled Banner; & attempting to bribe his way to an audience with the king of Nepal in order to uncover the story behind the only national anthem written on a Casio keyboard. In the course of his enthralling & often hilarious travels, Alex encounters everyone from senior politicians & anthem composers to the sports fans & activists from whom these songs evoke such a wide range of emotions. Along the way, he uncovers the fascinating cultural & musical history of the world`s anthems, & also asks us to consider what they mean for us today.


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There are a couple of hundred songs that are sung by millions across the world each day, that school children know by heart & sports fans belt out perfectly even after eight beers. & they aren`t pop songs
- they are national anthems. These are songs which inspire the fiercest of feelings: for some they are a declaration of nationalistic pride; for others a rallying cry for revolution; & for others still they serve as a shameful reminder of past wrongs. & yet, despite the fact that for many of us they form a fundamental part of our national consciousness, the fascinating stories underlying the creation & adoption of each national anthem have rarely, if ever, been told. In Republic or Death, Alex Marshall brings the incredible stories of the world`s national anthems to life. Taking in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa & the Americas North & South, he embarks on an adventure that

Includes:: cycling the route along which French revolutionaries marched as they first sang La Marseillaise; entering a competition for the best singer of the Star-Spangled Banner; & attempting to bribe his way to an audience with the king of Nepal in order to uncover the story behind the only national anthem written on a Casio keyboard. In the course of his enthralling & often hilarious travels, Alex encounters everyone from senior politicians & anthem composers to the sports fans & activists from whom these songs evoke such a wide range of emotions. Along the way, he uncovers the fascinating cultural & musical history of the world`s anthems, & also asks us to consider what they mean for us today.


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