` Scottish Wild Flowers`
- Pocket Edition, is an ideal pocket-size guide to over 350 plant species found throughout Scotl&. Packed
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This is a superb, new edition, full-colour guide to the finest winter climbs in Scotl&. The second edition of this indispensible ...

Arctic & Antarctic travel writing has seized the popular imagination for the last three hundred years. Emphasizing themes of endurance, danger & self-sacrifice, tales from the poles are testimony both to human curiosity & to the often fatal attraction of alien landscapes. Figures such as Ernest Shackleton, Captain Oates & Roald Amundsen have become iconic figures in the history of exploration. Yet polar exploration has also spawned a literature with its own history & development. This book discusses the most influential & popular accounts of polar journeys, from the fourteenth-century tax collector who arrived at the Viking settlement in Greenland to find that the inhabitants had mysteriously disappeared, to Captain Robert Falcon Scott`s meticulous account of his own dying. Sarah Moss offers literary readings of books by Nansen, Scott, Franklin & Parry as well as bringing to light less famous but equally important works by other explorers, missionaries & archaeologists from Europe & North America. Thematically arranged, Scott`s Last Biscuit considers the morbid fascination of expeditions that go horribly wrong & the even greater interest attached to those that are rescued at the last minute. Looking at risks ranging from frostbite & polar bears to starvation & cannibalism, it also analyses the enduring appeal of romanticized polar landscapes, the relationship between national identity & planting flags in the ice, & literary approaches to polar travel from Winnie the Pooh to Frankenstein. Considering the little-charted role of women in polar history, Sarah Moss discusses Jenny Darlington`s unjustly neglected American 1950s autobiography, My Antarctic Honeymoon (”for protection against the polar winds I applied lipstick”), Letitia Hargraves` moving & likeable journal of life as the wife of a Hudson`s Bay Company factor in the early nineteenth century, & Isobel Hutchison`s solitary travels around Greenland in the 1930s as a botanist for Kew Gardens. ...

In November 1910 Robert Falcon Scott set off from New Zealand on the greatest quest of the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration
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There is a rat in the house! Determined to bring their nemesis Gruber Handclap to justice, the Majors embark on a global adventure that features kidnapping in The Congo, manslaughter on the Orient Express & romance at the Stasi`s Christmas party. & what`s more, they embark on the greatest adventure of all: Fatherhood. ...

Scozia VERSIONE ITALIANA in the Countries & Regions series from Lonely Planet, market-leading comprehensive guides aimed at independent travellers & serving a large range of international destinations. Frank & informal in style, the guides explore an extensive range of sights, activities, accommodation, restaurants & nightlife & are designed for practical use while travelling on the road. Written & researched by a team of experts, each book is independent in its recommendations & suggestions, often offering individual takes on individual destinations. Widely recognised for their reliability, each Lonely Planet country & region guide has the same layout. Introductory sections profile the destination with individual chapters on particular highlights, getting started, (including when to go) itineraries, history, culture, arts, food & drink & the environment. Each guide is organised geographically by region, with individual sections detailing an extensive range of sights, places of interest, attractions, restaurants, nightlife, accommodation & any local activities. The guides have detailed explanations of historical context where relevant. There is also practical guidance on ...

Scrabble 360 Building left to right & top to bottom, create four (4) letter words using the tiles you draw from the rotating board. The board is replenished with additional letters after each rotation, so the letters you have to choose from keeps changing. Your luck may improve at any time. All players select a letter with each turn of the board, so the energy is intense. The game

Includes:: an element of strategy that means that you can steal letters from your opponents. The first player to score 44 points is the winner.

Includes:: 100 letter tiles with plastic carrying pouch, main spinning board with base, 4 player boards & 10 scoring pegs. For 2-4 players Age 10+



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The Magnetic Fridge Tiles are a fun, express version of the traditional board game. You can use the tiles on fridges or lockers & practice your skills everyday, create challenging words, reminders or messages! Perfect for scrabble addicts & words lovers! The pack contains 102 tiles, each measuring 2x 2 cm. ...

This compact, magnetic version of Scrabble has all the features of the original game & is small enough to fit in your pocket. The convenient & compact design
Includes::- 100 magnetic tiles- Tile/ Storage Bag- 4 magnetic racks- Rules leaflet- Compact case with integral board & scoring This little gem is superb for travelling anyhow & anywhere, as the magnetic board means even the bumpiest trip won’t get in the way of your triple-word-score!
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This is the updated 2nd edition, now in full colour. ” Scrambles & Easy Climbs in the Lake District” is about the appreciation of rock, the exhilaration of climbing, & the sheer pleasure of doing it in some of the most beautiful places on earth. By discarding the arbitrary division between scrambles & rock-climbs, the books makes its readers free to explore all the Lake District`s rocky places. This book, by two experienced rock-climbers, Jon Sparks & Judith Brown, also offers sound advice on how to get started & how to progress; routes that are safe in the wet, & those that should be saved for perfect conditions; &, where to eat, drink & sleep between the ascents. But above all you`ll find 69 routes, from scrambling Grade 1 to rock-climbing V. Diff, which explore the many faces of Lakeland rock. There is no better way to spend a Lakeland day than climbing Scafell Pike via the Esk Gorge, Thor`s Buttress & Ill Crags. ” Scrambles & Easy Climbs” offers a score of such expeditions, from valley floor to airy summit, with hands on rock almost all the way. Less arduous, but equally enjoyable, are days on valley crags like Shepherd`s or st&-alone scrambles like Cam Crag Ridge. You can clamber on sunny Pikes Crag high above Wasdale Head; potter about above the oak woods of the Duddon valley; or climb Kirk Fell the wet way, through the waterfalls of Ill Gill. ...