Philip's Guide to Seashores & Shallow Seas is an easy to use & beautifully illustrated identification guide to marine life. Seashores & shallow seas are one of the most diverse natural environments, rich in plant & animal life. They are also among the most visited, attracting everyone from beachcombers & anglers to sailors & divers. Many who visit the sea take a strong interest in the wildlife found there, & this book provides a comprehensive & accessible guide. More than 1000 species are described in this book. For each species there is an account of the form, size, habitat & distribution. These combined with detailed & life-like illustration enable even the complete novice to easily identify a wide range of flora & fauna. It is a 'must have' for students of marine biography & oceanography, & for collectors of shells & other seashore remnants. Identification is assisted by an illustrated identification key in the introduction, which also describes the marine & seashore environment, explains the impact of the tides, & discusses conservation. Important groups of animals also have their own introductions. The illustrations are by James Nicholl, one of Britain's foremost biological artists. The author, Dr Andrew Campbell, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Biological Sciences at Queen Mary College, University of London. Main map scale: ...

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- An Ecological Guide provides an easy-to-use, authoritative reference to commonly occurring organisms. By looking at
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Seaside is Time Out’s inspirational guide dedicated to exploring the best of Britain’s beaches. Destinations in Engl&, Scotland & Wales are all included, incorporating craggy coves, sweeping strands, family favourites, surfers’ paradises, sheltered bays & secret islands. The guide is organised by region, covering Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Sussex, Kent, Suffolk, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Wales & Scotland & each entry

Includes:: an extensive introduction to the beach & its history in addition to suggestions for other beaches in the vicinity. Practical information on how to get there, parking, facilities, sports, swimming, rules & further reference details are also provided. A range of seaside images from Time Out’s extensive image database accompany the text & serve to celebrate some of Britain’s most attractive & celebrated sands.

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These evocative postcard books, each containing 24 postcards, give a glimpse of how our forebears lived, worked & played. From Victorian flower-sellers in front of St Paul's Cathedral to Leicester Square crowded with horse-drawn carriages; & Edwardian holidaymakers on Brighton Pier to Punch & Judy shows & donkey rides, they present a snapshot of an England now long gone. ...

This stunning photography book captures the spirit of the now almost lost tradition of the English seaside holiday. The photographs
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`” Season of Migration to the North” is an Arabian Nights in reverse, enclosing a pithy moral about international misconceptions & delusions. The brilliant student of an earlier generation returns to his Sudanese village; obsession with the mysterious West & a desire to bite the hand that has half-fed him, has led him to London & the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East. He kills them at the point of ecstasy & the Occident, in its turn, destroys him. Powerfully & poetically written & splendidly translated by Denys Johnson-Davies`
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Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often, it is seen as heading for either disaster or salvation; the realities are more subtle, more complicated than this binary opposition suggests. The continent has over the last century experienced the fastest population growth in the entire history of our planet. This brings pressures environmental & human, but it also changes the logic of Africa`s economics. It suggests reasons for hope. Thanks to mobile phones, African retail markets are now becoming integrated; in South Africa, Nigeria & elsewhere, banking is penetrating society; foreign direct investment is higher than ever before. & Africa has 80 per cent of the world`s empty agricultural l&, which foreigners covet. Yet there is no reason to believe that Africa is heading for political stability. Its so-called `failed states` are actually here to stay. After two centuries when Europeans & Americans thought of Africa as a continent struggling to catch up, it has arrived. It has developed, but in ways no one foresaw. Season of Rains explains how one billion Africans are changing their continent & changing the world. Stephen Ellis dissects how the postcolonial legacy has been overcome, how Africans are seizing the commercial & political initiative, & why this matters. Africans are reorienting-literally-as they connect to the East. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese, seeking minerals, oil & more, have settled in Africa; conversely the Chinese city of Guangzhou is home to as many as 100, 000 Africans. In a series of short, pungently written chapters, Ellis surveys the continent today, offering the reader an indispensable guide to how money, power, religion & indigenous development will shape Africa`s coming generations. ...

There are few books that offer home cooks a new way to cook & to think about flavor-and fewer that do it with the clarity & warmth of Nik Sharma`s Season. Season features 100 of the most delicious & intriguing recipes you`ve ever tasted, plus 270 of the most beautiful photographs ever seen in a cookbook. Here Nik, beloved curator of the award-winning food blog A Brown Table, shares a treasury of ingredients, techniques, & flavors that combine in a way that`s both familiar & completely unexpected. These are recipes that take a journey all the way from India by way of the American South to California. It`s a personal journey that opens new vistas in the kitchen, including new methods & integrated by a marvelous use of spices. Even though these are dishes that will take home cooks & their guests by surprise, rest assured there`s nothing intimidating here. Season, like Nik, welcomes everyone to the table! ...

From all over Europe from Scotland to the Mediterranean, from Hungary to Cornwall, Elisabeth Luard has collected descriptions of traditional feasts & festivals, many of which she has experienced first h&, & hundreds of recipes for the dishes appropriate to them. As well as being a unique & wonderfully readable cookery book, European Festival Food is written with the scrupulous attention to detail & authenticity that is the hallmark of Elisabeth Luard`s cookery writing, the recipes are peppered with hundreds of fascinating anecdotes & little known facts about local history & folklore. Starting with December the book is organized according to the months of the year & so it importantly also reminds us of the cycle of seasonality that is now once again regarded as the natural & much more enjoyable way to shop & eat. ...

This volume is an appreciation of New Zealand landscape & culture, inspired by the passing of the New Zealand year. Writer & critic David Eggleton's essays on each of the four seasons weave together images & information from the natural world with insights into how people's lives are affected by the progress of the seasons. The text is accompanied by the photographs of Craig Potton, which have been selected to complement David Eggleton's writing & to leave the reader with an appeaing view of New Zealand life. This author/photographer team were Montana Award finalists for their previous collaboration, Here On Earth. ...