Selected Caves of Britain & Ireland features clear location maps, descriptions, caving routes & information on equipment required (including rope lengths) for some of the most popular & challenging caves in the Britain & Irel&. Areas covered: Scotl&, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Wales, Somerset, Devon in the UK; & County Fermanagh & County Clare in Irel&.

Includes:: many colour & black & white photographs of the cave interiors.

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Selected Climbs: Mont Blanc & the Aiguilles Rouges presents the best rock climbs in the Mont Blanc range & on the Aiguilles Rouges, from F4 to F6a+. The selection is based on purely hedonistic criteria, including the beauty of the cliff, the variety of the climbing & the quality of the rock. The emphasis is on enjoyable climbs with easy access & descents. The routes cover a variety of rock types, climbing styles & protection (natural & fixed). All the routes are of moderate difficulty & can be done comfortably in a day without the need to carry heavy or bulky gear. Written by local climbers Jean-Louis Laroche & Florence Lelong, this selection of sixty climbs on forty summits in seventeen areas around the Chamonix valley features established classics & recent additions. Included are Marchand de Sable on the Tour Rouge, the Rebuffat Route on the Aiguille du Midi, & the Frison-Roche route of the south-east face of the Brevent, plus many more. Each route features technical notes, a detailed topo & route description, & photos illustrating the climb`s unique character. ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ` It doesn`t matter if you`re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan`s egg!` (from ` The Ugly Duckling`) This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen`s most popular fairy tales
- including ` The Little Mermaid`, ` The Ugly Duckling` & ` Thumbelina`
- in a celebration of one of the world`s most widely recognised children`s authors. With universal themes & dark humour at their heart, these moralistic tales have delighted readers since first publication in the nineteenth century & continued to be well loved today. The fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, a storyteller of great importance to Western literature, have inspired many films, ballets & plays, & entertained generations of children & adults alike.

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This title features an introduction by Carol Ann Duffy. Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished & well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving & passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet & novelist D.M. Thomas, illustrates her broad scope & brilliant imaginative gifts. It covers both her earlier work & the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities. ...

No poetry has touched readers` hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets & biographers of our present day. Robert Graves was one of our most fascinating poets of the last century. Born in London in 1895, he served in the First World War & was mistakenly reported killed in action at the Battle of the Somme, as he vividly recounted in his memoir, Goodbye To All That (1929). While serving in France, he befriended Siegfried Sassoon, & would be instrumental in saving Sassoon from the threat of court-martial that followed his declaration against the prolonging of the war. When Graves visited Sassoon at Craiglockhart Hospital he met Wilfred Owen, & for a time the three poets began to work closely in what Michael Longley, this volume`s editor, calls `a momentous coincidence of talent`. Robert Graves died in 1985 & is commemorated Poets` Corner at in Westminster Abbey. ...

No poetry has touched readers` hearts more deeply than the soldier poets of the First World War. Published to commemorate the centenary of 1914, this stunning set of books, with specially commissioned covers by leading print makers, is an essential gathering of our most beloved war poets introduced by leading poets & biographers of our present day. When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world & as `a mirror of England` (Walter de la Mare). This edition, drawn from Thomas` manuscripts & typescripts as well as from his published works, offers an accessible introduction to this most resonant
- & relevant
- of poets.

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When Edward Thomas was killed at the Battle of Arras in 1917 his poems were largely unpublished. But in the years since his death, his work has come to be cherished for its rare, sustained vision of the natural world & as `a mirror of England` (Walter de la Mare). This new edition offers a selection of some of Thomas` most memorable nature poetry. This heart, some fraction of me, happily Floats through the window even now to a tree. Down in the misting, dim-lit, quiet vale, Not like a pewit that returns to wail, For something it has lost, but like a dove That slants unswerving to its home & love. Beauty. ...

This is the perfect gift for Valentine`s Day. Selected Poems contains Neruda`s resonant, exploratory, intensely individualistic verse, rooted in the physical landscape & people of Chile. Here we find sensuous songs of love, tender odes to the sea, melancholy lyrics of heartache, fiery political statements & a frank celebration of sex. This is an enticing, distinctive & celebrated collection of poetry from the greatest twentieth century Latin American poet. ...

This selection provides a perfect introduction to Armitage`s work as well as offering a timely retrospective of one of the brightest stars of contemporary poetry. Made by Simon Armitage himself from his poetry to date, Selected Poems

Includes:: work from six published volumes, from Zoom! (1989) through to the poem commissioned for the Millennium, Killing Time.

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Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling & thought, & recreating in words the `swarm & confusion of life`. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of ` Solid Objects` through the fragile impressionism of ` Kew Gardens` to the abstract exploration of consciousness in ` The Mark on the Wall`. ...