Straddling the Hampshire Downs & the distinctive countryside of Sussex, the South Downs is Britain's newest & most visited national park, & is abutted by a long coastline & the surprisingly remote landscapes of the Weald. Slow-travel enthusiast & Sussex resident Tim Locke takes a close-up look at the best of the countryside & places in his back yard, & celebrates what makes the area so distinctive. This is not a book of dry practicalities. Locke's local knowledge leads the reader to his favourite walks, pubs & and places to stay, while his colourful interviews with local craftsmen & characters give visitors a personal acquaintance with the region. Sussex boasts a huge variety of landscapes & architecture, from the chalk South Downs to the salty marshes at Chichester Harbour. The ways of enjoying it are just as diverse, & could include foraging for fungi on the Wealden heaths, watching the unique Sussex pastime of stoolball, paragliding over the Downs or sampling a locally produced wine. ...

In June 1863 an English lady set off by train on the trip of a lifetime: Thomas Cook`s first Conducted Tour of Switzerl&. A century & a half later, travel writer Diccon Bewes, author of the bestselling Swiss Watching, decided to go where she went & see what she saw. Guided by her diary, he followed the same route to discover how much had changed & how much hadn`t. She went in search of adventure, he went in search of her, & found far more than he expected. Slow Train to Switzerland is the captivating account of two trips through the Alps: hers glimpsing the future of travel, his revisiting its past. Together they make a journey to remember. This is a tale of trains & tourists, of the British & the Swiss, of a Victorian traveller & a modern-day Englishman abroad. It is the story of a tour that changed both Switzerland & the world of travel forever. ...

Travel writer Diccon Bewes embarks on a historical train ride following the route taken by Thomas Cook in the nineteenth century. Thomas Cook in June 1863 began his first ever, conducted tour
- the round trip would take 3 weeks & was a rail journey travelling from London to Lucerne. The success of this tour meant that Cook became a household name & gave rise to modern mass tourism. With the aid of a diary written by a female passenger documenting the trip day by day, Diccon Bewes follows the footsteps of these early tourists.
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Slowinski National Park in a series covering Poland’s best hiking areas on waterproof & tear-resistant, laminated maps, specially designed to withstand repeated re-folding & even the worst weather conditions. Each map is double-sided & has clear, well presented cartography with a contoured base (20m interval) &, where appropriate, relief shading, graphic relief in rocky areas, & spot heights. Extensive overprint highlights waymarked hiking trails & on many titles also cycling, skiing or canoeing routes. Symbols show accommodation facilities including hotels, campsites, youth hostels, mountain refuges, etc., restaurants & bars in more remote areas, local bus stops, petrol stations, medical facilities, etc. Many titles include street plans of holiday resorts. The maps have either a UTM or latitude/longitude grid. * Map legend

Includes:: English.*IN THIS TITLE: Slowinski National Park on the Baltic coast. The map covers an area from Ustka to Lake Sarbsko. Overprint

Includes:: cycling routes. Also included are street plans of Ustka & Leba.



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Slowly Down the Ganges is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece. Told with Newby`s self-deprecating humour & wry attention to detail, this is a classic of the genre & a window into an enchanting piece of history. On his forty-forth birthday, Eric Newby sets out on an incredible journey: to travel the 1, 200-mile length of India`s holy river. In a misguided attempt to keep him out of trouble, Wanda, his life-long travel companion & wife, is to be his fellow boatwoman. Their plan is to begin in the great plain of Hardwar & finish in the Bay of Bengal, but the journey almost immediately becomes markedly slower & more treacherous than either had imagined
- running aground sixty-three times in the first six days. Travelling in a variety of unstable boats, as well as by rail, bus & bullock cart, & resting at sandbanks & remote villages, the Newbys encounter engaging characters & glorious mishaps, including the non-existence of large-scale maps of the country, a realisation that questions of pure `logic` cause grave offense &, on one occasion, the only person in sight for miles is an old man who is himself unsure where he is. Newby`s only consolation: on a river, if you go downstream, you`re sure to end up somewhere.
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When photographer Eloise Leyden spent a year travelling around India, she became fascinated not only by the vibrant beauty of the land & the warmth of its people, but also by the country's sizeable population of stray dogs. Leyden's empathy with animals is captured perfectly in this colourful, touching collection of images of dogs roaming the bustling city streets, scavenging in markets, basking on sandy beaches & sleeping just about anywhere. Different aspects of the dogs' daily life are chronicled: a sadhu feeds an eager pack of street dogs in Rishikesh, while a puppy begs patiently for scraps from a customer at a food stall in Varanasi &, in Calcutta, a small gang snoozes peacefully together on a pile of sandbags. Leyden, who undertook voluntary work for several animal charities during her travels, reveals the close bond that often develops between the dogs & their fellow street dwellers
- humans & animals alike
- & documents the efforts of individuals & groups to promote the welfare of the strays.

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` Shockingly original` The Times `A literary freestyler with brio to burn...scabrous & very funny` Guardian `A no-holds-barred comedic romp` Junot Diaz After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, aka the Schwa, a little known avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city`s dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods & the Berlin Wall in search of his artistic
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- other. Ferocious, bombastic & laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is the second novel from Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty, a comic genius at the top of his game.

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The southern part of Sweden in a series of 30 double-sided cycling maps from Norstedts printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Mainland is covered at 1:90, 000 with Gotland at 1:100, 000. The maps, prepared in association with Cykelfrämjandet
- Sweden’s largest national cycling organization, highlight all the national & other major cycle routes, plus a selection of local routes. The overprint indicates sections which are on gravel roads and/or not singposted. Also marked are selected hiking trails. A range of symbols indicate various facilities & places of interest, including campsites & youth hostels, wind shelters, cultural & historical sites, interesting nature & geological spots, etc. The maps provide a very detailed picture of the road network, including privately maintained roads open to the general public. Railway lines are shown with stations & ferry connections are marked. Topography is indicated by light relief shading with spot heights, plus colouring and/or graphics for forests & marshl&. The maps have a UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each map also provides phone numbers & web addresses of local tourist offices.


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The southern part of Sweden in a series of 30 double-sided cycling maps from Norstedts printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Mainland is covered at 1:90, 000 with Gotland at 1:100, 000. The maps, prepared in association with Cykelfrämjandet
- Sweden’s largest national cycling organization, highlight all the national & other major cycle routes, plus a selection of local routes. The overprint indicates sections which are on gravel roads and/or not singposted. Also marked are selected hiking trails. A range of symbols indicate various facilities & places of interest, including campsites & youth hostels, wind shelters, cultural & historical sites, interesting nature & geological spots, etc. The maps provide a very detailed picture of the road network, including privately maintained roads open to the general public. Railway lines are shown with stations & ferry connections are marked. Topography is indicated by light relief shading with spot heights, plus colouring and/or graphics for forests & marshl&. The maps have a UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each map also provides phone numbers & web addresses of local tourist offices.


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The southern part of Sweden in a series of 30 double-sided cycling maps from Norstedts printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Mainland is covered at 1:90, 000 with Gotland at 1:100, 000. The maps, prepared in association with Cykelfrämjandet
- Sweden’s largest national cycling organization, highlight all the national & other major cycle routes, plus a selection of local routes. The overprint indicates sections which are on gravel roads and/or not singposted. Also marked are selected hiking trails. A range of symbols indicate various facilities & places of interest, including campsites & youth hostels, wind shelters, cultural & historical sites, interesting nature & geological spots, etc. The maps provide a very detailed picture of the road network, including privately maintained roads open to the general public. Railway lines are shown with stations & ferry connections are marked. Topography is indicated by light relief shading with spot heights, plus colouring and/or graphics for forests & marshl&. The maps have a UTM grid, plus latitude & longitude lines at intervals of 10’. Map legend

Includes:: English. Each map also provides phone numbers & web addresses of local tourist offices.


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