You might be forgiven for thinking that, when radio presenter Cash Peters got the call asking him to front a reality-adventure travel programme, he had struck gold. The premise of the show was simple: take a man & dump him in an unfamiliar culture in a faraway land with no money & nowhere to stay, then leave him to survive using his own resources. There`s just one drawback
- Cash is not the adventurous type. On the contrary, he has phobias, allergies, an obsession with hygiene & a fear of eating weird food & sleeping in bug-ridden huts made from cow dung. In short, they picked the wrong man for the job. In this wickedly funny look behind the scenes, Cash recounts with searing wit & unfailing honesty the year he spent struggling to make a TV survival show when the odds were clearly against his surviving at all. On epic journeys from Kenya to Cambodia, Morocco to Dubai, he experiences fascinating cultures, sleeps with them, eats with them
- & finally proves that whatever doesn`t kill you makes you stronger. Though, to be honest, killing you is more likely...

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Strandir, map no. 8, in the topographic survey of Iceland at 1:100, 000 published by Mál og menning, with excellent, vivid presentation of the terrain, footpaths & bridleways, campsites, etc. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by bold relief shading plus colouring and/or graphics to show glaciers, lava fields, sands & mudflats, as well as to distinguish land with vegetation cover from the more sparsely covered terrain. The series provides a splendid presentation of the country’s topography, with large amount of detail & over 43, 000 place names. Road network indicates gravel roads &

Includes:: country tracks. Also marked are local footpaths, clear to see with their distinctive colouring, & bridleways. Symbols shows campsites, tourist huts or shelters, emergency shelters, summer houses, river fords, golf courses & swimming pools, hydro-electric or thermal power stations, local airports, etc, & detail such as individual farms, abandoned farms or ruins, sheepfolds, etc. Each map covers an area of 84 x 67km (53 x 42 miles approx.) & has latitude & longitude lines drawn at intervals of 2’ & 5’ respectively. Map legend

Includes:: English, German & French. To see the other titles in this series please click on the series link.



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Strands describes a year`s worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal & constantly turning up revelations: mermaid`s purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales & a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. This is a series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool & Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost & buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam & jetsam, about mutability & transformation
- about sea-change.
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This is the ultimate beachcomber's book. A series of meditations prompted by walking on the wild estuarial beaches of Ainsdale Sands between Blackpool & Liverpool, Strands is about what is lost & buried then discovered, about all the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, about flotsam & jetsam, about mutability & transformation
- about sea-change. Every so often the sands shift enough to reveal great mysteries: the Star of Hope, wrecked on Mad Wharf in 1883 & usually just visible as a few wooden stumps, is suddenly raised one day, up from the depths
- an entire wreck, black & barnacled, & on either side two more ruined ships, taking the air for a while before sinking back under the s&. & stranger still, perhaps, are the prehistoric footprints of humans, animals & birds on the beach: prints from the Late Mesolithic to mid-Neolithic period which are described as 'ephemeral archaeology' because they are preserved in the Holocene sediment, revealed briefly & then destroyed by the next tide. Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal & constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales & a perfect cup from a Cunard liner. Jean Sprackl&, a prize-winning poet & natural storyteller, is the perfect guide to these shifting sands
- this place of transformation.


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Strandzha Mountains in the south-eastern corner of Bulgaria between Burgas to the Turkish border on a contoured & GPS compatible map from Domino showing local hiking trails & highlighting various interesting sites, with three more detailed enlargements at 1:25, 000. Most place names are in both Latin & Cyrillic alphabet; map legend

Includes:: English. Contours are at 50m intervals & the map has latitude & longitude lines at 10’ intervals. 23 especially interesting locations are prominently highlighted & cross-referenced to descriptions on the reverse side (text in Bulgarian only). The reverse side also

Includes:: enlargements showing in greater detail at 1:25, 000 the coastal area of Ropotamo & Velyov Vir near Primorsko, plus two areas in the Strandzha Mountains around St. Petka plus west of Malko Tarnovo To see other titles in this series please click on the series link. Maps in the Domino series have contours (interval in most titles is 20m or 50m), enhanced by relief shading plus plenty of peak names & additional spot heights. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. An overprint highlights both waymarked routes & unmaintained hiking trails. Although not specifically named on them, the maps can be used to follow local sections of the E3, E4 & E8 trans-European long-distance routes. Road network is graded according to width, indicates locations of petrol stations, &

Includes:: local country tracks & paths. Railway lines are shown with stations. Symbols mark locations of hotels & holiday homes, campsites, mountain refuges, shepherd’s huts & hunting lodges, as well as various places of interest & natural sites. Names of towns, villages & main topographic features are in both Cyrillic & Latin alphabet; smaller peaks or rivers & streams are in Cyrillic only. The maps have latitude & longitude grid at intervals of 5’. Map legend

Includes:: English. Most titles also include a list of local mountain refuges with contact details.







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” Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” The mysterious association between respectable Dr Henry Jekyll & despicable lowlife Edward Hyde is a puzzle to Dr Jekyll`s friends, including his lawyer Gabriel Utterson. Where Jekyll is sociable, hardworking & pious, Hyde is a violent criminal, a wild hedonist. When Hyde beats a member of Parliament to death, Utterson is determined to discover the ties that bind the two men together... Robert Louis Stevenson`s account of man`s capacity for evil is as powerful today as it was on first publication in 1886. ...

In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly discover filthy graffiti & frightening dogs, as well as world-renowned artists & fading celebrities, robbers, lovers, ghosts & poets. But will he find himself? Or a version of himself he might learn something from? Strange Labyrinth is a quest narrative arguing that we shouldn`t get lost in order to find ourselves, but solely to accept that we are lost in the first place. It is a singular blend of landscape writing, political indignation, cultural history & wit from a startling new voice in non-fiction. ...

In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly discover filthy graffiti & frightening dogs, as well as world-renowned artists & fading celebrities, robbers, lovers, ghosts & poets. But will he find himself? Or a version of himself he might learn something fromstrange Labyrinth is a quest narrative arguing that we shouldn`t get lost in order to find ourselves, but solely to accept that we are lost in the first place. It is a singular blend of landscape writing, political indignation, cultural history & wit from a startling new voice in non-fiction. ...

Rosie Strange doesn`t believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It`s no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witch Museum, her first thought is to take the money & run. Still, the museum exerts a curious pull over Rosie. There`s the eccentric academic who bustles in to demand she help in a hunt for old bones, those of the notorious Ursula Cadence, a witch long since put to death. & there`s curator Sam Stone, a man about whom Rosie can`t decide if he`s tiresomely annoying or extremely captivating. It all adds up to looking like her plans to sell the museum might need to be delayed, just for a while. Finding herself & Sam embroiled in a most peculiar centuries-old mystery, Rosie is quickly expelled from her comfort zone, where to her horror, the secrets of the past come with their own real, & all too present, danger as a strange magic threatens to envelope them all. ...

Spanning many centuries, all continents & the realms of outer space & the imagination, this collection of 138 unique graphics combines beautiful full-colour illustrations with quirky statistics & smart social commentary. The result is a distinctive illustrated guide to the world. Brimming with trivia, deadpan humour & idiosyncratic lore, Strange Maps is a fascinating tour of all things weird & wonderful in the world of cartography. ...