When Dominic Gill set out from Alaska on his bicycle, it was to be no ordinary ride. His goal was to reach Ushuaia, the southernmost city in South America, & he was starting off far from confident & with barely enough food to last a week. But Dominic had a secret weapon: the spare seat. His bicycle was a tandem & he would invite strangers to join him on his long journey. Over 26 months, Dominic covered 18, 449 miles down the west coast of the Americas, passed through 15 countries, was looked after by countless strangers, crashed into a banana truck & was attacked by a man with a rusty machete. But Dominic's journey wasn't just an endurance challenge full of derring-do. While sharing his bicycle with 270 strangers who wanted to help him on his way, Dominic discovered a world that differed dramatically from the scare stories & the sensationalist press reports that had shaped his preconceptions about life in the Americas. What started as a physically demanding road trip turned into the inspirational adventure of a lifetime. ...

Blue Mountains National Park, including the Six Foot Track, in the Take a Walk series of books by John & Lyn Daly, two of the most experienced bush walkers in Australia, is a walking guide suitable for beginners as well as experienced bushwalkers. A comprehensive presentation of each walk offering localised maps, directions, advice on the difficulty, notes on the area & colour photographs makes this guide the perfect companion for exploring this region & discovering its beauty. The book starts with an introduction providing advice on staying safe, navigation, equipment & protecting the environment. It then organises the National Park into different areas, Glenbrook, Springwood to Lawson, Wentworth Falls, Leura, Katoomba, Blackheath, Porters Pass & Megalong Valley, Mount Victoria & Bells Line of Road, Jenolan Caves & including the popular multi-day walk, the Six Foot Track. For each area it provides a specific overview on the evolution & environment as well as suggestions on how to get there. It then goes into detailing are a range of walks, from short strolls to half-day moderate walks & overnight walks, requiring a higher level of experience & fitness. The information provided for each trek

Includes:: distances & times, difficulty grading, a sketch map showing the trail & facilities along the route, access directions, where to picnic & camp, useful organisations & contact numbers. Throughout, the book is annotated with facts & curiosity & is illustrated with colour photographs. Take a Walk in Blue Mountains National Park will help you discover the natural hidden treasures of this region.

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Catherine Hunter is the daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She`s one of the privileged
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This book is reproduced in facsimile format, exactly as it was published almost 100 years ago. It also contains fantastic line drawings of different contemporaneous guns & equipment, each labelled with its French interpretation. From the sublime to the ridiculous, joyous to the poignant, this book is a snapshot of life on the front line for an army so very far from home. ...

Colourless, tasteless, odourless, ageless: water is both the simplest thing on earth & the most complex. We cannot live without it yet it kills six thousand children a day. It is the ultimate renewable resource but we pollute it without thinking twice. Why, if water is so valuable does nobody want to pay for it unless it comes in a designer bottle? Is it really the oil of the twenty-first century? Will we all soon be fighting over it, or can it lead countries into co-operation rather than conflict? In this enthralling voyage of discovery, Rupert Wright sets out to discover exactly what water is & why it plays such an important role in history, culture, art & literature. Part reportage & part personal journey, Take Me to the Source is the fascinating story of the substance that makes life on earth possible. ...

A man returns from the dead, & the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room...A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune. Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man`s sister-in-law who claims she has been warned by `spirits` that Mrs Underhay`s first husband is still alive. Poirot has his suspicions when he is asked to find a missing person guided only by the spirit world. Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman`s true motive for approaching him... ...

The pioneering Wright brothers dared to dream of being the first men in the world to fly... but would they ever see their dreams take flight? The golden age of aviation is brought vividly to life in this story of determination, ingenuity & courage from Adam Hancher. ...

The pioneering Wright brothers dared to dream of being the first men in the world to fly...but would they ever see their dreams take flight? The golden age of aviation is brought vividly to life in this story of determination, ingenuity & courage from Adam Hancher. ...

Inspired by a sailing trip with her aunt on the East Coast when she was four, Ellen Mac Arthur saved her school dinner money for eight years to buy her first boat, an eight-foot dinghy called Thr`penny Bit. A bout of glandular fever in her final year at school ended her plans to become a vet. But, transfixed by scenes from the Whitbread Race being shown on television while she convalesced, she resolved to become a sailor instead. In February 2001 24-year-old Ellen Mac Arthur completed in just ninety-four days the Vendee Globe, the round-the-world`s toughest race. & she became the fastest Briton ever to sail around the world alone, the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed & the fastest woman to ever have done so. In Taking on the World, Ellen tells her enthralling & inspiring story, showing how courage, passion & determination can overcome all obstacles
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The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from towers, to those who tuned in to watch the moon landings. Throughout history, the visibility of airborne objects from the ground has made for a spectacle of flight, with sizeable crowds gathering for eighteenth-century balloon launches & early twentieth-century air shows. Taking to the Air tells the history of flight through the eye of the spectator, & later, the passenger. Focusing on moments of great cultural impact, this book is a visual celebration of the wonder of flight, based on the large & diverse collection of print imagery held by the British Library. It is a study of how flight has been thought & pictured. ...