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. ...

” Someday, when I am rich, I am going to invite someone from my travels to visit me in America”. Brad Newsham was a 22-year-old travelling through Afghanistan when he wrote this in his journal. Fourteen years later, he`s a Yellow Taxi driver working in San Francisco. He`s not rich, but he has never forgotten his vow. This title is the account of Brad Newsham`s journey through the Philippines, India, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe & South Africa as he searches for the right person
- someone who couldn`t afford to leave their own country, let alone holiday in the West.
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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. ...

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. ...

Topographic coverage of mainland Spain at 1:50, 000 in the MTN50 (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Centro Nacional de Información Geografica, the country’s civilian survey organization. The maps have contours at 20m intervals, enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring and/or graphics to show different types of terrain, vegetation or land use. Boundaries of national parks & other protected areas are marked. In addition to all the usual information featured on topographic mapping at this scale, detailed presentation of the road & rail networks, rural tracks & paths, etc, the maps also show campsites & mountain refuges. On more recent editions some GRs, the official long-distance hiking routes, are also marked (although not as clearly as on hiking maps from other publishers). Each map covers 29.5x 18.5 km (with adjustments in the border or coastal areas). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, plus margin ticks for latitude & longitude at 1` intervals. Map legend is in Spanish only.HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT 50K MAP: all the titles in CNIG’s 200K Provincial Road Maps series at 1:200, 000 are overprinted with the grid for the 1:50, 000 maps & can be used to see the area covered by each 50K title. TO SEE THE LIST OF TITLES IN THIS SERIES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK.PLEASE NOTE
- MAP TITLES: the grids shown on our website serve both the civilian & the military 1:50, 000 topographic series. Although the areas covered by maps in both series are identical (apart from some border or coastal sheets), occasionally map titles differ – only one title is shown on the grid, usually the military one. In Galicia, the Basque country & in the Catalan speaking areas the tendency now is to use local place names rather than the often better known Castilian ones. Where possible, both versions are included in our titles. Map titles listed on our website are based on information received by us at the time of publication, but sometimes maps arrive showing a completely different title! As long as the map number is as ordered, the correct map has been supplied.
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”A man went to knock at the king`s door & said, Give me a boat. The king`s house had many other doors, but this was the door for petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting by the door for favours (favours being offered to the king, you understand), whenever he heard someone knocking on the door for petitions, he would pretend not to hear...” Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, & who volunteered to crew for him & what cargo it was found to be carrying the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. & at the end it will be clear that what night appear to be a children`s fable is in fact a wry, witty Philosophical Tale that would not have displeased Voltaire or Swift. ...

Published right after the first Opium War, this book reveals the chasm between the Marco Polo-inspired view of a mythically serene China & the harsh realities of the colonial era. A delightful mix of fact & fancy, Tales about China & the Chinese encapsulates the ethos of an era when the West saw China as a remote, & unspoiled empire
- ripe for the picking.
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Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, executing her next morning. To end this brutal pattern & to save her own life, the vizier`s daughter, Shahrazad, begins to tell the king tales of adventure, love, riches & wonder
- tales of mystical lands peopled with princes & hunchbacks, the Angel of Death & magical spirits, tales of the voyages of Sindbad, of Ali Baba`s outwitting a band of forty thieves & of jinnis trapped in rings & in lamps. The sequence of stories will last 1, 001 nights.
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