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Bees are a marvel of nature & vital to human existence. The Bee Book is a great introduction to bees & beekeeping & celebrates the wonder of bees in nature, in our gardens & in the hive. A honey bee visits up to 1, 000 flowers a day yet produces only 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. The Bee Book offers startling insights into the lives of bees & shows how we can best support & benefit from their presence in our gardens & hives. Marvel at the industry & intelligence of bees, the turbulent life of a queen & the remarkable properties of honey. This book

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Your drinking companion to over 1, 700 beers from around the world. The Beer Book is a comprehensive guide to the best beers in the world, exploring more beers than any other book. Beer, the drink to taste, savour, talk about and travel for. Explore its astonishing variety and rapidly expanding new tastes - thirst-quenching lagers, ”meal-in-a-glass” stouts, peppery white beers, tangy fruit-based brews, and classic ales and bitters - with this updated guide to every good beer in the world. Tim Hampson, Chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers, takes you from Brazil to Slovakia, Japan to Belgium, to features every significant brewery in every significant brewing nation. Visit over 800 breweries, such as Guinness or Kronenburg and read detailed tasting notes for over 1,
700 beers from a team of local specialists. Whet your appetite with five beer trails with trail maps that take you round key beer regions to experience the best breweries and brewpubs.With this updated edition of The Beer Book (previous ISBN 9781405333016) you can discover all the best beers of the world, which brands of beers to try and how best to enjoy them, with brews that are anything but `a pint of the usual`. It is a perfect gift for beer lovers.

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Your drinking companion to over 1, 700 beers from around the world. The Beer Book is a comprehensive guide to the best beers in the world, exploring more beers than any other book. Beer, the drink to taste, savour, talk about & travel for. Explore its astonishing variety & rapidly expanding new tastes
- thirst-quenching lagers, ”meal-in-a-glass” stouts, peppery white beers, tangy fruit-based brews, & classic ales & bitters
- with this updated guide to every good beer in the world. Tim Hampson, Chairman of the British Guild of Beer Writers, takes you from Brazil to Slovakia, Japan to Belgium, to features every significant brewery in every significant brewing nation. Visit over 800 breweries, such as Guinness or Kronenburg & read detailed tasting notes for over 1, 700 beers from a team of local specialists. Whet your appetite with five beer trails with trail maps that take you round key beer regions to experience the best breweries & brewpubs. With this updated edition of The Beer Book (previous ISBN 9781405333016) you can discover all the best beers of the world, which brands of beers to try & how best to enjoy them, with brews that are anything but `a pint of the usual`. It is a perfect gift for beer lovers.

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Japan - An island in east Asia

White - A colour combining all colours

Glass - A solid, typically transparent. Brittle and used in windows. The first patent granted in the UK was for Glass.

pint - A unit of capacity in the English imperical system and the United States customary units.

Brazil - A country in South America

team - A group of people or animals linked by a common purpose.

Key - A physical or virtual device or code used for opening something

World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti

Gift - Something that is presented without expecting anything in return

Experience - To gain further knowledge by practising.

Classic - Something that is still like it was originally a high quality standard.

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Stanfords was established in 1853 and opened their iconic Covent Garden flagship store in 1901. They have become the top retailer of maps, travel books and accessories in the UK and arguably offer the largest selection of maps and travel books worldwide. Famous names such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Ranulph Fiennes and Michael Palin have purchased from Stanfords. They now have a shop in Bristol and both stores together with other venues operate a calendar of events including talks, book signings and exhibitions. As a specialist map retailer, the map selection is comprehensive and includes road maps, street maps and walking maps from worldwide destinations, as well as a selection of world atlases and wall maps. Books include travel guides and travel literature. Stanfords also stock globes, from miniatures made of blue marble to magnificent floor-standing globes. The website features a selection of interesting articles on travel topics.

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